Culinary Teas

This tea is fantastic. A wonderful way to wake up.

Serving this non-latte, with just a little turbinado sugar to enhance the spices, this is an amazingly good chai. The description is pretty spot on, with caramel-y tones in the foreground and the white chocolate coming through near the finish. It’s very delicious. The spices are somewhat mild, but along with the smooth white chocolate finish comes a little peppery kick. Overall, it is warm and sweet and very yummy.

Keemum 3 Monkey is a very interesting tea. I like my black teas smoky and this Keemum has a lovely subtle smokiness. The Culinary Teas website mentions that this tea has been said to have an aroma of a long unopened jewelry box with hints of incense. This is not an appetizing description, but I totally get it because there’s an almost cedar aroma and essence to it. The flavor overall is subtle for a black tea with a medium body and low-ish astringency. And it’s bread-y or rather toasty and cocoa-y… weird but good.

Awesome!

This is the kind of tea that you want to start the day with, but it is also wonderful later in the day (like now!) so long as you’re not planning on taking a mid-day nap or going to bed at an early hour. That is to say, this is one stimulating brew!

This is really a delightful cup of tea, good and strong, and even though it has a lot of gusto, there is also a tremendous amount of comfort in this cup. It has that yeasty, malty, biscuit-y kind of taste to it, as well as a beautiful caramel-y sweetness (and even some honey-like tones in there too). A really rewarding cup of tea.

Margaret’s Hope 2nd Flush is one fantastic Darjeeling! I would describe it as a thin-ish to medium body tea. The liquor is bright but not overly astringent which is just delightful. I defiantly taste berry/ currant notes as promised, and in many ways this tea is rich and wine-like. However, I don’t taste the much-desired muscatel essence at all. Oh well, that’s all right by me because this tea is a joy to drink.

Backlog:

This is a tea that I reviewed previously, but because they sent me another sample of it, I reviewed it again. What the heck.

http://sororiteasisters.com/2014/10/29/sleepy-hollow-pumpkin-chai-from-culinary-teas-2/

It’s a yummy chai. And I think that this one is a little different from the previous Sleepy Hollow Pumpkin Chai I reviewed, if for no other reason than this sampling didn’t have the candy sprinkles in it. I’m just fine with that, as I think that candy sprinkles in tea are over-rated. I might understand some candy sprinkles in a blend like ‘birthday cake’ or something like that – but, it seems like the candy sprinkles thing is getting way overdone.

Anyway, that’s my rant about that for now.

A yummy chai. A good strong kick of ginger and cinnamon. The black tea has a smooth, rich flavor but it’s not quite as robust as I might have wanted it to be. I mean, with a chai it should be a strong black tea base to support those strong spices.

At first, the pumpkin flavors were somewhat reserved, but after about a fourth of the cup was consumed I started to pick up on the savory-sweet notes of pumpkin.

Overall, a pleasant cuppa. I previously rated this a 95 and since I’m now “discontinuing” the practice of numerical ratings, I cancelled the numeric rating for this. With this particular tasting, I probably would have given it a 90 even though I think I may have enjoyed it more this time than previously – it’s just that my tastes are a-changing.

Well, this tea arrived just in time, didn’t it? A perfect Halloween tea. I am drinking this with just a bit of turbinado sugar right now, and it is really good, but I think it might be better with a bit of steamed milk to make a chai latte.

The pumpkin flavor is well-pronounced in this blend. The chai spices are strong too, but, they do not overpower the pumpkin flavor. It is really a very well-balanced blend.

So, I’ve now had two cups of this … first with just the sugar to enhance the spices, and now, I’m drinking a chai latte! OH YUM! Pure awesomeness in my mug right now. It tastes like pumpkin pie filling topped with whipped cream that has been blended with my chai tea. So very good!

Check out my full-length review here: http://sororiteasisters.com/2011/10/31/sleepy-hollow-pumpkin-chai-from-culinary-teas/

I’m actually a fan of this tea. It’s definitely has a mellow-creamy pumpkin flavor without all the spices normally attached with pumpkin…. pumpkin anything actually. One of the thing that bugs me about pumpkin flavored (anything) is that it usually has strong cinnamon/cloves/ginger that detracts from the pumpkin. This tea does not-so I’m a fan.
A little sugar helps bring it all out and maybe some (soy) milk.

backlogging…

REALLY? I’m the first to log this!? I hope I am not the last! This is a real delight! I can taste the white chocolate but it’s not over the top and I can taste most if not all of the spices! It’s milky smooth but with spice!

This tea is soothing and delicious. I’m definitely tasting that dreamy incense flavor, as well as dark red wine and cacao. there is also a pleasing floral note. I’m also getting a flavor I can only describe as ‘leather’, one that I’ve had before in similar black teas. Truly, it’s ‘leather’ in the best possible way! This is a quality cup.

Thanks for this LiberTEAs! I have been wanting to try this one! I am impressed! This has a wonderful strawberry flavor on top of the sencha. If you can’t have a Long Island Iced Tea with the ‘happy juice’ this is the next best thing!

Wonderful! I love a good Chai latte, and with this, I don’t even need to add milk, because the vanilla gives it a nice creaminess without the milk. The spices are delicious and warming, perfect for this chilly autumn evening. I’m really loving this.

The black tea base is strong with hints of malt. A nice balance of sweet and astringent. The spices are in good balance also, one particular spice doesn’t really stand out and overpower the other spices. It tastes very harmonious and the vanilla gives it a sweet, creamy touch. So very nice.

A bit over done yesterday – backlogging
but perfect today :) YAY!

A mighty fine Assam!

Medium strength for a black but very satisfying! There are hints of natural fruity notes trying to peak out. It does have a nice even taste and is fairly malty!

I like it!

I love this. I drink honey tea when I want something sweet, mostly on mornings before school and it’s so tasty, even when it isn’t hot anymore!

A delicious tea. The cherry is a very delicate yet deep flavor, if that makes sense. It doesn’t overpower the cup, but it is always present and accounted for. It is sweet with a hint of tart. The almond gives a sweet nutty flavor to the cup, and the black tea is a mellow, even-toned kind of tea (Ceylon).

This has a very luxurious kind of taste to me, like something I’d be sipping in a spa or something. Mild and calm. Not too astringent. Not bitter. Sweet, but not too sweet. Delicious.

Co-worker: What’s Burning?
ME: My tea…well, it’s not burning…it’s just a smoky tea
CW: ok…weird.

ME: It’s a nice standard LS I suppose…black tea – smoked…simple. It’s ok!

I have enough for about one more cup and wanted Amanda to try some! So – I’m enjoying one last cuppa before passing it along :)

Backlogging from earlier this morning. A nice start to the day. Eventho I am freezing my tea leaves off! 3 degrees. BS!!!! I hate winter. Anyhow…see previous notes on this tea for actual review…

Very good this morning…see other notes…

Still a goodie! See previous notes :)

A tasty black – more on the softer and smoother side as far as black go but still good! There are undernotes of earthy goodness trying to hide. A little surprise.

I found my stash of this today! I’m having one last cuppa before sending the rest to Ashley! It’s fruity and fun and super sweet and it’s a scent-match to iced wine and darned near taste match, too!

Takes me back to the FALLS!!!! This is – in every sense – the tea equiv to Ice Wine! Intensely scented and flavored and true to the name! Quite Grape-E and VERY Sweet! Sugar-Wine-Like! Two thumbs up!