No. 717 Sprite's Delight

Adventaggedon Day 12: Tea 1/6

Holy shit y’all! We’ve officially hit the halfway mark of advent season!

I actually only had six teas today since my Kusmi advent was a little scoop and not an actual tea. Honestly, the little break was nice because tomorrow I’ll be adding in my 52Teas 12 Days of Tea countdown to the mix… for a total of eight teas!

This is what I started the day with! I wasn’t super thrilled to see the green tea base but the combination of strawberry and basil made me more than excited enough to make up for it! Overall the tea brewed up pretty soft and delicate with a nice greener leaning sweet strawberry note and a hint of the more herbaceous basil in the finish. It definitely didn’t taste like fresh basil, but the taste was still noticeably there.

Now, I am a fiend when it comes to the combination of fruit and herbs in tea I am usually very into it and I almost always want MORE of the herbs. That was kind of the case here because I would have been happy with like triple the amount of basil. I think the more light and playful hints of both strawberry and basil were ultimately appropriate though! For a blend inspired by fairies the gentle and ethereal qualities of the tea seemed well matched.

Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHlB3jZBHEw&ab_channel=TheDailyDose

My sickness has not left me yet. Blargh. But I feel a little better than yesterday evening, although I wasn’t sure about it at 5 am I woke up. Let’s see tomorrow if I will call doctor or will go to work. I hope for the latter.

ADVENT DAY 19
So close to the end of Advent season again?
But luckily, not a tea I had in advent calendar yet. I wonder how long I have steeped it today, but I am pretty much sure it has been more than 3 minutes as I did last time. It was nice strawberry tea, but no rose today… maybe because my stuffed nose (again!). Again no basil for me, or just so little. I noticed strawberries and light hibiscus. And pretty okay green tea base. Get me more basil in this and I will raise the rating.