Adventaggedon Day 22: Tea 6/8
This definitely feels like a ‘cult favourite’ among 52Teas blends and I’d be lying if I said that my first thought upon scratching off the sticker was anything other than “Oh wow, other people are going to be very excited about this!”. However, then I opened up the bag and I remembered very quickly… I am other people.
I just don’t tend to love Earl Grey blends a whole lot and in my memory this was something that I thought was pretty good but not “wow” levels of good. The dry leaf aroma was awesome though; super creamy and rich with equal parts coconut and vanilla custard and just a hint of bergamot. Even my current rating here on Steepster, based on a past tasting, reinforces that I loved it even then!
And it’s good! Definitely the 52Teas version of a ‘Coconut London Fog’ as the name seems to imply; and worthy of all the love it gets. Rich, smooth, buttery, creamy, a little floral. All the things and just quite pleasantly balanced. Now I just have to remember to remember that I do love it.
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I’m also “other people” and part of that cult lol
I’m definitely in the cult… I think I put it on the poll and vote for it every year, heh. Wonder if any baggies will be left after advent so I can snatch something more fresh than the 2019s I’ve been hording…
Definitely voted for it too… Imho, 52teas should consider a permanent earl grey slot so I can throw all my money at it all the time. XD
I am currently considering a permanent “cola” slot – should I instead be considering a permanent earl grey slot? (not saying that I won’t eventually have both – but saying that I am of limited thought capacity to consider more than one at a time.) Which one should I consider first?
Soda! But I certainly wouldn’t mind both eventually!
<—-cult member
Earl Grey slot if it is either this one OR one of your marshmallow vanilla cupcake-like creations.
And yes, what CrowKettle said.
That is a very difficult pick for me! I am a huge fan of soda teas and find they really aren’t available anywhere else. But I get they probably don’t have the same “reach” as the tried-and-true EG. “Foggy Coconut” is not only one of my favorite EGs EVER, but one of my favorite 52Teas blends ever, and I tend to horde it beyond the proper limits of coconut as a result of not being able to have easy availability to it, so I’d love knowing I could get it more regularly (which would in turn likely fix the hording issue, too, so the coconut is always perfect ). Not sure if I could chose between the two, but either way I certainly wouldn’t be disappointed!
Depends on when you are planning to launch it, maybe? Soda would be a unique permanent staple to introduce for spring/summer (I often like to ice yours). Around this time of the year though I want to drown in EG; your treatment of them is also distinctive and fun… but, I’m super biased in favour of a good EG at the best of times.
I support both :P
The EG slot would be similar to the vanilla/marshmallow black slot – where I would change the EG every time – it would not be a guaranteed thing that it would always be this tea – or even one of the cupcake-ish or vanilla-ish ones. It would be an EG creation – and this one would definitely be on the roster for a frequent appearance as it IS one of my all-time favorites as well. But, this wouldn’t be a permanent staple.
The same is true of a cola-ish (and root beer-ish) blend. It wouldn’t always be – say – ginger cola or root beer float. It would occasionally be those because I also enjoy those but they wouldn’t be constant.
I’m not sure when I’ll be announcing a new “D’s tea” – sometime next year? I am getting caught up and I want to wait until I am much more consistently getting the subscriptions on their way at least within the first 10 days of the month that they’re part of. Once I’m comfortably doing that on a fairly consistent basis, then I will be more comfortable having five teas in the D’s Teas line.
THANK YOU to everyone for commenting though – it definitely does help to know what kind of demand either category would have. (Also, please feel free to continue to comment – it does help!) Eventually, perhaps, I’ll work my way up to a sixth D’s Tea – but I probably will not do that until I have plans for a seventh because I don’t like even numbers. So, you guys will need to come up with another idea for the seventh category – one that will sell consistently – if I’m going to add both an EG & a “cola” blend to the D’s Teas line.
7th slot? Ya’ll probably be shocked to have me be the one saying this, but probably a rotating banana blend. Those are always consistently in demand and loved (by everyone except banana-aversive me :-)
YAAAAAAAS!
Bananas…
If this was just Frank’s old line up, I’d go with a Danish (any base). But Banana is now the first thing I think about when I hear or see 52teas lol.
And I like the idea of rotating D blend’s, even though Foggy Coconut is life. Coconut doesn’t seem to respond well to attempts at permanency, at least in my stash.
Well – how did I not have that idea? I love my banana teas.
Personally I would ‘rank’ my interest level for a rotating permanent blend in the following order: Banana tea, cola/soda tea, EG…
Also, while we’re throwing out suggestions… while I LOVE the 12 Tea countdown (and will continue to support it) I would also be FIRST in line for a full/proper 24 day advent if ever that’s a road you’d want to go down! I think more ‘slots’ would give you a lot more freedom to play around with creating new blends/concepts and would also probably open up more vote back options since there are some teas seems to always get the most votes year after year or that just slightly miss the cut off – or you only have one oolong spot or one honeybush spot, for example. Also with 24 days I wouldn’t be upset with having repeats on some of the broader categories (ex. 2 genmaicha, 2 chai, etc). Just food for thought ;)
I have considered it – but I need to first catch up and be able to actually blend 24 teas in addition to the 5 teas for october, november & december (save for the 1 that is usually in both the advent and the december subscription) It’s not so big a deal for larger companies or even the smaller guys who repackage/relabel the teas – but creating an additional 12 teas beyond what I currently do is a large undertaking. So, I would need to be caught up and comfortable with what I do. A lot of work goes into the 12 Teas, so we’re looking at double the work. I would need to feel very confident that I could pull that off and get the boxes out by mid-november.
