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Tea Star Oolong from Justea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Tea Star is a pesticide free, direct trade oolong that is a hand tied, world’s first bag-less tea bag. This really cool oolong is from Justea – Vancouver, BC based tea seller of direct trade Kenyan Teas. While I was at the World Tea Expo I saw the Tea Star! It tasted amazing, the concept is really cool, as well as the tea being hand tied. With that said, there is a lot of love put into this tea. I’ve reviewed Justea in the past during their crowd funding campaign. Since then they have cooperatively built a tea processing kitchen with the tea farmers… 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!

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Oolong Owl’s first blooming tea

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Happy Easter 2013 everyone! I hope you are having amazing tea today! I don’t overload on sweets on Easter, the day after Easter I do as I raid all the grocery stores cheap leftover easter candy! Muhahahaaa! Anyways, my first blooming tea! I HORDE blooming teas. I have a bunch that I never used. My husband bought me a bunch at the LA Farmer’s Market. They were really cheap. I might as well use one to test out this tea pot. In fact, I dunno what flavor this one is. Alright! Let’s go! I had to read up how to… Continue reading, hoot!