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this tea is chosen based on how easy the tin was to open anhd also because i bloody well deserve some spoiling.
the only reason i’m posting anythung at all is to say i’m going to be quiet and lurky for a little while because i managedto cvut the tip of my right index finger at work so i can’t really use it for anything. this is all typed with one hand and as you can see it’s not really ideal. i don’t have patience for this. but i can still use the mouse so i am around, i just can’t really type much. it’s niot as bad as it sounds only two stitches, it’s just in a reallu impractical place.
Oh my goodness! Not cool! I hope you heal quickly – drink more tea, that can only help, right?
This calls for an official “OMG”. I hope it heals quickly.
whoo boy, ouchies! Thirding the heal quickly sentiment!
Oh no! Poor finger! Let me add my heal quickly thoughts!
You need a personal assistant to help brew the tea and then you can dictate what you need typed ;) Seriously – I too hope for a quick healing! ::hugs::
Sending healing thoughts in your direction!
Awwww. Long distance hug. But I generally only type with onr hand. They fight if I put both of them on the keyboard. No manners at all. :)
Oh Rickyyyyyyyyyy! Guess what I’ve gooooot!
I made a little pot of this, drank it and resteeped. And angels started singing.
Oh berry! Oh oolong! Oh welcome back in my cupboard.
Green moods don’t last long when you discover that the green you made wasn’t the green you wanted. I was packing up tea samples for Jillian and Bethany (if she’s still interested), and spotted this tin and decided I was really in an oolong mood now instead.
Mostly because whenever I see this tin I have to take the lid off for a couple of sniffs. Yummy.
I can definitely see myself stocking up on this again when it’s gone and I’m beginning to dread the day when it is.
Inspirational tea for the WIN! Literally, actually, as I just hit 50094 words on NaNoWriMo. Just now.
Leonard Cohen is now singing ’I’m your man’ for me and I’m on the second steep of this now. The tea itself can handle a resteep quite well, but the berries, not so much. At this point it might as well just have been a regular plain oolong. A nice one definitely, though. It has plenty of flavour and plenty of lingering aftertaste. Like it’s crawling down into every little nook and cranny of my mouth and sitting there saving the nummy for later. Slightly astringent at first contact with the tongue but it goes away again.
Also, it makes me think of those of you who now and then describe a tea flavour as ‘baked’ and I can’t for the life of me figure out what you mean by that, but this tea reminds me of it, so maybe it IS bakey and only my subconsciousness is registering it?
I should probably make a pot of Pai Mu Tan since that one has turned into my celebration tea, but really, I’d rather see if I can get a third steep out of this one. So I’ll do that.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Whoooo! I won NaNo one year, and haven’t tried it since. Glad it went so awesomely for you, and that you’re drinking awesome-flavored tea as well!
I seem to neurotically add everybody
grrr… there was more to that LOL… Anyway. I do too so we can be neurotic together:) I also compalin that my dash board is never ending which I shouldn’t because it’s my own fault lol.
Hah, I WAS wondering why you were quoting my own profile info back to me. :p
You rock! Congratulations on the win!!! You are the NaNoTeaGoddess in my estimation.
Congratulations on winning NaNo! I haven’t been able to participate for the last two years, but I love seeing everyone hit their 50,000 word mark at this time!
This tea sounds absolutely lovely — I love berry teas, and this sounds like it’s a good mix with the oolong.
It’s absolutely gorgeous. It doesn’t have a very strong fruity flavour, but the smell of the dry leaves is to die for. :)
I felt like something fruity, so I put the kettle on. And then I was too slow in cleaning out the pot, so it had cooled a bit before I was actually ready to use it. And since I had cleaned the pot in hot water (and the hot tap water gets really really hot where I live) the pot was already nice and warm. So that left me wondering if I should boil new water and use this to scald an already warm pot or what to do.
And then I thought of my raspberry oolong and decided to just pretend that it had been my plan to make that one all along (instead of the blueberry from Adagio). Perfect really.
