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drank Masala Chai by Cornelia Bean
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Part of my morning of chai/find a replacement for Bollywood Chai line up.

This is bold. Very strong and astringent brew, with ginger, fennel and coriander forefront.

I think of the cups in front of me, this comes closest in flavour profile to the Bollywood Chai, though it’s a bit hard to tell how similar they are because this cup is just so, so much stronger. The Bollywood Chai has a clear, amber brown liquor, and this is almost thick and dark enough to be mistaken for coffee.

Definitely more pepper.

With milk, it’s clearer that this has more pepper and coriander and less ginger and fennel than Bollywood.

I really like this but it’s still pretty different.

Flavors: Astringent, Cinnamon, Clove, Coriander, Fennel, Ginger, Pepper, Thick

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 8 min or more 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
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albertocanfly
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Love reading your chai adventure! I’m on the hunt for the perfect chai, too…and I have to say, seeing all these reviews back to back are helping so much!

Anlina
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Glad they’re helpful. If you like, I could send you some samples of the different chais I have.

emmagquist
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If you like a pretty spicy chai my go to is always Spicy Seattle Chai from Market Spice. The black pepper and cardamon is just perfect.

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albertocanfly
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Love reading your chai adventure! I’m on the hunt for the perfect chai, too…and I have to say, seeing all these reviews back to back are helping so much!

Anlina
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Glad they’re helpful. If you like, I could send you some samples of the different chais I have.

emmagquist
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If you like a pretty spicy chai my go to is always Spicy Seattle Chai from Market Spice. The black pepper and cardamon is just perfect.

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I grew up drinking jasmine green tea with meals, but really fell in love with tea on a trip to Britain in elementary school. My first great love was Earl Grey, and I still adore it and all its variants.

I discovered the beauty of loose leaf tea much later, when, on impulse, I picked up a few teas that were on clearance at a home store. My introduction to loose leaf teas were Masala Chai and Provence Rooibos by the Metropolitan Tea Co and an unknown brand of kukicha and gyokuro (little did I know what a precious treasure I’d stumbled onto with that.)

At the time I was lucky to live in a place with multiple tea shops and several places to have afternoon tea, which is a delight I still miss.

Tea is part of my daily ritual and a nice, affordable way to appease the collector in me.

I enjoy distinctive whites, greens and oolongs, flavoured blacks, and herbals that are heavy on the citrus, lavender or mint.

Rating rubric, to give myself some consistency:
0-15 Yuck, not even drinkable.
16-30 Disappointing, not really inclined to give it a second try.
31-45 Disappointing, but maybe there’s potential? Worth one more try, prepped differently.
46-60 Mediocre, not terrible but not memorable.
61-75 Not bad. I’ll definitely finish what I have and might buy again.
76-90 Very enjoyable. Tasty, complex, it’ll keep me coming back.
91-100 BEST! I love everything about it and I will drink it forever.

Beyond tea, I’m a sex educator, polyamory activist, and radical queer. I love backwoods camping, abstract painting, baking & cooking, nail polish, cats, ceramic sculpture, and home nesting.

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Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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