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I am enjoying this hot with my dessert right now, and it’s fantastic. Sweet and yummy… and this even has a bubbly sort of taste very similar to that I’d experience if I were drinking champagne.
So good. And glad I have more of this so that I can write more about it later… because right now I’m enjoying it too much to write.
Preparation
Kitchen Sink really packs a one-two punch. When I first sip the tea, it tasted quite green and vegetal. It was quite nice, pleasant and mild. Then I swallowed, and seemingly out of nowhere a wave of fruitiness hit me. I couldn’t begin to tell you something specific from it. It was a citrusy berry-like sweet tangy extravaganza of flavor.
As I drank more of the tea, the initial green tea taste and the fruitiness blended in my mouth until it was just a symphony of fresh, fun flavors. It was just fantastic :D
With a pretty mix of grassy looking Chinese sencha leaves and sizable apple chunks, the aroma from the dry assortment very clearly reminds me of the sour apple candy I loved so much as a child.
The liquor, a light yellow, provides somewhat lighter notes of that sour apple flavor, but contains a deal more vegetal tones. I noted roasted leaks and steamed bok choy.
I was a bit disappointed in the flavor. It’s not as strong on the apple as I’d hoped. That being said, its subtlety seems to soften the vegetal strength of the sencha to provide a nice balance for the palate.
I recommend this brew if you enjoy fruit teas, lighter Chinese greens (i.e. Lung Ching), Rooibos and Yerba Mate.
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: 1/2 tsp
Water: 12 ounces boiling
Tool: aerolatte
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: wild strawberry (not sweet store kind), vegetal
Steeped Tea Smell: vegetal with a hint of berry
Flavor: thin, stirred more, chalky, hints of berry
Body: Light, stirred then Full
Aftertaste: vegetal
Liquor: opaque murky olive green
I keep trying and wanting to like matcha, sometimes it’s good – usually when someone else (a tea shop) makes it for me, but even then not always.
This was OK, I don’t think it’s the matcha’s fault I think it’s mine.
Images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/08/52teas-loose-leaf-matcha-green-tea.html
Thanks to AmazonV I get to try out this tea blend!
Where do I start? Let me count the ways…oops, I am still in "ode to tea’ mode…LOL
This tea got me excited, I love cinnamon in tea. I boiled my water and waited as the tea brewed in my Chatsford. The color of the tea is red like red hots…you did know red hots are in this tea, right!?! Well, they are! I am bracing myself for this first sip, ready to be blown away by the cinnamon fire…The taste is smooth not bitter. I have not dedicted any astringency either..so far so good. The taste is only mildy cinnamon, not the cinnamon fire I was expecting, but it is good tea nevertheless. I added ice to my second cup and viola, there is the cinnamon, not mind jolting, but it is there:)all in all a very nice tea blend.
Despite my misgivings about the name – I decided to buy this one. I have loved the previous banana flavored teas that I’ve tasted from Frank, and I was certain I’d love this one too.
And I was not disappointed. The banana flavor is very a-peal-ing (pardon the pun). Sweet and fruity. I really like the honeybush/banana combination… perhaps even better than the rooibos/banana combination – hey Frank – maybe you should rework the Chocolate Banana Rooibos and make it chocolate banana honeybush – but DO NOT call it chocolate monkey fart, please.
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This vanilla bean chai is pretty tasty. I didn’t add any sugar or milk as is traditionally done and still enjoyed the brew.
Large vanilla bean pieces and ginger root chunks combine with clearly visible cinnamon shavings to creating a uniquely strong but comforting brew.
This tea does significantly dry your palate, so keep that in mind, but I honestly didn’t mind that much.
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I’m having one last cup before sending the last little bit over to TeaSlinger! TeaSlinger…there is only about a cups-worth left but you have other goodies coming too!
This is very nice! Reminds me of a non-carbonated Rootbeer or one that has lost it’s fizzzzzz!
Yummy! Good hot or cold…take a look at my other ntoes!
The aroma is RIGHT ON! The taste is surprisingly good! I can certainly see the Root Beer Resemblance! Somewhat soda like but creamy like ice cream and ROOT BEER…sure! Darn good! Thanks for sharing LiberTEAs!!!!
Yummy! I know you never add anything to your tea, but how about a scoop of ice cream?
LOL…that might be classified as A Specialty Drink…hum…perhaps… lol
We offer tea shakes and tea sundaes at Zoomdweebie’s
I’m tellin’ ya Frank I’m comin’ out there someday.
We’d be happy to have you. It’s a shame everyone is so far away. I would love to host a Steepster Meet-up.
Tell me about it…I think it would be great. I would try to come for sure.
