Any interest in a (MOSTLY) unflavored TTB? Closed
Thank you again for letting me participate in this awesome tea box and everyone for keeping it going! I’d love to take part in a second round if there is one. I hope everyone loves the teas I added.. whichever they happen to try anyway! I tried to do this special tea box justice with the teas I added… many favorites.
Other than the 29 servings of different teas I tried while I had the box, I removed for later/ finished these:
Joseph Wesley – Classic Chinese Black
Harney & Sons – Golden Monkey
Mandala – Imperial Bulang Gong Ting
Harney & Sons – Malachi McCormick
Verdant – Golden Fleece
Whispering Pines – Ailaoshan Black
Whispering Pines – Traditional TiGuanYin
I added to the tea box:
Butiki – Hattialli Golden Lion Assam
Ovation – Halmari Estate Assam
Teavivre – Ti Guan Yin Iron Goddess
Teavivre – Yun Nan Dian Hong Full Leaf
Teavivre – Keemun Grade 1
Teavivre – Fengqing Ancient Tree Spring Chun Jian Raw Pu-erh 2012
Teavivre – Menghai Golden Buds Tribute Ripened Pu-erh Cake 2009
Puerhshop,com -2010 Ripe Dayi Gongtuo Pu-erh Tuocha
Nature’s Tea Leaf – Yunnan Spring White Leaf Green Tea
Golden Moon – Orchid Temple Oolong
Lupicia – Matcha Kirara Rice
Little Red Tea Cup – Keemun
Zentealife.com – China Keemun
Den’s – Sencha Fukamidori
New Mexico Tea Company – Hojicha
Tea At Sea – Mountain Organic Indonesian Green
Aw man, I just realized I only added three pu-erhs and I should have added more!
Got it on time! I rifled through the teas right away and made such a mess of the orderliness.
I’m sending out the box to Cheri tomorrow early morning. I’ll update when after I visit the post office.
The box is pretty near stuffed. I took nine servings. Hopefully my contribution will suffice. Each packet should be enough for at least two servings.
What I tried:
Single Origin Teas – Vietnam OP1
Teavivre – Fengqing Dragon Pearl Black Tea
Single Origin Teas – Pai Mu Tan Malawi Thyolo
Den’s Tea – Sencha Fuka-midori
Verdant – Summer Harvest Laoshan Green (2013)
Teavivre – Menghai Golden Buds Tribute Ripened Pu-erh Cake 2009
Tea at Sea – Mountain Organic Indonesian Green Tea (I finished the sample)
Mandala – Milk Oolong
puerhshop.com – 2010 Dayi Gongtuo Pu-erh Tuocha
What I’m adding:
Teavivre – Fengqing Wild Tree Yesheng Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake 2013
Teavivre – Fengqing Raw Pu-erh Cake Tea 2006
Teavivre – Taiwan Jin Xuan Milk Oolong
Teavivre – Premium Grade Dragon Well
Yunomi – Autumn Bancha
Eco-cha – Red Jade
Green Mao Jian (unknown company)
I just got the box. It is a thing of beauty. I’m super excited!
There’s a lot here, and a lot of variety. So many to choose from. My initial I’m interested in trying this pile is pretty big. I think I may do things in reverse, going through what I have in my cupboard that is unflavored to add, and then decide how much I can sample from there…..
I just wanted to say that it has been really fun reading y’alls reviews, so thank you! :)
After this tea box is done; I think we would like to do another so hopefully we can always keep one TTB with our teas running!
You have a wonderful company! I loved being introduced to your teas through this ttb. Plus, I learned a lot about different teas. :)
You are totally on my “must buy from in the future” list (I’m on hiatus…). I really like the Vietnam OP1 and want to try your other African teas.
Sorry I’ve had this so long. I pulled out a bunch of samples the first day I got the box. Then after trying some of those, I went back through the box, and changed up what I wanted to try. And I did that multiple times.
I’ve tried almost everything I think I want to try. I hope to get the box in the mail tomorrow or Tuesday.
Thank you so much, MzPriss, for starting this box. It’s been amazing to be a part of it. I’ve tried a bunch of great teas that I probably wouldn’t have been interested in even a couple of months ago.
