I steeped a few cups of this for my mother and I to try out my new fancy teacups. I feel like an adult when I own proper silverware and expensive tea cups.
The dry leaves smell heavenly, like maple, and cake, and malty black tea. I wish the brewed tea would be the tiniest bit stronger, but I enjoyed the maple. I found the black tea base to be too astringent and overly tannic for my tastes, but I do like the strong flavour.
Flavors: Astringent, Cake, Malt, Maple, Pancake Syrup, Tannic, Tannin
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Try steeping it a little less time – the blend I use has Assam tea in it and it can become tannic when steeped too long. I recommend starting at 2 1/2 minutes.
I’ll try that next time. When I tasted it at about 1 min 30 seconds the maple was too weak for my liking. Maybe I’ll try steeping it 2.5 minutes but add a bit of maple syrup as a sweetener.
Try playing around with the brew time to help avoid the tannic quality – everyone has different taste buds and the tannins affect everyone differently. Some people actually like an astringent, tannic quality to a tea, I’m not one of them. So I usually find that with most black teas, especially Assams, 2 1/2 minutes is my threshold. I personally found that with the 2 1/2 minutes, the tea was strong enough in flavor without additional sweetening but I’m not going to quibble with someone who wants to add more maple because . . . more maple. :)
Try steeping it a little less time – the blend I use has Assam tea in it and it can become tannic when steeped too long. I recommend starting at 2 1/2 minutes.
I’ll try that next time. When I tasted it at about 1 min 30 seconds the maple was too weak for my liking. Maybe I’ll try steeping it 2.5 minutes but add a bit of maple syrup as a sweetener.
Try playing around with the brew time to help avoid the tannic quality – everyone has different taste buds and the tannins affect everyone differently. Some people actually like an astringent, tannic quality to a tea, I’m not one of them. So I usually find that with most black teas, especially Assams, 2 1/2 minutes is my threshold. I personally found that with the 2 1/2 minutes, the tea was strong enough in flavor without additional sweetening but I’m not going to quibble with someone who wants to add more maple because . . . more maple. :)