I haven’t posted in awhile because it took forever to get those Tea Forte pics off the camera, through Photoshop, and uploaded to the blog. I didn’t want to post until I was all caught up and I had time to get photos of a new tea. Read: I got bored amidst sifting through the many photos and procrastinated a lot. In fact, I’m procrastinating now. Yes, I’m writing about tea to procrastinate on something else. I have new bedroom furniture coming in this week. The old furniture gets moved tomorrow morning, in approximately eight hours, and my room is still a disaster, I mean, still has a lived in look. I know where everything is! It’s an organized chaos! Shh…<\/p>\n
So I’ve got a lot of work. I’m really tired. I need caffeine – but not so much that I’ll stay up until the morning. I want an oolong, but most of my oolongs are the kind you sit, sip, experience, and enjoy, and I don’t have time for that tonight. Time to bring out Utopia Tea’s Oolong Formosa. <\/p>\n
Dry<\/strong>: Not particularly pretty to look at. Smells woodsy and a little sweet. Kinda roasty and smokey too. A little musty?<\/p>\n Brewing<\/strong>: Wabi Sabi Teapot, 1tsp\/12oz ratio, 200*, 2min<\/p>\n Aroma<\/strong>: Roasty, woodsy.<\/p>\n Flavor<\/strong>: Roasty, woodsy, and a bit sweet. Has a good bold flavor. Smooth texture. Nice warm finish. Allllllmost a bitter note – where it’s still a bright, pleasant bitter and not oh-god-my-tongue-bitter.<\/p>\n Originally I really wasn’t impressed by the tea. It’s not super awesome. I’m not licking my lips post sips. But… I do find myself using it for occasions like tonight, where I don’t have enough time to properly steep and enjoy a full yield from my other oolongs like my wu yi or ali shan, yet I want oolong. I enjoy it but I don’t feel guilty if I only steep it once or I happen to use slightly off steeping parameters. It’s currently my quick and dirty oolong. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n Time to clean. A lot. I better steep another cup.<\/p>\n What<\/strong>: Oolong Formosa<\/a> by Utopia Tea<\/a> I haven’t posted in awhile because it took forever to get those Tea Forte pics off the camera, through Photoshop, and uploaded to the blog. I didn’t want to post until I was all caught up and I had time to get photos of a new tea. Read: I got bored amidst sifting through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[84,86,82,81,85,87,83],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oolong","category-tea","tag-cleaning","tag-dirty","tag-guilt-free","tag-procrastination","tag-quick","tag-utopia-tea","tag-woodsy","no-thumb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nType<\/strong>: Oolong
\nCost<\/strong>: TBD
\nCost per Cup<\/strong>: tbd
\nResteeps<\/strong>: 4
\nTea Score: <\/strong>70 – It’s grown on me. Good flavor. Good caffeine level. Good aftertaste.
\nCupboard Score<\/strong>: 55 – At this point in time, it’s not something I’d buy again. I expect in some future purchase, I’ll snag another oolong that’s not super delicious, satisfies the want and will be my next quick and dirty, guilt-free oolong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"