6444 Tasting Notes
I picked this as my “spicy” tea for Mastress Alita’s scavenger hunt. Alas, it was not spicy. It wasn’t even really apple. It was a sort of grocery store/dollar store cheap tea in cute packaging. The flavour was a sort of apple but so subtle. Mostly it just didn’t taste like much.
Iced latte Sipdown (218)
My nephew brought the stomach flu home. I tried initially to fight the nausea with a tea with ginger. That, and even water made me sick. Even gravol didn’t fully help. So it’s been a while since I had tea and the whole time I’ve been readjusting to proper food since getting better, all I’ve wanted was a sweet iced latte. I ordered more of the chai concentrate but it’s not here yet so when I saw this tea, I thought it may have been a good alternative. Spoiler alert: it’s not.
My issue is this is not as sweet as I hoped. I really expected a Deb tea to be heavy on the sweet because usually it is. Granted the chai concentrate has sugar in it, but this has honey and other sweet ingredients. I wanted more maple and more “sticky” (I.e. caramel) but I’m getting chai. As in literal chai because this is tea and cardamom and ginger and cinnamon and not in a lovely spiced chai way but instead a muddied mix of spice. It probably would have been better as a hot latte. As it is, I’m disappointed and thus okay saying goodbye to this one.
Sipdown (219)
I couldn’t think of an apricot tea for Mastress Alita’s scavenger hunt so I made a peach tea instead. This one was never a favourite and today it is coming off a bit soapy. So ultimately it is one I am completely okay with saying goodbye too. Sweet peaches and cream vibe…but with soap today.
Sipdown (220)
This seemed like a pretty obvious choice for a cream flavoured tea for Mastress Alita’s scavenger hunt. And it ended up being a surprise Sipdown. Yay! Thank you Sil for sharing this with me. It’s smooth and nice. I don’t know if I would have gotten cream without knowing the name but the more I drink it, the more I can see it.
It’s been a hell of a work day/week and since I’ve been struggling to pick teas, I decided to do part of Mastress Akita’s scavenger hunt. And since it’s been shitty, I went with the tea that reminds me of an alcoholic beverage…and then I made the alcoholic beverage to go with it. Check out the pics here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYu1OjTtySw/?utm_medium=copy_link
Both this tea and the drink taste like an orange creamsicle. Obviously the drink was sweeter but both are distinctly orange and vanilla.
