I was surprised by this tea – mainly by how much I liked it!
I really really hate chai tea. So, naturally, when I went on my tea buying spree, I ordered a chai sample :) I’m the kind of person who will keep trying new things even in the face of evidence showing it might be awful!
When I opened the bag I got a mix of scents I love and scents I hate. The clove was kind of overwhelming, but I liked the other spices.
I added milk to this (because seriously, if I don’t usually like chai there is no way I’m drinking it without milk) and I actually really liked it! It wasn’t overwhelmingly spicy and sharp like other chai I’ve had. The milk mixed with the spices giving it a nice and balanced nutty flavour.
In the future I might brew it shorter as the black tea seemed to get slightly bitter. Maybe 4-4.5 minutes would do it.
Overall though, I love it!
I made another steeping of this for only 4 minutes. Wow, this tea does not resteep well. It’s much more one-dimensional after the first steeping and pretty bitter. The sweetness of the spices is gone leaving a flatter tart brew.
First cup: wonderful.
Second cup: almost undrinkable.
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This is the main chai that I drink, I agree that it’s quite good. I keep meaning to try prepping it the “authentic” way, simmering it in milk on the stove. But I’m so lazy… :D
That is absolutely on my list of things to try – possibly later tonight actually if it doesn’t seem daunting by then! Do you have a good reference you could point me to for how long to simmer it? I wouldn’t want the actual tea in it to get bitter.
I don’t, sorry! I usually don’t bookmark things like that until I am actually ready to try it. I’ll just forget I have it, so I generally Google it when I am ready to start.
No worries – I have so many bookmarks it would take ages to go through them and I still just google things I need. I’ll mess around with it and post my results :)
This is the main chai that I drink, I agree that it’s quite good. I keep meaning to try prepping it the “authentic” way, simmering it in milk on the stove. But I’m so lazy… :D
That is absolutely on my list of things to try – possibly later tonight actually if it doesn’t seem daunting by then! Do you have a good reference you could point me to for how long to simmer it? I wouldn’t want the actual tea in it to get bitter.
I don’t, sorry! I usually don’t bookmark things like that until I am actually ready to try it. I’ll just forget I have it, so I generally Google it when I am ready to start.
No worries – I have so many bookmarks it would take ages to go through them and I still just google things I need. I’ll mess around with it and post my results :)