6444 Tasting Notes
Sipdown (285)
I never reach for this tea and the couple times I had it now, I don’t really like it. It has a cherry element that is nice sometimes and also like cough syrup other times. It’s also quite floral at times. It’s just not a favorite so the rest is in the swap box.
Sipdown (286)
Pulled this one out of the focus box only to realize it had just a single serving left for a 16 oz mug. I figured I’d finish it off since it was getting older and was never something I felt I need to have stocked.
As far as the peach and ginger flavor profile goes, I have better and more readily available blends. White Ginger Peach from Tea Haus comes to mind, as does the version from T by Daniel. This is more hibiscus heavy than I’d like and while there is peach to it, its fairly artificial. It’s got ginger flavor but not a burn-y ginger, yet it hits at the back of your tongue which is weird. It’s fine but nothing special. Dropping the rating from 69.
Today’s smoothie started out with just bananas, mango, milk and Greek yogurt. We poured out a cup for my sister and then added avocado. Then we poured out a cup for my brother-in-law and I added this matcha. So basically our smoothies got progressively greener.
Taste wise this was very creamy and not overly sweet. It had nice mango flavor from both the fruit and matcha. It was quite nice.
Sipdown (287)
Thank you Roswell Strange for sharing but this is a nope for me. I made s’mores cookies and those have an awesome s’mores flavor. This tea, has something that is touching on s’mores, but then a mix of fruit that seems out of place and distracting.
Sipdown (288)
I reached for any tea in my single serving/Sipdown box and pulled out this. It’s a nice tea and I’m thankful to Evol Ving Ness who was kind enough to share it with me.
The cup has cooled down completely before I got to drinking it, which was a surprise but it’s still nice. The smell of blackberry hits your nose first, then I’m getting a lot of the green tea base that tapers off into a lime flavor. 52 Teas has such a great blackberry flavor and I’m not getting that here as much as I’d like but it could be age so I won’t hold that against it.
Sil didn’t get almond coffee from this but I’m getting a whole lot of almond. It’s bordering on marzipan but I made this as a latte and I think that helps level out the flavouring. In addition to the marzipan, there is sweet raspberry candy flavor as well, like Swedish berries. Every so often, I maybe get wisps of coffee, or I just think they should be there so I’m imagining them. All in all, it’s a pretty nice latte and could be tasty as an iced latte as well.
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I made this as a hot tea and a teapop. However, when I knocked the tea leaves out of the filter it smelled a bit like boiled meat. I have no idea why and I assume it was my mind just going nuts but that was off-putting and now I don’t know what to drink it.
Thankfully the hot cup neither smells nor tastes like boiled meat. Unfortunately, it does taste like lime fondant. Just something artificial and a touch grassy.
The teapop looked really cool when I first made it because the tea was slightly cloudy and settle to the bottom while the clear and bubbly teapop sat on top. It was layered and looked awesome.
It’s better as a teapop. I used blackberry perrier and the mix of that and the tea tastes like a blackberry lime candy. It is managing to capture a sweet cocktail flavor, though I have never tried an actual caiprinha cocktail. Nevertheless, prepped as a teapop, that fondant artificialness is gone and it’s quite refreshing.
ETA: The teapop is refreshing at first but as you keep drinking, that fondant quality creeps back in. Damn.
