So, my drive to use up the last of this has sort of resulted in my being extra creative in using up the leaf. Anyway, I cold steeped a jog of this (about 16 hours cold steep) using somewhere like 4 tbsp. of leaf. After straining it this morning, I got a dark, DEEP blood red liquor that smelled a good combination of tart and melony.
I brought a timolino of this the work with me today – mostly because I felt hungover with no energy (wasn’t actually hungover though, just exhausted and sore from a late night of stocking and merchandising followed by an early morning; ergo little sleep) and couldn’t bring myself to actually steep anything and pay attention to steep time/temperature.
… Actually, I just realized that I haven’t made tea all day. The two teas I’ve had today were prepared yesterday. Ick. That’s awful. Now I kinda want to force myself to go steep one of my swap teas. I don’t think I have the energy, though. Urghhhh.
Drinking this today at work though, it tasted more like a melony fruit punch/juice that anything else. Mostly I like cold steeping fruit blends BECAUSE they’re like watered down juices (which is much better than overly strong and sugary juice). So what I’m saying is, with this I didn’t get that “light juice” effect: I got full on sugary sweet juice. To be honest, it wasn’t too bad. It just wasn’t that awesome or spectacular either (best part was that the melon taste was really present). I think MAYBE I could love this tea if I found a balance between it being too weak or two strong but I’m almost finished with my 100g tin of it and that’s just NOT happening. And with all the ways I’m made it in an attempt to use it up, I’ve found several where it was “ok” and I liked it, instead of hating it, but not a single one where I loved it…
I still have another cup or two of this cold steeped in the fridge, so I guess I’ll either feed it to Tre or drink it myself when I’m in the mood for something really strong and “sugary juice” flavoured…
