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golden monkey
OK I’ve waited a while to give this review on the golden monkey tea mainly because its disgusting and i kept on trying it because i thought I’ve been brewing it wrong but I’ve changed times and methods on it several times and nothing so i am just going to right it off as something i don’t like. maybe its a bad batch but i don’t really want to waste money to find out that’s what it really tastes like. the tea is so strong and the smell so powerful that you notice it immediately on adding the hot water to the leaves. its pungent and the taste stays with you I’ve added milk but it almost has a spoilt quality to the taste that i just cant bare. i got the tea from adagio, from there black tea sampler which i do enjoy but this one is the odd bally of the bunch it just not for me. if there is anyone that knows more please contact me leave a comment.
Domo Tea
I gave a bit of a review of this stuff before but that didn’t seem like enough so here is a full one and with a little background on matcha itself.
Domo teas are a matcha blend that comes in three flavors (at the moment) you has ginger kiss, vanilla cloud, and chocolate ecstasy. They are made with evaporated natural cane sugar juice and skim milk powder, which goes well as a latté or in a smoothie among other things and has only 20 calories per scoop (I’m not a calorie counter so this doesn’t mean anything to me). Domo is a Canadian company started by two women from Vancouver Tammy Olsson and Anne Yeo it can be found in western and central Canada and will be in Ontario and Québec soon but until then you can order from there website (US and international as well). There website also has a recipe section so you can make smoothies and some cocktails as well.
I thought I should also give a little bit of background on what matcha is so you know what you’re drinking. Matcha is a Japanese preparation of the carnellia sisensis plant by grinding the whole leaf, which is different from other types; this gives it the most caffeine out of all the teas. The tea is ground and the more finally it is ground the higher the grade is Tencha grade is the only grade that can be considered matcha all others are just considered pulverized. It can take up to an hour to grind 30 grams of the leaves so matcha is usually more expensive then other teas. It is produced in Japan in the Uji region of Kyoto, the Nishio region of Aichi along with Shizuoka and Kyushu. The plants used are shade grown and are covered with blankets two weeks before picking to protect them from any direct light. Matcha also has some of the highest antioxidant count out there with 70 times that of orange juice (fresh I assume) and many times that of green tea. Hoped you learned something about matcha and go out and try some of those domo blends there just great and one glass and your fine for the whole day it doesn’t make you all jittery like coffee.
yourteaneeds.com review
This is a online store that covers the gambit on all things tea and herbal you can even get barks, you can search by product and price range, you can get teapots warmers and even those weird siphon tea makers. There is also a full write up on brewing methods and time too. They also have a category called “if you dare” which is full of the weird and wonderful from bamboo pain relief to a brain brew with gingko, ginger root and rosehip. There is also a nice little section on making the perfect cup of tea with great tips like using spring water or bottled and not using distilled because distilled lacks the natural minerals needed to unlock the taste. I do not know how necessary that is but it is just neat to know. This site is defiantly a new favourite of mine and I will keep on coming back to it hope you check it out.
yourteaneeds.com (link)
Mate Factor
matefactor.ca is the biggest importer of yerba mate into Canada. the website is where you can order from and search their product selection. the top bar on the right has your account info and shopping cart storage, and the left column has the product selection a quick search and company info. on the right column you have your log-in section and the best seller section, and a section for articles that they publish. their product is organic and fair trade. they only sell their own product and don’t have that large of a selection and the site looks like its 5 years old if not more. but its nice to have a site that has Canadian prices right in front.
Brewt tea infuser: review
Hey there its been a couple of weeks since I got my Brewt tea infuser so I thought I would give it a review. Well first off I love the thing its so slick and easy to use, all you have to do is just pop in a couple of scoops of you loose lea and pour in your hot water and just let it steep. The Brewt can handle about two in a half cups of tea so its really only good for one person. It’s plastic but a heat friendly cooking plastic so no worries about burning yourself. And it pours from the bottom all you have to do is place the it over your cup and it starts to drain into your cup watch that it doesn’t overflow. I got my Brewt at a local tea and coffee shop and it went for about $24.00 CAD which is about the norm,there is also a simular models on ebay.com (link) and adagio.com has a infuser tea package that seams like a good deal (link). So anyways I encourage anyone looking at getting into loose teas to defiantly pick up one of these.
Lemon Mate: review
Lemon mate from Cornelia bean coffee.
The lemon mate from Cornelia tastes just like lemon Meringue pie and it’s perfect on one of those cold mornings or something to sooth and warms your insides when u come in from the cold and wet. The lemon comes through in the beginning right away and you kind of get a stronger earl grey taste in the back of your mouth giving the tea some real body. I got the tea at Cornelia bean at 12.00 per 100g bags.
