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I am ON IT this week.

This is supposed to be an easy drinking green, though I can’t pick much of a difference between it and the oolong (it’s similarly rolled leaf) but that’s probably just because I’m a GREEN NOOB/DON’T CARE. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Still enjoying getting through these, after saying that.

Oh cool, since I added these Austrian teas to Steepster, the tea shop has gone online! Decent photos! Good times!

Now that I’ve finished the oolong, time to hit the jasmine. Again, I’m not a green tea drinker but gosh I’ve been enjoying a mug at bedtime lately. There’s something kinda cleansing about it, especially when I’m full of food! Burger Mondays are intense.

And I did it! I finished an Austrian tea, finally!

Funny, I have never really considered myself a green tea drinker. I just don’t really reach for them or feel like them, but in an effort to sip through my ever-dwindling cupboard I pulled my socks up and got to it.

And really enjoyed it.

So now I’m gonna go drink through another one. (There are four.)

Ok, I’m making a concerted effort to not forget about these teas this Christmas, particularly as I don’t have much else to do. Christmas Afternoon for dessert with milk and sugar (and some shortbread, because Christmas!). Definitely getting vanilla, a bit of cinnamon? Seems like a nice mellow black with a kiss of flavour.

I took some of the last of my guayusa to work for an early start this week. I was so confident that it was the Cider guayusa blend, I’d even labelled it as such. The lavender bits confused me, though, and when I came to review it from my steepster cupboard I discovered that it was, in fact, The Killer’s Vanilla. I found the Cider later that day in the pantry. Good, good.

I do really like this one, though, and I’m so glad I’ve still got some! I think I’ll save what I have left for now and switch to the Cider like I meant to drink in the first place.

Still drinking this, still enjoying it. I’ve reached the point where I’m not looking forward to finishing it.

Drat.

Last week we got a couple of very summery days hit so I brewed up a big 2L of this bad boy with a bit of Turkish cherry thrown in to boot. Of course, it’s now cold again, because Hobart. HOWEVER, this is still delicious, if not a touch sweet. Didn’t need the cherry after all! I’ve been cutting it with soda water and that’s giving it a lovely fuzzy edge and taking off that sweetness.

Tonight for some reason I reached for one of the greens I never reach for but have never been able to bring myself to throw out, considering they were beautiful and thoughtful gifts from a dear friend on the other side of the world.

It was an oolong. I very quickly remembered how much I do genuinely enjoy oolongs. Bloody heck. Maybe I’ll get through this little guy after all!