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Featuring Chicago Tea Garden’s Bi Luo!

The first time I saw the proper pronunciation of Guayusa, I thought of the horrible character from Star Wars, Jar Jar Binks.  His ridiculous antics and skewed vocal patterns reminded me of this word….So what IS this word?

Guayusa plant in the wild

Guayusa is a rather unique “tea.”  I say “tea” because it is in reality a tisane, a plant not from the true Camellia sinensis plant, but rather a special plant (a holly plant, in fact) from the depths of the Amazon rainforest.  … Continue Reading

I’m going to tell everyone this right now:  I’m not a huge fan of Iced Tea.  Since it’s June and all though, I guess I should try to “get back on the horse,” and try it as I do every year.  Why do I dislike the taste of iced tea?  Here’s why:

• It’s BITTER:  My god is it bitter.  It’s almost past the scale of bitter to downright stale in my opinion.  Whenever I get that slightly vegetal taste (the “undertones” of … Continue Reading
  

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…Enjoy!

Big THANK YOU to woodie from TeaChat.com for sending me some tea samples he enjoys to try on the show!  Thanks so much dude!

Also, thanks to Adagio for a birthday surprise, including some great Chai samples as well as a new IngenuiTEA infuser!  You guys are the best .

One more thing, in addition to probably checking out Episode #31 (even in it’s bad streched out form), I’d like to point you to my first article for my college’s newspaper, The Campus!  Tried to write an informal, rather simple argument of loose leaf vs. bagged teas.  … Continue Reading

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Not sure if you want to call this “episode 31″ or “episode 32″ but either way, it’s something to watch

You know, I really wanted to like Casablanca Twist, I really did. It’s like that kid in high school that you pity and want to be friends with, but you just can’t. He would never mesh with your other friends, and then it leads to awkwardness. That’s what this is, an awkward tea. I’m not exactly sure WHAT CbT is supposed to be (I’m clever with acronyms, right?), but unless Adagio wanted to make an over-the-top mint tea, they’ve done their job, ten times over.

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