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Gat dang!

Pure vanilla bean aroma. Aged Yiwu lovelyaweseome vanilla sudsyheadsaponin mineralsaline leatherwood rootbeer slight warm spice. Alkaline marshmallow fluff. Woody drying but coating. Bitter-salt in salivary glands tingle. Huah! Moderate camphor in chest. Great clean storage somewhere along the line. This feels really good. Calming grounding not excessively so but jaw-and-chesty strong without palpitations.

Drinking it first-ish thing sitting on the rug in the morning sun after cleaning the cobwebs off the outside of the house.

mrmopar — thank you 5? years later for a sample of this mushroom gem!

Flavors: Alkaline, Bitter, Camphor, Cherry, Clean, Drying, Geosmin, Marshmallow, Mineral, Root Beer, Saline, Salt, Smoke, Smooth, Spicy, Sweet, Tobacco, Vanilla, Wood, Woody

Preparation
Boiling 7 g 4 OZ / 110 ML
gmathis

I love your adjectives.

Marshall Weber

Sounds delightful!

derk

Ha, yeah, g, this tea got me all excited with an urgency to communicate.

If you can find it Marshall, pick up a sample! mrmopar might have some in his stash.

derk

Next day it tastes like cherry pipe tobacco, petrichor. Reminds me of Ohio. t
The smell of wet basements and the neighbors Shorty and Betty who lived across the street from my Yia-yia. The two of us would cross the street to pass a summer afternoon or evening on their porch swing and do a whole lotta nothin’ ‘cept me bein’ cute while Shorty smoked his pipe. I liked them as a young girl. They were comfortable old people, unlike the Greek cheek-pinchers at the church. I mighta been 5 or 6 or 7.

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gmathis

I love your adjectives.

Marshall Weber

Sounds delightful!

derk

Ha, yeah, g, this tea got me all excited with an urgency to communicate.

If you can find it Marshall, pick up a sample! mrmopar might have some in his stash.

derk

Next day it tastes like cherry pipe tobacco, petrichor. Reminds me of Ohio. t
The smell of wet basements and the neighbors Shorty and Betty who lived across the street from my Yia-yia. The two of us would cross the street to pass a summer afternoon or evening on their porch swing and do a whole lotta nothin’ ‘cept me bein’ cute while Shorty smoked his pipe. I liked them as a young girl. They were comfortable old people, unlike the Greek cheek-pinchers at the church. I mighta been 5 or 6 or 7.

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This place, like the rest of the internet, is dead and overrun with bots. Yet I persist.

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I most enjoy loose-leaf, unflavored teas and tisanes. Teabags have their place. Some of my favorite teas have a profound effect on mind and body rather than having a specific flavor profile.

Favorite teas generally come from China (all provinces), Taiwan, India (Nilgiri and Manipur). Frequently enjoyed though less sipped are teas from Georgia, Japan, and Nepal. While I’m not actively on the hunt, a goal of mine is to try tea from every country that makes it available to the North American market. This is to gain a vague understanding of how Camellia sinensis performs in different climates. I realize that borders are arbitrary and some countries are huge with many climates and tea-growing regions.

I’m convinced European countries make the best herbal teas.

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100-90: A tea I can lose myself into. Something about it makes me slow down and appreciate not only the tea but all of life or a moment in time. If it’s a bagged or herbal tea, it’s of standout quality in comparison to similar items.

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59-1: Lacking several elements, strangely clunky, possesses off flavor/aroma/texture or something about it makes me not want to finish.

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