I’ve also thought about doing a “christmas in summer” type of thing – where I do a 12 tea box in June or July – as those two months are my slowest months – I thought maybe some kind of promotion might enhance those months, but it would also add more tea to the inventory that is already slowed – so I don’t know about that.
I’m also “other people” and part of that cult lol
I’m definitely in the cult… I think I put it on the poll and vote for it every year, heh. Wonder if any baggies will be left after advent so I can snatch something more fresh than the 2019s I’ve been hording…
Definitely voted for it too… Imho, 52teas should consider a permanent earl grey slot so I can throw all my money at it all the time. XD
I am currently considering a permanent “cola” slot – should I instead be considering a permanent earl grey slot? (not saying that I won’t eventually have both – but saying that I am of limited thought capacity to consider more than one at a time.) Which one should I consider first?
Soda! But I certainly wouldn’t mind both eventually!
<—-cult member
Earl Grey slot if it is either this one OR one of your marshmallow vanilla cupcake-like creations.
And yes, what CrowKettle said.
That is a very difficult pick for me! I am a huge fan of soda teas and find they really aren’t available anywhere else. But I get they probably don’t have the same “reach” as the tried-and-true EG. “Foggy Coconut” is not only one of my favorite EGs EVER, but one of my favorite 52Teas blends ever, and I tend to horde it beyond the proper limits of coconut as a result of not being able to have easy availability to it, so I’d love knowing I could get it more regularly (which would in turn likely fix the hording issue, too, so the coconut is always perfect ). Not sure if I could chose between the two, but either way I certainly wouldn’t be disappointed!
Depends on when you are planning to launch it, maybe? Soda would be a unique permanent staple to introduce for spring/summer (I often like to ice yours). Around this time of the year though I want to drown in EG; your treatment of them is also distinctive and fun… but, I’m super biased in favour of a good EG at the best of times.
I support both :P
The EG slot would be similar to the vanilla/marshmallow black slot – where I would change the EG every time – it would not be a guaranteed thing that it would always be this tea – or even one of the cupcake-ish or vanilla-ish ones. It would be an EG creation – and this one would definitely be on the roster for a frequent appearance as it IS one of my all-time favorites as well. But, this wouldn’t be a permanent staple.
The same is true of a cola-ish (and root beer-ish) blend. It wouldn’t always be – say – ginger cola or root beer float. It would occasionally be those because I also enjoy those but they wouldn’t be constant.
I’m not sure when I’ll be announcing a new “D’s tea” – sometime next year? I am getting caught up and I want to wait until I am much more consistently getting the subscriptions on their way at least within the first 10 days of the month that they’re part of. Once I’m comfortably doing that on a fairly consistent basis, then I will be more comfortable having five teas in the D’s Teas line.
THANK YOU to everyone for commenting though – it definitely does help to know what kind of demand either category would have. (Also, please feel free to continue to comment – it does help!) Eventually, perhaps, I’ll work my way up to a sixth D’s Tea – but I probably will not do that until I have plans for a seventh because I don’t like even numbers. So, you guys will need to come up with another idea for the seventh category – one that will sell consistently – if I’m going to add both an EG & a “cola” blend to the D’s Teas line.
7th slot? Ya’ll probably be shocked to have me be the one saying this, but probably a rotating banana blend. Those are always consistently in demand and loved (by everyone except banana-aversive me :-)
YAAAAAAAS!
Bananas…
If this was just Frank’s old line up, I’d go with a Danish (any base). But Banana is now the first thing I think about when I hear or see 52teas lol.
And I like the idea of rotating D blend’s, even though Foggy Coconut is life. Coconut doesn’t seem to respond well to attempts at permanency, at least in my stash.
Well – how did I not have that idea? I love my banana teas.
Personally I would ‘rank’ my interest level for a rotating permanent blend in the following order: Banana tea, cola/soda tea, EG…
Also, while we’re throwing out suggestions… while I LOVE the 12 Tea countdown (and will continue to support it) I would also be FIRST in line for a full/proper 24 day advent if ever that’s a road you’d want to go down! I think more ‘slots’ would give you a lot more freedom to play around with creating new blends/concepts and would also probably open up more vote back options since there are some teas seems to always get the most votes year after year or that just slightly miss the cut off – or you only have one oolong spot or one honeybush spot, for example. Also with 24 days I wouldn’t be upset with having repeats on some of the broader categories (ex. 2 genmaicha, 2 chai, etc). Just food for thought ;)
I have considered it – but I need to first catch up and be able to actually blend 24 teas in addition to the 5 teas for october, november & december (save for the 1 that is usually in both the advent and the december subscription) It’s not so big a deal for larger companies or even the smaller guys who repackage/relabel the teas – but creating an additional 12 teas beyond what I currently do is a large undertaking. So, I would need to be caught up and comfortable with what I do. A lot of work goes into the 12 Teas, so we’re looking at double the work. I would need to feel very confident that I could pull that off and get the boxes out by mid-november.
I’ve also thought about doing a “christmas in summer” type of thing – where I do a 12 tea box in June or July – as those two months are my slowest months – I thought maybe some kind of promotion might enhance those months, but it would also add more tea to the inventory that is already slowed – so I don’t know about that.