382 Tasting Notes
So, not gonna lie, I was totally avoiding Steepster this past weekend in order to avoid caving (again) to 52teas’ sale. So now I present: (Extended) Weekend Backlog One Sentence Logs!
Every time I mention that I’m drinking “that chocolate hazelnut tea” to the people I game with, they get totally jealous – and rightly so!
You were missed! Welcome back :D
Yes, welcome back. I had fever yesterday myself and so did no tea drinking to write about…
No white iced tea to lower your temp Morgana? :( Hope you’re feeling better!
Just didn’t feel like anything except Diet Cokes… inexplicably…. Better now, thanks!
Wow you musta been sick! :(
That is a bummer Morgana, glad you’re feeling better though!
This was my green tea for the day. (Well, technically my Jade Lemonade was, but this was my, I dunno, “normal” green tea for the day) I used less hot water this time but my impression remains the same “there’s spices other than mint in this? REALLY?”
Mmmm Czar Nikolas is so delicious. It’s the perfect tea for when I’m in the mood for tea but can’t figure out which one, because it can’t quite decide whether it’s flavored or not. It is all trying to fake you out. “Oooh, strong tea base! Wait, I sense light spices! But the tea base is so noticeable! but but, other flavors!”
I am not gonna lie, Jade Lemonade has basically become my favorite cool drink. After making the arduous trek to the liquor store (3 blocks) I was totally in need of a cool drink. BAM! Thirst quenched! Healthy matcha consumed. Win!
I actually tried adding gin to it earlier this week as per DoMatcha’s suggestion but was too lazy to document it. I definitely approved though.
Another of the previously dismissed Upton samples…and the verdict is…I continue to dismiss it! Didn’t have an infusion fail like last time, but even when it infuses fine it just doesn’t move me. It needs to pop! have ZING! or something.
Had to cleanse my palate after the…interesting experiment with the spiced plum. In Polish there is a similar expression except it literally translates to “fix my taste” which, my terribleness at translation aside, I think may apply even better than the whole cleansing palate thing. I don’t want to just get back to neutral! I want to cross the boundary into tasty!
Anyway, went back to an old staple for my mission. Whereupon I realized that the teas from the art of tea dessert sampler and foxtrot are my only rooiboses – and I believe I already mentioned that I have…issues with foxtrot. (which will hopefully go away some day >.<) Thankfully, I think the majority of my teafrog samples are rooiboses so I will soon be saved from a lack of rooibos choice existence. (at least until the samples run out) Hurray!
Um yes. The tea. Continues to be tasty! mmm, pear.
So I was reading on here earlier today (I think it was someone’s note? or maybe it was in the comments?) about how they usually use more than 1 tsp of tea when they are making herbal tea so I decided to try that and see if that would get rid of the weird texture that I experienced on my first go around. (yay fiber powder!)
Well, it did THAT yes. AND it brought out the plum taste really nicely. But it also strengthened the cinnamon to almost unbearable levels. So as I drink it I am mostly thinking “I should try other teas with plum in them, this definitely has potential,” but I’ve basically already dismissed this tea.
Always fun to realize you are able to expand your tea choices especially since you they it would never happen. Way to go!
Cinnamon! ::shakes fist in air::
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! I mean, CINNAMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
Ewa: you’re the bestest! :D
Captian Kirk in the house…no earwigs though right? LOL
So I have recently (like five minutes ago) decided to take a modified page out of TeaEqualsBliss’s book by promising myself that I will definitely have one cup of green tea a day. I am not gonna lie, I love black tea best and that means that some days I will just keep drinking it and never drink any other kind of tea. That means I am missing out on health benefits! UNACCEPTABLE. Actually, I should probably make this at least one cup of green tea AND one cup of rooibos, but I’m just gonna start with the green tea thing and see how that goes.
Part of the problem here is that I have never really met a green that got me all that excited. Most of them I would classify more as “eh, it’s all right.” Tokyo pretty much fits that. It was nice enough on the first try, but with each succeeding cup, I’ve gotten more and more meh on it. Perhaps I should go more fruity…
Actually it’s a complete lie that “only” green teas have health benefits. They said the same thing about Wu Yi Oolong a while ago. The people that say that are just trying to sell those specific types of teas. Tisanes have their own health benefits, but all true teas have roughly the same health benefits. It’s also about what you’re not drinking when you are drinking tea. So like what you drink and drink what you like- and feel good about it!:)
Now see, what I had heard is that the different types of teas have different kinds of health benefits. So that the oxidization in black tea means you lose mumble benefit you get from green tea but gain something else. Or something along those lines.
That might be true, but you made it sound like black tea had no health benefits. I started drinking pu erh because it seemed like that was one of the few unique health benefits of pu erh, but now I’m even seeing that listed as a health benefit for other teas. There’s so much conflicting info out there about the health benefits of tea, I guess you just gotta take it w/ a grain of salt. Conflicting info can also be found regarding caffeine.
So…I will be sending you a variety of greens as well! LOL – Yes…I have multiple blacks per day and start my day with them…just a habit, but I have 2 or more greens a day and now 1 or more rooibos’s a day. I usually end up with an Oolong too, yeah, I try and do at least one of all for the health benefits, etc., so I totally see what you are saying!!! GOOD JOB! I hope you find more you like!!! I will try and help all that I can with some new greens!
Ah yes, I was imprecise in the post. I blame the giant cloud of pollen that has apparently settled on Santa Barbara. (damn you pollen!) I meant that as long as I am drinking tea I desire the full range of possible (even made up!) health benefits :D
Yeah, caffeine is a weird one, too, isn’t it? I don’t know what to think about it except that I really need to stop drinking black tea (and probably green as well) at night so I can fall asleep easier.
Am I thinking you are more of a sweet green instead of a grassy or bitter green!?
@TEB yaaaaaaaay, new greens! I have yet to really come around to the oolong side of the force, though (or the pu erh one for that matter – the tea force has many sides. it’s like a dodecahedron or something)
Sweet green sounds right! Where do the kind of buttery greens fit in? I like those.
Buttery greens are good too – let me see what I can find for ya! In terms of oolong…start with some Ali Shan!!!! I LOVE me some Ali Shan!!!! :) For an Oolong BRAND…I really like Norbu but am current out of Norbu Teas. As for Oolong Flavors…do you like peach as a general rule of thumb? If so…try a Peach Oolong…or even a Plum Oolong. I LOVE both, usually. And…both are great iced, too!!!!
I love peach! I was totally intrigued by the peach oolong you posted about today, but then I looked on Adagio and it was not there so I was sad. I guess that is a thing though? That is, other people make those?
I think I have some Peach Oolong from Teavana left – I like that one, too…I will try and remember to send that one your way!
Are you taking about my blend Sweet Peach Treat?
If so here is the link…http://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/list.html?userId=38912&sid=fad57ba95366c34abe7f8d3a0380b16d&scrollTop=0
You can also find my stuff under creator “Rachana Carter” in the blends section.
Yay, awesome! Then if I like it, I can just go to the Teavana in town for moar!
@RachanaC That’s the one! I was really intrigued by the way TEB described it with the peach coming in at the end.
Oh cool! I was just looking in the sidebar list and didn’t see it there.
It is one of the blends I am most proud off. Delicious indeed and not your average green tea.
Only the most recent and most popular appear in the sidebar. No worries my young Padawan for you are still learning. LOL :-)
Bah! Almond milk fail again! I will not be buying this brand again.
You know what I feel like I’m drinking when I look at this? Egg drop soup. Not that I mind egg drop soup necessarily, but…that’s not how I want my tea to look!
At least it still tastes all right.
