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my darling swedish chef sent this one my way. I opted to have it tonight and all i can say is that this tastes like normal cacao. no spicy…no chai…just some cacao…. :( Good to know though since i would have likely bought this one myself heh
my darling swedish chef sent this one my way to try and i’m super glad she did. I have to say, i’m not one of those people who tends to drink cacao on it’s own. I much prefer it as an addition to teas to give them that roasty chocolatey taste. I’m drinking these samples on their own though as i want to get a better sense of how they’ll work with other teas. This one is hints of mint with a lot of cacao. I enjoy it, but i’m not sure i see the point of the mint lol. I’d likely just add cacao to a mint tea so that the mint was more present and i could control the mint level. Enjoyable, though..and a nice cup to end the evening. Time for bed with my headache not getting much better.
Final Count: 85
I have a wicked headache tonight too. Not sure whether it’s dehydration or lack of tea (or something else entirely). Sigh. Hope you’re feeling better [in the morning]!
Are you feeling better today, the both of you? What is with us getting headaches lately. Yeesh.
Yeah, I wish they put more mint in here. I swear HI’s was mintier? But I like the idea of just customizing mint teas by adding the plain cacao to it.
I was feeling better… until I had a headache today too! It’s gone now though. 95% sure mine are the two causes I previously mentioned, so they should be avoidable. My boyfriend and roommate have also had headaches lately, though. :(
Aww, no. I had another one today too. They just keep coming. So weird!
Boo :( Weather was my guess that’s more applicable to people other than myself. None of us typically get headaches. (My boyfriend in particular, and he absolutely hates them).
Sample time! This was a rather unusual blend, but in a good way. The vanilla lent a smooth creaminess to the cacao husks, and the rooibos peaked through juuust a bit. The resulting flavour? Something akin to Tootsie Rolls.
Yum, I want Tootsie Roll tea! :P I’ll have to keep this in mind.
Funny, I used to hate Tootsie Rolls when I was a kid but this was a pleasant surprise. I would have gladly sent you some had I bought a full tin. :)
I love Tootsie Rolls. :P I’ll have to order some samples, I’d like to try the Original and Mint versions too. And that Green Cacao tea looks interesting!
haha tootsie rolls are yum.
Oh yeah, the green was out of stock when I ordered. :/ Looks really good. I still need to get off my butt and review the others. I’ll already say that their chai cacao is my favourite.
I’m not a big fan of chai, but I’d probably order samples of all of them. And email them to see if they’d do a sample of Green Cacao so I didn’t have to buy a full tin. :P
Green cacao? Intrigued! Weird that this blend has rooibos though. I’d probably prefer straight cacao with vanilla.
Not sure what dragonwell and cacao husks would be like, so it’s too bad that they don’t offer samples of it.
I was surprised that they would put rooibos in this too, and would have preferred it without too, but it wasn’t as woodsy as I thought it would be.
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OK, so, there are enough of us drinking teas with cacao shells in them that Cacao shells should be one of the ingredients when setting up a tea.
This is a very simple blend – just peppermint and cacao shells – but it’s awesome in it’s simplicity. I mean, we’ve got the best way to get chocolate flavor into a teacup (cacao shells) and mint. Chocolate and Mint. YUM.
The chocolate is a dark, bittersweet chocolate that’s more chocolate than bitter (just hints of bitter for contrast, if you don’t like it … you can add milk to soften that.) And the peppermint is – hold on to your teacups for this one! – minty. Yep. Like I said, simple but so sinfully yummy.
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When I first ordered this tea, I anticipated it being a masala chai blend with cacao shells. I had not expected it to be a tea with Camellia Sinensis in it! But it is! That makes me all the happier with it.
I love cacao shells. Love them. I think that it is the best choice for a rich chocolate flavor in a steeped beverage. Nibs are ok, but, shells seem to deliver more chocolate flavor in my opinion.
In this chai, the chocolate is very rich and prominent. Happiness! This chocoholic is happy. Beneath the chocolate flavor is the rich malty notes of Assam. More happiness.
The spices are not as strong as I generally like in my chai. I like a good, spicy chai. But I also have an appreciation for a subtler approach with the spices like this chai takes. This is flavorful and the spices are nicely balanced.
Read more about it here: http://sororiteasisters.com/2014/07/19/chai-cacao-tea-from-tisano/
sipdown on this one from yesterday. I think when i get through my HI cacao, i’ll switch to tisano. HI is the serious suck when it comes to their teas/customer service etc so i refuse to continue to support them. Very similar to frank. I figure next year i’ll have even less spending power with the dollar so i’ll be focusing my efforts on companies that care about their customers and are doing things right. Soooo i shall see you again tea!
i actually made just this on it’s own tonight… last cup of the evening. This one makes for a richer, more dark chocolate cup than the herbal infusions version which is a little lighter. Works for me though, since i want my cacao to be strong and delicious and i just can’t get behind herbal infusions anymore with all the trouble friends have had. so yay for a new source of cacao!
Final Count: 79
It’s a shame, I would really like to try their strawberry version. :(
tisano has a strawberry version too… if i remember correctly…and mint..
I don’t think that they have a strawberry version … at least not yet. I love Tisano. I am sad to hear of the different troubles people have had with Herbal Infusions. But there are so many great tea companies out there, I don’t see the need to support the ones that aren’t up to par.
I don’t see strawberry right now, but they do have vanilla. Yum. :D
I had some of the vanilla last night … it really is yum.
picked this up with terri as i suspect the version from traveling tea is this version since it’s named tisano cacao. so i suspect they get it from tisano. Since i’ve wanted to try tisanos version, picked some up. I’ll have to do a comparison later against the stuff from HI and see which i prefer. for now though, this was a tasty cup!
(cupboard is around 127..down from 134 thanks to my overnight)
You’re probably right. I’m pretty sure the majority of her teas come from The Art of Tea, or at least some of them do. Except for our beloved pumpkin ginger nom nom…sigh…
i totally should have given you money for that while i was down there. I was not thinking. worse case i can buy tea from camelia or something and send you similar cost, or paypal or whatever…
We’ll work it out :)
