Bio
ME & TEA
I started drinking tea when I was a teenager, my dad used to make tea a million times a day as it was (and still is!) good for his health. So he would make it for the entire family. Usually it was Lipton with a teaspoon of sugar per cup and a slice of lemon. I was fond of it made this way then a lot.
Then I would have occasional loose leaf teas, I slowly got into green tea… I would mostly stick to bagged tea though. It was just convenient.
Only recently, in the middle of 2013, did I start getting seriously into all kinds of loose leaf tea.
My cupboard only reflects what I have in ‘regular’ (non-sample) sizes. It could be that I have some tea you’re looking for, just in a smaller amount, even though it is not in my cupboard, so you can always just ask when swapping with me :)
[LOVES]:
- Chinese & Taiwanese black teas
- second flush darjeelings
- malty assams
- green oolongs
- Chinese green teas
- super-fruity rooibos/honeybush “teas”
[LIKES]:
- Japanese green teas
- white teas
- dark oolongs
- interesting dessert teas
- earl greys
- pu-erhs
[IS INDIFFERENT ABOUT]:
- chai teas
- herbal teas
- fruit teas
[DISLIKES]:
- mint in blends (it’s ok as straight mint)
JUST ME
Apart from tea, I love reading, board-gaming with my husband, learning foreign languages (currently Spanish and Portuguese) and listening to lots and lots of music!
And if we just stick to food-related stuff I am also a great aficionado of good craft beer and dark chocolate :)
MY FAVORITE TEA COMPANIES (so far):
Butiki
Golden Moon Tea
Harney & Sons
Lupicia
Shang Tea
What-Cha
Whispering Pines Tea Co.
Yezi Tea
You can also find me here:
On Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/dairy_queen
On Last.fm http://www.last.fm/user/poziomka
On Untappd https://untappd.com/user/poziomka
Location
PA
Glad you liked it. Sorry I didn’t mention Ovation was gone. >>;
There were several people who went a little crazy during the Ovation liquidation sale where you had to buy their tea by the pound. I’m sure if you put the word out, you could find someone who still has a TON of this tea and was willing to part with it.
That’s interesting. The sale must have been quite an event!
It was a bit of a feeding frenzy. I learned a valuable lesson to never buy tea by the pound again!
It does seem like quite a bunch of tea. The 4 oz. of Queen Catherine I recently ordered seems like a lot of tea me ;)