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This is another great one by Bitter Leaf Teas. This tea is vey sweet, fruity, and has a pleasant taste of green to go with it. I think that this tea was one of Bitter Leaf Tea’s left for their 2016 line-up, and I do believe that their tea company will only continue to get more successful.

I’ve already gone through half of this beeng, so I’ll hold the rest of it off to see how it tastes with a bit of aging.

I was blown away at the quality of this tea, especially for the price. These bricks weigh 250g, and for the price of the brick its one hell of a steal. If anything, this tea is probably one of the best values of tea that I’ve seen all year. Sometimes with tea, you sacrifice quality for price. However, Bitter Leaf Tea’s did an amazing job at sourcing a tea that doesn’t sacrifice anything. Yet again this is another offering from Bitter Leaf Teas that won’t leave you disappointed.

You can read my full review here!

http://coolcodyc.wixsite.com/theoolongdrunk/single-post/2016/10/01/Alter-Ego

Diving Duck is a great daily drinker. As always, White2Tea produced a sheng with excellent quality. The tea itself was very clean and was very clear. I’m not a huge fan of the tasting notes personally, but the sweetness and the energy is great! This tea also has great aging potential, and I predict that over time it will start to taste like malt/honey. Can’t wait to see what this tea tastes like 5 years from now!!!

I haven’t had Dogs yet, so this review will only be for Cats.

This brick smelled and tasted amazing! It first started out strong and still tasted really fresh. The first 4-5 steps were very green with a bite that followed it. After it had a chance to calm down, it showed a great taste of fruit and tasted like the kids cereal ‘Fruity Pebbles’. I got a good amount of steepings with Cats and none of them we’re a disappointment.

Midas Touch has got to be one of the highest-energied teas I’ve had to date. After I completed my session, I was completely tea drunk. In fact, I was blitzed off my ass and felt high as a kite. This is the second time a tea has ever done that to me.

Midas Touch starts out very strong, and stays strong through out its session. At first, it almost smells and taste like tire rubber. I think its because its so fresh, but it left an odd odor. As I progressed with this tea, notes of strong sugary sage emerged with warm and woodsy undertones. In fact, it almost resembled a scotch. Besides the flavor, this tea would slap you in the face if you over steeped it, and would bring you to the carped if you brewed it too hot.

Overall, I would say that this tea is NOT for beginners, or tea drinkers who are just starting out. I would also suggest eating something before drinking this tea because it’ll probably make you feel sick if you don’t.

I received a sample of Old Warrior on one of my previous samples. Shame – that caused my wallet to suffer the expense of buying more of this tea.

At first, I was really surprised that this tea was from the year 2000 because the quality was superb. For a shou, especially such an old shou, this tea was insanely clean and pure. Hell, even most of the leaf and stem from the material was still intact!

This tea lasted multiple steepings and could withstand various temperatures and steeping times. Overall, this has got to be my (new) favorite aged shou.

Bravo Crimson Lotus!

Edit: I wrote a more in-depth review of it here!

https://www.theoolongdrunk.com/single-post/2017/04/12/Old-Warrior-Fights-for-Another-Day

Old Whitey was something that threw me completely off. I wouldn’t say i’m the biggest fan of white tea, but this one completely blew me away. I first want to say that this tea came off very dense, yet sweet. It had a very smooth and thick body and honey bush, flowers, and honey. The combination of flavors kept making me want to drink more. Although white tea is temperature sensitive, this tea still holds its own if it’s overstepped. Just for kicks, I experimented with steepings and overstepped the jesus out of it, and it still had a very smooth and everlasting flavor.

Bravo White2Tea!

Excellent!!!

This is such a clean sheng, especially given it’s age. This is a great way to try an aged tea, especially for newer puer drinkers. It had a sweet honey body with light hay undertones. I like this tea because it doesn’t have too much energy and it was easy to relax by. However, this tea is temperature sensitive and can easily taste sour if it’s brewed too hot. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy this tea :)

This is another exceptional tea from Crimson Lotus.

Emerald Sea was sweet, thick, and powerful. What really surprised me about this tea is that on the first steeping, Emerald Sea showed intense strength the would usually take other teas 5-6 steeps to come out. My only complaint is that in the later steeps, this tea seemed lose all of its power at once and didn’t really phase out. Other than that, I’d recommend this tea to anyone whose a fan of Crimson Lotus, or teas produced in the Jingmai religion.