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I needed a plain tea after all those flavoured once earlier today. I made this one somewhat stronger than I normally do in the hopes that it might give the flavour, and particularly the aftertaste a bit more punch.

It didn’t really work.

All I got out of it was a whole lot of astringency and that kind of hay-like, flowery, prickly sort of flavour that you get when something is severely oversteeped or too strong.

This also spares me trying out that uber-long steeping, or stewing rather, of oolongs. I sincerely doubt it would be something I would like.

Heyes

How long did you steep this Oolong, and did you try multiple steepings?

Angrboda

Oooooh I can’t remember. I was using a cup that wasn’t big enough that I could drain my little pot completely, so the last cup out of two-ish was definitely steeped for longer than I normally would have. The first cup was steeped ‘normally’, which is about 7 minutes or so. I don’t time it so I just guess, but that’s just about what I aim for. It was late enough that I didn’t have time for re-steeps, so I haven’t tried that. I have sometimes when I’ve resteeped stuff, added a pinch of fresh leaves if I think it was getting a bit weak, so I guess if I’d resteeped this a couple of times, it would have been more tolerable. At any rate, I’ve learned that the amount of leaves I’ve used previously was definitely the right amount. :)

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And now I suddenly realised WHY I’m doing my backlogs out of order.

This is from this morning on the way to work. I was feeling really tired and in an oolong-y mood, so I made this for my travel mug today.

This tea is not suitable for travel mugs. I couldn’t smell it at all and when you don’t get the full experience, you just get a tea that has an annoyingly sour taste. It was drinkable, but suddenly, without the smell, it just turned all blah.

And here’s the reason for the out of order backlog.

I’m having second steep now. I saved the leaves mostly because I didn’t have time to clean out the pot before leaving, so I figured now that I came home, I might as well just steep them, having already learned that they can easily carry a second steep. I needed this. It’s just much much much better when I can get the full experience, and when I’m not putting two thirds of my attention into trying to wake up properly.

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Fourth steep while watching Midsomer Murders. Only ten minutes left of the episode and I STILL think they ALL did it. Gah!

It’s hard to believe that this is the tea that initially disappointed me with lack of flavour. I must definitely have brewed it wrong the first time, because today I’m founding an astounding amount of flavour. It’s a bit weakened but not that much. Yes, I added a few fresh leaves to the third steep, but not remotely enough that they could carry two whole steeps all on their lonesome.

I’m beginning to change my stance about how much I think it lives up to the high price. Tastewise, not really, but… I can’t think of the right word. Like… the endurance of the leaves? How many times they can be used successfully? In that regard, it is definitely worth a purchase. I still think it’s very expensive, but it gained a little more worth in my eyes.

(OMG the vicar did it??? But but but but but he was the nicest person around! I did NOT see that one coming.)

takgoti

Can’t trust those vicars.

Angrboda

Obviously not. I would have thought I’d watched enough episodes of this show to know that there is ALWAYS an enormous plot twist when the time comes for Barnaby to figure out who the killer was, but it gets me every single week. I’m so glad I started watching this by coincidence :D

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I’m having a resteep of this with my dinner, so it’s the third steep. I added a pinch of fresh leaves to the pot to give it a little extra kick.

I know I said the aftertaste gets cancelled out when you’re eating something too, but there you are are. The leaves and the pot were already there and I was feeling lazy.

Inspired by the post about it earlier today though I also boiled some broccoli in salted water with butter, and I smelled the steam as it boiled. I was right. That was EXACTLY the note I found in the tea this morning. I feel all satisfied with myself for having noticed that.

It seems very similar to the first two steeps, but I think if I hadn’t added a few fresh leaves it tastes sort of like it might have been a bit faded. I probably ought to not have added it in order to get a ‘clean’ third steep, but I thought it might just get weak. I’d rather have an inaccurate third steep than a weak clean one.

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I was so disappointed by this the first time I had it. It was really expensive, nearly 100 kr for 100 g, which is a price you normally see in white teas and flowering display teas. And then it had so little flavour. It was almost unbearable.