I’ve got the box all ready to go, except for Shadowfall’s address (message requesting address sent. I thought I had it, but I can’t find it!)
I’ve added a few teas that were brought back from China for me, along with a variety of other unflavored teas that I had.
Got the box yesterday. I have a giant pile of stuff I want to try now. Lol! Hopefully I’ll be able to get through it soon but work gave me a stupid schedule that isn’t conductive to tea drinking, so I have to figure that out.
Who put the little containers with tea in the box? Because those are really nifty and cute.
Alright. So I’m finally done with the box…ish. I ended up keeping a couple of tsp of a few teas that I still want to try, but didn’t want to continue to hold up the box.
I have to say that this was an awesome box to participate in. Especially since I’m alot more into unflavored teas now that I was when I participated in other boxes. And I was able to get over my general ‘ugh’ of puerhs. Lol!
So I tried a serving of each of these:
Mao Feng (Upton)
Imperial Golden Bud Mojiang – Spring 2014 (Yunnan Sourcing)
2010 Ripe Dayi Gong tuo Puerh (Puerhshop.com)
Keemun (ZenTea)
Bohea – (Harney & Sons) Finished
Kenya Milima (Harney & Sons)
Nilgiri Coonoor (Single Origin Teas)
Nilgiri Black (Arbor Teas)
Gong Fu Black (Zhi Tea) Finished
Vietnam OPI (Single Origin Teas)
Orchid Oolong (Art of Tea)
Kept the single serving left of each of these to try later
Fengquing Ancient Tree Spring Chun Jian Raw Puerh Cake 2012 (Teavivre) (wow that’s a mouthful)
Wild Monk Mao Cha (Mandala)
Loose & Lucious Lincang (Mandala)
This is what I’m adding:
Keemun (Ten Ren Teas)
Monkey Picked Oolong (Teavivre)
Sheng Puerh (DavidsTea)
Assam Borengajuli Tea (Culinary Teas)
Margaret’s Hope (RiverTea)
Hopefully I can fit it all back into the box. Lol! Just waiting for AwkwardSoul to get back to me with an address and this should be out in the mail tomorrow. Fingers crossed at least.
Box arrived!
Annoyingly it arrived right when I’m sinus gross sick and lost of sense of taste and smell. I’m aiming for 2 weeks or less, hopefully I’m actually able to taste tea soon, ugg!
The TTB is on its way back!
I sampled 17 teas, and removed/finished these teas:
Mandala tea cloud mist
Andrews & Dunham spring keemun
Eco cha – red jade
Whispering Pines – silver moonlight white
Single Origin tea – Nilgiri coonoon
YS imperial golden bud
Golden moon temple orchid
Steepster Select obukucha
Puer shop 2010 dayi gongtuo ripe
Random tea in red packet
TeaVivre balin gong fu
Added:
Verdant tea -Mrs Li shi Feng dragon well
Jalam Teas – meng Hun raw pu’er
Cameron teas – Taiwan Alishan High Mountain Oolong
Azercay buket
Taiwan tea crafts – shui xian
The Persimmon Tree – bao zhong
Red leaf tea – black matcha
Simple loose leaf – Russian caravan
Simple loose leaf – Formosa oolong
Simple loose leaf – Assam ftgfop
Blog post/picture evidence/tea owl tea selection http://oolongowl.com/unflavored-traveling-tea-box/
Are we going another round?
Saw your blog post and was wondering, what happens with the tea once it’s gone through a first round? Looks like another round is possible, but what else do people do? Just curious, as I’ve not yet participated.
It’s up to MzPriss, but I do hope this one goes around again. This has been one of my most favorite TTBs I’ve participated in.
LOL the picture of the owl with the container on his head! Perfect…
And I love how you made the low-ranking owl pick a Teavana tea. :P
And I would love to participate if this box makes another round! :)
If it does go around again I would love to participate. This looks like my kinda TTB and you all have made it look soo fun!
Cute blog post! I found small square containers that stack, so I’ll use those from now on.
If this went again – and went to Canada – I’d be super interested. I very infrequently swap, but I have in the past and got some cred in the swap thread. I mainly drink unflavoured tea so this one really was great to follow. Loved the blog post as well!
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