Started a nice chunk of days off with a session of this when I got home this morning… yesssss.
On the steaming leaves — roast, toast, nuts, wood perfume, strawberry. I don’t think I found the strawberry last time. Sweet and light little whiff.
First steep smelled of almonds. A little thin on layers here, maybe should have steeped it longer. Second cup was an oily, swirling pour. Here it comes… the nose on these juicy little buckets is so full: redwood, raspberry, hay, mushroom and loam, sweet and light spices like snickerdoodles. Cedar. Tastes, finally, of strawberry, with a sweet nose as it’s sipped — perfectly ripe and plump.
Third opens up to smoke, wood, tobacco, vanilla, toffee. The scents are just so much bigger than the mouth. I don’t mind. I taste apricot now.
More smoke and wood perfume in the fourth steep… peanuts, some astringency, caramel, cotton candy(!) and molasses. Some more pronounced tannins after that, with caramel, and it started to get watery around steep 6 or 7.
Like sitting under a stick lean-to by a forest pond, burning marshmallows and incense into a lazy fog.
Flavors: Almond, Apricot, Astringent, Caramel, Cedar, Cinnamon, Cotton Candy, Hay, Loam, Molasses, Mushrooms, Nuts, Peanut, Raspberry, Roasty, Sandalwood, Smoke, Strawberry, Tannin, Toasty, Tobacco, Toffee, Vanilla, Wood
