Monster Slayer (Mimic) (Organic Guarana, Lemon Peel, Eleuthro, and Alfalfa)

DMG may have been the first of the Monster Slayer tea line to be released, but it was not the first created. That honor falls to this tea. When the concept of the Monster Slayers first started getting kicked around, there was a goal flavour. This is not that flavour. Continue Reading →

Monster Slayer: DMG (Guarana, Eleuthro, Alfalfa)

The Monster Slayer line was born out of the mergence of a handful of things. The first was my tendency to respond to a certain subset of thoughts and needs and problems with “I could make a tea for that.” The second was that a friend had a caffeine problem. Continue Reading →

Believe Impossible Things (Organic Genmaicha with Cinnamon and Nutmeg)

Believe Impossible Things started with giving myself a work-present. Every so often when doing supply restocks, I will get myself something new to test and potentially play with. Sometimes this is a new type of tea, sometimes it is a fruit I am curious about, sometimes it is an herb Continue Reading →

7-341 (Organic Darjeeling, Heather, and Lavender)

This tea was inspired by some of what occurs in season 4 of The Magicians. That means this tea story comes with a trio of disclaimers. One, it is potentially a bit spoilery, though I will try to keep the exact details to a minimum. Two, for reasons that will Continue Reading →

Fire in the Sky (Organic Smoky Elderberry Herbal Chai)

I love the tea of the month club. This is a thing that is likely painfully clear if you’ve been with me on this tea journey for any length of time. I love curating the selections, I love all the ideas that have been inspired by the surveys, I love Continue Reading →

Sorry I Stabbed You… …Again (Organic Earl Grey, Red Rooibos, Lavender, and Hibiscus) (3-150a)

The story of Sorry I Stabbed You… …Again is deeply connected to the stories of Sorry I Stabbed You and Rise Up. In fact, much of its story has already been told as a part of the explanation for Rise Up. Tea Naming conversations, wherever they end up happening, often Continue Reading →

Baker Street Blend (Organic Black Tea Blend)

Baker Street was the first tea that I blended because I needed it to blend another tea. A friend and tea human sent me a sample of a tea that she wanted to see if I could create a “my way” version of. The theory being that if the original Continue Reading →

Lost in the Mists (Chocolate Lavender Earl Grey)

  May was a hectic month. The first week of it was the last one leading up to the soft reopen, and I realized, as I was coming down to the wire, that I had greatly underestimated how long it would take to get that first short list of teas Continue Reading →

Missing Piece (7-310) (Organic Decaffeinated Genmaicha)

The tale of the tea known as Missing Piece is almost too short to tell. However, I have made a habit of these tea introduction posts, and it would feel wrong to leave one out. The need for Missing Piece was an outgrowth of my desire to make a decaffeinated Continue Reading →

Rise Up (Organic Earl Grey and Rooibos) (7-372)

Tea brings me joy in many ways. People interacting with or thinking about tea often brings the same. This particular tea was born out of the combination of two of the ways that frequently spark or inspire new teas. The first was a pair of tea surveys attached to one Continue Reading →