drank Caramel Vanilla Assam by Butiki Teas
1220 tasting notes

hello friends I am here (honestly all the problems loading things on here have made me sad, so I want to either read all your notes – which I can’t, or none at all. BOO.)

Too much work and too much drama. My boyfriend and I had been taking a break, well that break is completely broken up now as I found out he had been seeing someone else, VIA REDDIT (I peruse my friends’ comments and there it was), and he tells me she lives across the country and it’s nothing but SERIOUSLY the way he wrote about her was extremely disturbing when he didn’t talk to me for those 2 months and it was very betraying and yeah I absolutely lost it on Tuesday.

Which was when I drank this tea because I didn’t go to work and my manager is great and covered for me and I’m actually going to give her one of the teas from my Butiki order as a thank you. If I can just decide which one to part with.

This one is not it. This was actually not at all what I expected. For some reason I was thinking like cloying, stick to everything caramel. It’s more like the caramel sauce from Baked/Baked Explorations I’m not sure which book they first put this recipe in but oh my god it’s not your average caramel. And it’s just like the one in this tea, and I didn’t even add anything to this cup.

Actually I just saw that caramel doesn’t even have butter in it, this one is buttery caramel, with just the right hint of vanilla. I think it would be like the sweet/salty Baked brownies minus the sea salt. The Assam adds just a little cocoa flavor to me, so this isn’t full on brownies but just reminiscent of them.

And like them, everything just blends so well together that you expect nothing was mixed and measured, it all tasted this way from the start.

Next time, I add sugar and see if it gets even more like those brownies.

Fun fact: my grandma once paid me $20 to make her another batch of the brownies after we had them at Christmas or Thanksgiving. I’m not sure what the point is since I’m pretty sure sometimes when you’re older grandparents just look for whatever way they can to give you money since toys no longer work, so it’s not really a testament to how good they are, but seriously look that recipe up if you like sweet and salty combos (and in their first cookbook they did just a regular chocolate brownie but the caramel chocolate one is AMAZING).

Indigobloom

Sorry to hear you’ve had a rough breakup :(
Tea will make it better?

Hesper June

I am sorry:( So glad you have some tasty teas to comfort you.

TeaBrat

So sorry to hear you’re going through a difficult time.

CHAroma

Boooo!! What a creep. I’m sorry to hear that your relationship ended like that, but you deserve someone so much better and I hope you find him soon!

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Indigobloom

Sorry to hear you’ve had a rough breakup :(
Tea will make it better?

Hesper June

I am sorry:( So glad you have some tasty teas to comfort you.

TeaBrat

So sorry to hear you’re going through a difficult time.

CHAroma

Boooo!! What a creep. I’m sorry to hear that your relationship ended like that, but you deserve someone so much better and I hope you find him soon!

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