{"id":528,"date":"2018-10-19T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T12:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/?p=528"},"modified":"2018-10-19T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T12:23:27","slug":"al-wazah-swan-tea-ceylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/2018\/10\/19\/al-wazah-swan-tea-ceylon\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-wazah (Swan Tea) Ceylon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>4&nbsp; \/ 5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve drunk (drank, drunken, <g class=\"gr_ gr_11 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"11\" data-gr-id=\"11\">dranked<\/g>? I don&#8217;t know, grammar is silly) more of this tea than any other. It&#8217;s been my go-to day in, day out, make my brain work a little better source of caffeine. If I do the math right, I&#8217;ve gone through just shy of ten pounds of this tea in the last two years. As I mentioned before, Ceylon is one of my favorite types of tea, and this is a great example of that. Smooth, earthy, just a hint of bitterness, it&#8217;s what I think of when someone says the word &#8220;tea&#8221;. It&#8217;s maybe not as exciting as some exotic blend or exclusive hand-picked first-flush, but it has a solid flavor plain, with milk, or milk and honey. It&#8217;s also the first tea I ever bought that had the tea grading right on the box which I think is cool. Equally important, it costs about $6 for\u00a0400 grams (about 14 oz) where I buy it locally. Exotic tea is fun but gets expensive fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonus: I really like the design of their packaging:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"523\" height=\"697\" src=\"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181019_081510034.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Alwazah tea box back\" data-id=\"545\" data-link=\"\/archive\/teageek\/\/?attachment_id=545\" class=\"wp-image-545\" srcset=\"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181019_081510034.jpg 523w, \/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181019_081510034-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"523\" height=\"697\" src=\"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181019_081524569.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Alwazah tea box frton\" data-id=\"544\" data-link=\"\/archive\/teageek\/\/?attachment_id=544\" class=\"wp-image-544\" srcset=\"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181019_081524569.jpg 523w, \/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181019_081524569-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Tea Leaves: Earthy, like fresh cut hay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Region: Sri Lanka&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brewing: 3-5 minutes @ 212\u00ba F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purchased: Super Green Market \u2013 $16.95 for 3oz*<br>(It&#8217;s also on Amazon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4&nbsp; \/ 5 I&#8217;ve drunk (drank, drunken, dranked? I don&#8217;t know, grammar is silly) more of this tea than any other. It&#8217;s been my go-to day in, day out, make my brain work a little better source of caffeine. If I do the math right, I&#8217;ve gone through just shy of ten pounds of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-tea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/swantea.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakonf-8w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}