When I looked at the ingredients for this, I thought it might scratch the itch left from finishing off Lupicia’s “Chocolate and Strawberry Pu’erh.” The ingredient list sounded really promising, mixing assam and pu’erh with strawberry, hazelnut, and cream flavors, but unfortunately, I’m not really getting that from the flavor. The flavor of the assam is just not coming through the pu’erh at all, while the black tea added to the Lupicia tea really smoothed out the pu’erh flavor in that tea. So I pretty much just taste pu’erh, which isn’t my favorite tea type… it isn’t too “dirty” tasting here, thankfully. But the earthiness is very strong due to the hazelnut flavoring, which is really strong and prominent. I don’t taste strawberry or cream at all. If I had to wager a guess, I bet this is a blend of Adagio’s Black Cream and Strawberry and Hazelnut Pu’erh, as that hazelnut flavor is very distinct. I’m sad the other flavors aren’t popping, though (I’m actually a fan of that Cream flavoring Adagio uses).
So ultimately, I’m just getting a cup of hazelnut-flavored pu’erh, which is fine, but not what I was hoping for. I was really hoping for some malty and fruity notes. I’ll finish up my sample with breakfast but probably would not reorder this.
Flavors: Earthy, Hazelnut, Nutty
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You’re probably right, Brutaliteas seems to often just mix Adagio teas together.
Aw, really? That is sad news if they just mix Adagio’s teas in their blends. Though I have never actually had any of Brutalities blends yet… that doesn’t really motivate me to try them if I can just buy Adagio teas…
I used to run into this a lot with people selling “their own tea blends” at conventions, too. While they were technically telling the truth, what it really meant is they just used Adagio’s Custom Blend builder (https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/create_blend.html) and then repackaged the tea into their own branding. I’m not saying they are doing this but just having a bit of familiarity with which teas are available for Adagio’s create-a-blend and what they taste like, I highly suspect they are simply Adagio “fandom blends.”
I don’t know if it’s true for all of their teas, but I definitely saw the same ingredients in some of them at least.
You’re probably right, Brutaliteas seems to often just mix Adagio teas together.
Aw, really? That is sad news if they just mix Adagio’s teas in their blends. Though I have never actually had any of Brutalities blends yet… that doesn’t really motivate me to try them if I can just buy Adagio teas…
I used to run into this a lot with people selling “their own tea blends” at conventions, too. While they were technically telling the truth, what it really meant is they just used Adagio’s Custom Blend builder (https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/create_blend.html) and then repackaged the tea into their own branding. I’m not saying they are doing this but just having a bit of familiarity with which teas are available for Adagio’s create-a-blend and what they taste like, I highly suspect they are simply Adagio “fandom blends.”
I don’t know if it’s true for all of their teas, but I definitely saw the same ingredients in some of them at least.