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Thank you Evol Ving Ness for the share. This reminds me my tea infused hot chocolates because it has that same chocolate flavor as the cocoa and chips mixed together. Not bad when you consider this is just water and tea leaves.

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I made a pitcher of this. It was hibby tart with a weird twinge of sweet. It was bad like I expected. This was a bad suggestion via my sipsby box.

Iced Tea Sipdown (215)

Another tea from Evol Ving Ness. Thank you, Evol! Unfortunately I understeeped this and it tastes like nothing but a weird twinge of berries and cream element that is a bit off.

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This week has felt sooooooo long and it is only Wednesday. I came home at the end of April and it seems that my family has become reliant on me so even on my weekends I am taking care of them and during the week I come home after being out for 12 hours and then have to cook dinner and clean up and do laundry. I live with 3 adults. 2 of which are home most days, all day. Plus, I had a seizure a week ago. You’d think they would help but they really don’t do much. So tea hasn’t happened much the past couple days. I’ve either just been too tired or on Monday I decided I didn’t want to be the house chef so I made plans and went out with my friends for Japanese BBQ.

Today was an easy evening because I made tonight’s meal yesterday. Yay past me! That meant tea. Yay tea! So I am sipping on this tea from Evol Ving Ness (thank you!) while I rewatch Drag Race some more. I was surprised when I first drank this because I expected a lot more apple than what I got. More than anything I got cinnamon/almond pastry and slightly woody rooibos. I don’t really like it if I am being honest. It reminds me of a pastry I got at the Danish Pastry House the other day – a hoj snegl – which was filled with what tasted like cinnamon custard. I didn’t like that either.

Iced Tea Sipdown (218)

Making good work on sipdown this weekend. This one came from Evol Ving Ness. Thank you!

It is actually different than most other fruit tisanes I’ve had. That’s because of the guava which actually comes through. However, guava is a bit of an acquired taste and not one that I’ve personally acquired. So I’m not loving this.

Why?!? Why do bubble tea places always insist on putting passion fruit seeds in passion fruit bubble teas. They’re bitter and completely ruin the experience of the chewy tapioca/jelly by being way too crunchy and hard. Today I ordered from Coco and this is the 3rd bubble tea place to do it. I suppose it’s common practice but I genuinely hate it. It makes the tea undrinkable for me because I hate the addition of the seeds that much.

This was snuck into my swap with Evol Ving Ness by Sil when she acted as the middle person between the two of us. I cold brewed this for 6-7 hours and I drank the whole thing but it’s not particularly flavorful. More berry than hibiscus which is nice but sort of that common fruit/berry tisane flavor. Nevertheless, thank you Sil for the share.

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This is a sample size that’s been hanging around my cupboard for goodness knows how long. So it’s about time to sip it down.

This has a floral note that hinges on drying. It’s just rather artificial and doesnt really scream raspberry or rhubarb to me.

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I had one serving of this left and so I brewed it up and returned to my room to continue my lazy Sunday of rewatching Drag Race. Unfortunately my fan is broken and the angle it’s broken at meant it blows directly onto my tea so I am drinking it cold.

This tea has a whole lot of cinnamon. Cinnamon and the familiar AQ2T Fall spice mix. Not much sweet potato. Not much raisin. It’s alright but nothing special.

Tea-Infused Hot Chocolate Sipdown (221)

This cold brewed in milk for 8 hours. I then modified my usual recipe and only uses 1 tbsp of cocoa powder and 2 tbsps of milk chocolate chips. No sugar because I believe the tea has stevia (I may be wrong) and didn’t want to add more sweetener on top of that.

I think this would have benefitted from the sugar though. Or more milk chocolate chips. Or less cocoa powder. There I’d a lot of cinnamon and dark chocolate notes. In fact, this sort of turned out like a thicker, richer, deeper, more intense version of the tea. So if you like this tea, this night be a good way to go about giving it a bit of oomph. If you’re indifferent or meh about the tea, like me, then this didn’t really do much. I could take it or leave it. Thanks for sharing, Roswell Strange!