Tea – Flavored
Use for true teas (not herbals) with fruits, flowers, spices, etc., added to them. Includes jasmines, spiced chais, etc.
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Stretching Your Tea Dollars
Proper tea steeping is generally regarded as a must for enjoying teas at their best. It’s also the way to make sure that the money you spend on these teas is stretched to their utmost value. There is a trend these days for tea vendors to put directions for steeping their teas to get best… Continue reading
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Golden Moon’s Lapsang Souchong
Name: Lapsang Souchong Brand: Golden Moon Type: Black tea, smoked Form: Loose leaf Review: Lapsang souchong is one of those teas that people either love or hate. On one hand, a “smoked tea” (lapsang souchong is made by smoking black tea over a pine fire) does take a bit of getting used to. On the… Continue reading
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Review: Night of the Iguana Chocolate Chai
Cute names do not a great tea make, but they don’t hurt either. My humans got a chuckle out of the name of this tea, then they got to the serious business of trying it as part of their week-long Chai Extravaganza. The Subject: Night of the Iguana Chocolate Chai from The English Tea Store.… Continue reading
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Review of Golden Moon White Ginger
Name: White Ginger Brand: Golden Moon Type: White tea, flavored Form: Loose leaf Review: Golden Moon’s White Ginger combines a very nice white tea (white peony) with ginger root. The result is a sweet, slightly fruity tea with a subtle, but definite, ginger kick. It’s light bodied liquor is a pretty, pale yellow, with a… Continue reading
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Review of Tiger Wing’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragonfruit
Name: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragonfruit Brand: Tiger Wing Type: White tea and mate blend, flavored Form: Paper tea bags Review: Tiger Wing is a new tea brand that offers fun blends in convenient, paper tea bag form. Tiger Wing is a sister company to established tea retailer, Golden Moon, and takes a decidedly irreverent approach… Continue reading
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Drinkable Desserts (Teas as Good as Dessert)
What’s life without dessert, especially when it’s drinkable? No, we’re not talking about milkshakes, hot cocoa, chilled mocha drinks, or pie that’s been given the blender treatment (what, you’ve never puréed pie?). We’re talking tea! Yes, some teas are so yummy and sort of sweet that they are dessert-like. Vanilla and fruit flavored teas are… Continue reading
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Bubble Tea: The Fun Tea
Bubble tea comes from Taiwan and made its way to the United States in the 1980s. It contains tapioca balls (the fun part) called boba, which I think of as the bubbles. Boba literally means big pearls. Actually the real bubbles in bubble tea is the foam that appears when the ingredients are shaken together… Continue reading
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Milk Tea
Milk and tea. For some tea drinkers this blend is the most normal combination in the world, one that’s taken as much for granted as pairing peanut butter with jelly or pancakes with maple syrup. For other tea lovers, tainting a fine cup of tea with the likes of milk or cream is an abomination… Continue reading
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Jasmine Tea Choices
For some tea lovers (present company included) a cup of high-quality plain tea – be it black, green, white, yellow, oolong or puerh – is sufficient as it is and does not require any kind of adulteration or improvement. The ancient Chinese tea master Lu Yu, who was one of the first people to write… Continue reading
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Blackcurrant Black Tea
The Subject: Blackcurrant Black Tea from The English Tea Store. Rating: Water temperature: 212° F Steeping time: 5 minutes Tea type: Black Scents, flavorings, etc.: blackcurrant, other unspecified Aroma, dry: Bitter, weedy smell that’s familiar but can’t identify Aroma in the cup, plain: Bitter, weedy smell that’s familiar but can’t identify Taste, plain: Blackcurrant strong,… Continue reading
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