Liquid Proust Teas

Not my favorite, but not the tea’s fault. I am not a fan of roasted tea, I’ve slowly learned. There is so much variety in tea, it takes me a long time to formulate strong preferences. It is naturally sweet though, which I like.

This was pleasant, but not my favorite. I love watermelon flavors in tea, alongside other melon, and the TGY was very mild, but I found it all to be a bit too mild for my general taste.

My best friend came over which means I could finally drink the blend inspired by her taste buds :)
While we knew it would taste good, we both had to drink around 6 cups of this to play around with the temperature and times. In the end it is a tricky tea to brew, but even as someone who hates coffee I find myself liking this tea. The grapefruit isn’t noticeable, but it can be eaten after its been brewed :)
My best friend was really diligent with tasting through this and I’m going to let her decide the steeping advice.

This is delicious. I absolutely adore blackberry, it is my favorite fruit next to raspberry. And with a drop of honey to help out the sweetness of the berry flavor, this is juicy and good. I can taste the sage but it is mellow, which I kind of like. When the herb flavor overwhelms the fruit flavor it is paired with, I usually end up feeling like I am drinking soup and reassign that tea to my “teas to cook with” section of the collection. Not a bad thing…but I like my tea to be more tea than herbs.

No rating as it is not the final incarnation of this blend. I would rate it a 90 for me personally, for anyone that might care about that sort of thing.

Hojicha seems to be a type of tea that if you don’t like it you probably won’t find one that you do like. Roasted teas have a very distinct taste.
The roasted Japanese stems use in this tea came from Tokyo that I bought and they blend decently with the apple cinnamon taste, but like other hojicha a cup of this is all you should really drink. I tried to drink an entire pot and my mouth just didn’t want any more after 12 ounces, this tea gets rather dry over multiple drinks.
I kind of want to infuse whipped cream into it but I will not :p

Being in search of a good blackberry tea I decided that maybe I can give it a go at created my own. The first trial run made me realize how bitter and bold a keemun and sage blend is on its own. With that discovery I added some oolong and marigold to the mixture to keep the integrity of the keemun and blackberry sage taste while lowering some of the bitterness. Still not a fan of black teas so it is hard for me to blend them. Really hoping that someone who drinks black teas will enjoy this one.

Not sure how this blend came about, but I do remember the curiosity of having a roasted tea with a mate. Thankfully I had some charcoal roasted tieguanyin available to blend with. I wanted something that would also resteep with a complete difference so I added some orange. The outcome is quite pleasing to me as this tea is sweet for the first steep and each steep after it becomes more roasty in taste and aroma. A rather enjoyable experience since mate holds up to multiple steeps and so can the oolong.

As my first blend I was probably too ambitious in regards to my abilities. I finished my last trial with this tea and drank the final product that is going out in sample sizes . This was a good first experience; I created a tea that isn’t great but also isn’t terrible. I will probably come back to this blend when I start to work with flavoring and oils rather than blending and balancing.