I finally got around to brewing the Nepal black tea from Damn Fine Tea.  It is cold and rainy outside and what better way to warm up than a hot cup of tea.  I got referred to the Damn Fine Tea Series 1 by a friend, and was hooked by the clever marketing of A&D.  The beautiful yet simple website, and the clever tin labels (made by my hometown design firm Aesthetic Apparatus) were enough to entice me to fork over the $25 for their entire series 1 set.  I received the tea within only a couple days, and was greeted with a custom A&D box which the tea was shipped in.  It was well packaged for the long journey from Maryland, and there was a nice little card signed by Andrews and Dunham themselves.  The tins are neat enough to consider collecting, though I wish they would use a bit stronger glue to hold down the labels as the corners were peeling up on a couple of the tins. (more…)