Today has continued to suck, involving the local tax authorities who are trying to trick me into paying the same bill twice. I wouldn’t be so irritated by this if it hadn’t been for the fact that paying this bill last month is a major contributing factor to november having to be stingy-month. growl

I needed something soothing and I haven’t had a pure oolong in ages, so I’m going to revisit this one. My expectations of it aren’t quite as high this time, so I’m going to be starting over. Hopefully I can shift the rating up a bit too, because ‘30’ is just… I feel really bad about having rated such an expensive tea so low. So let’s pretend that this is the first post I make about it.

The leaves are large and twirly. They’re a bit on the darker side, although not as dark as a black tea. Some of them have that golden in-between colour. Pretty in the in. They have plenty of aroma. Sweet and with a note of tobacco.

(so far so good)

Once they have been steeped, the leaves turn a nice light green again. I’ve never noticed that before. I’ve given it a good long steep to get as much flavour out of them as possible. A C Perch’s recommend eight minutes, so that’s what they got. Actually they got nearly 15 minutes because I forgot to pay attention. In the cup it has a nice golden-ish red colour, like autumn leaves just before they fall off the tree. I’m using a fairly tall mug and I can just exactly see the bottom of it. The aroma of the brew is sort of reminding me of broccoli that has been boiled in lightly salted water with a small lump of butter in it. I wouldn’t say it’s a broccoli note, but when I smell something vegetal with a weak butter note and a weak salt note, broccoli is the thing that first comes to mind.

The first sip of the first steep was primarily bitter. This, obviously, has to do with oversteeping. As mentioned I was aiming for 8 minutes and forgot to pay attention so it got nearly 15 instead. They don’t say anything about recommended temperature other than ‘freshly boiled water’. I can taste very little else than the beginning bitterness, so I think it’s safe to say that pretty much ruined this. How annoying. But on a day like today, hands up everybody who’s surprised. Anybody? No?

Dumping the first steep then, and going straight to the second. In my opinion any proper oolong should be able to handle at least one resteep, so I’m not too concerned about it shifting the review. The second steep involves a kitchen timer, so as not to make the same mistake again. It’s much much lighter this time around. A more orange-y golden, but the aroma is exactly the same.

No bitterness this time. I’m thinking I must have made it up too weak that first disappointing time. It has a nutty note, some astringency if you really search for it, and a clear leafy primary flavour. Well, I say ‘primary’, but the thing is it only really comes through if you get a large enough sip. If you just take tiny little nips, all you get is the nuttiness. It’s especially brought out if you slurp a bit and get it nicely mixed with air while tasting. A very very VERY small barely there flowery note too. I can’t even find it in every sip.

To begin with this doesn’t have much in the way of after taste, but as you take a few sips, it starts to build up. If you’re eating anything with the tea though, you’ll ruin it. Every time you take a bite, you have to start over.

All in all, I’m feeling much more happy about this tea now than I was before, and I’ve shifted the rating up considerably. Is it worth the high price though? No, not really. You can get lots of similar or better oolongs at half the price this one cost.

Preparation
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takgoti

Well, at least that’s a step up from soul-crashing disappointment. Did you steep it any more after cup two? I’m curious to see how this one plays out on subsequent trials.

takgoti

Inquiry written before reading your second and third posts. Don’t mind me.

Angrboda

Doesn’t mind But yes, it has redeemed itself.

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Turns out Nepal has a tea production. Who knew? I didn’t. Apparently Nepal produces quite a lot of tea, mainly black and green, and the tea from the easternmost regions are very similar to Darjeeling (and has in fact been sold as such due to the Darjeeling name being so valuable).

Quite by coincidence when looking for something else, I came across a Nepal Top Oolong at A C Perch’s in Copenhagen which was definitely something I wanted to try. Fairly expensive with nearly 100 kr per 100 grams. This translates to about €13.4 or $19.2 for 100 grams, which was the smallest quantity they would allow me to buy through their webshop.

The leaves are relatively dark and look nicely twirled. There isn’t really a lot of scent to them though.

The steeped tea is very light and yellowish in colour for an oolong and it smells sweet and somewhat nutty. The scent of it promises so much more than it actually delivers. It’s a very mild flavour and almost no aftertaste at all, which makes it a nice tea, but it gets boring pretty quickly.

