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Imagine that toads were related to clams and also had pearls that were within them. This tea tasted like a toad that fell into a volcano and its pearl shot into the air and got stuck in a cloud and dried out over two weeks. Once it fell down it transformed into an oolong and Tealyra had no idea what it really was so they decided to sell it as organic tea…

This has to be the best cheap sheng I have ever had. $22 for 250g? That is a deal :)

Quite fantastic. Easily over 10 steeps and still enjoying the taste as it doesn’t dry my mouth out which I am thankful for.

Went on their site and was like: Yo man, get you some 1980’s authentic pu’erh and try to do it for under $300.
That didn’t happen so I thought: I should get some old bear.
But then I realized I spent over $200 on tea this month… so, dear bear, next month.

At work today I had spicy food and decided not to ruin some oolong so I pulled this out.
Brewed it up and then threw ice in it. Fantastic pairing for a spicy . I will admit that without the addition of ice/water it may be a bit bitter and strong, but if you weaken it up it becomes rather nice.

Oh snap, this is fantastic!
Normally the touchas that I get that are ripe are super dark, but this looked like it was coated in dirt :)
^ that is a good thing

This tea was a little hard to break up so I just made a tornado in my gravity steeper with the water and this guy :p
The result at 15s was wonderful… however, I screwed up once again and started this after 9pm so I only made it to steep 10 or 11; better known as 4 bathroom visits (I was told it is just as accurate)

I hope to find more toucha to be this good :)

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I pulled out a Upton Tea sample that someone gave me in a swap… Chinese Sencha, sounds good you know? Well, I began to be skeptical when I saw the date: processed February of 2012. Maybe I thought too much of it, but three year old sencha seems outdated to me… but I actually don’t know and I’m being too lazy to look it up on Google. This tasted a bit too strong with a wildness to it that didn’t seem to be its desire to give to my taste buds. I only brewed it for 60 seconds in 24ounces so I don’t think it was my steeping.

This was light, floral, and yummy.

I tend to always enjoy a well balanced light rolled oolong that is accented by it’s floral notes and not over ran by them which this did not do so it’s good to me :)

I’ve had three teas from Berylleb which I believe is not enough to make my opinion yet… but with AllanK’s advice/help, I did just spend $119 on only three teas.

This tea how every is funky… like a wild molded grass. I’m not really a fan of it to be honest. Green teas that look like this in general haven’t been my thing; even the one that Whispering Pines had which I blind tasted because I had no idea what it was. Just not my kind of green :/

Leave it to me to mix Whispering Pines’ Imperial Golden Bud Dian Hong and Tea Urchin’s 1989 Shan Lin Xi…
Whatever, it was fun :)

This turned out to be a weird cup of malt, caramel, and toffee.
In case you are wondering, they were previously used leaves from an earlier session. However, there was a good 14 grams together packed into my pot which provided some strong results.

I chuckled to myself when I saw the words ‘black tea’ on this package as I saw Wu Yi Oolong… come on now, really?

The toasty bamboo is actuate to explain this tea. It’s a nice cup of relaxing warmth that goes down slowly. I quite enjoyed it as expected since it’s an oolong :)