Oh… my… gosh… a tea SUNDAE?! How does that work? Definitely gotta do that w/ Mayan Chocolate Chai! You just made my day Frank:)
Lots of sugar, tiny bit of hot tea mixed in a little bit at a time until you have a thick syrup. Drizzle over ice cream, add whipped cream, cherry and nuts.
Hmm I think I like the float idea better, but sounds interesting.
I really enjoyed the flavors in this unique, strong blend. First off, the aroma hits you the second you open the package. The aroma reminds me of fresh snickerdoodle cookies cooking in my grandmother’s oven. The taste is very similar – strong cinnamon and vanilla. This is a perfect heavy fall tea – and I can’t wait to try it blended with soy milk and honey. However, plain works just perfect.
I’m intrigued about Brandon’s gummy bear tea – ingenious! When can we expect that?!
What a blast from the past. This tea has been sitting in a bin in the pantry for over a decade…lost in the dark in the back. Well, Found It!, quite by accident. Since I was intending to brew some tea for iced tea and it found it’s way to the front, I decided what the heck.
Still good – even better, as iced tea, than it ever was as a hot drink. The floral overtones have dissipated, but it still has a green tea bite and a nice clean mouth feel. Not as astringent as a black, and I over brewed it in anticipation of ice watering it down.
Flavors: Dry Grass, Green
Preparation
Its too bad that this is a “one of a kind”. Its actually very good. The smell, both of the dry leaves and the resulting tea reminds me of a candle shop. Yep, you know them, you can smell them within a hundred feet in all directions when walking at the shopping mall or your favorite midwestern (USA) tourist trap. Despite that ;-) its a very good, fruity, floral tea.
Preparation
Depending on the size and variety of your tea stash- it probably could be recreated. Especially since do to the shear number of ingredients no two cups… or pouches probably… taste exactly the same.
I don’t know about that, Cofftea. It WAS a HUGE batch, but I got in there and blended it up really good. I’m fairly confident the flavors infused and diffused fairly evenly throughout the tea.
Editing to note a sipdown. This is no. 5 of 2017 (no. 286 total). This page is broken and I can’t post a new note. The note below was from approximately two years before this added paragraph. I have tons of little bits of tea hanging around that I really need to sip down, so tonight I made this straight in the Breville (no milk, no sugar) and tossed it over some ice so I could finally say goodbye to it. Oddly, it was a decent spiced cold tea.
Wow, I’ve had this a long time. I wrote the original note on it when I first joined Steepster about 6 years ago!
If I had my druthers, I’d drink chai a lot more than I do, but because of the milk content it’s more caloric than other things (and frankly, if I’m going to drink calories, I’d rather do it with wine than anything else most of the time. ;-)) so I don’t drink it that often. Also, weather is a big factor for me with chai. When it’s hot, I’m not often in the mood because chai is heavier than other teas. The result is I feel like every time I look in my stash, I find an astonishing amount of chai.
Today, we have rain. Lots and lots of rain. I haven’t been outside yet so I don’t know whether that translates into lower temperatures outside. It just looks like a cold day, which put me in the mood for chai. I used the Teafrog chocolate and cream for the extra tea this time.
It hasn’t changed in six years. It’s a pleasant mild chocolate chai. The spices give flavor but not heat. I still don’t taste cheesecake, so knocking off some points for that. But I’ll enjoy sipping it down.
And I thought I was bad for letting my teas age 2-3 years. I will stop stressing knowing that even a 6-year-old tea has managed to still taste the same :)
LOL. I’ve only had a couple of teas that I noticed significant changes in over time. Usually they’re greens.
At what point do you decide that you need to start drinking down? I’ve been trying to finish off any of mine that are older than a year, but if the flavor doesn’t change that much then maybe I’m trying too hard.
If I had it to do over again, I wouldn’t order more than I thought I could drink in a year or two at the most. But I am way past that so now I’m focusing on trying to drink down things I’ve opened before opening new containers. I only have a couple of teas that are as old as this one and opened and I’m trying to get to those as quickly as I can, but chai is particularly tough for me as I mentioned in the note.
Trying this today using the Samovar stovetop method with Kusmi Chocolate as the extra black tea.
This is a creamy, chocolatey, spicy, comforting drink. The spice is just enough to make it known this is chai, and I’m getting a lot of chocolate taste (the use of the Kusmi as the extra black tea with chocolate chais has been extremely successful, and I heartily recommend using a chocolate flavored black tea for the extra black if you’re following the Samovar method with a chocolate chai).
