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Golden Fleece from Verdant Tea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Golden Fleece is a wild picked Dian Hong golden tips black tea sold by Verdant Tea, an US tea seller. Oolong Owl Black Friday Week! Well, it’s technically Cyber Monday, so close enough! I got all my black friday shopping done and with that, all my Christmas shopping complete. All that is left for me to do is finish crocheting Tea Owls. Now it is time for me to kick back and relax. How about some luxury black tea? Golden Fleece is on the pricey end of teas for me (at this time, $15.75 for 1oz) , but I heard all over Steepster… Continue reading, hoot!

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Thirsty For – Tasty Exotic Drink and Tea Video Recipes

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I came across a video series called “Thirsty For“ on the Tastemade Youtube channel and I wanted to share it with my tea peeps! “Thirsty For” uploads every Sunday, shot video recipe tutorial style, of an exotic drink recipe. The recipes are of drinks from all around the world – including Japan, Trinidad, Poland, Mexico, and Chile. All the drinks shown in the series are non-alcoholic. Of course, since tea is an amazing drink that has been around for ages, they have some tea recipes. Besides the tea recipes, I enjoy learning about and being able to try new drinks I can… Continue reading, hoot!

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Flowering Cones Black Tea from Mandala Tea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Flowering Cones Black tea is a hand sewn blooming tea made with high grade Yunnan spring black leaves. This gorgeous flowering tea is sold by mandala tea, US tea seller. All the flowering (aka Blooming) teas I’ve tried so far have a great flavor at first, but quickly turn bitter due to the longer steep time required to get the tea to expand. Flowering teas look gorgeous, but sometimes I feel they are all about presentation rather than taste. Oh, if you remember an early blog post I did about my first blooming tea experience, I saved the leftover bloom in a… Continue reading, hoot!

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Turtle Cheesecake Black Tea from 52 Teas – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Turtle Cheesecake Black tea is a chocolate and pecan blend from 52 Teas / Zoomdweebies, an online seller of nerdy and unique teas. Turtle Cheesecake Black tea was Tea of the Week for September 2nd, 2013. Woot! Another Black Tea for Oolong Owl’s Black Tea Week! Turtles Chocolates remind me of Christmas time – it was a chocolate I’d get often as a gift, along with Terry’s Chocolate Oranges. I haven’t had turtles on cheesecake or tea, so I when this tea popped up for sale, I bought it immediately. Turtle Cheesecake Black tea also attracted a couple amigurumi turtles to help out with the… Continue reading, hoot!

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Nutty Love Black Tea from Steep City Teas – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Nutty Love is a black tea blend that contains walnuts, almond, rose petals and apple. This interesting nutty blend is made by Steep City Teas, a Florida based online tea seller. Welcome to Oolong Owl’s Black Tea Week! I’ll be reviewing only black teas this week. I seriously need to drink black tea this week – with US Thanksgiving this week, there is lots of cleaning and cooking to be done. Plus, I need to caffeine boost from black teas to prepare me for Black Friday shopping. I’ve already planned out my tea purchases, have you? How about some black tea? Today… Continue reading, hoot!

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Pineapple Cilantro Cream White Tea from Butiki Teas – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Pineapple Cilantro Cream is a Bai Mu Dan white tea blend. This unique tea is made by Butiki Teas, US online seller of loose leaf teas. Hmm. I do like pineapple, but cilantro? I do buy cilantro often, but mostly as a vegetable offering for my bunny. Cilantro in tea? Odd, but Oolong Owl is always up for a tea adventure! Butiki Teas does really good blends – but also their Flowery Pineapple Oolong is exceptionally delicious. I figured Pineapple Cilantro Cream White tea should be good as well. Mini Green Owl has joined us for this tea review. I really need to make… Continue reading, hoot!

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The Life of an Oolong Tea Leaf – Guest Post

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Hi Tea Owls! Most of the time the Tea Owls and I guzzle down Oolong tea like it is going out of style. Time to switch gears a bit and have some learning time here at OolongOwl!  Sit back and learn about the love and effort put in to making Oolong tea by Guest Poster Samantha from Seattle Coffee Gear. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Life of an Oolong Tea Leaf Far from an episode of the X Files, here are the basics to jump start your Oolong education. While Oolong remains most popular in southern China and Taiwan, don’t be afraid to try this… Continue reading, hoot!

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Rhubarb and Cream Tea from Whittard of Chelsea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Rhubarb and Cream Black Tea is a loose leaf black tea blend from Whittard of Chelsea. Where has the love for rhubarb gone? Maybe I’m from the wrong generation or in the wrong area of the US. My deep freeze is FULL of rhubarb. My husband went crazy last year with the lack of rhubarb pies because during off season we couldn’t find frozen rhubarb. This year every time we saw good looking fresh rhubarb we bought it and stashed it in the freezer. Oddly, every time I’m hauling large bags bursting with rhubarb I’ll get asked “what is that?” “How do… Continue reading, hoot!

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Princess Cruise Afternoon Tea and Cruising Fun with Oolong Owl

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I recently came back from a cruise! I went on a Princess Cruise from Los Angeles to Catalina Island to Ensenada Mexico and back! I was on the Golden Princess cruise ship. I had a great time and took 403 pictures! Lots of tea adventures! With that said, this’ll be a two part post. This part I’ll cover the Afternoon Tea event with travel pictures. The second part (coming soon!) will be about how I dealt with bringing my own loose leaf tea. Princess Cruise Afternoon Tea Afternoon Tea was OMG BEST PART OF THE CRUISE for me! My ship had it… Continue reading, hoot!

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2012 Dragon of Jing Mai Pu’er from Yunnan Sourcing – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Dragon of Jing Mai Pu’er is a 2012 ripe/shu tea obtained from Yunnan Sourcing.com. This pu’er is also available on Yunnan Sourcing’s US site. This tea is produced in the Jing Mai area of China. This ripe pu’er cake is a steal! It’s 100 grams and only $5.80 to $6.50 depending on which Yunnan Sourcing site you’re on (at the time of this entry). It also has quite attractive packaging too… Oooh dragons! I am partial to nice designs on Pu’er wrappers. Actually, the cool wrapping and cheap price is probably why I bought this cake. Tea “pu’er pick” Owl is pumped! He’s… Continue reading, hoot!