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#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #205 overall / Tea #29 for May
Tuesday 5/18 - Sabroso Chai Naughty Guayusa which has 4 ingredients Guayusa Leaves / Hibiscus Flower / Cinnamon / Fennel. Refreshing pitcher to sip on double shift #2 in a row. Thanks for the sample so long ago Sabroso Chai (:
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#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #199 overall / Tea #23 for May
Friday 5/14 - sipology sugar plums and cinnamon & kiwi Passionfruit. Two samples with tiny bit (for an 8 oz cup each), put together and cold brewed. Non descript blah green tea, nothing worth remembering.
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#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #198 overall / Tea #22 for May
Friday 5/14 - two boxes of generic 10 tea bags each. Moroccan mint and honey lemon. Made as hot plain pitchers to top off Micah’s homemade kombucha.
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#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #197 overall / Tea #21 for May
Friday 5/14 - Wow Guayusa by Sabroso Chai. Awhile ago Sabroso Chai gifted me a maybe a half dozen samplers of their teas. This one was opened because I had it previously. I didn’t pay close attention to and thought it was a chai, turns out “Ingredients: Guayusa Leaves, Dried Pineapple, Dried Coconut, Allspice, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Cloves, Elderflower”. Had it hot and plain with milk, turned out okay but not something I’d have again.
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#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #186 overall / Tea #10 for May
Thursday 5/6 — Lauku Tea Brigita’s Daylight Blend. Sipsby box. Cold brew glass jar. Uh, it’s Thursday? WTF happened to Weds? Oh! I know! I had work, then I had an impromptu casual sit down/interview/job offer, then I came home to tell my boyfriend (who I live with) & my parents (phone call) about job opportunity, then my Columbus Crew were outplayed by Monterrey in CCL play to be eliminated losing down in MX 3-0. I sipped on tea, but nothing was finished 5/5 (I guess a store kombucha GTS Lavender Love). Anyway, I sipped this this morning after it has been brewing in my fridge for a few days. Very herby herbal. Was cold and got the job done this morning with breakfast.
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#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #171 overall / Tea #42 for April
#drinkwhatyouown March 25/25
Wednesday 4/28 — random steeping by various artists. kroger pom Blueberry acai green tea / tipson Blueberry matcha 1 teabag each …Warm/cold brewed since evening 4/27. These were from Danielle small business advent calendar Dec 2020. It was okay nothing special but sipped with breakfast.
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#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #158 overall / Tea #29 for April
Monday 04/19 — Teas of the World, France, French Vanilla. 10 teabags. 5 each in 2 hot brewed pots of tea for the large kombucha jar.
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#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #153 overall / Tea #24 for April
An Ode to Tea, Z is for Silver Zhen Pearls (gifted by Danielle aka @teaandmeblog)
Friday 04/16 — Cold-Brewed this one twice. It was okay but nothing to repeat.
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#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #133 overall / Tea #4 for April

Sunday 4/04/21 — Tazo Passion Tea sweetened. There were like 4 different listings of the Tazo Passion in steepster and because this was a tiny plastic baggie of maybe 1 1/2 PS worth of Tazo Passion tea with some sort of sweetener in a blob not sure what to categorize this under. Made this cold-brew and mixed it into a cold-brew pitcher of Harts of America Dandelion Mint (like 1/4 or 1/3 Tazo and rest HOA Dandelion Mint). Still too gritty and sweet for me.

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#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #115 overall / Tea #31 for March / #drinkwhatyouown February slot 23/25

Thursday 3/25/21 — winter White Chocolate oolong.. can’t remember the company. Didn’t really taste like anything but oolong I remember in past enjoying the creamy melted chocolate with oolong in hot and plain cuppa.

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#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #67 overall / Tea #34 for February
#drinkwhatyouown February 8/25

Tuesday 2/23 still working on Jan and Feb teas from my diy advent calendar #drinkwhatyouown etc. I haven’t even made a theme for March yet. Hmm. Anyway this was a random little silver wrapped tea labeled Passionfruit. Not sure where it came from but I know I have had it for a while. It was a flowering blooming tea, which is not really my style. I put it in a 12 oz clear Holly branch perfect mug from my david’s tea days and sipped hot and plain with breakfast.

