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I took inventory of my teas and grabbed this out with plans of gong fu brewing it tbh. However, I had less than 2g of the tea so I went with Western brewing in a small mug instead.
It cooled because my smaller mugs are shallow and wide so I am sipping it now and remembering it is not my favorite. The CTC makes for a more dry tea with the caramel being less sweet and more dark. I want more sweet and less astringent but that’s not what I got.
Thank you Sil for the sample. This tea did catch my attention so it is nice to know I wasn’t missing out on my next favorite by not buying it.
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Another sample from Kittenna. Thank you!
This one is nice but not nearly as good as Lime Pear Fluff. This is much more subtle with flavors which allows the white tea to come out a bit more. Personally, I don’t love that but for some that could definitely be a positive.
Besides the white tea, I get coconut and lemon. Faint and sweet lemon as opposed to the actual fruit flavor or cleaning supplies. The softer lemon blends nicely with the coconut which is not lotiony but also not overly sweet or creamy. Again, this might be a positive for some but I would prefer a bit more.
All in all, it is okay but this is a tea I am okay not being able to have more of. Thank you for the chance to try it though, Kittenna!
I took a bit of this from Kittenna (thank you!) and now I am sad. So, so sad. Why?! Because it is so, so good! Lime? Check. Pear? Check. Fluff? Check. All there. All balanced. All delicious. Why did I have to find this AFTER AQ2T shut down? Why?! Hence the sadness. I love it. It reminds me of Butiki’s similar tea. Also can’t get that anymore. And now I can’t get this. Still grateful to have gotten to try it. A nice tea to sip on as I watch Falling Inn Love back in my own apartment.
So I have not been drinking much tea lately but today I am moving back to London and I think once I am there, with my tea kettle in my line of vision constantly, I will get back into it.
With that said, a couple days back I was craving bubble tea. I prefer the alley but my brother, who was having bubble tea with me, is not a fan so we decided to try something new. We went woth a company called Boba Boy for no other reason than I liked their logo.
Upon searching their menu, we discovered watermelon milk tea does in fact exist (my friend has been saying that watermelon milk tea is her favorite but at the dozens of reputable bubble tea places we go to we couldn’t find it). My brother went with the watermelon and I went with strawberry milk tea with mango popping boba and green apple jelly. I may have gotten excited and went a bit overboard with the many options.
Upon arrival of the bubble tea, i saw that bubble boy was owned by Tea Shop 168 and it dawned on me why they had such rare options. Tea Shop 168 is the place all the teens who don’t know better go to. They think they are drinking bubble tea but its basically just gross powder drinks. Boba Boy also does those gross powder drinks it turns out because mine was so bad I think I drank maybe a quarter of my regular sized cup and gave up. It was so, so bad. So won’t be ordering from there again.
Got this in the Christmas in July sale and used it to christen the cold brew bottle I also grabbed in the sale.
While I love the bottle, this tea is less awesome. It’s sort of blueberry on the front end but then it gives way to that artificial peach that is reminiscent of the Tim Hortons peach juice. It starts off promising but ends up being waxy and a little chemical.
