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This reminded me of the chocolate oranges. Very orange. Flavor held through two steeps. Nice. 78

195F, half cake to 150ml gaiwan.
15s- sweet, smooth. 30s- fruity, sweet. 30s- chocolate. 45s- chocolate, fruity. Continued with this for 6 more steeps. I have the other half of my cake, but I’m sad I didn’t order more of this. Just got the one cake to try. 90

Giant mango pieces, smells of ginger.
3min- ginger, sweet, mango. Nicely blended. Ginger doesn’t overpower. Resteep didn’t give me much flavor. One steep and done tea. I ate all the mango pieces. 82

2.5tsp, 200F, westren.
Dry smell – chocolate, coconut, nutty.
4 min tongue coating, astringent. At 5min it has more flavor. I don’t think this tea is really my thing. I seem to have problems with ceylon based teas. I just don’t like the taste.
I may need to try this again. Add milk?

23Apr- 205F, 1.5tsp, 8oz, westren.
Dry leaf- malty, spicy.
1min 30s- spicy, honey. 2min- got a bit too tannic so I backed off and went to 1 min steeps instead.
Good 79

22Apr- Dry leaf smell cherry, sugar, pastry, vanilla.
2tsp 205F
I got 4 steeps out of this. Flavor notes are all there. The cherry flavor lingers. Nice to try.

This note is really about how crazy work was today and how many samples came in. Samples that will impact work tomorrow (today?) and next Tues/Wed. I’ll get it all done, just hope it’s not a herald of how this summer’s going to be.
All I wanted when I got home was to drink tea and relax. Usually when work is very stressful, I want alcohol. I had tea instead. I had several nice sessions.
Tea drank: Wuyi GongFu Black – Verdant, Castalia-August Uncommon, Rou Gui -Mandala Tea, and Indonesia Harendong Pearl Black – What-cha.

Sipdown. I need to bump my rating up a little to 80. Brewing westren, I had a more enjoyable cup. Taste was helped by not trying to do all my What-cha samples at once. Re not overdosing on chocolate and malty teas.

I got 4 steeps out of 2 tsp @1,2,3,and 4 min. Pretty strong cocoa/dark chocolate -ish taste throughout. I’d like to get this tea again for regular mornings. Solid tea, right price (more What-cha samples! ;D).

Sipdown. Had this about every morning this week. When I’m not expecting too much, it’s a nice daily tea. Little bit expensive, I probably won’t be ordering this again.

Sipdown. Pretty good as a cold brew. Could potentially order in the future for iced tea.