Buttered Rum (Organic)

Yummmmy, sweet without suga!

Well, this tea has the buttered part of the buttered rum in spades; the rum part not so much. Really, all I’m getting is butter but I want the coconut to come out because coconut and I are BFFL. I can’t find the coconut though. Sad face. I’m going to resteep this now and add the recommended sugar and milk and see what happens.

Yes, always add milk and sugar to this one. Now the coconut shows up as well as the vanilla:-). This tones down the butter, which also helps. I mean, I like butter as much as the next girl but I don’t want to drink a cup of straight butter. Thanks to Virginia for this tropical treat!

Also, I watched WAY TOO MUCH Hannibal yesterday. I had to sleep with the lights on LOL. That girl that hid under beds freaked me out too much!!

Oh my! I added a bit of rock sugar to this and it is so SO good! A creamy butterscotch flavour with rum (minus the boozey taste) and a bit of zest. I want to hug my cup and whisper a thank you into the bottom of the cup when it is empty.

After opening the container there is a very strong, delicious butterscotch smell. I can definitely taste the vanilla, butterscotch, and coconut flavors. The actual black tea taste is fairly mellow in comparison. This tea was perfect for this dreary, rainy day!

OoOoOoOoooOOOh. This is nice. It’s so calming and tasty. The coconut isn’t overly present, but melds nicely with the tea itself, and with the vanilla. I think the tea base gives it enough depth so that it’s not simply coconut and vanilla, which can get kind of boring. I’m quite glad that I bought this on a whim.

I haven’t posted anything in quite a while. I must apologize. I had thought that I would be able to drink lots of tea over spring vacation. Maybe I could have a new tea every day, and then post a lovely poetical tea note! Also, I would manage to get out all my internship apps! And also maybe leave my house once in a while! Well, as it turns out, internship applications are more important than tea (what???). And I had to memorize lines, and fret over my future, and then visit schools, and I BARELY HAD ANY TEA. IT WAS HARD. Apparently there wasn’t enough room in my bag for a tea steeper. And you can’t skip college tours to go to tea shops. Well, now I’m back in the game. I want to post more! Because my number of posts is shamefully low! Also, I’m going to do a large joint order with my friend Emily at some point… super excited. We already do mini-trades. People get suspicious in school when we bring in bags of tea, but we pay them no mind.

Well that was nice. And this tea is nice. It makes me feel really, super duper calm and happy. Not to mention that it smells absa-freakin-lutely gorgeous. Now I’ve got to go write an application for an internship at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. It asked me what museum I would create if I could create any museum.

Needless to say, I have planned out a Museum of Tea.

I purchased this tea a few weeks ago. I had added it to my order to get free shipping. It has a pretty good rating on steepster and sounded good. I had opened the bag shortly after it arrived, smelled the dry leaf, and knew it was not for me. The dry leaf smells like a pina colada air freshener and movie theater “butter”. Maybe I’m exaggerating, but only a little. The brewed tea is only slightly better. I took only one sip of this. I am relieved to have rehomed this tea today to someone who appreciates it.

Yum! Always a good go-to for me when I get cold at work (next door) reminds me of buttered rum lifesavers of course. Not over powering, smells great, taste great.

This has a proper rum and butter taste. It was super good with milk.

This tea is the perfect example of a good quality loose-leaf tea. It has everything I look for in a tea and it tastes great!

The leaves are medium to large in size. It’s a blended tea with yellow, blue, brown, and black colors. I can see tippy, buds, and the leaves crunch between my fingers-indicating a good quality tea.

The liquor (Infusion) is a bright jewel-like colour. While looking at the brewed tea leaves, i noticed that there are no longer blue flowers in it, and the coconut has turned almost white. The twigs expanded into big leaves.

Head Notes: Black tea leaves.
Body Notes: coconut
Tail Notes: butterscotch

When drinking this this tea, it is like a rich broth and it creates a puckery sensation on the tongue. This tea is so amazing. I will definitely be buying this again!

Nyeh… I feel like each time I drink this, I nudge the rating down a smidge more. Boo.

Oh well.

I had this as a dessert mug with milk and sugar tonight and I just… yeah. It was ok.