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free loose tea samples
Nov. 12th, 2008 11:24 amAnyone want free tea?
I ordered the French Vanilla black tea and Wild Blueberry green tea. I was sort of curious to try the Holiday Mint tisane herbal tea (aren't tisane and herbal the same thing?), but since I could only get two the French Vanilla won out.
You know, I really need to review my capitalization rules, especially on things like names of teas.
I also need a 洋茶 (yeah, I know that's not a real word) icon.
Okay, time to make myself some tea and pour myself a bowl of cereal.
P.S. Hah, bad pun makes me laugh:
[EDIT: Well, I certainly overbrewed that. I keep my previous brews on top of the fridge in their tea filters, and planning to rebrew last night's English Rose, I grabbed my Shanghai Rose from a few days ago. Problem is, Shanghai Rose is a white tea, which is brewed for 1.5-2.5 minutes at 155-165 degrees F. English Rose, being a black tea, is brewed at boiling (212 degrees F) for 3-5 minutes. It hasn't cooled down enough for me to drink it, but we'll see how it turns out.
Also, funny story. When I first made the English Rose last night, I started drinking it and was startled at how hot it was. For someone who usually drinks green tea (175 F), but has been drinking white tea (160 F) recently because of my tea shortage, I wasn't mentally prepared to drink something so hot. ^_^; At least I didn't burn myself or anything.]
[EDIT 2: I was just reading something about valerian root helping with sleeplessness, at least when added to teas. Maybe I should get my hands on some.]
[EDIT 3: Holy shit, $20 for 1 oz. of tea?!
And I'm drinking the overbrewed Shanghai Rose now. It's interesting, but not bad.]
[EDIT 4: Is it just me, or is this seriously rocky for Arashi?
I ordered the French Vanilla black tea and Wild Blueberry green tea. I was sort of curious to try the Holiday Mint tisane herbal tea (aren't tisane and herbal the same thing?), but since I could only get two the French Vanilla won out.
You know, I really need to review my capitalization rules, especially on things like names of teas.
I also need a 洋茶 (yeah, I know that's not a real word) icon.
Okay, time to make myself some tea and pour myself a bowl of cereal.
P.S. Hah, bad pun makes me laugh:
[EDIT: Well, I certainly overbrewed that. I keep my previous brews on top of the fridge in their tea filters, and planning to rebrew last night's English Rose, I grabbed my Shanghai Rose from a few days ago. Problem is, Shanghai Rose is a white tea, which is brewed for 1.5-2.5 minutes at 155-165 degrees F. English Rose, being a black tea, is brewed at boiling (212 degrees F) for 3-5 minutes. It hasn't cooled down enough for me to drink it, but we'll see how it turns out.
Also, funny story. When I first made the English Rose last night, I started drinking it and was startled at how hot it was. For someone who usually drinks green tea (175 F), but has been drinking white tea (160 F) recently because of my tea shortage, I wasn't mentally prepared to drink something so hot. ^_^; At least I didn't burn myself or anything.]
[EDIT 2: I was just reading something about valerian root helping with sleeplessness, at least when added to teas. Maybe I should get my hands on some.]
[EDIT 3: Holy shit, $20 for 1 oz. of tea?!
And I'm drinking the overbrewed Shanghai Rose now. It's interesting, but not bad.]
[EDIT 4: Is it just me, or is this seriously rocky for Arashi?
