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This one and I never quite figured one another out. Ah well.
I still don’t think earl grey is the “Sherlock Holmes” tea, honestly.

I live!
Whew. I’ve had a bonkers month, and I realized that I hadn’t logged a single cup of tea for weeks.
Yikes.
In the space between my last note, I have been handling my offices entire workload while my boss had a baby, and played Puck in a production of A Midsummer Nights Dream.
It’s been a lot. But life should calm waaaay down, which is nice.
I got a new packet of this a few months ago, and I can’t quite decide what I think of it (though obviously I liked it enough to get it again).
The grenadine is an interesting flavor, but I’m not sure if it’s a hit or a miss for me….

Whew, but life is busy.
My boss is going to have a baby any day now, I’m in a play that opens in two weeks, I’m taking a class which requires a lot of reading, and there are lots of intense work tasks.
Wheeeew.
I would say that hopefully life will calm now, but I doubt it.
Its also been over 100 degrees every day in the last week. Oh joy.
This tea smells delightfully citrusy, but the citrus gets somewhat flattened by the time it brews up. Hmm.

My goodness, but this is one gentle black tea. There are mornings that I need to be eased into the day, my sleepiness coddled. This is a good tea for those kinds of days.
Autumnal, without tasting like a cliche, I look forward to more of this.

Why do I have such trouble with caramel teas? I can’t quite get the steep right, so while the leaf smells wonderful, it tastes a touch bitter. Hmmm. Project!
That said, I don’t dislike this at all, but it I am doing my usual caramel tea uncertainty dance.
Someday I’ll get the hang of it!

Let it never be said that I am not susceptible to marketing. I am a huge fan of Sherlock Homes, so when I see a Baker Street Blend, well, it’s almost a foregone conclusion that I am going to get it.
This is an Earl Grey cream blend, and its lighter on the vanilla that I would wish. I may have been inattentive in my steeping, though, so I will watch my next cup of this more carefully, so I can better judge.

Hello everyone! Oof, June was a wash in terms of me writing tasting notes. It was a busy month. (The anniversary of the death of my father, both of my far-flung siblings being in town, preparing for my boss to go on paternity leave, auditions and early rehersal for a play, and coming off a week where the low temp was 103 all week).
I shall try to be here more. I do love it so.
So I ordered this tea from Curiosa society, which is a shop full of “extraordinary goods”. I’ve ordered cool cards and gifts from them before, and when I saw they were selling teas, well, I jumped.
This is a strawberries and cream type blend, which always sound so lovely, but this came out a touch bitter to me. What is the steeping secret for this sort of blend? Further experimentation is needed.
On a heat related note- what is everyones preferred method for making iced tea? I have decided this is the year I really get the hang of it, but advice would be appriciated!

A sipdown!
I liked this, and will certainly bring it back.
It was the perfect tea for the last couple of days, as we’ve launched ourselves into our over-100-degree weather.
Ick.

Sigh. Its gonna be that kind of day. The day where, as you are preparing your morning tea, you knock over the bag and leaf goes all over your kitchen floor.
Grumble. Not all of this was lost, but I do now have a rather high relief spiders web under my kitchen counters.

This is one of those Lupicia fruit teas, where the taste is more “generically fruity”, rather than specifics. A sense of summer fruits, but I couldent pick out anything in particular in this cup.
I find I need to watch these cups carefully, as if I am not careful they can oversteep and become bitter.