I’m spending the day trying to bury myself in the last little bit left before I can say I’ve won NaNoWriMo. 2K to go. Estimated 30K to go before I reach the end of the story. The plan is to reach the 50K words to win NaNo and then continue writing and eventually finish the story. I’m not interested in publication at all, but when I’ve finished the story (If I ever make it) and it’s been rewritten and heavily edited I know where I want to upload it on the internet and will of course share the location of it if and when that time comes.
Anyway, this tea is going to help me do this today. It’s to give me some focus and concentration. Maybe I should have used a crappy tea, since if all goes well, I’ll end up with half a completely forgotten cup.
I have my tea. Leonard Cohen is singing ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’ for me. I’m ready.
I’m so happy for you that you’re nearly NaNoComplete! I won’t win NaNo this year, but I really like the book I’m working on so we plan to extend NaNo through the end of December to give us a lot of thoughtful time to finish our novels. Then January will be our editing month. February will be TradeAndReadNaNo novels month.
So, I am winning through you Angrboda. Write like the wind!
Congrats, I’d love to read your story when it’s finished.
(BTW, yay Leonard Cohen!)
Yay indeed. :) I’ve learned to love him in recent years, and I was lucky enough that I got to see him in Copenhagen last year. It was fantastic. Nothing, NOTHING beats Hallelujah performed live!
Good morning Steepster.
Someone has, while I’ve been sleeping, logged a white tea with blueberry. You’ll forgive me for not have paid attention to who you were, sorry. At any rate, it inspired me this morning. And you would think that this inspiration would mean to make something with a white tea. Or something with blueberries. Er… well it’s got berries in it. And it smells heavenly. All sweet and fruity and it’s full of dried berries. It’s the sort of tea that you almost don’t even have to drink. Just sit around and sniff the tin. Yum.
Due to the nature of the cup I’m using this morning I can’t really tell you about the colour, but it looks like a light golden one while pouring. The brew smell primarily of oolong with a heavy berry note on top. I get associations to desserts and cakes and bakeries. A nice raspberry muffin, oh yes.
This development continues in taste. Where the dry leaves smelled heavily of berries and the brew was sort of half and half leaning towards the oolong, the taste is very primarily oolong and then a nice fruity sweetness, as if has been sweetened with fruit instead of sugar. Note, I haven’t actually added sugar or anything else. It’s extremely rare that I add anything to my tea, and if I do, I promise you’ll hear about it. But IF I had sweetened it, it tastes like I’ve used fruit instead of sugar, and… Okay this is turning strange. I’m even beginning to confuse myself. I’ll just stop.
I’m not a fan of adding anything to my cup either. But I think I know what you mean! A natural sweetness is coming from a fruit sugar rather than a sugarcane sugar. I love it when that happens. It tastes so much more natural.
I can never add sugar to my tea, because I can always taste it, and it tastes ridiculously fake.
I’ll add honey to oversteeped black tea, but that’s about the only time I use sweeteners. I prefer the ‘natural’ taste of the tea whenever possible!
This tea sounds very yummy :D
Exactly. Sugar is something that I add if something has been mistreated a bit and has gone bitter, or if I’m going to ice something, since I prefer my iced tea to be sweet. Always cane sugar although it’s more expensive, because it’s a rounder sort of sweetness than the white beet sugar that is most common here. Cane sugar has a more natural sort of sweetness than beet sugar which is just… sweet. Or maybe it’s phychological thing. I don’t actually know if I can taste a difference in the two types of sugar if I tried, but it’s just as much the fact that I know it.
I do milk (never ever cream) sometimes in heavy blacks or as experiments with flavoured blacks if I think they can carry it but most often I prefer it without.
Suzi: You’re right, I use liquid honey sometimes too, but mostly if the tea already has a honey note. It’s really rare though.
It is a very yummy tea, but although I’m sure you could use their webshop, I think you would run into the same problem as I have with most other tea vendors. Hideously horrible shipping charges!
