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March White2tea Club – Tea Review

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Time for the second Tea of the Month box to arrive for March – White2Tea! In this month’s White2tea club box – 2001 7542 P.O. Raw Pu’er, 2004 Yang Pin Hao Raw Pu’er and OBSX Oolong, 10 grams each. It’s a small amount of tea but when you look up each tea you’ll realize all the teas are kinda pricey. Yeah, expensive tea drinking time! Also with this month, deals for us White2Tea club members – 10% off cakes, 20% off tongs and 15% off the yancha. A pretty sweet deal! Tasting of March White2Tea Club Turns out all the… Continue reading, hoot!

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March Simple Loose Leaf – Tea Review

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Time for the attack of the monthly tea box reviews for March! First up, Simple Loose Leaf, a monthly Co-op tea box that sends 4 to 6 loose leaf tea samples (1/4oz size) – you get a wide assortment of different teas such as straight teas, blends and herbals. With being in the Tea Co-op, you get a membership ID. If you enjoy and want more tea that you’ve sampled, you can purchase it from the Simple Loose Leaf Tea Shop for 50% off. For your first box, you can enter OolongOwl for a 50% off your first Simple Loose Leaf’s Tea co-op box! The teas… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sencha Naturals Tropical Mango Green Tea Latte Mix – Tea Review

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Usually I’m pretty good about reviewing a tea early on, as in I’ll drink it a few times before I review it. I got this Tropical Mango Green Tea Latte mix from Sencha Naturals back at the Los Angeles Tea Festival in August 2014. The sample I tried at the festival was really good so I purchased a bag. Since then, I’ve been drinking up my bag of Mango Green Tea latte mix and I need to review this sucker before I drink it all! The ingredients on this green tea mix product is interesting – Organic Coconut Sugar, Organic Coconut Oil, Algae Flour, Organic… Continue reading, hoot!

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Spring 2013 Drunk on Red Sun Dried Feng Qing Black – Tea Review

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DRUNK ON RED! DRUNK ON RED! I’d be lying if I said I bought Spring 2013 Drunk on Red Sun-Dried Feng Qing for the description and not its sweet name. Who would pass up a tea called Drunk On Red? I’d get tea drunk on teal or purple if I could! This tea is a Spring 2013 first flush Feng Qing black tea that has been sun dried, then pressed into 100 gram cakes. There’s a few different years to choose from on Yunnan Sourcing (both yunnansourcing.us and yunnansourcing.com site – if you are in the US I suggest shopping at the… Continue reading, hoot!

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3 Leaf Tea’s Flavored Matchas – Tea Review

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Matcha seems to be getting really popular these days as I see it starting to be sold by many tea sellers. I love flavored matchas – I own a bunch of different flavors with a couple different tea sellers. I don’t often prepare matchas in the traditional whisk/chasen, despite owning the tools. I think bubble/boba tea and Starbucks Green Tea lattes taste so good to me, that I prefer to make matcha as a milk shake blended with ice and milk. With that said, I love a good flavored matchas, it’s a delicious treat. 3 Leaf Tea is a new tea… Continue reading, hoot!

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Jingmai Sheng Puer Spring 2013 from Wymm Tea

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I recently received a sweet sample pack from Wymm tea, a new online tea seller. Awesomely, Wymm Tea is also from Vancouver! Man I really to do a trip home as the tea scene in Vancouver must be killer! Anyways, Wymm Tea has a gorgeous website with plenty of information on their teas, good looking pu’er and pretty packaging! I decided to try their Jingmai, a raw/sheng from ancient tea trees, pressed Spring 2013. I’ve been noticing that I tend to really like raw Jing Mai pu’ers. Here is the sample packing from Wymm Tea – With samples inside wrapped in stamped… Continue reading, hoot!

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Oolong Owl Tea Stash Count – March 2015 Update

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So, back in June 2014 I went through all my tea and counted it. It came back that I had 353 different teas! I recently got a new tea shelf, so I decided it was a good time to go through every tea again, including samples and tea bags and count them all. However, this time I decided to google spreadsheet my entire tea collection. I’m not a spreadsheet wizard, so my husband helped me with the calculations. Previously, I was using Steepster’s database to keep track, but I found it hard to search the teas I owned. I thought it would be… Continue reading, hoot!

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Kerikeri Tea Honeybush Chai – Tea Review

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When my mother in law was in New Calendonia last year, she brought me back tea! Interesting tea at that – KeriKeri Tea Honeybush Chai. What makes KeriKeri Tea organic’s Honeybush Chai unique is the ingredients – Organic honeybush, whole cloves, cardamon, ginger, cinnamon flakes and native New Zealand horopito pepper. That sounds spicy! Before I look up what horopito pepper tastes like, let’s sample the tea! Dry Leaf It is really hard to say something interesting about rooibos and honeybush leaves as it looks like wood chunks. So yeah, the dry leaf looks like wood bits in red, cream and dark… Continue reading, hoot!

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06 Bai Lin Congfu Black from Joseph Wesley black tea – Tea Review

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With my last Joseph Wesley black tea order I was stuck on what to get. I was purchasing a cup set that came with your choice of tea and choosing a tea was difficult – all their teas sounded awesome! I decided on 06 Bai Lin Congfu for its promise of caramel and cream notes. Creamy teas make me weak in the knees. Let’s check this tea out! Gorgeous sophisticated and modern packing as usual. The black tea is vacuum packed and once the seal is breached it is hard to fit the tea back in unless you drink about 2 or… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sous Vide Tea – Precision Tea Steeping

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I love my Sous Vide circulator. I have the Anova One and I don’t know how I cooked without it. A sous vide circulator heats water to your desired food temperature, and you cook your food (vacuum packed normally) in the water. Being able to cook something with precise temperature makes for amazing food as it will never be over cooked or dried out. My perfect steaks, chicken breast, pork chops and ribs are the envy of my dinner guests. If you don’t know about sous vide, I suggest checking out Chef Steps for more information. Anyways, I have wondered what tea would… Continue reading, hoot!