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Steepster Select Unboxing – December 2013 Teas – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Steepster Select is a monthly fine teas sampler. At this time, for $24.95 a month, you’ll get a nice box of tea sent to you. In that box of tea, two servings each of 5 different teas, or 10 servings. I was very excited to see Steepster revived Steepster Select. I love Steepster for keeping track of my teas, tea discussions, learning more about tea and meeting other tea lovers. By the way, I’m Awkward Soul on Steepster – if you are a member, be sure to say hi! My Steepster Select box arrived while I was on vacation, so this is a little late of a review. Let’s unbox!… Continue reading, hoot!

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Hawaii Tea Haul! Oolong Owl’s Cruise to Hawaii part 1

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I’ve recently got back from my Princess Cruise to Hawaii! Yay for last minute cruise sales! Anyways, my cruise was interesting and the itinerary changed. The plan was – start in Los Angeles, sail for 4 days, then stop in Maui, Hilo, Honolulu and Nawiliwili. A couple days  in  our ship had to change course, as instructed by the Coast Guard, to assist in a search mission. The Grand Princess, another ship heading to Hawaii, had a crew member go overboard. After a day and a half circling around the Pacific Ocean, we were released (with no luck finding the poor… Continue reading, hoot!

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SoHo Blend from Harney & Sons – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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SoHo Blend is a chocolate and coconut chinese black tea blend from Harney & Sons, an US based tea company. Hurray, Harney & Sons! I did an order with them around Black Friday to snag some tea ware gifts and tins and while I was there I decided to get some tea samples. SoHo Blend has been on my wishlist for awhile, as I do love coconut teas. I quite like how Harney & Sons does samples, so for only $2  I can about 2 or 3 servings of tea to try out. Harney & Sons has pretty slick packaging on their samples. It attracted the gal… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sticky Toffee Black Tea from Whittard of Chelsea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Sticky Toffee Black Tea is a black tea blend with macadamia nuts and flavoring. This decadent dessert tea is from Whittard of Chelsea, UK based tea company. Groan. Seriously. I’ve eaten so much sweets over the holidays. I entered 2014 overloaded with sweets and with so many sweets leftover. Peanut Brittle. Home made cookies. Butter Tarts, Cherry Pound Cake and Pumpkin Pie piled high with cool whip. (not pictured as we ate it all!) I think I’m about tired of sweet things, but at the same time I’m now so wired for sweets that I need to ween myself off… Continue reading, hoot!

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Santa’s Gingerbread Holiday Tea from Simple Loose Leaf – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Santa’s Gingerbread Holiday Tea is a Assam Tippy Golden Flower Orange Pekoe black tea blend with irish cream flavor, ibarra chocolate, cinnamon chips, ginger and cloves. This festive tea is from Simple Loose Leaf, online US tea seller. Mmmm, gingerbread! This Christmas will be a busy time for me! I am ready to get my baking on with family-secret-recipe butter tarts and piles of cookies and fudge. I also do a gingerbread house kit every year! The Tea Owls and I are very excited to review some holiday teas! Dry Leaf Upon opening the bag, I got blasted with ginger! So… Continue reading, hoot!

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Citrus Sunshine Oolong from Steep City Teas – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Citrus Sunshine Oolong is an oolong tea blend with ginger, orange and lemon peels, cranberries, blueberries, rose petals and hibiscus. This sunny oolong blend is from Steep City Teas, Florida based tea seller. I’ve noticed I’ve been reviewing a lot of black teas. I did the Black Tea week, and continued reviewing even more black teas. Even though this Canadian living in California is laughing at the “cold” weather here, the “cold” weather is getting to me due to the short sunlight days and temperature drop in the evenings. I’ve seriously been bundling up at night! With that said, time to break… Continue reading, hoot!

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Cocoa Creme Black Tea from Simple Loose Leaf – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Cocoa Creme Black Tea is a blend featuring south Indian Flower Orange Pekoe Black tea, ground coffee, cocoa and yogurt chips. This coffee lovers tea is sold by Simple Loose Leaf, online seller of tea in a subscription format. 2 years ago I was really into roasted mates and black teas that had a really robust flavor with hints of coffee. There was something about the super caffeine hit that helped me with moving and settling in here in California. I haven’t had a coffee flavored tea in awhile, so I thought I should give  Cocoa Creme Black Tea a try. Big fuzzy… Continue reading, hoot!

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Organic GABA Oolong from Taiwan Tea Crafts – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Organic GABA Oolong is a medium oxidized, light roasted oolong sold by Taiwan Tea Crafts, an online tea seller. Yes, GABA Oolong! I’ve been looking to get some this tea for awhile (that wasn’t sold by the pound or has a horrible shipping price from Taiwan).  I’ve had it a couple times as samples and quite liked it and always wanted to acquire more GABA oolongs. Taiwan Tea Crafts has it! They also have Red Jade GABA Oolong! With good prices too (and many many other oolongs to try)! So, whats the deal with this GABA GABA hey tea? GABA stands for Gamma Aminobutyric Acid.… Continue reading, hoot!

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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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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!