516 Tasting Notes

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This is pretty darn delicious, it tastes like a spicy carrot cake! Duh – just like it’s supposed to :D
Thank you Jenn for supplying me with my first taste of the Necessiteas.

Carrot cake isn’t my most favorite dessert, but to chill out before bed I would def pick this tea. mm spicy without a kick in the mouth, I like that!

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Wooow yuuumm. Thanks Erin for this deliciousness.

Of course, I am an Earl Grey fan, but this creme- earl grey is quite unique. The dry smell reminded me a lot of chocolate, and the creme taste in the brewed tea was like brown butter.. sweet and dark and caramel along with my good ol Earl. Good times.

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Thanks again to Erin for this lovely (and generous!) sample!

I’ve been itching to try some Zhena’s Gyspy tea and she has scratched my itch. Happy!
For a bagged tea, I am enjoying! The flavour is light, but with some coconut milk and rum (how fitting haha!) it’s a nice, simple treat. Sometimes my palette just wants some simplicity.

Erin Hurley

Haha! Did you really booze your tea?!

Daisy Chubb

Oh absolutely.
Just a wee bit though. :) I like to call it “enhancing the flavour” haha!

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drank Monkey Fart by 52teas
516 tasting notes

Thank you Jenn for this awesome sample!

I shared it with a friend who loves banana syrup, banana runts, banana medicine, candy-banana-anything. Anyways, he loved it!

I wouldn’t drink this tisane every day, but wow it is delicious and everything it promises to be! Held up to a second steep, and was liquid sweet gold with a touch of white sugar in it (yep, I’m guilty).

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Thank you Jenn for your sample full of huge cherry chunks yum. I ate the cherries after the tea steeped and all was right with the world.

I tried half a cup hot and half a cup in the freezer to be iced. Yay grammar.

I, sadly, was not a fan of this tea. The smell was amazing! Like Sodalicious candies (man I miss those), and my nose even felt the carbonation bubbles – VERY cool.
You know, I bet I would enjoy this tea if it was super concentrated and made into one of those tea-sodas, but as it was I didn’t get a lot of flavour and what was there was strange.

I added some sugar to try to re-create the smell, but no luck!

I’m so glad to have the chance to try this tea though, even just to smell it. It smelled like soda heaven :D

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drank Rooibos Chai by Teavana
516 tasting notes

mm this is a nice and spicy bedtime chai! Love a good decaf treat in the evening and this hits the spot. I didn’t skimp on leaf so I am getting full flavour – a big thanks to Erin for sending me this sample!

My first teavana tea! I’m not unimpressed.

Edit: my 101st tasting note! ee ^^ I guess I could go edit the last one and say 100… but this is how I roll.

Erin Hurley

I’m glad you liked it!!!!

Daisy Chubb

I really do!
You rule.

SimplyJenW

Happy 101! Do you like dalmations, perhaps?

The Seattle Tea Snob

I’ll drink to that!

Erin Hurley

My god. I have stumbled onto something awesome.

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Yum, thanks to Erin and Jenn for sending me a sample of this tea. I’m lucky, because now I have enough for 2 cups ee!

I’m having this with frothed milk and vanilla syrup, and my first experience with my Ecobam strainer (I’m out of Tsacs!). So I love the strainer. And I do enjoy the tea!

On the sip, I taste mostly blackberry – but I have this great aftertaste going on of real blackberries, a bit of soft cooked peaches and a tiny bit of butter (as well as the Assam of course). So I’m loving it just for that!

Thanks ladies!

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drank Cafe Latte by Utopia Tea
516 tasting notes

mm this tea is really hitting the spot this morning.
My Utopia tea order arrived a few days ago, so exciting! It’s my first online tea order that wasn’t 52teas. I took advantage of the special and got an extra ounce, and boy am I glad.
At 7 bucks for 5 ounces, the price was right for this delicious blend.
Also, I found my cupboard is full of dessert tea, which I love, but I needed some.. not-sweet teas for the morning or I was going to go crazy!

I have to say that I’m more of a China Black fan (recently discovered this haha), but this tea is so smooth I don’t care. We’re having a pot this morning – it’s a great coffee substitute – the coffee beans add this lingering taste that isn’t bad-breath like after coffee. It’s just pleasant and oh so smooth. Not the least bit bitter. LOVE!

32 ounce teapot, 4 perfect teaspoons, 3 minutes
(so glad to finally have a large amount of tea so I don’t feel bad using my teapot!)

Preparation
Boiling

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drank Bravissimo by DAVIDsTEA
516 tasting notes

I’m getting sick :(
So I bought this and gail’s cold remedy so I could still drink tea while not being able to taste. It’s cruel really, with all of these samples surrounding me. le sigh.

Okay, so it’s nice. I like chamomile but not the hugest licorice fan (I actually think the crazy amout of licorice in most chamomile teas is what turns some people off of chamo, just sayin). So it’s a little too licorice-after-tasty for me but it’ll do.

It is very nice at soothing the throat, and it’s full of great awesome healthy things, but I can only handle the taste if it’s piping hot or ice cold. Oh well!

Cattibrie

I mixed Bravissimo with Gail’s Cold Remedy the other day. The licorice/mint flavours were kind of overpowering but it sure held the cold off.
Hope you feel better soon.

Daisy Chubb

I mixed them today too! The licorice overpowers for sure, but it was a nice mix while it was hot :) Thanks, I feel better already, and I hope everything goes well with your cake adventure! Think of it as an adventure (albeit a stressful one), I’m sure everything will work out in the end :)

Cattibrie

Glad you are feeling better. I am sure the cake is going to be ok. I just panicked that it isn’t perfect but the tier will get covered.

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