Steep Stories

Month: October 2013

  • Ceylon and Thanks for All the Oolong

    Let’s travel back to a more innocent time – November of 2011, to be precise. It was around that time that I finally found a purpose for this here tea blog. My goal was to track down unique teas, unusual blends, and/or teas with fascinating stories behind them. To commemorating that unusual sense of focus…

  • “Tea, Beer and Bingley” – The Teabeer Trilogy, Book 1

    Friday This last Friday was the rarest of occurrences. It preceded an actual weekend off. I hadn’t had a weekend off since…uh…a long time ago. For once, a Friday was my Friday. While I did have plans on Saturday and Sunday, I hadn’t planned on any activity for Friday night. Then my friend, NinjaSpecs, chimed…

  • Who Pooped in the Microwave?!

    Last week ended in a way no one could ever have suspected. I won’t say what I do for a job, but one of the tasks is checking microwaves. And someone had pooped in one. No, there was no log present, or a diaper…just dark matter, a rancid smell, and a feeling of “I-failed-at-life-choices”. Worse…

  • Assam Green Tea?!?!?!?

    Let’s rewind back to April of this year. I noticed a new follower of my “Twit”-arded updates. Their handle was about as descriptive as it needed to be to perk my interest – “@AssamGreenTea”. Green tea. From Assam. Assam green tea? That’s a thing?! I thought to myself. I’m convinced that – biologically – I’m…

  • I Heart Tandem Tea Tastings

    I missed the last Tandem Tea Tasting because of prior writer-related obligations, but promised (crossed my heart and everything!) that I would be there this time ‘round. That and I felt it mandatory, since Rachel “IHeartTeas” Carter had sent me samples to contribute. To not go would mean being a chump. To recap: Tandem Tea…

  • A Gongfu Greek Mountain Tea Adventure

    Epic tea adventures have to start somewhere. It is sheer coincidence (I think?) that a lot of mine start at Smith Teamaker. Some seemingly uneventful week in late-Spring, I received a message from Tea MC Tiff saying she’d be working the tea bar that Saturday. Those were usually my busy days at work, so I…