“Happy Halloween! It’s my mom’s birthday today (I got her a birthday advent with coffee samplers; I never could convert her to tea but respect our differences!) When I moved into this condo last...” Read full tasting note
“Sad sipdown! I steeped this as a round two before heading to work thinking I could squeeze in that second cup, but I barely touched it while waiting for it to cool, so I transferred it into my...” Read full tasting note
“Apparently I never got around to writing a tea note on this one. I drank it up ages ago and memories are now foggy, but it was a nice cuppa while it lasted. Cotton Candy is a very thin, light candy...” Read full tasting note
“Sipdown (228) This tea is almost 2 years old so it is about time to say goodbye. It has blueberry cotton candy flavor still. And the zomba really gives this a nice, rounded flavor. Alas, there has...” Read full tasting note
This tea is part reblend, part re-imagining. One tea that sold pretty well was the Boo-Berry Cotton Candy Green Tea that we reblended as part of a “You Choose the Reblend” incentive from our start-up Kickstarter campaign. I happened to have some Zomba Steamed green tea from the Satemwa Estate in Malawi on the shelf and I was trying to think of something to do with it – and since Halloween was approaching, I thought, “Ohh! How about the Boo-Berry Cotton Candy but with the Zomba steamed green tea base? That should be spook-tacular!”
And it is! This is hauntingly delicious! (OK, enough of the Halloween wordplay, already!)
An abundant blueberry AND cotton candy flavor to this – with a lovely sweet, creamy note that hints at vegetation from the Zomba base.
So tasty!
I know I’ve said this before, but I have the greatest job on earth! Not only do I get to think up teas to blend – but I also get to be the first one tasting them! Now, granted, that first taste doesn’t always work out quite as planned, but more often than not, the tea tastes amazing.
Like now! This is so good! I actually kinda figured it would taste great because I loved Frank’s original batch of this tea and I loved my reblend that we put out a couple of years ago. Yes, this IS somewhat different due to the Zomba steamed base, but it’s still quite delightful!
The blueberries play well with the cotton candy essence – the cotton candy is, of course, sugary sweet and the blueberries are also sweet but there’s enough tartness to them that it offers a hint of contrast. The flavor of the green tea is light yet lush, with notes of vegetation – but mostly, it’s smooth and refreshing.
Really, really good. YUM!
Ingredients: fair-trade, rain forest alliance certified green tea, organic freeze-dried blueberries, and natural flavors
Brewing Instructions: because the leaf is rather bulky and doesn’t really measure very well, I recommend using a tea spoon (the kind you stir your tea with, not the kind you measure baking ingredients with) and measuring out about a heaping spoonful of the tea to 12 ounces of hot water (heated to 175°F) and let it steep for about 2 minutes. Strain and allow to cool for a few minutes (five-ish) and enjoy!
This tea doesn’t need to be sweetened, but a little bit of sugar will bring out the cotton candy notes and make it taste just a bit more like blueberry cotton candy.
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