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This is my last sample of this…I steeped for about 4 minutes. Still not getting a CHOCOLATE taste, really, but it’s an ok blend.
just wondered if u drink all these teas u blog the same day? You go girl if u do!! Wowzers!
Mostly…unless I just type “backlogging” with no other review…but I usually drink anywhere between 6 and 12 cups a day! LOL
Niiice!
You’re not getting any cocoa flavour AT ALL?! Have you tried steeping it the full 5 minutes? 0_o
@ Jillian – I remember I did the first time…but it was like a fake cocoa powder eqiv not a chocolate like I was thinking…
You’re right it doesn’t really taste like sweet chocolate, but I don’t find the cocoa flavour all that fake. shrug Either way, though I’m no expert, I don’t think there’s a lot of ‘authentic’ pu-ehr flavour in this one.
I do agree that it does taste noticeably different dep on how long it’s steeped! Maybe that is the key for the actual cocoa.
Chocolate and Pu-erh. Yum, except that orange peels and spices don’t really do well for me. =(
I couldn’t taste the orange peel at all…
Watch me detect it =P and I’ll blame you! lol
I got this in the mail today from MandyB. (Among others! Thanks Mandy!!!) For some reason prior to steeping I can smell the Puerh and Nutmeg. Personally, I am on the fence about this pre-steep scent. I was expecting pure chocolate. Regardless on with rest of my review, right!? I’m steeping for about 3 minutes but it looks like there is more to steep…The color is dark brown – maybe even a little cloudy – but not overly. Can still smell the nutmeg in this after steeping…it even smells a bit smoky. The taste is quite different than I thought it would be as well. It’s also smokey but sweet…Cocoa-esque but not chocolate. Cinnamon and Nutmeg. And I think I can even taste the Orange Peel but barely. I think all of the ingredients jive well and bring them all down to a medium level. It’s not bad…actually I am kinda likin’ it…
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I’m drinking this right now. It’s a personal favorite. I love that it’s chocolatey without being super sweet. By chance, I had some strawberry juice (I was making strawberry icecream) and I added it to this tea… the best thing I ever tasted!
That sounds like an AWESOME Add! Might have to try that!!!
Those were pretty much my thoughts when I drank this tea. :)
Jillian…genius minds think alike!? :P jk
Got this when I was out of town in a place with barely any good tea available. It was pretty good, but maybe it was due to my weekend long lacking of connoisseur grade teas. Had this after a big breakfast and it was brewed in an insulated paper cup with an espresso steamer. After a solid 4 minute steep I decided based on smell that it was ready. Has a smooth finish and very sweet smells. I would like to try this loose leaf next time.
I never buy bagged tea, but I was at a gas station wanting something hot, so I grabbed a bag of this. It was delicious! This is an excellent green tea, and I will probably be buying some loose and some bagged to take along on trips!
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This isn’t a tea for someone who wants a sweet, milk chocolate flavoured drink. This tea is pure, earthy essence of raw cocoa.
And I love that way. ;)
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You’re making me wish I had this! Shame on you;-D
@Cofftea: So you got the teas I sent you? I did recall hearing you rave about the Chocolate Pu-erh, so I put it in when I was digging all the loose teabags out of my cupboard. :D
Yep, just got it today. I was so excited about the pu erh I actually screamed:) You made my day!
My internet is still being a piece of shit unfortunately. DX
Anyway I had this with breakfast and it has quite a kick, maybe a bit too much of a kick for early in the morning.
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Maybe you should look into getting a different ISP? ;-) This tea sounds a bit weird. Was it chocolate with a typical pu-erh (soy, fish, mushroom flavors)?
Also, when do you sleep?!
LOL, I’m in the Pacific Time, way across the continent from you guys in NYC. But I also tend to keep odd hours so I’ll be awake until 2am and then sleep until 12 noon. :D
As for the tea I’ve never has traditional pu-erh, but from what other people have said this is sort of a cheap immitation. To me it has a strong, earthy, dark taste to it if that makes any sense. But the cocoa flavour pretty much dominates the tea. If you want you can go back and read some of my previous tasting notes about it.
H&STS (sorry… lazy… lol)… It’s AMAZING! The depth and complexities can be compared to (in my brain) to coffee… so think of a coffee w/ very strong cocoa notes… but I’ve actually never found a coffee w/ such strong cocoa notes as this… Mixing a good strong chocolate flavored tea w/ a coffee flavored tea might be close, but I don’t think the complexity would even be close.
I actually don’t get a coffee flavour at all out of it – otherwise I probably wouldn’t drink it! It certainly looks like black coffee though.
lol:) I wonder what another coffee drinker would think.
