Steep 1: Roasted squash and cloves, sweet and slightly buttery.
Steep 2: Less like squash, a little more like bread. Less buttery, but a really bright honey note comes into play.
Steep 3: Sweet, dark bread and honey. Stewed Walnuts. Sweet aftertaste that reminds me a little of celery.
Steep 4: Sweet, light greens- celery and still some cloves. Slightly, slightly vreamy, not buttery.
Overall Impression: I’m glad I fiinally got a chance to try this tea that everyone has been talking abut! It reminds me a little of Verdant’s Laoshan Roasted Oolong on the first steep, but quickly it becomes its own tea. This one is more bready, not as potato-ey and there are more vegetal qualities to this one. The process of drinking this reminds me of eating all the chunks out of a vegetable stew and then having the broth remain.
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so excited to get mine in…. see how it difers from what i remember!
I had to try mine right away. It pretty much lives up to last year’s batch in my opinion. I was a bit skeptical at first smell but then the hot water hit the leaves and…ah, yes. There it was!
oh lord I’m happy to read this Nicole, I ordered 4 oz and await now the delivery and was hopping it was as sweet as last year as Stacy warned me it would be slightly different
Since this is my first year having it, I can’t compare. I liked the taste, but I’m not getting waffles like everyone keeps talking about. I enjoyed it though.
I didn’t get waffles neither but hot bread only ;) but like you I really enjoyed it
so excited to get mine in…. see how it difers from what i remember!
I had to try mine right away. It pretty much lives up to last year’s batch in my opinion. I was a bit skeptical at first smell but then the hot water hit the leaves and…ah, yes. There it was!
oh lord I’m happy to read this Nicole, I ordered 4 oz and await now the delivery and was hopping it was as sweet as last year as Stacy warned me it would be slightly different
Since this is my first year having it, I can’t compare. I liked the taste, but I’m not getting waffles like everyone keeps talking about. I enjoyed it though.
I didn’t get waffles neither but hot bread only ;) but like you I really enjoyed it