6444 Tasting Notes
Sil or Evol Ving Ness shared a tea with me that was literally called “Random Milk Oolong”. So I have zero information other than this tea is a milk oolong. It’s a nice milk oolong and I have a couple more servings. It’s light, floral, and milky – read not as rich as Creamy Oolong. Thankfully I think I prefer Creamy Oolong from The Tea Haus, which is good because I know where to get more if I want more when I finish it.
When I don’t know what tea I want, I have a randomizer on my excel spreadsheet to help me choose. When I don’t have my laptop, however, I open up steepster on my phone and ask my sister to pick a number between 1 and 16 (the # of steepster pages I have). Then I ask her to pick a number between 1 and 18 (the # of teas on a page). The last time she did this, she picked this tea and I made a latte.
For the first number, she almost always picks 3 so today I changed the sorting from the default “most drank” to “recently added”, figuring I’d end up with different teas. However, today she went with 12 and somehow magically ended up picking this tea again. I guess she just really wants me to drink my giant bag of sweet potato pie (thanks again Roswell Strange!).
I told Roswell Strange about this and mentioned how I didn’t really want a latte. She told me to make this one anyways since it’s good plain. I was skeptical but she’s right. It’s better as a latte because it gives it much needed body and rounds this out a bit. Plain, it’s still got the nice sweet potato and pastry flavors, it’s just the tiniest bit flat. That’s where the milk helps.
Made this on the stovetop as a latte like I normally do. When I poured the tea into the mug from the pot, I spilled a bunch down the side of the pot which happened to be over the crack between the stove and the counter. So the kitchen got a bit of a cleaning around the Stove…my bad. It’s good though. Spicy and sweet and just the perfect chai. Worth the mess.
Made this iced a few hours ago and am only getting to drink it now. Perhaps its because it sat or because its late and my brain is going a bit nutty but this tastes extra marshmallow-y tonight, with a hint of buttered popcorn at the end. I genuinely could not say what would be popcorn-y about this but its there so…yeah.
I pulled this out and had no idea I made this before…which isn’t a good sign. Then I tried it and thought it was mostly rooibos with some orange so I was surprised not only that I tried it but also that it was rated at 78. I’m dropping that since hot this is a rooibos tea with some orange. Guess this will be a cold tea going forward.
Sipdown (277)
I was worried about this one and have been putting it off but today’s #septembersipdown prompt was to go herbal so I decided to just go for it. It’s not as bad as I was expecting – you all know actual herbal-tasting herbals are not my thing and this is a whole lot of sage. It’s fresh so I’m enjoying it but it’s not something I’d ever seek out. Still I was surprised by it so thank you Roswell Strange for sharing!
