Steepster Select #010 Giveaway

If I don’t like it right away, then it probably takes 3-5 and a few experimentations with cream, sugar, or honey. Though, I still don’t like masala chai, no matter how hard I try to like it. I actually hated rooibos on my first try, but now I drink it pretty often when I don’t want too much caffeine.

Well, usually I would say one. Although, I have found that my tastes have changed since drinking tea exclusively so I have revisited some I did not like and have found I love them now! I do have some though that I can tell right away that they taste like dirt! LOL

I usually know after the first cup (especially if it’s one I don’t like), but I always try it a couple times and with different brewing styles before I completely decide.

Usually it only takes me a cup or two to decide, although if I like it, I may like it even more over time.

Usually I know by the end of my first cup if I like it. If I dislike it, but it has decent ratings, I experiment with it a couple of times to make sure there isn’t something that I could do to improve it before swapping or returning it.

Generally it only takes me one cup. Often I’ll brew another if I think it may potentially have hidden promise with different steeping times and additives.

It takes two cups for me to decide if liking a tea or not. when I try a new tea, most times I like it straight away, I find with having another cup of the same tea, a day or two later I can pretty much know for sure if I will finish the box or container. And to actually restock it, that is the clincher. One thing to like a tea, but will you buy more of it and make it a regularly purchased tea; or occasionally even.

Most of the time 3 cups. I try one without any additions. Another with sweetener. The final cup I like to add sweetener and milk, which is my tea-drinking default. Sometimes I’ll even put a half drunk cup in the fridge to see how it is cold.

Usually 2 the first one to let the palate try it and then the second to see to make the informed decision

Crumbs, I’m late!

I’ll answer anyway.

It depends on the tea. It’s not that often that I find one I don’t like. If I absolutely cannot drink something, I can tell in a few sips. If it’s something I don’t much like but isn’t sure if I can tolerate it because other aspects of the tea are nice, usually it takes a cup and a waiting period, in which I see if I become drawn to it again, or if the uninterestingness of it sticks in my memory. This also goes if it’s something that I do like but don’t find particularly interesting. If it’s something I absolutely like, again, I’ll know within the first few sips.

I try to keep an open mind while trying to decipher and decide those middle of the scale ones, but I usually come to some sort of tentative decision at the end of the first cup.