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Tea latte again, but tonight I steeped the leaf for 4 minutes instead of 6 and the caramel and honeybush notes aren’t as strong now. It’s mostly almond, with some hazelnut notes and woody and cherry-like honeybush in the background. I prefer it this way, nutty instead of just sickly sweet. Upping my rating just a bit from 70.
The last tea latte went down so well I decided to make another one, and settled on this because I needed a caffeine-free option and thought this would be a good choice. It wasn’t bad, but I think I used too much leaf (3 spoons instead of 2) and it’s already such a sweet blend that when added to so much milk it became pretty cloyingly sweet and syrupy. Still tasty, but it took me a while to get through, and the almond and hazelnut notes were overshadowed by the caramel sweetness and some cherry-like notes from the honeybush. I think I prefer my tea lattes with a bit more of a kick!
Preparation
Okay, so there are a ton of teas that I have not added to cupboard. Some of them are small amounts, some of them are not listed on Steepster and I just don’t feel like adding them. With the quarantine, I am trying to sip down small packs and get my cupboard cleaned and organized, both online and in real life.
I don’t like most red rooibos, but I DO like honeybush. This has both. I figured this blend would have enough flavoring to mask the unpleasant cough syrup flavor. Happily, I was right.
This is really strong on the caramel flavor and is sweet and smooth. I added nothing to it, but if you wanted to go wild with milk (or cream) and sugar, I can tell this would be an amazing latte.
It says there is hazelnut, and it is a bit nutty, but I still feel like caramel dominates. I am drinking it hot right now, but made a liter of it lightly sweetened to serve as iced tea tomorrow.
I might try it soon as a totally unhealthy, rich and sugary latte.
Several years ago I drank a cup of this before going to play soccer to see if it would enhance my performance. Sadly it did not :)
Michelle: Think how much of it they would sell if it really did enhance performance! But maybe a nice cuppa improving our mood is quite magical enough! I am about to gong fu some Bao Zhong to chase away the cloudy Sunday Covid quarantine blues!
It is a nice cuppa, I should order some!
Tastes warm and bitter, then sweet when the sprinkles hit your tongue. Unknown recommended steep time – steeped 2-3 minutes. Not much flavor until the sprinkles kick in. Has an interesting smell: berry-ish and sweet. Additional ingredient: Snowbud. Tried 10.2018.
Flavors: Berry, Floral, Sweet
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Steeped 3 min. Tastes very bitter. Very faint almond and cherry flavors, but the bitterness over-powers it. Could maybe improve with less steeping time, but not good enough to try it again. Tried 10.2018
Flavors: Almond, Bitter, Cherry
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Returning to this one today, because last time I tried it I was right on the edge of getting a cold and I wasn’t sure I’d done it justice. My main concern was that (I thought) it was supposed to be a citrus fruit flavoured yerba-oolong-rooibos blend, and I was getting…caramel.
Turns out it wasn’t a case of wonky tastebuds, because I’m still tasting caramel. It’s distinctively sweet, with a background of hazelnut, a touch of honey, and a little vanilla. It’s nutty and creamy; a little like butterscotch, a little like nut brittle. Very much not citrus, but lovely just the same.
As it turns out, I must have been very confused last time I looked this one up. The description clearly says rooibos caramel, rooibos almond, and honeybush hazelnut, which makes a lot more sense! I’m not sure which tea I thought I was drinking, but it wasn’t this one. (ETA: Actually, I do know. I thought I was drinking Chantel Isaacs version of Felix Felicis, when I actually have Robert Pirlot’s. Mystery solved.)
Now that order has been restored to the world, I’m going to say that I think this would make a decent latte, once autumn comes around again.
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174/365
This is an odd one, at least in terms of ingredients. According to Adagio’s website, it’s a blend of Yerba Mate, Rooibos, and Oolong. I can safely say I’ve never tried all three of those at the same time, although judging by appearance it’s mostly rooibos. The flavouring is a whole lot simpler; orange, grapefruit, and lemon. I’ve a lot more confidence in that combination!
Possibly my cold is getting worse, but I don’t actually find that this one tastes of a whole lot. The creator’s description says he was going for colour over flavour, and admittedly it has come out a fairly impressive orange-yellow. Not quite liquid gold, maybe, but close enough for government work.
I can tell there’s Yerba in here, because it has the slight earthy-sour background tang. Other than that, it’s mostly rooibos; I can’t find the oolong at all. The rooibos isn’t bad, as they go. It’s a little woody, but the flavour I taste most is caramel. I actually think caramel would be a pretty good flavour for felix felicis, since it’s kind of gold in colour, and liquid luck should probably taste nice…I don’t really taste citrus fruit, except perhaps the tiniest bit of lemon towards the end of the sip. It brightens an otherwise dull cup, but it’s not particularly prominet or lively.
I’m a little surprised and disappointed by this one. I expected more from it, and at the moment it’s just not delivering. I’ll try it again once I’m cold free in case that’s part of the problem, but I’m not that sick yet, and I can taste other things just fine, so I don’t think my own tastebuds are solely responsible for this one.
To be continued…
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Seeing as I am a big fan of the Ghibli Movie, I was ecstatic to try a tea that was inspired by the animated classic. The Totoro tea was delicious; the earthy taste mixed with a hint of fruit captures the essence of the forest in a mug. I believe that the forest spirit would approve. I know that I do.
