It’s been a good evening of (very cheated) sipdowns! I’ll explain:
I think I take advantage of my local DAVIDsTEA employees just a little bit. Tomorrow I’m going to the store to replenish some favourites and pick up a couple samples and I figured that I might as well bring the employees some samples too! I refuse to admit that that’s a weird thing: you cannot tell me otherwise! I’m just sharing tea with other tea enthusiasts…
This is totally not the first time I’ve done this.
So here’s my “care package” for the awesome employees at my local branch:
- Pumpkin Pie Matcha, Red Leaf Tea
- Cola Matcha, Red Leaf Tea
- A Rabbit’s Garden (“Sipdown”), Della Terra
- Weeping Angel (“Sipdown”), 52Teas
- Pret a Portea, RiverTea
- Good Morning Sunshine, Butiki
All of these teas are somewhat older (but not ancient) blends that I’ve grown tired of but I’m hoping the DT employees will get something out of and enjoy! I certainly wouldn’t pawn off anything “bad” on them! The two sorta kinda sipdowns in there are things I’ve reviewed in length before and that I felt didn’t really require a proper send off (a “last tasting” and accompanying tasting note). I’m just going to remove them from my cupboard and kind of be done with it…
Oh! And question for you Steepsterites! Tomorrow when I go into DT I’m looking to get a “Tea Pop” to go – but I don’t want just any tea pop, I’d like to get the “most unadvised” (or rather, the “worst”) blend you could get as a tea pop. Something really, really weird. Right now I’m leaning towards Lapsang Souchong Star or Bollywood Chai! However I definitely want to hear everyone else’s thoughts/ideas before I go tomorrow!
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Hi. Since I are newb, can you tell me what a “sipdown” is?
Also, what is a tea pop?
I envy you people who have actual tea stores nearby. >_<
There is a Teavana in the Galleria 50 miles from me… I never go there >_<
Basically a “sipdown” is when you finish off (typically by drinking, which is why mine are cheated here) a quantity of tea in your cupboard, and then subsequently remove it from your cupboard. Normally I include numbers as well (ex. 160/166). The first would be my “new” number of teas in the cupboard and the second would be the teas in my cupboard as well as the teaware logged in my steepster cupboard.
A tea pop is tea turned into a soda pop. Some people, such as myself, make them at home in a variety of ways. Normally I do matcha soda where I mix flavoured matcha and sugar into club soda. During the summer DAVIDsTEA will turn any of their blends into a soda pop the same way they sell “To Go” hot tea, iced tea, and lattes. There are actually two DT’s in my city. No Teavana anywhere near me, though.
If it’s not too late for suggestions, Lapsang tea pop sounds amazing(ly unadvised), I’d be very curious to hear about it!
Thanks for educating me :D haha. That sounds awesome. No DavidsTea anywhere that I’m familiar with. I wish I lived somewhere cool.
So Sipdown is basically finishing off tea and removing it from Steepster cupboard because you’re not going to get it again? Or because you didn’t like it… right?
I did end up getting Lapsang Souchong; it was the one I had in mind anyway but also the one the sales associate suggested. Tasting note later tonight :)
Oh this should be interesting.
Hi. Since I are newb, can you tell me what a “sipdown” is?
Also, what is a tea pop?
I envy you people who have actual tea stores nearby. >_<
There is a Teavana in the Galleria 50 miles from me… I never go there >_<
Basically a “sipdown” is when you finish off (typically by drinking, which is why mine are cheated here) a quantity of tea in your cupboard, and then subsequently remove it from your cupboard. Normally I include numbers as well (ex. 160/166). The first would be my “new” number of teas in the cupboard and the second would be the teas in my cupboard as well as the teaware logged in my steepster cupboard.
A tea pop is tea turned into a soda pop. Some people, such as myself, make them at home in a variety of ways. Normally I do matcha soda where I mix flavoured matcha and sugar into club soda. During the summer DAVIDsTEA will turn any of their blends into a soda pop the same way they sell “To Go” hot tea, iced tea, and lattes. There are actually two DT’s in my city. No Teavana anywhere near me, though.
If it’s not too late for suggestions, Lapsang tea pop sounds amazing(ly unadvised), I’d be very curious to hear about it!
Thanks for educating me :D haha. That sounds awesome. No DavidsTea anywhere that I’m familiar with. I wish I lived somewhere cool.
So Sipdown is basically finishing off tea and removing it from Steepster cupboard because you’re not going to get it again? Or because you didn’t like it… right?
I did end up getting Lapsang Souchong; it was the one I had in mind anyway but also the one the sales associate suggested. Tasting note later tonight :)
Oh this should be interesting.