Tea #1 - Serendipitea Holiday Cheer, 5 minutes, 212, ~ 1/3 warm milk
Tea #2 - Dragonwater Black Spicy Chai, 5 minutes, 212, ~ 1/3 warm milk
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Today we are trying Firefly from The Simple Leaf and Darjeeling Makaibari Estate from Choice Organic Teas, both at 5 minutes with boiling water. It’s also Joe’s 30th birthday celebration! Are you having fun yet?
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Today we are trying Felicitea’s Earl Grey Brandice (4 minutes and then 3 minutes in boiling water), a tea that Brandice herself had a hand in!
Will it be able to stand up to Joe’s sarcasm as well as the original Brandice? Yes, actually it does. And it’s so nice, we tried it twice!
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This week we’re doing two black teas: seredipiTea’s Namaste (5 min, boiling) and Boulder Dushanbe’s Boulder Breakfast Blend (5 min, boiling) (say that 5 times fast).
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This week is features two very green teas; O-Cha.com’s Sencha Yutaka Midori (3 min, rumbling) and Mellow Monk’s Top Leaf (3 min, rumbling), both claimed to be top notch green teas from each company. Do both teas live up to the hype? Was this episode sponsored by KFC? (No.) Should it have been? (Yes.)
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For this episode, we’re bringing out the glass tea set from Teaposy in order to try Teaposy’s Falling Water (boiling water) and Dragonwater’s 3 Flower Burst (steaming water, 3-5 minutes).
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Today’s teas were both floral (rose and jasmine) with green tea. First, we tried Floral Jasmine by Felicitea (3 minutes, 180º) and then Really Goethe by SerendipiTea (prepared in the same way). Both teas were found to be very floral, but Brandice got a bit feisty about one of them… beware! You’ll have to watch to find out more…
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Today we look at two very different Oolong teas. First up is Formosa Wenshan Baochong Choice by AuraTeas and then Tankha Oolong from The Simple Leaf. Both have their own special taste, but which is more oolong and, more importantly, which is better?
Special Note: The Formosa Wenshan Baochong Choice is AuraTea’s current tea of the month.
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Today we’re rocking the genmai cha a second time, with Upton’s Gen-Mai Cha (3 minutes, 180º) and Choice Organic Genmaicha (3 minutes, 180º). Joe and Brandice each enjoyed one more than the other, but as usually, disagreed on which one. You can see which one might be a cha-cha-liscious option for you by watching the episode.
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This episode is a smörgåsbord of random conversation, peppered with some ice tea tastings here and there and chock full of every topic imaginable. If you’ve ever wanted to see Brandice and Joe just sit around with some iced tea and just chat about life and all things geeky, then this is likely to be one of your favorite episodes. Iced tea seems to generate lots of conversation, so prepare yourselves for a lack of tea talk (aside from one of the iced teas drawing some angry berating) and an abundance of random chit chat.
Iced teas sampled: Honest Tea’s Just Green Tea, Upton Kirkoswald Estate FBOP, and Upton Midsummer Dream (all iced).
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