Acquired Taste Tea Co.

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This is a really great peach tea. The base is really mild leading all the focus to the juicy peach flavoring. It’s bright and refreshing and tastes more like the fruit than the candy which is really rare for a peach tea. All in all, it made for a pretty tasty cup.

I can has sipdown. Cold brewed the rest, figuring it was going to be weird, but it can’t be that bad, right? And it’s not. Black base with a creamy cocoa flair. I won’t buy more but glad I tried it, and looking forward to trying many other Acquired Taste blends in the future.

There is something dark about this chocolate tea. Dark as in brooding and almost erring on the side of emo. If this tea were a music genre, it would be emo. I didn’t smell it in the store, but now that my pouch is isolated at home, I can smell a bit of smokiness in the base, and it’s there in the flavour too, blending in with the subtle chocolate. Not as much creaminess as I would have liked.

Methinks this would blend fabulously with cacao husks. It would give this a chocolate boost whilst the smokiness would ground them husks.

Sipdown! I wouldn’t get more because the liquorice flavour wasn’t strong enough for my tastes. But it wasn’t terrible either.

With some 2% milk this time around, the licorice is more noticeable. It may have been because I added a little more leaf this time around too. I need to try to drink up a lot over the next month. Chug, chug, chug!

Awe, this smelled so ultra licoricey in the shop’s sniffing jar. I figured licorice would be an excellent flavour to pair with rooibos, and to even cover up the base for the most part.

But the licorice hides away once steeped. It’s ridiculously subtle. At least the base isn’t overly woody. Better with some light cream. Maybe I’ll try to add a little more leaf or steep longer. Or something?

There’s always Sambuca…

Sipdown! But I’m definitely getting more next time I go to Acquired Taste. 100g later, I’m still a fan.

Could this be that I’m getting a cold/flu (too early to tell) for the first time in over 2.5 years? It was only a matter of time, I guess.

I want something hot to warm me up since I’ve been freezing, and desperately trying to warm up in my robe since I got home three hours ago. What gives?

A little of this dry leaf goes a long way. It expands like crazy. 3g is more than enough for a Nordic mug.

Spicy cola to the rescue.

Mmm, this is probably my favourite Acquired Taste tea. Still like liquid cola bottle candies to me. I’m glad that hasn’t changed for me.

My tea is so disorganized, I am utterly embarrassed. When I was packing up my things to head back to Edmonton, in a flurry, I forgot to bring the DAVID’s ones I recently bought, like the matcha, so now I feel stupid to buy more even though I live down the street from one. My Teavivre are also mostly at home. Cupboard full of tins of various stuff was also left behind. And probably more elsewhere. I wish I had a vehicle and license rather than just my learner’s. That would make it a hell of a lot easier to go back and forth from my mom’s rural home and here rather than depending on family to drive us. Sigh. Never has my tea stash been so full of ridiculous fail.

Oh yeah, I sadly sipped this down the other day. Without a doubt, I need more of this in my cupboard. It’s a very forgiving tea, almost never went bitter despite brewing it at various temperature and for various lengths of time.

Tea with vanilla, nuts, and spices which wind up tasting like cola bottle candy will always be welcome in my cupboard.

Oh noes, I’m quickly running out of this one. One or two more cups and it’ll be gone. Still like cola bottles! Especially in the aftertaste. It’s a keeper/repurchase-worthy.

According to Buzzfeed, this is what the art of tea drinking looks like in 22 countries around the world:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chelseypippin/22-cups-of-tea-from-around-the-world?bffb&utm_term=4ldqpgp#.vmReagdkM

Ha! Listening to Alanis for the first time since she became huge in the 90s whilst sipping on this cola candy excellence. I was too impatient to wait for the water to cool, however, so it’s a little bitter this time around. My fault. Sencha sure reminds you of the important value of patience.

Wow, I’m beginning to appreciate her more. Never thought I’d say that!

Oh my, this is wonderful. The dry leaf smells like smooth vanilla spice. Taste-wise, the base is very smooth, no grassiness or bitterness. Just very mellow and allows the other flavours to shine. You know how when you combine some notes, they create an entirely different flavour? It seems like the vanilla and spices are creating a cola scent and flavour. Like cola bottle gummy candy. I’ve noticed this with certain bath products too, like the Body Shop’s gingerbread scrub, whose spices and sweetness morphed into cola. Lush’s Almond buttercream, comprising almond, cinnamon, and vanilla, also smelled like cola. So fascinating.

My mom is also in love with this tea, and agrees on the cola candy similarities.

