Tea Ratings

I think the “my 60 might be different than another person’s 60 as far as what it means” is good since everyone’s taste in tea IS different. I always put disclaimers in my tasting notes like “Wasn’t a fan of this, but that’s not surprising since I don’t care for blacks. A black tea lover would love this!” or “I got this as a gift. I really enjoyed it, but there are so many teas out there I don’t think I’ll be spending my own money on this”. That’s why I think it’s important we have a field or check boxes where we can enter how we got the tea.

I believe it’s awful, meh, good, awesome, left to right, given as guidelines for the sliding scale ratings. I tend to be picky when rating things in general so few teas are on the higher end for me.

Below 10 – poured it out immediately.
10-50 – maybe I drank it, but I won’t make it again (or if I do, I’ll change something, water temp, additions, something)
50-65 – I’ll drink it again
65-80 – liked it!
80-100 – definately going to reorder

These are just estimates, since the numbers don’t show up on the slider

I’ll only give a tea a 0 if I can’t finish the cup and I ALWAYS try my best to finish at least the 1st cup. Maybe 10-20ish if I can’t bring myself to try resteeping it.

I do think what complicates the ratings is we can’t give a tea a new rating each time we try it.

My ratings use to be

80+ I’d reorder
70-79 I can drink it, but I didn’t think it was anything special
65 I can tolerate but wouldn’t drink a second time

Then I noticed steepster had little smiley faces. 25 has a yuck face. 50 has an indifference, 75 has a delicious and 100 has an omg this is outstanding type of face!

So I started using that as my guideline. After I fixed my ratings, my score seemed closer to the average ratings.

I try to order my tea which ones I’d prefer over another, but I realized that’s useless. I forget how a tea tastes after a few days.

Thanks for the responses- these are really helpful guidelines.

I just logged Kekecha Yellow and that got me thinking, the 3rd smiley is kinda misleading. It’s like 67. I think there should be 5 smileys at 0, 25, 50, 75, and 100.