As it develops there is a little more aftertaste, but still not very much. It wasn’t until the last few stewed dregs that I really got anything of the sort, and by that time it was turning slightly bitter.

It’s definitely not a good morning tea, it’s much too delicate in flavour for that. I’d take it for a tea break later in the day and probably not while eating something, since that would overpower what flavour it has.

It’s a nice enough tea, but it’s just not interesting enough for me to get more of. Especially not at this price.

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I have a countryman on Steepster now! flails Before, the closest I got, I think, was Rijje in Greenland, which… it’s close, but not quite the same. Anyway, Andreastt recently discovered ACP and had a question about this here raspberry oolong that you may have heard of. :p I tried to answer to the best of my ability, but decided it was probably better to make a cup and check that I actually think what I thought I think.

Besides, any excuse for a cuppa. :D

Since it will be a teensy tiny minority who will actually be able to read the conversation in question, let me just summarise. I mentioned a few of my absolute favourites from ACP, and I was asked how fruity-tart the raspberry oolong was or whether it was all done with essence of fruit.

I answered that it contains lots of dried fruit, but that it was probably doubtful how much flavour these gave off. It did suggest to me, though, that there was more than mere essence of berries involved here and that, if he didn’t care for very tart things, it might not be something for him.

To me, though, it is quite oolong-y at first. It’s got that wooden sort of flavour of a generic oolong, and then towards the end of the sip, there is the fruit flavour, which definitely has a bit of tartness to it. Not super-tart, but there is a small bite in it. Actually the fruit-flavour is really present throughout the sip, but I find it’s most prominent just before I swallow. As if it just needs a splitsecond longer to unfold in the mouth.

It is not, however, quite as tart as I initially remembered it.

ssajami

Why, oh why does the Danish post have such ridiculously expensive shipping? Sadly this delicious tea is practically unobtainable for all of us that are NOT in Denmark.

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It’s been ages since I had some of this, and today it seemed just the thing. I’m glad I picked it. Somehow it gets even yummier when had seldomly rather than when had often.

It got about twice as long a steep as I would have normally done, mostly on a whim. yu76tyggggg oh look, a cat on the keyboard. This is not a tea that I’ve had a lot of bad oversteep experiences with, and I suddenly decided to see if a longer steep (I do short steeps normally) would have any impact on the result considering how much leaf I normally use.

It turned out just as it should. Maybe even with a little more depth to it, but I’m not sure if that’s not just something to do with how I remember it. It is a good while since the last time I had any of it.

I’m on the second steep of it now, same time as the first and my normal second steep time. Less berry, as much oolong. Still very nice indeed.

I think I’ve said it before, but I feel sorry for all you americans who can’t just go and get some of this whenever you like. Not unless you’re willing to pay some probably pretty fierce shipping.

Daisy Chubb

It sounds delicious!
I feel sorry for me too, but mostly because I wish I also had a cat on my keyboard

Angrboda

It’s very lovely and it smells like a dream. The tea is nice too. ;)

Jenn

I really do need to order this tea. Everytime you mention it, my mouth waters!

nomadinjeopardy

My mouth has also watered at your description of this, but you’re quite right about the shipping! $40 US.

Dinosara

Yeah, I looked into shipping from AC Perch’s when I was interested in another tea you had posted before, and it’s deifnitely fierce! Oh well, I suppose it’s payback for all those American tea companies that charge crazy shipping outside the US.

Angrboda

Depending on when you checked, Dinosara, it might be worse now because they use the danish postal service and at some point last year we had the “pleasure” of having our postage rates increased by a whole lot in one go…

And yes, it totally is payback! You with your H&S, Samovar and Lupicia and what have you! HA, says I! HA! HA! HA! :p

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I brought a little of this with me to work to day to share with my boss. As mentioned previously we tend to drink the same tea at work, but lately we’ve grown a little weary of the Assam we usually have. That’s a good tea, actually, but at work we rarely have the time and conditions to pay proper attention to it when brewing. Besides, we thought it would be nice with something to choose from.

