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Tag: Taiwanese tea

  • A Devotea Taiwanese Tea Tasting

    NaNoTeaMo, Day 1: “A Devotea Taiwanese Tea Tasting” If any of you fine folks were paying attention to my social media yammerings, you may have noticed a peculiar update. I said that I wouldn’t be participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). I tried two years straight . . . and gave up halfway through…

  • Bug Bites, Tea Huts, and Sipping Wisdom

    Early on in my tea writing “career”, there was one name that always popped up – Lindsey Goodwin. She was one of the tea writers on the scene, managed her own consultation website, and was the resident caffeine guru for About.com. And at one point in time, she was also a Portlander. As one might…

  • Gongfooling Around with Charcoal and Bourbon

    Imagine my [NOT] surprise when I saw this on J-TEA’s Facebook one day a couple of months back. A brand-spankin’ new Buffalo Trace bourbon barrel from Kentucky. Okay, perhaps a little background is in order. Back in December, I wrote about a new bourbon barrel-aged pu-erh put out by Eugene-based tea company – J-Tea International.…

  • Steepless in Seattle; Tea Drunk in Burien

    Prior to making the trip up to Burlington, I made secondary arrangements for the day after. It was never my plan to head directly home after the tea-pick-a-thon, but rather to bum around parts of Seattle. And by that, I should specify that my idea of bumming around involves drinking tea for four-plus hours. I…

  • “What Happens at Expo…” – A Vegas Tea Party, Day 2

    For Day 1, go HERE. I’ll be honest, I was scared s**tless. Never in my life had I participated in something so…well…grand. The Las Vegas Convention Center was huge, and just peeking through the doors almost made me soil myself. It was like a Comic Con but for tea. I was so stunned by the…