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Thank you to Skysamurai for including this in her Secret pumpkin package!

I must admit that if I didn’t know it was a Milk Oolong I wouldn’t have been able to identify it as such. At all.

It is a smooth cup. With a light florally oolong fragrance, but nothing really in your face. No bitterness or astrincey that I could detect, although the recommended steep time is really long comparitive to what I usually brew an oolong (Rec: 5min. I brewed 1st steep @ 5min, 2nd @ 6min). I definately don’t get the creamy notes or the bready notes I’ve gotten from other Milk Oolongs, flavored or unflavored.

Just a mild and non offensive cup. But not much to remember either.

There’s a bunch of other teas I got in my Secret pumpkin package, BUT I just received the Here’s Hoping TTB R5 today and it is massive. I’ll probably be working on that for a bit until I get back to my Secret Pumpkin teas.

Thank you Skysamurai for sending this in her Secret Pumpkin package! =)

Hmm, it’s roasty. And sweet and buttery? For some reason in my head Tieguanyins tend to be green and floral. It’s still kind of green and floral, but also roasty. Which seems a contradiction in some way? Lol

Either way it’s very very yummy and I’m glad I had the chance to try it. It is definately worthwhile. And possibly on my list of things to buy if I ever get around to putting in a Verdant order. Hehe

OMG this tea! I melt. It’s Ginseng but not overwhelming and it’s sweet!

So I was trying to make lots of tea for my drive to San Francisco (which is only an hour, but I know I’ll be sipping tea and singing tunes the whole way). Followed the instructions for 1 tsp @ boiling for 3 min per 16oz for each steep (3 total, this time).

First steep was soooo yummy! Sigh. It’s just a dreamy tea. I ordered 100g, but I kinda wish I had gotten more! I know I’m greedy. It was just the perfect balance of oolong and ginseng and surprisingly ohh so sweet. Savor this first steep!

Second steep, the ginseng taste is very muted but the oolong sings. It’s more on the green side of oolong but still full but light. I brewed at 3 mins, but I wish I had brewed longer. The bag instructions say 3-8 min. At this point the leaves are just barely beginning to crinkle open. And these leaves are wrapped tight! There is very little mouth dryness, but most of the sweetness had disappeared.

Third steep was washed out, but that’s my fault, it definitely could have used alot more than 3 min. The leaves were still barely open, but I was already running late, so it steeped for the minimum amount of time. I have to appreciate this tea again on a day when I have the time to let it sit and unfurl its beauty!

This tea works really well at 212 as teavivre recommends, but usually I brew most teas at 180-185, so I wonder how it’ll change it.

I got a big bag of this in the mail! Yay!

What’s the drinking equivalent to NomNomNom? Haha.

I think I prefer the comparatively gentle flavor of natural milk oolong better, but the natural ones can be all over the board in flavor profiles, not totally a bad thing, but when you’re craving a particular flavor… At least with this I got what I was expecting and I can expect to get relatively the same taste every time I order.

By the way, these expand a LOT. They’re on the smaller side of leaf size, but there’s alot of them! and they really bloom!

Blergh. I think I brewed it too long. Or something. It tastes like how acetone smells, very much on the after taste too. Kind of like when you’re trying to drink orange juice after brushing your teeth. I’ve steeped it twice though to drink during two different times of the day and it still tastes this way. I think this is from the Xmas cards swap last year, but it doesn’t have any markings other than the tea name so I don’t know.

This came in the Lupicia tea magazine for October. I better enjoy this cup because my kitty decided to walk by and lick the tea bag. LOL

A amber colored liquor with a soft malty scent. The astringency definately there, even thoughI brewed it lightly. I brewed it in a mason jar too, that was a bad idea because it’s currently too hot to hold.

I went and bought donuts after going to the gym this morning, before I posted my Secret Pumpkin package. Apple fritter goes well with this tea. Even brewed lightly it holds up well to the sweetness of the donut.

I’m generally not a black tea person, and prefer darjeeling to assam, but this one’s not bad. I would consider it as a gift to people starting out in the world of tea. Throw out that Lipton.

I may be a bit crazy. I mixed some cold Strawberry Oolong and some SunnyD. Yup. That happened. It wasn’t bad.

In other news I found the TeaRen store in my city. But they are cash only and I didn’t have ANY cash on me, not even enough for a cup of milk tea. Boo. Another day.

This is such a nice flavored oolong. In my opinion much much better than Momoko, which is much too sweet for my tastes. The peach is fresh and delicate on top of a green oolong. I wish I had drunk this more in the spring/summer, that would have been a perfect time for it, but it’s still wonderful, and nice in these first few days of Autumn. The Autumn Equinox just passed last week and we just saw the first few showers today. Hopefully this season will bring alot of rain, California needs it!

This resteeps well too! But honestly most of Lupicia’s oolongs resteep well for me…

Sipdown!

Sad sad day. I thought I had more of this tea but I can’t find it so it’s possible that I already drank all of this . Alas; It will be missed.