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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Revisiting Castleton Moonlight, on the site Steep Stories 16 hours, 49 minutes ago
I think it’s high time I talk about the Castleton estate.
Again.
I say “again” because, if you’re no stranger to this blog, you’ll know that it is one of my favorite gardens from one of my favorite […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, A Focus on Fellowship, on the site Steep Stories 1 month ago
A week ago, an article made the rounds in the greater tea community sphere. At the time it came out, it rubbed me the wrong way. So much so, I originally meant to pen a rant pointing out where it went wrong, and […]
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Tea is about sharing and the fellowship.
Drinking tea alone isn’t fun.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, My Birthday at a Tea Festival, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 1 week ago
Over a week ago, I attended Northwest Tea Festival. Again.
It also happened to fall on my birthday.
I decided at the end of summer that the best way to ring in my 43rd year on Earth was to make a […]
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I really liked the meme before and after. However last time I attended one, I don’t remember in such a state.
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Perhaps, this is the proof that I might have been infected.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, There Once Were Two Teas from Huiming, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Sometimes, in my search for new teas to try, I get drawn in by mentions of particular producers.
This is Wei Zhong He. I first learned of him through my dealings with Kevin Gascoyne (Camellia Sinensis Tea […]
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You are the Enterprise of tea, finding combos that no one (from my point of view) ever found and managing to present them while managing to make me want to give them a try.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Tea Balls of Manipur, on the site Steep Stories 2 months ago
Earlier this year, a fellow tea blogger sent me information on an Indian tea growing region I’d never heard of.
A place filled with old(er) growth, semi-wild assamica forests, which bordered Assam to the E […]
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You answered my question before you knew it, regarding how much tea you should use it.
It is strange that a white tea produced such a dark liquor.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Sheng Puerh-Style Teas from Vietnam, on the site Steep Stories 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Over a year-and-a-half ago, I wrote an article discussing the nature of sheng cha.
It didn’t go over well.
I used a Vietnamese sheng puerh-style tea from Son La province as a part of my thesis, and it a […]
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Such names. Too bad there were two genies. I would have imagined something like Ice Genie.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Alternate Tea Etiquette, on the site Steep Stories 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Five days ago, a vendor friend posted this article on Facebook:
I didn’t read it, which is usually what not to do, but I’ve seen such tea topical articles before. The direction they were going in was n […]
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The first of the tea club is that there are no rules (unless you ask @TheDevotea :P).
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Flow of Tea and Time, on the site Steep Stories 3 months ago
I should probably get around to talking about World Tea Expo 2019, huh?
To be truthful, my delay in doing so wasn’t related to my usual brand of procrastination, but rather some trauma. Stuff I’ve had dif […]
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Thanks for the backwards report, I enjoyed reading it.
And don’t forget home, sweet tea home! I am sure you will enjoy being Darjeeling, Ceylon… really soon.
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, Every Day – Part 1, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Totally adding “Overpopulated Scrotum” to my lexicon. And, quite frankly, if you had named the tea that oh, I can think of several people in the US that would have bought it just for name alone.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, A Rare Tea Tasting with Kevin Gascoyne, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 2 weeks ago
As some of you have seen—via my social media—in June, I was at World Tea Expo.
For those who don’t follow me on those platforms . . . I don’t blame you. But that’s beside the point. In the middle of June, […]
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?Tea cult and tea meditation? You had quite an experience.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, How My Brain Made Me Love Chinese Green Teas (Again), on the site Steep Stories 5 months, 1 week ago
Well, it’s spring again, and with it comes warmer weather. That’s how it is in the Pacific Northwest. I’m . . . not a fan. The reason? With warmer weather comes seasonal chronic migraines; a fun little diagn […]
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Quite intriguing names.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the First Flushes, on the site Steep Stories 6 months, 1 week ago
I don’t consider it spring until I’ve had a first flush Darjeeling in my mouth. This year, though, it took me a little longer to get to my “stash” of first flush Darjeelings. Most years, the family Lochan sends m […]
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Oh! The times they are changing?
I should get my hands on a first flush to check these changes for myself.
Thanks for the tip.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, In Search of the Tea Tree God, on the site Steep Stories 7 months ago
Several months ago, I had a conversation with a fellow tea nerd about the origin of the tea tree. Y’know, small talk. During the dialogue, he uttered the following assertion that made my imagination boil over l […]
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Some foods for the thought and a great job.
After reading your post, I almost wanted to read once more some works by Umberto Ecco.
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, Milk Tea, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 7 months, 4 weeks ago
I’m actually not much of a fan of milk tea or bubble tea, but Hong Kong-style is the only way I like either. So . .. that’s something.
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, I had a dream, on the site Teaconomics 7 months, 4 weeks ago
This spurred me to do a quick search for tea museums, of which there are SEVERAL . . . but I like the idea of a museum that is more honed-in on its message. I’d see a Xavier inspired tea museum any day.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The White Teas of Araksa, on the site Steep Stories 7 months, 4 weeks ago
The Araksa Tea Plantation is, by its own website’s declaration, one of the oldest in Chiang Mai province, Thailand. That’s not to say that it’s the oldest garden, or the oldest processor of teas. But by moder […]
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That’s a really good question: does the time of plucking have such influence on the way a tea taste?
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Black and White of Benifuki, on the site Steep Stories 8 months ago
Benifuki is an interesting Japanese tea tree cultivar. For one, it’s a cross between a cultivar heralding from the assamica variety, and another cultivar of the sinensis variety. A cross-breeding of this sort w […]
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You know a guy in the tea world? Only one? 😛
Great job.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, A Rohini White Tea Rumble, on the site Steep Stories 8 months, 1 week ago
Sometimes, all it takes is a photograph to get me excited.
This was posted back in November of 2017 by one Shiv Saria. The tea in question was a Darjeeling white tea hailing from the Rohini tea estate. In […]
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Is there a map (better an online one) or a list of estates in Darjeeling (or a list) but one that shows around time which one are operating or not?
This is something I asked myself after going through your post.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Tea at Sea, on the site Steep Stories 8 months, 2 weeks ago
I have a good reason for not updating this here blog in awhile, honest. For the last week or so, I was on vacation. As indicated by this dorky tourist capture.
No regrets.
Short summary: I was on a […]
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Ensenada/Catalina run is pretty fun, I’ve done that one but with Princess (my guess yours wasn’t Princess as their food is fancy pants creampuff swans, tiramisu, and scones with clotted cream).
But yeah, I bring my own tea. All the times I’ve gone the staff are happy to bring me hot water or I hit the buffet and fill a big thermos.
I’d love to do a cruise with a bunch of tea people one day, a bit hard when friends live on other ends of the country and everything has to be in pairs. Also, I only want to cruise Princess because of my loyalty level (free internet!) and all I care about is the fancy pants food.
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I am happy that you had a holidays break.
As for tea, we won’t tell His Highness of down there in the Southern Hemisphere. I swear it. 😉
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Tea at the Temple Gates, on the site Steep Stories 9 months ago
On the odd occasion, I leave the house to hunt for tea. It’s a rare occurrence—much like a hermitic groundhog hailing the arrival of spring—but it’s been known to happen. Sometimes that urge falls upon me at nigh […]
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Quite mysterious and interesting.
It seems you are living in an avant-garde tea scene.
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You are a man of habit but only the best ones and a Tea-Rex 😀