865 Tasting Notes
Will things ever look up? I ended up wasting about a half hour of my time this morning just because people are ungreatful. On the upside, I’m feeling much better- especially after a hot bath. I had a bag of Get Relaxed! from the other day so I made the 2nd infusion (8 min, 6oz boiling water) and used that to make my matcha. Yum! I wish I could drink this all day.
Preparation
2.25g/6oz boiling water. As soon as the water hits the leaves I can immediately smell the chocolate, YUM! Once steeped, the liquor is a dark reddish brown and it smells mainly of chocolate and black tea. When I taste it, as espected, I’m immediately hit w/ chocolate followed by the black tea and then a very faint rose taste that I wish was stronger. The almonds, vanilla, and rooibos don’t necessarily come across as a flavor, but rather as smoothness and sweetness. The only thing I can’t figure out is why there isn’t any strawberries in here, chocolate covered strawberries are very romantic.
Preparation
Prepared it as directed out of my huge matcha bowl, still can’t figure that one out. 3oz water/1scoop matcha.
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I’m curious, what’s the advantage of making it in the matcha bowl? Just following tradition?
That, and it’s half the fun! Think slurping up the milk after a bowl of cereal as a kid:) Now to find out just why the bowl is so big if you’re supposed to drink matcha in such a small amount…
I agree with Ricky, I think there’s matcha in it… although if there is, it bothers me that it isn’t listed on the package. I’m all about the product name living up to the actual product (especially in taste). Ok… so the predicament is how much water to use. The catalog says that they’re extra big to make a couple cups (12-16oz) but a serving of sencha is 4oz which means it’d make 3-4 cups. Well, I’ll meet them in the middle and make a 12oz cup.
Once it steeps there is a small amount of residue on the water line, not nearly as much is normally present in matcha dusted tea so that makes me think that the leaves are just so small some of them powdered. The liquor is extremely light green with a tint of yellow- a slightly lighter, more translucent version of the 2nd to last smiley from the right.
The taste definitely matches the liqour. While there is a very faint taste of what I think might be matcha (darn congestion) most of it is just green tea. This definitely can make 2 cups, but the volume varies based on the type of tea in the bag. I’d use 8-12oz of water instead of the recommended 12-16.
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Holy crap! I haven’t had matcha since Wed.! I was going to have some earlier, but while my congestion is a lot better, my stomach was kinda off… so don’t ask me why I decided to prepare it per the website directions. 3oz hot water/1 scoop matcha.
Surprisingly, it’s not incredibly chunky like I thought it would be. On the contrary, it’s very good. I even got it to foam a little bit. Makes me wonder if this is a serving size of matcha, why is my matcha bowl so big?
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Drank this trying to use it up. More drinkable since the 1st time I tried it although I don’t resteep it which gives it a major down grade in points in my book
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2.25g/6oz purified water. I’m always looking for NA versions of my favorite drinks so I was really excited when my local tea shop created this blend. Looking at the raw leaves it does look like a homemade blend because the lemon pieces are so big. The liquor is your average green tea liquor and the aroma is light on the peppermint so it mainly smells like a citron green tea. I don’t even need to taste this to know the taste will be lacking. There’s no rum flavoring in it. Yes you could add rum or rum flavoring, but in my opinion there should not be a vital ingredient missing based on the name of the tea. You wouldn’t buy a vanilla chai tea and be ok w/ having to add the vanilla extract.
Ok, so now on to what flavors are there. A LOT of citrus… the mint isn’t really there in flavor because it’s over powered by the citrus, but I can feel it on my tongue when I breathe. I can also taste the green tea behind the citrus. It doesn’t just taste like hot lemon juice w/ a hint of peppermint.
Conclusions: Great potential, big disappointment.
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Had this over at my aunt’s today. Kinda funny, we got talking about colds and teas and I had no clue before today that she even drank tea, much less loose. She got this our local tea shop, not directly from Adagio. She made this for me so I can’t tell you the perameters. All I can tell you is that I told her to steep it for 3 min instead of 7. Very good, fruity and yet you can definitely tell it’s a white tea. I can’t stand grapfruit juice because it’s way too tart, but it’s nice to drink a tea where you can actually taste the flavor w/o being turned off.
