“Not my favourite tea, but that’s no surprise, since it’s spicy. The mango is kind of a fresh/unripe sort (IMO), and reminds me of the mango in Butiki’s Mango Silly Antro. Pineapple is less present,...” Read full tasting note
““If you hadn’t told me about the habanero, I might have thought the tingling was schizophrenia. It sneaks up on you, getting more intense as you drink down. (Does it, like sink? Scientists?) The...” Read full tasting note
“I wanted to like this tea a lot more than I had; however, I’m not a fan of the black tea base. Unfortunately, I’m very particular on my black tea because there are most that I do no like. Now, I...” Read full tasting note
“I just had to go for some grab bags on sale! I haven’t supported the new 52Teas yet and I thought it was time. :D This is the tea closest to the one I suggested a while ago: a chutney tea! ...” Read full tasting note
This is a special, limited edition tea that I crafted specifically for one of the 3-tier collections that I promised during our start-up Kickstarter campaign. This tea starts out smooth and rich (from the black tea base) and fruity, but it doesn’t take long for the heat from the Habanero to come forward.
This isn’t as HOT as it would be if you were to … say, bite into a Habanero pepper – I didn’t want it to be. What I like best about a habanero isn’t the over-the-top heat of it, but the pleasant fruity notes of the pepper once you get past the heat. So I took out the ribs and the seeds from whole, dried Habanero peppers and added just the dried flesh of the “berry” which removes a great deal of the heat of the habanero and allows some of those nice fruity notes to emerge.
But be warned, there is still plenty of heat to this cuppa!
ingredients: black teas*, freeze-dried pineapple bits*, freeze-dried mango*, dried habanero pepper and natural flavors*. *denotes organic.
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