Glad my blueberry white inspired your totally different tea. Hehe! Yay berries?
Ah so it was you. :D Yeah. Berries. :p
Yes, it was me – but I’m only admitting it because you liked the tea you drank because of it. If you hadn’t, I’d be hiding in a corner, attempting to blend into the wall. :)
Angrboda: Ouch on the shipping charges! Usually I don’t get caught by the nastiest ones, because there’s so many companies based in the US, but AC Perch is super expensive to ship here :-( I guess I’ll just enjoy the tea vicariously through you!
Auggy: Don’t worry. This is my nearly-as-good-as-sweets tea. :) And I got if by coincidence too because I just wanted to buy some lapsang souchong and figured I’d see what else they had before checking out. And then this one, and the book and the seriously expensive nepalese oolong just sort of jumped into the basket as well. :)
Suzi: I’m not surprised. It’s the Atlantic’s fault. Everything gets expensive when it has to cross the Atlantic. :(
@teaplz- I’m glad someone besides me thinks that sugar in tea tastes fake. I really don’t like adding anything to my cup, but I see that it’s necessary sometimes. Oddly enough I generally prefer stevia to sugar, though.
That said, I really really like tea that’s sweet on its own.
Yeah this again. Nothing to say about really. But I had to enter a tea in order to make a post so… shrug
Am I the only one whose Dashboard page is acting up?
The ONLY updates I’m getting is what people liked and commented on. No reviews at all since some time yesterday.
And that’s not like you all to be so active with comments and stuff and logging nothing!
What’s up???
(Is anybody even going to see this…?)
Not just you… I thought people just weren’t posting. But if you go to Explore —> Tasting Notes you can see what people have been posting. Not as friendly as having it all on one page though. :(
Fantastic. Thank you! It was driving me nuts.
Woah! You all are correct, we were experiencing some technical difficulties with publishing tasting notes to the dashboard. Everything should be back to normal now.
If you’re still seeing issues, please let us know (feedback@steepster.com). Thanks!
Yay! It is fixed!
Awesomesauce! It’s working like it should now.
On the upside, I (re-)discovered the tasting notes page. I’d been missing that since the site face lift. Don’t know how it slipped past my attention. I DID think it was odd if it had disappeared.
I definitely thought they’d done it on purpose.
It did make me wonder though if it might be an idea to separate what shows up on the Dashboard, so that we get reviews on their own and other activity on their own. I’ve thought about two columns but I think that might be ugly and annoying or two different pages but that might be annoying. IDK. I can’t decide if I should suggest somehting of the sort or not, because I can’t decide if it’s something I’d actually want…
I sort of liked how it was before with the comments/likes/etc. in their own column off to the far right.
I seem to have my innards back under control (fingers crossed) and I have also managed, it seems, to get rid of that godawful bad taste in my mouth. Good thing, that, because I’m sick and tired of peppermint infusion!
I’m sticking my neck out and trying some real tea. Hopefully I won’t regret it later.
This one was my first ever flavoured oolong (that I can remember), and it’s quickly become a favourite. It was lucky I found it because I was buying something else from the site at the time and just randomly started clicking around to see what else they had.
It smells absolutely divine and it tastes equally as lovely. I like it better and better every time I have some of it. It’s just what I need for a post-sick comfort tea.
I just received this in the post yesterday (along with a GORGEOUS book on tea and the history of the 175 years old teashop in Copenhagen with lots of lovely pictures in it). I couldn’t resist ordering some of this. I’m a sucker for a berry tea, and I haven’t come across very many flavoured oolongs before.
The dry leaves smelled divine. I couldn’t stop smelling the bag last night. The steeped tea smells very fruity, but I still feel like I can pick up the scent of the tea underneath.
It doesn’t taste very fruity. Mostly it’s tea and with a note of something not-tea that must be the berries. The danish description on their site says it’s also good on ice and I’m very inclined to believe it. I’ll have to try that some time.
All in all, I’m happy with this.