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I made this tea for my book club. The book was about Trevor Noah’s life, specifically growing up as half white and half black during Apartheid in South Africa. To relate the tea to the book, I blended a blend of half rooibos and half honeybush, both teas originating from Africa.
This is pretty straightforward and pretty tasty. I’m not a huge rooibos/honeybush drinker but I do enjoy them on occasion. I think it will tie in nicely with our meeting tomorrow.
Preparation
A million thanks to mtchyg for this sample! And the crazy box of samples that will have to be reviewed forthwith.
This tea is green and black and orange and vanilla. All tumbled together. Just like poor, confused Jon Snow, with his ambiguous parentage and torn loyalty.
I guess. I don’t fully understand fandom teas sometimes. I enjoy trying to figure them out.
This tea is messy, unstable, but the collage elements do form a good composition. The spice against the vanilla totally works here.
I think sometimes tea people try to throw random ingredients together to be avant-garde or what-have-you — but this contrast is successful.
Just so you know, I drank this concoction out of a Quaker Steak n Lube mason jar with a handle.
I mention this to maintain my reputation as the Classiest Bitch On Steepster.
This is a slightly bitter fruity tea created & given to me by the wonderful mtchyg.
It steeps up the COOLEST BLOOD COLOR:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLj7bhQlomk/
The primary flavor is hibiscus (like cranberry, slightly tart). Hibiscus is my new favorite thing, so I might be biased here in liking it, and this tea. There also a few apple and citrus notes, and a deeper note that’s probably the pu erh or cocoa nibs.
There’s a lot going on, but it’s very rich, dark, and complicated, just like vampires would be.
You live a long time, you get skeletons in those closets. If you’re eating people, some of those skeletons are probably literal.
Can you imagine living forever? Every single embarrassing or shameful thing I’ve ever done keeps me up at night NOW, and I’m only 32. Imagine being, like, 500 years old. You’d have hundreds of instances of betrayals and slights and backhanded compliments and mistakes and getting your period in your khakis. HUNDREDS.
That time I walked into a telephone pole waving at a cute boy? If I were 500, I’d probably have done that at LEAST 4 more times.
Flavors: Citrus, Cranberry, Hibiscus, Sweet, Tart
I’m like that in over thinking. But, I think if you were a vampire, after the first century or two you would just kinda be like, “Screw it. Either they’ll be dead soon or I’ll drink their blood.” Ya know? Like, a bit hardened to caring what other people think.
Do we think vampires still get their periods? I would hope, if I achieve immortality, that I won’t have to deal with that for the rest of eternity….
Mitch — I like to think that being a vampire would harden me up a little. I’d stop being a teddy bear with baggies of my teardrops as my padding. But oh god, I am SO SENSITIVE. I don’t even think it’s been 24 hours since the last time I cried. I cry because I’m sad. I cry because I’m angry. I cry because I’m happy. I cry because I’m watching something nostalgic. The other day I almost wept because I MISSED RAISINS. You cannot fathom how preposterous I am. Times hundreds of years? Would that make it better, or worse? Also, if I lived forever, would I be like one of those old people who talks about the good old days? Would I get stuck? Would I be 715 years old and saying crap like “The best band of all time was TLC back before Lisa Lefteye Lopez died”?
Rosehips — I guess that depends on what Becoming A Vampire does to the human body. In most (if not all?) versions of vampirism I’ve ever seen, a vampire can’t get pregnant. You’d think whatever shut down pregnancy probably also would shut down the whole system. I hope so. Right now I’m savagely looking forward to menopause’s sweet, sweet relief. It’s, like, 20 years away.
Haha points taken.
You would have the best puerh collection though
This is true. Especially if you were the type of vampire that could enchant people through a stare. “I vant to drink your puerh.”
I would live so long I could ferment my own puerh. Oooh.
Another one of mine. I’ve been playing (and failing spectacularly at) Bloodborne for the past few months, and so I decided to blend a few Bloodborne-themed teas. I’m a sucker for crows and plague doctor masks, so of course I had to make one for Eileen. To that end I used blackberry, chocolate, and vanilla oolong, adding in ginger and chocolate chips.
The dry mix smells primarily like chocolate and ginger in the bag. Not so much the blackberry, even though it’s 40% blackberry. Go figure.
It tastes kind of like the Valentine’s blend, just with blackberry instead of strawberry. This is not a bad thing in any way. No ginger at all, but I’m convinced the accents are less to add taste and more for decoration sometimes. I assume the chocolate chips helped make it a bit more chocolatey though.
For any other Soulsborne fans out there, you can find what I’ve blended so far here: http://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/group.html?group=9942
No rating, because it’s my blend.
It took me a couple of tries to get this one right; the chestnut overpowered the hazelnut and caramel when I first blended it. It smelled awfully good in the pouch though; there the hazelnut and caramel came out more so I didn’t expect it to be all chestnut, all the time. The cinnamon I added was nonexistent, but I kind of expected that.
With a little tweaking of the chestnut and caramel ratios, I ended up with the kind of sweet and nutty tea I wanted. Still no cinnamon, but that’s alright. I like my tea on the stronger side so I steeped it for four minutes, but since this is still Adagio’s base, I wouldn’t go any longer than that for fear of it getting too bitter.
