Month: March 2016
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A Kickstarted Kumaon White Tea Story
A little over a year ago I made the acquaintance of Raj Vable of Young Mountain Tea. We met up for lattes at Tea Bar PDX (where the above picture was taken), and he passed some samples on to me. Including an interesting Nilgiri black tea that I took a liking to. But that wasn’t…
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Several Cups of Kamairicha
Kamairicha literally means “pan-fired tea” in Japanese. I first tried it a year ago, and I dug it. I even wrote a poem about it. The less spoken about that, the better. Moving on . . .
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Tea Grown in Guatemala
Before I get to rambling about black tea from Guatemala, I’m going to do something a little different to start this off. I’m going to turn the introduction over to my blogger friend, Chris “Tea-Guy” Giddings, since he’s the one who introduced me to the tea I’m about to discuss. Take it away, Chris: “It…
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Dark Tea from Thailand
Well over a year ago, Tony “World of Tea” Gebely posted a photo of a dark tea on Instagram. It was an aged moacha (i.e. the rough stuff used to make puerh cakes) . . . but it was from – of all places – Thailand. For obvious reasons, it grabbed my attention.
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A Zombie Tea Blend Story
I remember the first time I learned of the existence of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It was 2009, and I was perusing my local Powell’s. Back then, genre fiction was mostly dominated by steampunk and supernatural teen fair. This mash-up of period piece and horror tropes came at just the right time in literary…