The Black Friday box from Skysamurai arrived yesterday and I couldn’t wait to dig into it! It’s always fun to try a new-to-me tea company. I steeped this teabag in 350 ml of 205F water for 4, 6, and 8 minutes.
I can’t smell much before steeping. The first steep is surprisingly elegant, with notes of malt, honey, smoke, raisins, prunes, and restrained tannins. It’s a little coppery from the Ceylon and a bit drying in the mouth. The next couple steeps focus on malt, hay, and tannins and are brisk, as the website states. There are definitely tannins, but it never gets undrinkably bitter.
I’d say this is a nice, full-bodied black tea that does its job. It might be softer with milk, but I didn’t drink it that way.
Flavors: Copper, Hay, Honey, Malt, Prune, Raisins, Smoke, Tannin, Tea
