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I’m an idiot and posted the original note to another tea. Lets try that again:

Sipdown #3!

Very minty this morning. This is a generic mint tea, nice to drink mindlessly at work and I’ve enjoyed it but I’m happy to have used it up.

This is an odd one. I get a hint of cranberry and orange, I even get the muffin taste. But the whole thing feels … flat? Thin? If it weren’t named “cranberry orange muffin” I don’t think I’d get anything resembling that from the taste, except maybe a vague oaty flavor that is the muffin component of this tea.

Back logged sipdown.

I love this one. Not much to say outside of it’s a perfect apple cinnamon tea and reminds me of Hot Cinnamon Spice. Can’t decide if I should get more or stick to getting my cupboard numbers down a bit…

Sidown!

Finished this one off last night and I quite enjoyed it. Spicy with some cinnamon, it worked well with some raw honey. I’m not much of a chai person, but this was a satisfying and surprisingly Christmas-y tea.

Trying again, this time whisked into cold milk. It was a lot like a peach milkshake, bit one that left a dry, chalky feeling on my tongue. Aside from that, this was quite the step up from making this one hot and whisked in water.

I’m challenging myself to sipdown ten teas this month as a way to clear out teas I’ve had forever and haven’t used. I think this will be one of those teas.

I love the smell of this one so much, I wish it were perfume. Or maybe a scented candle because that would be the perfect balance of ambiance and fragrance. Creamy, minty, sweet – delicious! Tastewise, this is minty but not much else. The bright side is that this is one black tea that doesn’t need sugar or creamer, and I think the mint cuts down a lot on any potential astringency. It’s also decent when put up against work brewing parameters which are not always ideal. Hooray!

Sipdown!

So excited to have finished this one off! I’ve had it for two years and it was such a large quantity of tea it feels like quite the accomplishment.

Plus, drinking this everyday for a couple weeks has caused it to grow on me. You’ll be missed, rose tea.

(But probably not replaced in such a large quantity.)

Since Blueberry Jam was so good as a latte, I thought I’d try this one out like that. Unfortunately, where Blueberry Jam is delicious pancakes, Cranberry Pear tastes strongly of hay. It’s not bad, but it is weirdly unpleasant to have fruit and hay notes duking it out with creamy milk. It feels discordant, even if it is drinkable. Oh well, they can’t all be amazing, right?

NaNoWriMo tea of the day!

My friend and I are both doing NaNo this year and have decided on daily check ins to keep motivated. This tea is actually from her, and I’ve been sipping away at it as I try to make today’s word count. It’s smooth without being sweet, nicely rounded out with the addition of some creamer. I wonder how this would be as a latte.

My new job doesn’t offer free coffee and tea like my last one.This has been good in two ways: 1) I’m no longer anxiety-riddled to a non-functional state by coffee and 2) I’m bringing in lots of tea to drink up. I’m loving fillable tea bags because then I can package up a week’s worth of tea for work all at once and prepare it with no mess. Win win win.

Because this one has been hanging around forever, I packed up the rest of it as a work tea. Shamelessly gunning for a sipdown. It’s way more tea than I expected (and I gave so much away!) and it’s … well, let’s just say I’ve got a bad habit of oversteeping my work teas and this one does not go gently into the night.

When I oversteep, it tastes like old lady perfume. Literally, like drinking a bottle of perfume. The floral from the rose is gross and overwhelming. Steeped for two minutes (and when there’s fewer chunks of flower in the tea), it’s smooth and has a tolerable background of rose.

I know I liked this one originally, but I’m not really enjoying it. I don’t think floral is for me and I can’t wait to be done with this one. Dropping my rating accordingly. :-/