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Sorry if this review offends you, but I need to just review it as if I didn’t create it:

The concept that someone made a blend for their birthday is quite interesting so this appeals to me. I saw LP playing around with hibiscus and blue pea flower a few days before creating this blend; something about trying to make a purple tea. For whatever reason, hibiscus did not it into this blend though which is something I should inquire about.
Looking at it causes curiosity: This blend will never be scooped out consistently. My one scoop came with 5 jasmine pearls and two blue pea flowers: http://postimg.org/image/vgahu8a9z/
I’m sure that brewing a different amount of either two of those ingredients would change the taste which makes me wish that this blend was put into tea bags as the blender wanted the tea to be tasted.
For me, the powerful taste that the blue pea flower has takes awhile to get use to. I’m not much of a floral tea drinker, but during the spring/summer I end up finding myself drawn to them.

I’m curious if cold steeping this might lead to less blue pea flower ‘power’.
While the brew has a tint of blue that is pretty cool, I think there needs to be some balancing on the blenders side of this tea or at least some sort of advice for the user (but that would be unfair…)

I had four request to resurrect this tea. The reason it died is because I am not a fan of black teas in general so my own taste buds said to me, ’don’t make any more of this’ but others disagreed which is awesome because it means I did something right.

I’m going to do something weird and sell this as a personal blend for now as I am figuring out Etsy. With that being said, I have no idea what this actually cost me nor do I care so I’ll just do a flat $5 per ounce if anyone is interested.
Wait, what if this tea sucks??? No worries, I can send free samples in the case that an ounce might drive your taste buds crazy; I don’t want to be part of causing an internal battle between one’s mind and taste buds :p

So, the Keemun I used is roughly 3x the size of the last leaf (though that means little). I also put less oolong in it since it is a black tea blend.

I think that’s about it. This is a Steeperster blend for my friends :)
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This Keemun is BS

I have this theory that silver needles are always good. Thus far, I have been correct.

I’m hoping to continue this experiment :)

I really like me some tea needles; gold or silver.

Talk about some amazing breakage. The sample of this that I was given looked like 100% loose leaf. Quite beautiful :)

This woke me up this morning quick quickly with the strength and bitter tones to it. I will say that it is always interesting to notice the difference in taste from 15s to 20s, there’s a lot that goes on within 5s. This is one that I have to almost flash brew to enjoy it’s liquid.

This wild blackberry taste that I put into this tea is a bit confusing as far as figuring out the flavor goes. Honestly, I remember flavoring the white bud by itself over a month ago and realizing it went well together; but then I added flower because it looks pretty :)

I’m curious if this berry flavor mixture would work on jasmine pearls… I am already thinking the answer is no. Jasmine doesn’t sound like it would mix with a tart fruit.

Here’s Hoping TTB (round 5)

I went into this without reading about it, which I should have done. With no idea that keemun may have smoked flavors to it, I was caught off guard by this tea. The few keemun teas I have had were either malty or semi bitter with a strong black tea taste (which differs for everyone). I’m not sure if I like the notes of smoke in this since they kind of sit there mildy. I may have to come back to this sometime since I am currently not a fan of smoked teas, I’m trying to be though.

Here’s Hoping TTB (round 5)

I do like me some hazelnut
Add that to a roasty oolong and I’m set. This cup did not let down a single expectation that I had as I went to drink it down before bed. The mouth feel is quite nice with the nutty notes bouncing off the roof of my mouth from my tongue.

Here’s Hoping TTB (round 5)

This is an elixir.

Here’s Hoping TTB (round 5)

Ripe with flowers? Well, I had to try this because the last two osmanthus teas I had made me feel sick. That made this a testing tea :P

While this was nice, I think that this plus many other pu’erh have made me decide that ripe pu’erh does not go well with flowers for my taste buds.

I’m happy to say that I didn’t feel sick after drinking this!

Here’s Hoping TTB (round 5)

I will call this tea: Ran Over Snails, A Green Oolong

So, I’ve had the Laoshan green tea but saw this in the box and had to try it. This was nice, but I have drank much black/puerh that this tea was quite light; thus, this became an outdoor drink :)
MMMMM how pleasant a green tea or oolong tea makes being outdoors :)