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Cruising with Tea: Travelling with Loose Leaf Tea on a Cruise Ship

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Hi Tea Owls! Last month I went on a Princess Cruise from Los Angeles to Catalina Island to Ensenada Mexico and back! Totally check out part one of my experience on a cruise ship (aka, OMG Afternoon Tea Time!). In a crazy turn of events, it looks like I’m going on another cruise! I’m sailing for Hawaii tomorrow! Since I’m going on another cruise, I wanted to show what my travelling with loose leaf tea on a cruise ship set up was. This was my first cruise and I knew I needed to bring my own tea. I was glad… 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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Oolong Owl’s 2013 Christmas Tea Haul

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Hello Tea Peeps! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas filled with great tea and sweets! It seems I’ve come to a time that people don’t buy me tea things often. I mean, I have so much tea and so much tea ware, I can see it being hard to find something I don’t have. Of course, I have a list of things I do want (cough, tea table, cough), but as usual, surprise gift items are more fun than buying off my list. My husband joked about buying me a Costco sized box of Bigelow tea as a… Continue reading, hoot!

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Happy Holidays! Tea Ornaments! Oolong Owl 2013

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Happy Holidays my tea peeps! The Tea Owls and I hope you are all having a great winter Holiday and drinking lots of tea!  I made sure to crack open some good pu’er and oolong for the occasion! The Oolong Owl Tea Owls are having lots of fun! They enjoyed supervising the gingerbread village construction. Hmm, we need to keep an eye on Teal “pu’er pick” Owl. I don’t want him stabbing the gingerbread houses for tea. The Tea Owls also enjoyed roosting in my Christmas Tree! My tree is right next to my tea shelf, so it is a… 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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Goodies from Canada!

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My Dad just arrived from my home town of Vancouver Canada. Huge weather change from him being in the cold to sunny California. Of course, I asked my dad to bring me some things from Canada, especially since he lives really close to a DavidsTea store… You know what that means? CANADIAN TEA GOODIES! (and airport Tim bits, those didn’t survive that long!) I got a new DavidsTea Steeper and a Glass Perfect Mug (peacock design from earlier in the year)! Intern Tea Owl is very happy about his new Steeper! My ingenuiTEA is leaking badly so the Tea Owls and… 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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Measuring your Tea: Digital Pocket Scales

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It has been on my mind for awhile that I should get a good little digital pocket scale for tea. The more I drink unflavored teas, especially big leafy greens, oolongs and blacks, the more I felt I needed a scale. Majority of the steeping instructions will have you use a teaspoon or two. Those big leafy teas are really hard to measure, it seems I either have to smash up the leaves to fit the spoon, or be a little more generous as “error”. Then there are other teas, like rolled oolongs and pu’er, that are dense and heavy, causing… 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!