558 Tasting Notes
I’m excited to compare this with Brioche in the near future. I really enjoy this blend from Teavana. Sweet almonds and a great black tea base. Love it with just a splash of cream. No longer needing sugar to get a sweetness out of it. Bumping up a few poins due to this.
Wanted a little more black tea kick this morning so I blended this 2 tsp chai with chocolate with 1 tsp english breakfast and made a successfully strong chai cup this morning. I hope the caffeine kicks in soon. Lots going on today. Hoping the thunderstorms don’t stop our company from coming! Meats are marinating and hor’d’ouerves are being made!
Made this via stovetop method using a mixture of skim milk and fat free half and half for a total of 1 cup milks 1 cup water with two heaping teaspoons of tea. Wowsa is this good! I’m in chocolate chai heaven. It’s making me forget the Kusmi Spicy Chocolate that I miss so much. I think this could possibly be better! It’s more chai spicy and more chocolatey, and made with the cream it is oh so good. I have some of this cold brewing with skim milk in the fridge. I’m excited for that brew later today :)
Preparation
I still have ONE tin of this left for our Memorial Day Tin blowout: http://www.52teas.com
Sold…I caved…again. Probably the last of my online tea buying for summer as hubby will be home all summer (he teaches). And I get enough stares when packages arrive during the school year!
Meh. Let this get a bit lukewarm before sipping, and kinda glad I could. It’s gulpable, and I can swallow it, but it’s not good. Their’s something in the aftertaste that tastes like dry paper/cardboard. I wish the bergamot and honey were a bit more present in this. Just not my kinda tea. I do like that it isn’t super asparagus-y as are some greens.
This tea smells like a wonderful chocolatey coconut treat. A dark chocolate flavor with strong coconut sweetness. When brewed it loses a bit of the coconut scent. When sipped it is a very smooth tea. Very well blended. I enjoy the flavor but wish for stronger coconut intensity. Not bad. I believe I received this sample from Doulton awhile ago. Thanks for your package of great samples. This one got separated from the bunch so it took a bit longer to review!
Another hot day here in Chicagoland. Brewing up a large iced mug of this to take with me to work this afternoon. Love the energy I get from the bright citrus flavors and sweet lychee fruit. This tea needs to be available loose leaf, that way I could make pitchers of it at a time…not easy to do without using up all my bags :(
I agree this is day 3 for extreme in the Chicago area. Planning on staying home and getting work done. Will have to leave the house tomorrow and Friday though.
I’m just hoping the A/C is working well at work. We had it freeze up on us the last two days…bad timing for a busy restaurant/cafe. Looking forward to not leaving the house this weekend.
This sounds yummy! Hope your A/C at work is working right today!
AHHHH! I think I know where my next paycheck (well part of it) is going, look what I discovered:
http://www.republicoftea.com/pineapple-lychee-hibiscus-full-leaf/p/v02109/
Wowsa — you’ll be set with this tea for about a month or two ;)
Thanks to Jessica for swapping teas with me and sending me this!
This tea has a typical Teavana mixture of a smaller amount of white tea mixed with several other fruit and nut bits. The blend smells pretty great! It brews up a light golden color and smells like sweet pistachios, nuts and a bit of bitter citrus (maybe the peel?). I enjoy the taste of this tea. Their are some similarities between this tea and the Apricot Caramel Torte. They share the same sweetness. I wouldn’t really call this tea spicy, but it is a flavorful mixture. Glad to have this.
Preparation
This is my new summer drink from Starbucks. I love getting a grande coffee frap, with 2 pumps of the chai concentrate. Tastes like heaven and gets me going during the afternoon slump.
I like also adding mocha, vanilla, and caramel syrups. I also prefer blended lattes vs. frappuccinos…. although I’m not sold on either yet when I want chai since I don’t like their concentrate. I wish there was a way to use loose leaf- or at least a powdered mix.
Wow, interesting idea. I usually can’t do anything sweeter than an iced americano with no sweetener ;) But I am intrigued.
“I usually can’t do anything sweeter than an iced americano with no sweetener” which isn’t sweetened at all. Funny:)
Exactly. The other day I wound up really enjoying Honest Tea’s bottled iced teas though and was surprised to notice that the variety I was drinking had agave nectar in it. And the one I have in the fridge has honey. Huh! Guess I can’t write off sweetener in iced teas!
I only like sweeteners that add flavor (i.e. maple sugar in maple tea, chai flavored honey). These syrups would also qualify (although I do not like the chai concentrate)… but then again something like mocha syrup is normally so rich it’s not very sweet (I like dark chocolate anyway) and caramel syrups have savory qualities due to the caramelized sugar.
I love this tea
Will be curious to know if those blends taste different or are actually the same/similar blend…