Yay, I got this in the mail today! It certainly has gotten a lot of hype recently (I blame TheTeaFairy…) so I knew it had to be good. And I love genmaicha and most straight black teas so I figured how could it possibly be wrong? So I ordered an ounce when it came back in stock just to try it out. Dry, this tea is quite beautiful. The black tea leaves are long, jet black, and twisty. There is quite the melange of rice – long grains, short grains, toasted, puffed, popped. And there are dark little cocoa nibs along with a few oxidized oolong leaves. It smells quite lovely with very strong cocoa and a bit of toastiness. I used the average preparation here on Steepster (and I got to use my new scale and filtered water!).
Mm, the brewed aroma is pure toasty roastiness! There’s a bit of chocolate in there too, but I mostly smell that lovely toasted rice goodness. Mm, definitely a genmaicha. The toasted rice flavor in this tea reminds me of lovely crisp toast. There’s also a nice strong cocoa flavor from the nibs, and some nuttiness from the rice. These combine to remind me a bit of chocolate hazelnut spread, which goes perfectly with the toast! ;) I think I also get a little bit of raisin fruitiness, especially in the aftertaste. Overall, this is very lovely and I can see why it’s so popular. If it’s still in stock when I allow myself to order more tea, I may get some more. And I really want to try that Minnesota Blend…
Flavors: Cocoa, Raisins, Roasted Nuts, Toast, Toasted Rice
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Yay, glad you like it!! Oh noooo…. I get the blame again!!! It’s ok, I love to enable people to drink pure awesomeness :-)
(I have a shitload if you ever need more, lol)
Honestly it’s not even listed as low stock on their website, so I’m not too worried. I am worried about the Minnesota Blend! D:
Never had that one…I’m afraid to look at it, too much tea!!!!!
They just added it as a limited time thing… Apparently it was originally made for Lady Gaga, which is weird. Laoshan green with wild rice and jasmine rice, juniper berry, vanilla bean, and saffron. Yummmmm.
I just got both… and Cameron: I BLAME YOU!!! LOL. I did put this on my wishlist a little while ago because of TTF, BUT I didn’t know it was back in stock until I saw your note. I also got some of that Lady Gaga blend. Since it is a limited edition, I figured it would be nice to try!
I want to buy some so badly, but I’m kind of on hiatus… I’m worried it’ll be gone by the time I can buy it. But the Laoshan Black Chocolate Genmaicha is so good. ;)
I blame TheTeaFairy too – that Fairy is a total enabler
Pfffft! Looks who’s takin’!!!!
What? * innocent face *
Yeah actually I seem to remember a note saying Laoshan Black Chocolate Genmaicha is available Go GO GO
so for once we can be virtuous Fairy – we didn’t do it this time – we just responded to the stimuli
I’m looking at this list of comments and I see quite a few members of the Tea Enablers Club. Just sayin’ :p
Come over to the the discussion for the moonrise tea thingie
Everybody should come
Oh, now I remember, I posted only the discussion about LB being back in stock, cameron did LBCG , it’s all cameron’s faulf!!!!
Yay, glad you like it!! Oh noooo…. I get the blame again!!! It’s ok, I love to enable people to drink pure awesomeness :-)
(I have a shitload if you ever need more, lol)
Honestly it’s not even listed as low stock on their website, so I’m not too worried. I am worried about the Minnesota Blend! D:
Never had that one…I’m afraid to look at it, too much tea!!!!!
They just added it as a limited time thing… Apparently it was originally made for Lady Gaga, which is weird. Laoshan green with wild rice and jasmine rice, juniper berry, vanilla bean, and saffron. Yummmmm.
I just got both… and Cameron: I BLAME YOU!!! LOL. I did put this on my wishlist a little while ago because of TTF, BUT I didn’t know it was back in stock until I saw your note. I also got some of that Lady Gaga blend. Since it is a limited edition, I figured it would be nice to try!
I want to buy some so badly, but I’m kind of on hiatus… I’m worried it’ll be gone by the time I can buy it. But the Laoshan Black Chocolate Genmaicha is so good. ;)
I blame TheTeaFairy too – that Fairy is a total enabler
Pfffft! Looks who’s takin’!!!!
What? * innocent face *
Yeah actually I seem to remember a note saying Laoshan Black Chocolate Genmaicha is available Go GO GO
so for once we can be virtuous Fairy – we didn’t do it this time – we just responded to the stimuli
I’m looking at this list of comments and I see quite a few members of the Tea Enablers Club. Just sayin’ :p
Come over to the the discussion for the moonrise tea thingie
Everybody should come
Oh, now I remember, I posted only the discussion about LB being back in stock, cameron did LBCG , it’s all cameron’s faulf!!!!