Dear lord it’s cold today! I needed something a bit stronger and more robust than normal to warm me up, so I chose this tea. The cocoa and the nutmeg flavourings make it taste oddly appropriate for a winter day like this.
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I added milk to the tea just to see what it would do (I’m sure I’ve commited some horrible blasphemy by doing so, but whatever). The brew immediately took on an appearance a lot closer to hot chocolate than to tea. But as for the taste it didn’t really do anything for the tea at all, good or bad. Oh well.
Love the new updates BTW. _
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Glad you like the updates!
I’ll have to try something like this. I’ve a fan of hot chocolate (I end up getting it a lot at coffee shops because I don’t like coffee) and would like to try the tea version of hot chocolate.
Well the taste itself isn’t very hot chocolate-like, more like raw cocoa powder mixed with nutmeg mixed with a touch of vanilla mixed with something…earthy/wood-like.
The chocolate tea that I REALLY love is Adagio’s Chocolate Chip black, tea which I totally recommend if you haven’t tried it. :)
I think the blaspheming was committed when they mixed chocolate and pu-erh XD
Have you had Lupicia’s chocolat marron, and tried it with milk? I’m curious to the hot-cocoa-ishness comparison of these two.
Nope, Lupicia doesn’t sell north of the border unfortunately, though I always like to try new teas so if you’re interested I could trade you for something in my stash. :)
This is actually my first pu-erh tea so I have nothing to compare it against. Taken by itself though I think it’s pretty decent, if a little strange.
Chocolate Chip Bark = added to shopping list
Now all I need is that money thing I’ve been hearing about…
Ditto on Adagio’s Chocolate Chip. This is the ONE pu erh you’d get me to try. Milk is a very good idea. I’d go chocolate.
This is the first pu-erh tea I’ve tasted, though this has so may extra ingredients added I’m sure any purists out there will cringe. Steeped for just over 4 minutes in boiling water.
Dry the smell of this tea is of nutmeg like whoa! When I added the water the nutmeg scent was still there faintly, but I could also smell cocoa. Neither of which were quite able to disguise a rotting, fermented sort of scent, which is what I’m told straight pu-erh tea generally smells like. It wasn’t too obnoxious and it doesn’t seem to translate to the flavour of the tea.
The brew is slightly cloudy and it’s about the colour of black coffee. I’m rather hoping the similarity ends there and this doesn’t make me violently sick like coffee does.
It tastes slightly bitter but it’s a rich, smoothly-pleasent sort of bitter. The tea tastes ‘dark’ if that makes any sense. At this point I don’t know enough to tell if what I’m tasting is the pu-ehr or the chocolate, spices, etc that were added to it.
This is not a tea for all occaisions but I’m still leaning towards liking it.
Eep. I hope you don’t get sick, too. The grounding taste of most pu-erhs I’ve had is only something I can describe as earthy.
This is one I’ve had on the list to check out for a while now – I haven’t had many flavored pu-erhs. It still sounds interesting; I’ll need to get around to it soon.
I would say that a flavoured pu-ehr is probably not the best place to start. I find that pu-ehr in itself has a sort of flavour that doesn’t need additives. I am kind of intrigued by this though.
It’s the chocolate that’s making it black. A plain pu-ehr is very red, like a chestnut.
I agree with Takgoti that the flavour can best be described as earthy. The first time I tried pu-ehr I got associations to a pine forest in autumn, just after it has rained so everything has this heavy sort of damp smell.
I told a colleague at work, where everyone in my department seems to drink tea, that I was going to try pu-ehr and she said that when she tried some years ago, it had made her gag.
I dismissed her comment as an exaggeration. After all, I love Yunnan tea and what is pu-ehr after all, but aged Yunnan tea. Well, I did try some and, yeah, it made me gag, too.
It didn’t taste bad, per se, but it was as if my Western tongue interpreted that earthy taste as, literally, dirt, as something I shouldn’t be putting into my mouth. I had no context for associating that taste with something you’d eat. It’s kinda how I imagine someone from rural China might react if they smelled pizza for the first time. To us, it smells (and tastes good), to them it might smell completely revolting.
Yep, nutmeg=whoa! in this one:)
It is OK. I steeped for 4 minutes and added raw sugar and a little milk. I was expecting more of a chai, even though it doesn’t say that.
I “room-temperature brewed” this tea this morning in my huge water bottle to take to work/school today. I had call. This was quick and easy to do, and I’m not much of a morning person. I love the lemon scent and light flavor. Its interesting how lemon grass makes water turn dark brown after a while. Why? I nearly finished the whole 32oz water bottle save for maybe 4oz. It isn’t appealing anymore but it still tastes the same.
