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Ashmanra’s sipdown challenge – July 2024 Tea #7 – July 20 – International Chess Day: drink a black tea and a white tea

I didn’t think I had a white tea with me, but I DO. And it’s one of my favorites. Sadly, I somehow dumped way too many leaves into the infuser, so I’m going to keep steeping this one over many many days, to get all I can out of this basket half full of leaves. The first steep was only for 30 seconds and it is plenty flavorful. This tea can never get old. In all the ways that can possibly mean. For the black tea part of this prompt, I’m drinking some of Harney’s Malachi McCormick. A great complimentary tea to the Melon. As I usually steep up two caffeine teas for the day in the morning, this works for me! For a while, I thought this prompt was for a combo white/black tea, probably only because I remember David’s Checkmate blend. Not too many other black/white blends out there.

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Oooh, I haven’t had Malachi McCormick in ages! I need to try it again!

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Oooh, I haven’t had Malachi McCormick in ages! I need to try it again!

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Hi! I love tea and trying new ones – it adds a bit of variety to my day! Books, music, TV & movies are my thing… and tea, of course.

Some of my favorite tea shops (still operating):
birdandblendtea.com
teavivre.com
52teas.com
svtea.com
whisperingpinestea.com
justea.com
harney.com
Dammann Freres
fusionteas.com
Javateaco.com
Lupicia
Octaviatea.com
Davidstea
eco-cha.com
what-cha.com
singleoriginteas.com
teasenz.com
tealyra.com
Mandala
verdanttea.com

Favorite tea shops (RIP):
butikiteas.com
steapshoppe.com
steepcityteas.com
aquartertotea.com
dellaterrateas.com
zentealife.com
angrytearoom.com
theteamerchant.net
joysteaspoon.com
tealiciousllc.com
Rivertea
Specialteas

My icon photo is Richard Mayhew from the graphic novel ‘Neverwhere’ by Neil Gaiman, Mike Carey & Glenn Fabry.

Most of the teas listed in my cupboard are actually sample sizes. I don’t really have 2,000 ounces of tea around here! Many of my teas have only one teaspoon left… maybe two. But I like keeping them in my cupboard list for reference to what I could be sipping. Usually, I write tasting notes once for each tea. I’m still drinking them, just not writing tasting notes each time!

I’m always in search of: Hattialli, Qu Hao black, Jin Jun Mei, teas using marshmallow root.

My dislikes: hibiscus, ginger (unless in chai), turmeric, bee pollen, charcoal type flavors

My ratings:
95-100 – Super awesome deliciousness favorites – cupboard essential
80-95 – Also pretty delicious
65-80 – Pretty good
50-65 – Okay
1-50 – Probably won’t want to sip it again

I’m planning on being a Steepsterer as long as there IS a Steepster, so if you’re not hearing from me, that means something happened to my health… if you know what I mean. (Or as evidenced by the great computer hiatus of 2019, something happened to my computer… I have a dumb phone so can’t access internet on that. As of 12/20/21 my wifi might start getting unreliable.)

Happy sipping!

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