Cheesecake, not so much, and I would have thought perhaps that was because I’d added the Kusmi, but then I read the notes here and it seems to be a common observation about this tea. There is a sort of creaminess to the flavor that accentuates the normal milky creaminess with chais prepared this way, and I’m taking that to be the cheesecake flavor. There’s not a piquancy to it that actual cheesecake has. It’s more creamy than cheesy.
I have one more 52 teas chocolate chai in my stash and I’ll be interested to see what the difference is in flavor between that one and this. I can say now that I prefer the spicy yet not blisteringly spiciness of this mixture to the Mayan Chocolate Chai for most purposes, though there are times when the Mayan seems like it would be the only thing that would hit the spot.
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I have really enjoyed this tea – this is the last of it though! It was a really DIFFERENT tea, to be sure. It is just so flavorful and fruity and delicious!
Here’s a link to my full-length review of this tea: http://sororiteasisters.com/2010/08/02/kitchen-sink-green-tea-from-52teas-a-new-contest/
I brewed some of this up last night to enjoy as an iced tea today – and it’s fantastic iced! The flavors become sort of intermingled to become one big super-fruit so rather than being able to pick out individual flavors here, I can just tell you that I taste a fruity-fruit essence that is juicy and sweet and delicious.
And yes! When iced, I can still taste the green tea. This does NOT taste like Kool Aid. This tastes like a super-delicious-super-fruity green tea!
Since today is the last day to enter and win this tea on SororiTEA Sisters – for more information on how YOU could win (we’re drawing not one but TWO winners), check out this link: http://tinyurl.com/2ae4ob9 – I decided that was as good a reason as any to brew some of it. (Like I need a reason to brew tea)
My opinion hasn’t changed since my review – it’s still fruity and delicious. I like that I can taste the green tea here, one might think that with all these flavors going on that the green tea would be indistinguishable, but it isn’t. It is buttery and sweet and very lovely to sip.
In the contest announcement, I call this tea a ridiculously delicious tea – and it really is. I really wasn’t sure I’d like it (but I felt fairly confident I would because Frank knows his stuff) but I had to try it… and I’m really glad I did.
Preparation
So you know I had to try this one…
Definitely very fruity. Because of the many flavors that there are, it is difficult to discern one from another… that being said, this is REALLY GOOD. The flavors are intense and I almost want to say “congested” but in a good way… sort of like a huge fruit salad consisting of the largest assortment of fruit ever.
And… I can taste the green tea too! Buttery fresh notes… just slightly vegetative. This isn’t a “fruit punch” – it is absolutely, positively a tea… with a whole lot going on!
I did take advantage of the Steepster Select offer and I will be giving the second pouch away on the SororiTEA Sisters Blog (http://sororiteasisters.com) – so watch for your chance to win it!
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Hmmm… I just may enter that anyway lol.
ok, ok…what’s the banana level in this!? LOL
I didn’t taste a lot of banana… but then, it’s difficult to distinguish one fruit from another – it’s more like one great big FRUIT. does that make sense? I think you’ll like it. :)
That was my assumption LiberTEAS… and my main concern about liking it… If I win the contest I think I’m gonna try making a single cup then doing a gallon. I’m thinking using more tea, even though I’m using more water would increase my chances of not leaving out a particular flavor completely. And I can always reheat a cup to enjoy it hot. :)
I’ll be daring if you want to send me a sample’s worth! LOL
@TeaEqualsBliss: Surely! I’ll include it with the package that I send in the next day or two. :)
We should be able to rate tea companies. If one could, I would nominate 52teas as the most funny. Ingredients: Yes. This is great; almost as funny as the Tuna Melt Tea.
@Shinobicha – that is one of the reasons I actually wanted to buy the tea. I laughed so hard when I first saw it. I love Frank’s sense of humor.
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Our local customers drink gallons of this blend as Sprite Spritzers: About half a cup of hot tea with a 1/4 cup of sugar dissolved into it then iced and topped off with a 12oz can of Sprite.
Wow… that’s a lot of sugar though when you consider the sugar in the sprite too… I wonder if it would be tasty without all that added sugar? May have to try.
I would sweeten the tea a little bit, but maybe you don’t need that much. The Sprite Spritzer is a 1/4c, the Coke Spritzer takes a 1/3c, just because the Coke is such a strong flavor. You might be able to get away with less with the Sprite. It is DELICIOUS though.
Of course, with ours, by the time you ice the tea (it comes out of our machine unbelievably HOT) and add the Sprite, you wind up with a 24oz. beverage, so, maybe the sugar isn’t quite so bad taking that into consideration.
But I can’t deny it. Our kids are sugar-freaks. We go through about 15lbs of sugar every week. And we’re only open 17 hours a week!