Mastress Alita’s sipdown challengeTuesday, January 19th: National Popcorn Day Tea #2
From the Boxing Day sale and a fitting tea to try today! This blend sounded good to me! The dry blend somehow has a fruity scent to it — not sure how but the flavor is all sweet popcorn. (Looking at other notes, Courtney notices a grapefruit scent, but I don’t think that is the specific fruit I was noticing.) I don’t think I’ve had a quinoa tea yet, so I’m not sure what that is imparting to the flavor. It mostly looks like a genmaicha, certainly not an overabundance of actual popcorn. But there are some odd ingredients here — liquorice and cardamom. Luckily the liquorice doesn’t make this weird, but it might do that with age. All around the name is accurate to the flavor so I’m happy with this one! But then the second steep tastes like licorice to prove me wrong… enough to make it noticeable anyway.
Steep #1 // 1 heaping teaspoon for a full mug // 37 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #2 // 28 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