I sipped this beauty in my new snowflake Nordic mug whilst watching My Neighbour Totoro with my mom, who never saw it until now. What a splendid evening.

Sip down! I didn’t have enough for an entire 2L jug of cold brew so I filled the rest of the tea bag with David’s Apple Custard, and it turned out well! Rhubarb apple custard crumble.

I think I like this better as a cold brew. The base isn’t as strong so the rhubarb therefore has more of a chance to express its feelings. Because rhubarb has feelings too.

I haven’t had a rhubarb tea in a while, and the last couple that I smelled in stores (like at Janet’s Special Teas) underwhelmed me. I want sour tart rhubarb that leaves that weird, almost tingly feeling in the mouth just from smelling it. What is that even called? That’s when I know something, usually fruit, will taste awesome!

This smells heavier on the rhubarb and there’s a touch of creaminess too. Drinking it without any additives, the base is a little too much and takes over the other flavours. Adding light cream improves the balance. The rhubarb pops out again. I’d still like a little more rhubarb, and for the base to be a little on the calmer side. But FWIW, it’s probably the most rhubarby tea I’ve tried to date.

No wait, David’s Strawberry Rhubarb Parfait is quite rhubarby, but I’d never have that hot anyway. So regarding rhubarb black teas, this has the most prominent rhubarb flavour.

Sipdown! I cold brewed the last of it, and noticed that it got slightly bitter, and the liquor was murky, definitely due to the dust at the bottom of the bag. I will without a doubt pick up more next time I venture down to High Street. I’d also like to try more of their sencha blends since they’ve been pretty good, and am kicking myself for not getting the Candy Cane sencha when I was there.

I put this in the fridge to cold brew yesterday afternoon, telling myself to take the bag out before I go to bed so it wouldn’t go bitter, but forgot. Opening the fridge this morning to a jug of very pigmented green cold brew, I cautiously poured some thinking I was about to enter a world of bitterness and astringency. I’m pleasantly surprised that not only is it neither of the two, but I can easily taste the grapefruit, as well. I guess I’ll be cold brewing this one again in the future, after all.

Evening tea extravaganza. This is juicy, tart grapefruit in a mug. Besides its wonderful aroma sucking me in, I bought this to compare to Butiki’s Grapefruit Dragon since I didn’t care for the base and have been on a search for another grapefruit green tea. I think I’ve found it. I normally don’t care for sencha as they can be a little too grassy for my liking, but here, it’s very mild. I don’t detect any grassiness at all. The grapefruit flavour itself is virtually on par with Butiki’s too.

Maybe I’ll try to cold brew this sometime.

Completely forgot I sipped this down many days ago, with the last of my eggnog, I believe. Wouldn’t get more of this because I started getting a little tired of it near the end. They were generous with the spices and orange slices, but it’s still time to move on.

This is a beautiful tea. Speckled with whole star anise, cloves, cinnamon bark, red peppercorns, and green cardamom pods, it smells like a spicy Christmas candy. Is that you too, apple chunks? I just shuffled the leaf around and also found a couple dried orange slices! This is the first tea that caught my attention when I finally, finally walked into Acquired Taste for the first time a few weeks ago. The potency of the tea really knocks your socks off when you lift the lid off the little jar.

I mostly get cinnamon and orange in the tea, which in a way, makes me think of many Christmas blends you see floating around on the market. I’m just really impressed by the freshness of this tea. My mom cracked open one of the cardamom pods to release the delicious seeds inside, so let’s hope I’ll get more cardamom next time. The clove is palpable, but unfortunately, the anise is virtually non-existent. I can’t seem to even find anymore star anise in the dry leaf so I’m wondering if they only bother throwing in one per pouch/tin.

I’m curious to see what this would taste like with light cream and/or eggnog, even. OMG, my mom is playing around with the dry leaf with a spoon and I can smell it from across the table.

oh my dear swedish chef! this is a delight.! so close to grapefruit dragonwell from stacy, but slightly different. Besides the obviously different bases, this one borders on being just a slightly bit sweeter and artificial but not in a bad way. overall, this could be a substitute if i ever get a grapefruit hankering again…now that stacy is poofing on us :(

Another tea from my dearest swedish chef – i was doing well with sipdowns but my yezi tea order just showed up, so back up my count goes lol. This was on my wishlist after a review from missB, so i’m glad to get to try it! this is creamy…the cardamom does come through. now sencha isn’t my most favourite of teas, so it’s a plus that this one is so enjoyable for me. Thanks fjellrev!