I dumped the rest of this unceremoniously into my teapot, let it sit for a minute, and drank it. Thankfully, it’s not as strong as it used to be, but my cup leans into the lemon apricot fruit range of grassy tea. I’ve been contemplating on getting a fall order even though I’m waiting on a swap of so many teas. What-Cha has some cool experimental varieties, but I’m also in basic white person flavor mode right now. I have so many teas, but I only have one chai out of all of them. The fall mood is hitting me HARD the past few days.
It was nice to have a black tea bordering on white and oolong. I’m still going through moods with black tea. My gong fu ones have been a little bit too brisk or tea drunk potent for me lately for western. I still plow through my oolongs, but western or tumbler. I’ve been a hair more involved in work by setting up a chess club and managing to teach all grades of social studies for high school.
I initially complained about my schedule, but I have really good groups. Luckily, I’ve taught Civics, Economics, World and US History for nearly 6 years, so I mostly know what I’m doing. Civics and Econ alternate semester to semester, so it’s not too overwhelming, but I’m trying to move away from lecture and use more collaboration/student driven discussion. Shifting to more active learning also requires waaaay more prep time and work, so I’ve been juggling what I have with what I can borrow from other teachers, what I can improve. It feels like driving manual though since I have to shift my gears from class to class.
It’s nice to finish a straight black tea and enjoy it for the flavors as I go back into a productive work mode this Saturday.
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Ah, the swap … The box is sitting by my desk, filling very, very slowly with baggies of tea. There’s at least 100 g of green oolong in there, including some of that SLX Tieguanyin. I think I’ll unearth that white tea from Wang and pack it up, even if it’s not as full as I’d like it to be.
If you could only have one, would you choose a Korean balhyocha or one of the Taiwanese black teas from Floating Leaves? They’re all vacuum sealed, which is why I’m asking. There’s not much hongcha in the box.
That’s okay! What company is the Balhyocha from again? I’m leaning towards the Floating Leaves Blacks. I’ve the Wang Small leaf black that I’ll send you in the next month too if you want it. I personally was not a fan, but I think you might like it more.
The balhyochas are all from Morning Crane. I have Jangguncha Yeong balhyocha, SOA balhyocha, Dosim Dawan So-ip-cha and Dae-ip-cha, and Jeong Jae Yeon Halmonicha. Due to the difficulty of navigating the vendor’s website, I can’t tell you much about any of them, though the Halmonicha is supposed to be good. I have the Alishan, SLX, and Lishan black teas from Floating Leaves.
It would be fun to try the Wang Small Leaf Black, though I worry that you’re sending me more tea than I’m sending you.
Lol Definitely Floating Leaves blacks. The lishan was a target of mine anyway.
Okay, I’ll open the Lishan Hongcha from Floating Leaves. :) I also want to try this tea!
Ah, the swap … The box is sitting by my desk, filling very, very slowly with baggies of tea. There’s at least 100 g of green oolong in there, including some of that SLX Tieguanyin. I think I’ll unearth that white tea from Wang and pack it up, even if it’s not as full as I’d like it to be.
If you could only have one, would you choose a Korean balhyocha or one of the Taiwanese black teas from Floating Leaves? They’re all vacuum sealed, which is why I’m asking. There’s not much hongcha in the box.
That’s okay! What company is the Balhyocha from again? I’m leaning towards the Floating Leaves Blacks. I’ve the Wang Small leaf black that I’ll send you in the next month too if you want it. I personally was not a fan, but I think you might like it more.
The balhyochas are all from Morning Crane. I have Jangguncha Yeong balhyocha, SOA balhyocha, Dosim Dawan So-ip-cha and Dae-ip-cha, and Jeong Jae Yeon Halmonicha. Due to the difficulty of navigating the vendor’s website, I can’t tell you much about any of them, though the Halmonicha is supposed to be good. I have the Alishan, SLX, and Lishan black teas from Floating Leaves.
It would be fun to try the Wang Small Leaf Black, though I worry that you’re sending me more tea than I’m sending you.
Lol Definitely Floating Leaves blacks. The lishan was a target of mine anyway.
Okay, I’ll open the Lishan Hongcha from Floating Leaves. :) I also want to try this tea!