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Smart Soak Tea Stain Dissolver from Mandala Tea – Oolong Owl review

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Got some stubborn tea stains? I heard much about Mandala Tea‘s Smart Soak Tea Stain Dissolver, so I had to try it out, so I purchased the 6oz bag with my last Mandala Tea order. I admit, I like my DIY tea cleaning method of simply rubbing baking soda on everything. Baking soda usually does the trick on most tea stains, and I found it especially effective upkeep on teaware to keep it looking pretty years later. Baking soda is also very cheap, easy to find in stores and usually in everyone’s pantry. However, there are some tea stains baking soda cannot… Continue reading, hoot!

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Apples and Molasses Black Tea from Della Terra Teas – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Apples and Molasses Black Tea is a blend of black tea, apple bits, spices, cloves and molasses flavor. This blend is from Della Terra Teas, online seller of fun tea blends. Della Terra Teas is based in Pennsylvania. I love molasses in baking, which I know is a little weird as I know many people avoid recipes with molasses. I find it adds an excellent richness and the best ginger cookies! A weird cultural shift from being a Canadian living in California is that molasses seems less popular here – when I need it for baking it is much harder for… Continue reading, hoot!

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Oolong Owl will be at the World Tea Expo 2014!

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Good news everyone! Oolong Owl will be at the World Tea Expo 2014 in Long Beach California! The World Tea Expo is going on this year May 29th to 31st, 2014. The World Tea Expo is a trade show for all specialty tea needs – tea sellers and suppliers, tea room owners, and other merchants meet and show off new tea products! Also at the World Tea Expo is conferences, tastings, and workshops. In the World Tea Expo schedule, blending award winning teas, current tea trends, tea business selling topics, and specific tea type tastings. In addition, World Tea Expo will have the 2014 World Tea Awards… Continue reading, hoot!

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Vintage Black from The Persimmon Tree – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Vintage Black is a black tea blend of Nilgiri and Yunnan golden buds. This tea is from The Persimmon Tree, online tea seller based in Southern California. More black teas! The Persimmon Tree certainly has quite a nice line of black teas that a tea lover should find something they love! Todays tea is a blend of different black teas, Nilgiri and Yunnan golden buds. I personally love yunnan gold tipped teas for their yummy creamy tea notes. Dry Leaf Vintage Black has a fragrant dry leaf that smells like raisins and earth. The appearance, hard to see in my photo, is a mix… Continue reading, hoot!

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Nordic Mug from DAVIDsTea – Oolong Owl Teaware review

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A large tea mug with tentacles? I had to have it! The cool mug is DAVIDsTea‘s Nordic mug in Breton Navy Octopus (Spring 2014 design)! Every season they come out with new designs and colours for their Nordic Mug. Let’s take a closer look at this tea mug. I ordered my mug online, so it was shipping from Eastern Canada and made it all the way to California in perfect condition. The Breton Navy Octopus Nordic Mug! The Nordic Mug is a big 16oz/463ml or 2 cups of tea compared to DAVIDsTea‘s which is a 12oz/ 355ml tea mug. All the DAVIDsTea tea mugs come with… Continue reading, hoot!

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Premium Grade Taiwan Alishan High Mountain Oolong from Cameron Tea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Taiwan Alishan High Mountain Oolong is a premium grade oolong grown at an altitdue of 1500m. This high quality oolong is from Cameron Tea, an online tea seller based in Taiwan. Cameron Tea has a small line up right now, but everything looks good quality, offering both premium and competition grade oolongs and black teas. It is HOT here in Southern California. Roasting hot and it’s only May! I hope all the out of towners heading to the World Tea Expo here at the end of the month will be ready for weather! As much as I want a higher caffeine… Continue reading, hoot!

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May Simple Loose Leaf Selection Club – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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I love these monthly boxes – when a month begins, I get packages! With that said, it is May, so it is time to check out Simple Loose Leaf’s Selection Club box for the month of May! To recap on Simple Loose Leaf‘s selection club. Each month you get to choose from a selection of 5 teas. You may also select the option of sampling all 5 teas, or choose 2 you like. Each tea is 1 to 2 oz, or for the sampler, a 4 oz sampler pack. Simple Loose Leaf also gives you a preview of the teas for the following month… Continue reading, hoot!

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Shooting Starfruit and Watermelon Mint from DAVIDsTea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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This summer, DAVIDsTea, has mostly fruity herbals in the exclusive summer collection. I did a DAVIDsTea order last week as part of the customary 3 free samples they send, 2 of my samples were from their new 2014 Summer tea line up! The Summer collection will be released tomorrow, May 7th! With that said, here is a quick review of Shooting Starfruit and Watermelon Mint. Since it is a sample size, I only get one shot at the teas. I decided to prepare them both iced, perfect for summer. Both teas I prepared as per the instructions on the package, but with… Continue reading, hoot!

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Keemun Black Tea from Little Red Cup Tea co – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Keemun Black tea is an organic, fair trade black tea from the Jiangxi Province of China. This tea is sold by Little Red Cup Tea co., online seller of traditional loose leaf teas that are also sustainable, certified organic and fair trade. This tea seller is based in Maine, USA. Dry Leaf Not the most exciting dry leaf appearance, Keemun Black tea looks like tight black sticks of tea. I bet you black tea drinkers are drooling! A little bit of a fruity scent from the leaf. Steeping Instructions I followed Little Red Cup Tea co’s brewing guidelines of 200F for 2 to… Continue reading, hoot!

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Plum Oolong from Ocean of Tea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Plum Oolong is an oolong blend with schizandra berries, rosehip, hibiscus asian plum and osthmanthus flowers. This tea is from Ocean of Tea, online seller of loose leaf teas. Ocean of Tea is new to the tea scene, with a small line up of sourced high quality teas from around the world. Very cool name for a tea company. I’d love to be in an ocean of tea, probably green tea, as I figure that be better for the skin. Anyways, all the samples Ocean of Tea sent me smell really good! Let’s sample Plum Oolong. Dry Leaf Wow, Plum Oolong is FRAGRANT! The dry leaf… Continue reading, hoot!