Tea and Whisk

If you ever want buttered popcorn without the guilt, this is the tea for you! Many other milk oolongs use a smaller leaf; our milk oolong or milky oolong is a larger leaf which means you can brew this multiple times without much astringency creeping in.

Notes: Butter, Sweet Cream, Popcorn

Origin: Nantou, Taiwan

There's an often-told story behind the unappetizing name. They say a famous and successful tea farmer got so fed up with everyone asking about the secret to his masterpiece oolong that he started to make a joke, telling everyone that the secret to his tea was the duck droppings he used as fertilizer for his plants.

This Oolong is baked using charcoal twice. The tea is first baked using an oven with a lower temperature (90c) for about 8 hours to remove the water content in the tea leaves. Rest for 3 weeks, and then baked using charcoal for 18 hours with 120c temperature. This tea will taste better when it has been aged for at least 4 to 6 months.

It's nutty and addicting like a toasted peanut. It's floral, but not overwhelmingly floral, just the perfect amount of floral notes. It's comforting and makes you want to just relax and forget about all the problems going on in the world.

Alternate Name: Ya Shi Xiang

Harvest: Spring 2020 

Elevation: 1200m

Origin: Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province

Notes: Floral, Toasted Peanuts, Comforting, 

We don't normally think of Iron Goddess Oolong comes from Indonesia. Since Indonesia has a lot of active volcanoes, the soil around the area where this tea is grown has a lot of minerals. The Taiwanese origin tea maker, bake this mineral-rich tea leaf by using charcoal to give a deep, bold dark chocolate aroma. Brew this tea with high temperature (205 Fahrenheit) to bring out the intensity of peppery and smokey cinnamon.

The really cool thing about this tea, no matter how long you brew this tea, this tea will never get bitter. In fact, if you brew this tea for 10 minutes, the strong flavor is reminiscent of a bold and smooth tasting coffee. Add a dash of cream and ice, you can easily fool anyone that you are drinking an iced coffee!

Origin: Sumatra, Indonesia

Notes: Bold, Caramel, Chocolate, Coffee

This GABA (Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid) Oolong is from Nantou, Taiwan, invented by the Japanese in 1984. Flushed with nitrogen during the oxidation process. GABA Oolong is very popular because of its benefits such as relieving anxiety, improving mood, reducing symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), and treating attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

ORIGIN: Nantou, Taiwan

Notes: Sweet roasted corn