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drank Minted Monkey by Tippy's Tea
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Dry leaf smells like minty After Eights, the liquor like chocolate vanilla dessert with light mint garnish. The flavour is, um, one of those instances that make me realize how much I swear when attempting to express a strong emotion (it’s good). Mint leaves and vanilla always win in my book, and this tea is doing what my Laoshan Black hasn’t been doing lately in the cocoa/chocolate department.

Also, it’s a tasty tea with milk, which brings out a mild yet equally fantastic vanilla waffle cone, with a chocolate mint drizzle finish.

..and my roommate just got back from class and is giving me crap for the ice cream I bought today. Ugh. I’ve entered an alternate reality where Purdy’s ice cream and Toblerone cake are met with scorn, while the generic frozen Safeway cake, that existed in this apt. before my residency, is thrown onto a pedestal and enforcing proselytism on all unwilling basement inhabitants (me).

I refuse to eat that cake!

Flavors: Dark Chocolate, Malt, Mint, Vanilla

OMGsrsly

Mmm, Purdy’s ice cream.

Fjellrev

I can’t wait to order from them when all of their stuff is restocked.

And I haven’t even tried their ice cream before! The price has always scared me away. Any favourite flavours?

That Safeway cake must be freaking old. My god.

CrowKettle

Expensive pints of ice cream are my guilty pleasure, but I try to make them last! I’ve only tried Chocolate Peanut Butter Fingers and Mayan Coffee Crunch, but both of those were good!

She probably picked it up in November or December (my residency here started in January), so it’s not as old as I made it sound, but I’m not a cake person to begin with.

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OMGsrsly

Mmm, Purdy’s ice cream.

Fjellrev

I can’t wait to order from them when all of their stuff is restocked.

And I haven’t even tried their ice cream before! The price has always scared me away. Any favourite flavours?

That Safeway cake must be freaking old. My god.

CrowKettle

Expensive pints of ice cream are my guilty pleasure, but I try to make them last! I’ve only tried Chocolate Peanut Butter Fingers and Mayan Coffee Crunch, but both of those were good!

She probably picked it up in November or December (my residency here started in January), so it’s not as old as I made it sound, but I’m not a cake person to begin with.

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I started my Steepster loose leaf adventure back in 2012. I can’t say I’m completely new anymore, but I still view oolong as a magical, extraterrestrial creature that unfurls in water.

Favourite Flavours/Ingredients:

-Vanilla, Maple, Caramel, Cream, Toffee, Nougat, Marzipan
-All Citrus: Lime, Grapefruit, Lemon, Bergamot, Orange, Yuzu
-Anise, but not licorice
-Ginger or Clove-forward chai
-Rosemary
-Grass/Marine/Vegetal/Nutty Green teas
-Florals: Rose, Lavender, Jasmine…
-Musky and/or Woody Incense-like stuff: Sandalwood, Frankincense, Eucalyptus
-Berries: Blackberry, Raspberry, Currants, Blueberry, Elderberry
-Bananas, and most fruits actually.

Less Preferred Flavours/Ingredients:

-Stevia and most sweetners
-Cinnamon-forward chai/blends
-Apple & Cranberries
-Mango pieces (love mango outside of tea though)
-Coconut pieces (as a sub/filler ingredient)
-Metallic or overly artificial teas
-Cocoa Nibs, 95% of the time.

Subjective Rating System 3.0:

90-100: My absolute favourite tea. I’ll impulsively buy in large quantities and hoard like a dragon.

85-89: A favourite tea. I’ll try to keep this one around when it’s practical.

76-84: A good tea, but not one I’m likely to order again.

70-75: Alright, but I may have a few problems with quality, consistency, ingredient chemistry and/or personal preferences.

50-69: Average to mediocre cup.

11-49: Varying levels of undrinkable tea. I don’t give a lot of these ratings out, since I tend to grab tea I know will appeal to me.

1-10: Nightmare tea from the chaos realms. This tea is the embodiment of the primordial swamp, the unholy abomination that is a chimera. It’s very gross and I’m almost positive it doesn’t exist.

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BC, Canada

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