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Whispering Pines Tea’s Golden Orchid Tea – Tea Review

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Vanilla is amazing! I buy my beans 1lb at a time and add to things as simple as Rice Crispy squares to make my treats extra special. I make my own vanilla extract out of various liquors, which gives great flavor to my cookies. Vanilla teas are awesome – and a real popular one is Whispering Pines Tea Co’s Golden Orchid tea. I kept hearing so much about it, I snagged an ounce not too long ago to see for myself. Golden Orchid tea is a blend of Dian Hong and Fujian Xiao Zhong Black Tea with Hand Cut Grade A Madagascar Vanilla… Continue reading, hoot!

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February Simple Loose Leaf Tea Coop Club

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It’s February! Time for a short month with both Lunar New Year and Valentines Day! Because of the short month, I feel my monthly boxes are coming so fast and with less time to sample them. This month for the Simple Loose Leaf Tea Coop Club – Lapsang Souchong, Lemon Grass Herbal, Gyokuro Green Tea, Sheng Cha Oolong and Mint Chamomile Rooibus (probably mean rooibos).  They also included more of those cloth infusers. The Tea Owls have been doing their potato sack racings, so they have plenty of cloth infusers. Since the salad spinner has been put away (the salad spinner being… Continue reading, hoot!

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Teatoxy Detox Tea

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There’s been a few times on Oolong Owl I dip into diet and detox teas. Today’s tea review is of a detox tea line from Teatoxy – three herbals teas. I’m not into the whole detox thing. I’m more of a “get healthy by attempting to eat less cookies and lift heavy weights or sweat in brazillian jiujitsu class” kind of weight loss person. With that said, I’m just going to review the flavor of these herbal teas. I imagine if you are going to drink tea in larger amounts on a regular schedule it should taste good. I have the whole… Continue reading, hoot!

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Tea Ave Oolong preview!

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I’ve been excited for Tea Ave, a new online tea seller based in Vancouver, BC Canada, to launch. Since I am originally from Vancouver, I like rooting for my home town. However, Tea Ave also has something really cool about them – ALL OOLONGS Yes, I’m down with all oolong! Anyways, Tea Ave is very new, launching soon! In the upcoming months there will be MORE oolong! Tea Ave will be carrying both tea bags and loose leaf. This special tea blogger got the tea bag sampling of Tea Ave’s first lineup of 12 oolongs. Today is also the new Tea Owl, Zeus’ first day! He is overwhelmed… Continue reading, hoot!

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January White2Tea Club

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I savored this month’s White2Tea monthly tea subscription club – all the teas sounded great to me! For the White2Tea club, every month you get teas that are curated by White2tea. These teas are samples from their current line up, previews to new teas to their shop, as well as some private stash and discoveries. The subscription is month to month, cancel any time. So far, all the teas I’ve received has been pretty good – I recently dropped a bunch of cash for a group order, buying more teas that I received in previous months. Good stuff! For the month of… Continue reading, hoot!

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Keemun Mao Feng Black tea from What-Cha – Tea Review

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I am still on the quest for a good Keemun! Hoot! Let’s sample some keemun from What-Cha. What-Cha, at this time, has a couple different keemuns to choose from. Today, I’ll be tasting Keemun Mao Feng Black tea. This one attracted me due to its promise of smooth caramel flavor. Dry Leaf What-Cha’s Keemun Mao Feng Black tea smells like burnt caramel and char scent. The dry leaf is tight thin wires of tea with the odd gold tip. Steeping Instructions I followed the steeping instructions stated on What-Cha’s packaging – 200f for a 3 minute infusion, using an in-mug tea… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sunny Fruits Puer from Lupicia – Tea Review

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I tend to buy puer blends, just for the hell of it. They are so uncommon, but puer is getting more attention these days so I see more blends available. Of course, Lupicia has some really nice blends, it is hard to resist a puer blend from them! Sunny Fruits Puer is a tea blend (puer black tea as stated on the ingredients list) with dried mango, dried papaya, and safflower. Dry leaf Sunny Fruits Puer smells super fruity! It has a tangy mango scent, with the dark tea leaves mixed with mango chunks and reddy orange petals. I could smell… Continue reading, hoot!

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Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong Smoked Wuyi Black tea from Verdant Tea – Tea Review

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The colder season has made black tea even more tasty than usual for me. I recently purchased a bunch of blacks from Verdant Tea. One of them I felt I was taking a bit of a risk on, Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong Smoked Wuyi Black Tea, as I’m not huge on heavy smoked teas, I simply purchased for the recommendation that roasted oolong lovers would enjoy it. Let’s review it! Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong  Smoked Wuyi Black tea is crafted in the Wuyi Mountains from the Li Family. This is the Autumn 2014 batch. Pictured is the sample size, though I also have… Continue reading, hoot!

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Nonpareil Anxi Qing Xiang Tieguanyin Oolong from Teavivre – Tea Review

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Nonpareil Anxi Qing Xiang Tieguanyin Oolong is a hand crafted oolong harvested from Anxi County, Fujian Province, China, sold by Teavivre. My sample came in mega vacuum packed packaging. Inside, the tea was wrapped in more vacuumed packaging. These vacuumed oolongs look and feel so cool, irresistible to squeeze like bubble wrap. Vacuumed Oolongs are also known Tea Owl weapon alternative to rocks in socks (I am unsure why a Tea Owl would need a weapon…) Dry Leaf Nonpareil Anxi Qing Xiang Tieguanyin Oolong leaf is in large clumps of oolong. Some of the tea is wadded in balls, while others… Continue reading, hoot!

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January Simple Loose Leaf Tea Co-op Club

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Yes, January is here, and with that, all my Tea of the Month tea boxes roll in! First tea sub that arrived – Simple Loose Leaf! The Simple Loose Leaf Tea Co-op Club gets you 4 to 6 loose leaf tea samples (1/4oz size) of different teas including straight teas, blends and herbals. Being in the Tea Co-op gives you a membership ID which gives you 50% off their Simple Loose Leaf Tea Shop. You can enter the coupon code OolongOwl for a 50% off your first Simple Loose Leaf’s Tea co-op box! This month – Genmaicha, Black Pu’erh, Assam Earl Grey, Brazilian Toasted Mate, and Chai Green. I’ll… Continue reading, hoot!