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I know I had this yesterday, but I had it again today because it’s something that somehow coordinates well with eating smoked cheddar cheese. Since I was eating more of that, I went with this rather than try to experiment and possibly get something awful.

Minty and nice.

I think I"m the only person on Steepster who has even tried this company and I’m terribly sorry to say, that it is probably for a good reason. I babied this tea and it still turned out very very not good. Astringent and bitter and not fruity at all.

This tea is really old so I put 3 bags in my mug and hot water and then let it sit for…a while. A long while. I wasn’t checking the time but it was a really long while and the water was only a bit warm when I finally got around to drinking it. The combination of these 2 factors meant that there was actually taste to this old old tea and while it wasn’t what I remembered, it wasn’t terrible either. Still want some new bags though.

Wasn’t sure what I was looking for today, and it’s 3pm and I’m having my first cup of tea for the day.

This is a very generically minty black tea. The base isn’t particularly strong but I treated it gently and it’s not bitter either. Peppermint in this one, not spearmint. It’s good but nothing special.

Made this for myself while trying to meet my fluid goal for the week (which runs Wednesday through Tuesday this month) and to stay up for the eclipse that’s in a little over an hour which hopefully won’t be blocked by clouds like it was when I checked half an hour ago.

This tastes darker than I remember. Burnt caramel is still present and the base is quite strong but it’s not as sweet, perhaps I’m not using as much sugar? It’s nice but not lovely. I’d drink again but I"m not sure I’d buy it. It was pleasant for this evening though. And it stood up to being microwaved when I forgot it pretty well.

Sweet and creamy. Had a not very good day but better than yesterday. Currently doing data entry work, which is tedious but I asked for something mindless but necessary and these databases are a mess.

I should really not drink things I’m exceptionally fond of when I’m having a bad day and have the attention span of a distractable magpie or something. I can’t even metaphor right now.

This tasted more citrusy than I remember from last week but still good. I still have a mugful left in the pot but it’s cold now and I’ll re-heat after my therapy appointment (unfortunately not about current problem). I’m feeling only jittery right now but the day is young yet and yesterday I was messed up until midnight or so. We’ll see. I don’t remember exactly when my ‘wtf is going on’ light tripped yesterday.

I do have some physical work I can do today though, if I need to when I get back. Inventory in the rolling bookshelves and packing up boxes that don’t need to be scanned. We’ll see.

This is a sipdown, though I don’t think I ever actually added it to my cupboard for some reason. Whatever, it’s gone now.

Made a full pot on tonight, the night of probably no sleep. Had a medication reaction to my ADD meds earlier (changed dosage) and now I’ve been having somewhere between an anxiety attack and a manic episode since about 9am this morning. 13 hours now. Hopefully I can sleep tonight, but I’m not counting on it. Doing some cleaning while I try to calm down.

This tea was interesting. I can taste the chocolate but the rooibos is a bit strong for me. I added a bit of milk for the first cup and I’m not sure I should have but it’s definitely creamy. I like it, but it won’t go on my restock list.

Reading my previous review of this tea made me sad because apparently I had it just after my kitty died. Today was a much nicer occasion, although not special. It’s a Monday at my desk.

This tea is as lovely and smooth as ever, for being as old as it is. A bit of that not-quite-cinnamon spiciness and honey and bread and it’s just quite lovely all around. I’m glad it’s not available because I’ve spent way too much money on tea already today between finding out a discontinued Verdant blend had some backstock (of which I purchased half of what was left) and also Butiki since they are (sadly, so sad!) going out of business. :(

This is on it’s 3rd steep, which looks just as dark as the first. Started at 1 minute and added 30 seconds to a steep (would have done 15 seconds but that is a Breville limit).

I made this and I drank some and it’s a sipdown but I really can’t be fair to it because I feel so very terrible right now, physically and emotionally. I’m going to plead sick and go home from work after I wash out my pot, whether or not I can take sick time. I’ll make it up later if I can’t. I just can’t be here right now. I promised people to do QA database stuff today but I just can’t.