1024 Tasting Notes
Yeah, the licorice root in this blend will always throw me off a little, but to be perfectly honest it’s not awful in here. It just adds a sweetness that feels a little chemical. Still, it’s a cosy sleepy tea to have in the rotation. I think there are others out there more suited to me so I wouldn’t restock this but I’ll happily drink the last of what I got in the organic sampler from DAVIDs.
Hahahaha I love tea companies who are just straight down the line with their blend names. HEER IZ WOT IZ IN DIS.
This is tea #1 from the April Monstrositea box, an Easter treat! Seeing as my weekend is a Tuesday/Wednesday this week I decided to be gratuitous and use my whole sample of this for “Saturday” breakfast.
It’s not much on its own (too bitter) but with a decent lashing of perfectly creamy milk it’s a real treat. No sugar needed for this creamy, chocolatey brew!
Preparation
Welp, can’t have a sleepy blend without dat chamomile now, can we?
This one’s been in my physical cupboard since December (a Christmas gift from work) and yet somehow I missed it in the Great Steepster Cupboard Own-Up of 2014. I spotted it tonight when I was shuffling things around and decided to unbox it and bring it upstairs to join my bedside tea station.
Yes, I have a bedside tea station.
No, I don’t have a problem.
Anyway, yes. Here’s another tea in my cupboard, bloody bollocksy bum-bums. My sipdowns were going so well! AND I just got four new teas in my new Monstrositea box this morning and that means my Mr Earl box won’t be far behind and I’m going to a T2 Tea Society event tomorrow night where we always get goodies including a free box of tea LIFE IS SO HARD. ALL I WANT IS A NEAR-EMPTY CUPBOARD. WOE.
#firstworldproblems or WHAT
Anyway, goodnight teahearts <3
Ok, I have to do it.
I have to bump my rating for this up.
This tea needs to always be in my cupboard. (Even though I’m going to go without for a little while, until I’ve gotten a bit further through my sipdowns.)
After this afternoon’s milk & sugar mistake, I remedied with a 3min boiling steep with the last of my leaves. Yum. Just perfect on its own.
I left a bit in the timolino to take home after work and compare with the cold brew I’d prepared and bottled.
DAYUM
AHHHHH
IT’S PERFECT :((((((((((
Seriously, I think I cold brewed for around 12hrs and it’s SO fresh and SO sweet and SO… I wanna say juicy, which is weird, but oh man. I am in love. Amazing cold brew. AMAZING COLD BREW I wonder how long I can hold out from restocking.
Let’s see.
My suspicions were correct for once and milk + sugar was not the right choice to make for this blend. Keep it black, friends! Maybe even cold steep it because I did that a couple of days ago and I haven’t drunk it yet but I did have a little teaser sip and I’m pretty sure it’s gonna taste like heaven.
Isn’t it funny that as I drink my very last cup of this blend, I realise that I might actually… miss it when it’s gone? And I’m actually going to… select the “YES” box for “Would you recommend this tea?”
It took me a long time to find my groove with this one. Now that I have, I’m sad the dream is over. Yikes.
(This is so awesome cold brewed, btw.)
Preparation
APPLE CRUMBLE! You are so great right now!
Finally making some dents in my cupboard and as a reward, another sealed box gets opened… it possibly should have been something a little older but it’s coming on winter and this is the perfect winter warmer, cosy and tart.
In fact, I had a mug of DAVIDsTEA’s Forever Nuts just before this and I actually prefer Apple Crumble. Less killer sweetness. Gosh, what’s become of me?
Seriously, the dry scent of this tea smells like BOOZE. Like a delicious thick PX sherry or port or something. BOOZY. HEADY.
Also of course it tastes divine. I’m going to cheat and bulk up the last of my sample with some straight silver needles and see how that goes. Also I’m going to cold brew it too because I’m obsessed with cold brewing right now and that is going to go AWESOMELY.
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
