Hot Cinnamon Spice

Happy Birthday! Hope it perks up for you.

Thanks! I imagine it will once I’m home this evening :)

Happy birthday! Hope you have a wonderful day :) good tea always makes it better!

oh wow YAY happy birthday! i hope you get to do all of your favorite things! like burn down your desk ;)

Happy birthday!!

Haha yes burn down my desk! and then the office would be closed for a few days…though it might be my fault LOL. Thanks guys!

Happy birthday! Hope it gets better as the day continues :)

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday! Enjoy some favourite teas, hopefully the day will get better :)

Thanks! I just need to wake up haha. Soooo sleepy.

Happy Birthday!

Happy You Day! Hope it starts a year full of abundance in every sense of the word.

Happy Birthday! Hope your day perks up and becomes wonderful :)

Happy birthday. :)

Hope you have an amazing evening to kick off another year of being awesome! Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday!! I hope your workday goes by quickly so you can go home and enjoy the rest of your special day… hopefully with a cup of delicious tea. :)

Thanks so much, all of you! I’m feeling a lot more awake and happy now! haha.

Happy birthday, keychange! I hope you have a great evening.

Aw, happy birthday! I hope you had a beautiful day.

As you may remember, this one is way too hot for me! I am pretty excited, though. I just made a batch of Cinnamon Dolce syrup like Starbucks has, and I want to try adding it to tea, probably a nice Ceylon!

Oooh, how do you make that?

Oh, it does look very sleek!
I have been wanting to order this tea for one of my winter teas.
But, I have to wait a month since I just placed 2 tea orders recently;)

Boil one cup water, one cup brown sugar, one teaspoon Vietnamese cinnamon or other strong cinnamon. Easy! This is what they use to make their Caramel Apple Cider. If you order it with whip (we don’t) they swirl whipped cream on top and swirl Carmel syrup on top of that. I have used it in the cider and loved it. I can’t wait to try it in tea! And actually, Starbucks uses Treetop Apple Juice, not cider. It is delicious and smells and tastes like apple pie.

Hesper: you will probably love Harney Hot Cinnamon. I used to keep it on hand just because so many people love it, even unsweetened it is almost too sweet because of the types of cinnamon! But it tastes like Red Hots to me, and I have never cared for them, if you like them, you will love this tea! I am just a wimp!

I do like red hots:)
The syrup recipe sounds tasty too!

ashmanra – that sounds amazing and I can think of a million uses (ice cream drizzle being what instantly popped into my head!). Thank you!

Hesper June – people tend to love or hate this one – I love it! It cheers us all up at work.

Mmmmm….drizzly ice cream!

Not to sound whiny, but I think I liked the old site better! Maybe it is just what I’m used to?

I like the organization of this site – it replicates how I like to look for teas. I also like the bigger photos where you can see the color of the tea liquor too :)

wahhh. I want some!

This is one of my faves, and definitely one of the best from Harney and Sons. :)

I’m addicted to this as well!

@Amy – If I had any more I would send you some – I had that one teabag and it’s gone and I am sad. :(

@KeenTeaThyme and Jacqueline M- I’m thinking it must be one of Harney’s best – I can’t get over how PERFECT it was. I hate that I only had one teabag to try – I totally need more!
In your opinion(s), is there a difference between the loose leaf and bagged? I would absolutely die if the loose ended up being better, because the bagged version is fabulous!

I had the sachet as my first try of it, loved it, then bought a loose tin, and I thought the loose even better! Maybe only because I could control the amount of leaf myself – I don’t know – but I do think the loose is better :) I had to purchase again – this time I got the pound!

This tea gets so many positive reviews I guess I am going to have to give in and pay the $10 B&N (in their cafe) wants for the tea bags. Seems a bit high for bags but apparently you all seem to believe it is worth it.

K S Maybe try a cup first. The other thing about this one? People who don’t like it usually HATE it!

I have read this described as tasting like Red Hots – my all time favorite hard candy. Never thought of just buying a cup… doh! I think we are going there tomorrow. If we make it I’ll take the plunge.

KS – then you are totally safe! :)

I have loose on hand if anyone wants to try it! I gave away the two bags I had left to my mom. ;) Just PM me, I’m always happy to share!

KeenTeaThyme – thanks for the offer. Won’t be necesary, I made it to B&N today and bought a cup. Yum!

It IS like magic! I’m always amazed at hot sugary sweet this one is!

I love this post. Glad your day turned around so quickly and in such a nice way!

I woke up to the same joke from Mother Nature! Poor flowers and seeds!

We had rain all day yesterday in Missouri interspersed with flakes the size of quarters.

We still have more than enough snow on the ground here. Fortunately the weather is beginning to cooperate after not seeing the sun for 2 weeks :) (I think we stole your good weather!)

The tea sounds delicious! I love cinnamon-spiced teas <3

I used Raleys ORANGE SPICE Black Tea To Chase Away The PA SNOW Today
Seems Like the ORANGE and CINNAMON Does it.

What a luxurious morning!

No thanks! So many people adore this tea that I have to keep it on my tea shelf, but the only way I can drink it is half and half with a plain black tea to tone it down. I tried the green version and it was like drinking pure cinnamon syrup, but oddly I found that more palatable than the black tea. My oldest daughter couldn’t drink it, though, even though she loves cinnamon. She said it was way too sweet and syrupy.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who has the same reaction! I can see it would be better mixed with some plain black tea.

I love the way its fragrance fills the room (even when its sealed up in the drawer). I even like the intensity of it in the cup. That said, it is like divinity or some other really rich food. A little goes a really long way. I can see where toned down would be a plus with this. Have either of you tried the Market Spice version? I believe it has orange in it. @ashmanra, I have the pepper mango and am waiting to steep it at work where I have a better set up.

no, I haven’t tried the Market spice version, might be worth a try someday. I do like cinnamon but not when it’s this strong!

I haven’t tried the MS version either. I try the Harney one about twice a year to see if my tastes have changed, but so far, no, still the same. I have made it half and half with Southern Season Ceylon Extra Fancy and it was more civilized!

Marketspice does have orange in it. MS is one of my favorite teas, but a few people have been turned off by it though… they kind of spray flavoring oils over it, and the look of the ‘dry’ leaf is a little disconcerting. I use little quotey thingies around dry because the leaf never looks dry, because of the amount of flavoring oils used. It’s that flavored.

It also seems to be systematically destroying any tin I put it in. I can’t quite put my finger on why, but we’ve had it in three different tins, and the lids slowly get harder and harder to open. It’s like a scooby doo mystery.

Harney’s Hot Cinnamon Spice can not be washed out of any tin it is in. I called them and asked for a new mini tin for my wooden chest because I could not refill the HCS tin with any other tea. It would have just tasted cinnamon, too! The person I spoke with told me you simply can not get the scent out, and it also ate the black paint around the outside of the top of the tin!

Amy, your description of red hots is how I imagined it would be, and while I like cinnamon, this would be too intense for me!

yay for sipdowns!

What Sil said!

I’m with you on the rating system. As I started racking up tasting notes over time, I’d think to myself “wait, but I really liked this other tea more, so I should move that score up. But then there’s this other one too…” I could sit and juggle scores all night.

Yeah, I’ve decided I’m not going to do that. Or I’d be moving my scores around pretty often. I might change a rating if I end up liking it more or less as I continue drinking it after the initial time or at the end of the supply of it if my view on it has changed.