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Verdant order arrived yesterday! :) Unfortunately I didn’t have much time to drink tea before I went to work, so I had a quick cup of Laoshan Black, and then worked the closing shift. (after that it was a shower and off to bed, so no more tea that night!) Now here I am the next morning, with my usual post-closing-shift head-splitting migraine. Late shifts don’t agree with me, you see. I’m a natural morning person. But it just provides an excuse to drink an absurd amount of tea for comfort! Ha :)

The tea leaves for this one are super gorgeous. Big full chamomile flowers, pretty yellow petals, and Laoshan Black and Wuyi leaves all mixed together in happy tea harmony.

I wasn’t sure about the parameters exactly and I was feeling too sleepy and cranky to look it up, so I just guessed: 2tsp in a 12oz mug, just under boiling water for three minutes. At these parameters, I mostly taste mint, but the nice kind of comfort sweet mint, rather than a punch you in the nose mint like toothpaste. Following the mint I get the pleasant flowery ’herbal’y taste from the chamomile which blends perfectly with the mint.

I get a hint of chocolate at the end of the sip. Honestly, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what the base teas were in this if I didn’t already know beforehand. I’ll play around with the parameters to see if I can coax out their profiles better. But overall, this was a very good cup! I think this ounce will disappear pretty quickly! :) This was exactly what I needed for this headache.

Edit: Second infusion

Wasn’t sure how well this would stand up to a second infusion, but I thought I’d give it a go just in case. Turned out to be a good decision! :) The second cup of this really transformed a lot. It has a definite spice note note now! To the point that I’ve been comparing it to chai as I sip. This infusion is making me think someone should make a mint chai. :) If this is a sign of what it’d be like, I know I’d be buying quite a bit!

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Hello! I’m a 24 year old Canadian, currently working at Starbucks while I figure out what I want to do with myself in life, haha.

Like most everyone else, I grew up with teabags, and then discovered the grass really WAS greener on the other side with loose leaf. Nowadays I drink nearly exclusively loose, but will drink a bagged tea if I don’t care what I’m having.

My favorite kind of tea is black, and unflavored, although I do enjoy an occasional dessert black. I like whites second best. I’ve recently been dipping my toes into honeybush tisanes, greens and oolongs.

My favorite vendors are Butiki Teas and Verdant Teas. Both have fantastic teas, above and beyond customer service (especially Butiki), and fair prices for their very high quality teas. I can’t recommend them enough.

Purely for tasting notes references, I don’t use any additives for my teas. Older tasting notes for blacks was with milk+sugar, and then with just milk. Whites, oolongs, greens and herbals are all drunk straight unless otherwise specified in the notes.

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