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I grabbed a kombucha from the store that was on clearance. It’s local-ish company called BNF and it’s the mango marigold flavor. It doesn’t have a distinctive flavor and I wouldn’t recognize it as mango flavored. It’s not a vinegar-y kombucha though and really reminds me a lot of beer. It’s not what I expected but I don’t mind it either. I also grabbed their pear flavor as well.

Drinking a random matcha genmaicha teabag that came in a Japanese snack subscription box I’ve been getting. It’s actually a really nice genmaicha. No bitterness, just smooth and toasty.

Sipdown 16/17/16-2021
Drank through a few oolong samples from jlTea (Fong Mong). One was a Jin xuan and the other 2 were lightly oxidized. Honestly can’t remember much about them because it’s been a few days and I’ve been waiting for Steepster to be not broken again.

Devin Bartholomew Advent Day 1

Labeled: Shady Maple Spearmint Herbal

Swapping homemade tea advent calendars has become a bit of tradition for me these past 5ish years and I always look forward to opening the daily packet and trying new teas in the lead-up to Christmas!

I was pleased to see a mint tea right off the bat…so festive! I steeped it up in the evening and sipped while decorating our Christmas tree with my husband. My steeping may have been to blame (it was a small sample and I used a big mug) but I found the mint flavor a bit muted for my tastes.

TeaTiff TTB #11

Plum Deluxe French Breakfast doesn’t show up anywhere online that I can find…not sure if it’s discontinued or mislabeled or what’s going on with that? But I did really enjoy the tea! It had a sweet, natural strawberry flavor balanced with creamy vanilla. My husband was also a fan!

TeaTiff TTB #18

This is the last tea I’m sampling from the Japanese Tea Marathon: Sannen Bancha by Miyazaki Sabou. Apparently it’s a roasted tea that includes branches from the tea plant along with the leaves. It definitely doesn’t look like any tea I’ve tried before, consisting of mostly little pieces that look like cut-up twigs. The flavor was unexpectedly sweet and delicate with a smoky flavor that is weirdly reminding me of maple bacon. Fun to get to try such a unique tea!

TeaTiff TTB #6

Tamaryokucha by Forthees from the Japanese Tea Marathon

I used to think I didn’t like Japanese green teas, but I think I’d just tried some really grassy ones and given up. I liked the other two from this box so much, I decided to try another today and this one is delicious as well! The leaf is super delicate and tightly twisted into little spikes resembling pine needles. The dry leaf was a gorgeous forest green with a strong scent of spinach and it steeped up to a bright neon green in the cup. The flavor is super fresh and vegetal (still reminding me of spinach) with a nice buttery smooth finish.

TeaTiff TTB #3

Skysamurai kindly included a number of teas from a special “Japanese Tea Marathon” she participated in last year. This one is a Kabusecha from Nakamori Seicha, which I couldn’t find on Steepster and didn’t have enough information about to add myself. Apparently, Kabusecha is a shredded Japanese green tea. It looked like bright green grass clippings in the bag and left a fair amount of dust at the bottom of my cup. I was expecting the flavor to be strong, like a CTC tea, but it was actually quite light and delicate with notes of fresh green peas. I didn’t personally love it, but it was definitely an interesting experience to get to try it!

Samurai TTB #49

This was marked as “Princess Peach Ice Cream” from a brand I’ve never heard of called Tea Hippie. If I’d enjoyed it more, maybe I would have taken the time to add it to the database, but as it was, I don’t feel the need. No peach and no ice cream for me, just straight up hibiscus with a hint of yogurt. Not a fan!

Samurai TTB #17

Finished off a sample of 52Teas Vanilla Orange Cola black tea today. The fact that I can’t find it on Steepster or the 52Teas website is making me think this might be an older blend? So I might not have had it at its best, but it was definitely a disappointment. I didn’t get any orange or vanilla flavor from it at all; just the cola flavoring. So it was basically like drinking a hot, flat Coca-Cola…bleh.

Advent Calendar Day 2

This one is labeled “Chestnut Black Tea” by Yunomi…another new-to-me company and a tea I couldn’t seem to find in the Steepstser database. I’m honestly not sure I’ve ever had a chestnut, so I can’t comment on how accurate the flavor is here. But it’s a pleasantly smooth and nutty black tea and I’m enjoying it on this chilly morning!