2291 Tasting Notes
Today again, this one is fabulous.
I’m heading out to do a little late shopping (hopefully the mall will be quiet-ish), and needed some tea before I left.
So. Good. Chocolate. Yum.
Thanks so much, Sil!
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:)
You are tempting me to order more flavored teas! I don’t tend to like fruity tea, but herbs or chocolate, mmmmm
This chocolate is, IMO, way nicer than Harney and Sons Florence. Although that one was good at the beginning. I’m ultra picky about chocolate in my teas… so many are just not good.
I agree on the chocolate. It seems like a hard flavour to get right. And DF totally does chocolate way better than Harney, for sure.
This one is pretty good.
IDK. I’m so exhausted today. Gimme all the coffee.
Thank you, Sil. I have a little left at home for a small mug. I’ll try it again when I’m feeling a little more alert. :)
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I still have so much of this tea.
Which is good.
I forgot how delicious and amazing it is. Licorice and spice, but no licorice gross sweetness.
Yum.
(Even steeped for some ridiculous amount of time since I reflexively turned off the timer yet forgot to remove the steeping baskets from my mugs.)
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This is really a good tea, but the obvious seasoning powder in it kinda creeped me out.
It doesn’t necessarily smell mega caramel until you add hot water to it. And the caramel goes so well with the roasted flavours in the houjicha.
But yeah. The powder lining the bag I have it in. Kinda gross.
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In my mug today at work again. I’m trying to drink some of these older flavoured teas.
Oh, it’s so good. Tea, I’m going to miss you once I finally manage to drink you up.
It has a bit of a bite at 4:30, but it’s still delicious. Nothing added to my cup today. :)
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“This should be Green Tieguanyin” from Dexter.
Had in my thermos at work today. Pretty good, but not worth a resteep when I got home. Mostly I just wanted a gin and soda when I got home, but I managed to have a couple cups of herbal whatsit first. :)
This honestly could have steeped longer for Western Style. I was just conservative due to the temp I used. Oh well!
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Had this again this evening, with some buckwheat honey. I’m still getting over this phlegmmy grossness. Of course, having yogurt for the THIRD time today probably isn’t helping!!
Oh well. The tea is delicious and soothing and I am really enjoying it. Of course, it’s one of those fluffy ever-growing teas, so I somehow have even more of it…
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Mmm…
I steeped this with a little extra leaf in a travel mug, and it’s definitely more of a morning tea right now. I also didn’t add anything to it, because I had no milk. (~adds milk to list~) It’s a little honey/sweet potato. A little astringent in a good way. Maybe a tiny bit smoky? IDK. That might be my travel mug or my imagination.
Yum.
I’m with you on that, most of the time, I think “why couldn’t this be a black tea?”…. Green…bleh. Unless it’s Jasmine
I find it frustrating to not like green teas, because there are so many neat flavours that end up being green! I guess it does prevent me from buying a lot, though. :)
Ha I guess you’re right and this means I can’t buy ALL THE TEA!
I prefer black teas as well. Have you tried Bigelow’s Salted Caramel? I quite like that one.
Bigelow doesn’t seem to be available here anymore.
And the very few Bigelow teas I have seen here in Canada have only been like EG and/or some breakfast blend.
I used to get a really nice pomegranate green… not seaweedy, just nice and flavourful and sweet. But no longer.