I showed her AC Perch’s website and asked her to have a look and see what sort of stuff she would like. This was one that caught her eye, and I could happily tell her that it’s awesome!

Normally, we make a one litre pot and have that during the day. Normally, a little is even discarded at the end of the day. Today, I made a pot of this one for us, and it was empty before noon. That really says a lot, doesn’t it?

We have now decided that we shall get a 100g bag to keep at work of this one, and I’ll be taken that opportunity to reinforce my own supply as well. It is, after all, another Standard Panel tea.

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Guess what I’ve got again.

And I must have got it from a new batch this time because previously when I’ve bought it, I’ve received oolong leaves with whole black currants and chunks of raspberry in it.

This time, chunks of raspberry? Try WHOLE raspberries. And not just one or two that got through the raspberry-chunking-machine unscathed. No, there are many of them. Many many raspberries.

(It’s so hard to not fish them out and eat them!)

Still as nommy as ever. Om nom nom.

JacquelineM

Whole Raspberries! I drool!

Angrboda

I know, right?! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I poured it into the tin. And then had to convince myself to keep the paws off them. :p

Jaime

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who eats bits of things out of their teas.

Angrboda

Hah, I had a caramel black once, with these little itty bitty caramel squares in it that melted when you brewed. The first bit of the tin was pretty caramel-y. The last bit hardly at all because I’d eaten all the little caramel bits. :D

Angrboda

I haven’t tried the dream and temple yet though. But I’ve tinned them and smelled them and I feel confident about them. (The whole box was giving off this sweet sweet smell as I carried it home from the post office.)

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Making tea in a hurry before I change my mind again. I’m finally trying to get through what I’m behind on the dashboard and first Morgana had Kusmi’s Samovar and I thought, “Oh, I should have some of that too!”. And then I scrolled down a little more and Rijje had this infamous raspberry oolong and I thought, “Oh, I should have some of that too!” And… You get the pattern, right?

So I hurried up and made a cup of this before the confusion was complete.

The obligatory sniffing of leaves in near-ecstacy that this tea requires was a good chance to take a look at the amount of leaves. We are dangerously close to a decupboarding here. I’ll have to do something about that post-England, I think.

Yummmm nommy.

Whew 9! Days! Back! I probably ought to stop following some people and try to make it easier for myself to keep up. But I don’t want to stop following anybody. Maybe I ought to have a secondary account with the smaller following list. Angrboda Lite. Nah, it would just get confusing. I guess I’ll just have to do the unpleasant and go through my follow list. This is not working. (How did I avoid breaking my back on a ginormous follow list before I stopped trying to follow everybody????)

Kristin

At least some of us aren’t drinking much tea because it’s hot outside?

sophistre

This is terrible to admit, but I pretty much skip over reading anything that’s less than four lines long now unless:

a) It has either an unusually low or an unusually high rating,
b) the name of the tea catches my eye, or
c) the person writing it doesn’t usually do that.

I figure there’s not a whole slew of useful information about the flavor profile that can be packed into so small space unless those conditions are met anyway. This is probably not a failsafe policy, but it’s the only way I can keep up, and I have nowhere near as many people I’m following as you do!

mpierce87

I understand, I’m not following a lot of people, but I am compulsive about reading all the notes.

Dru Bramlett

@kristin I’m drinking more hot tea than ever!

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I felt like celebrating with Rijje today. And for that we need a good old favourite that, to my surprise, it’s been quite a while since I’ve had.

If it’s been so long since I’ve had it, HOW COME THERE’S SO LITTLE LEFT IN THE TIN, HMMM???

Who nicked it? Fess up!

Rabs

I blame those pesky tea gnomes!

Ewa

It was me! While completely failing to fly over Denmark on my way to Japan because it is in the opposite direction, I lowered a bucket at a strategic moment and STOLE IT ALL.

Unfortunately, before I could reel the bucket back in, it was eaten by a herring.

Angrboda

Oh Ewa. ♥

Rijje

I feel like gloating. Got 150 gr. of this :P
Bought some extra in Denmark, because I didn’t want to run out of it <3

Angrboda

I think I’ll double up too when the time comes to replenish the stocks…

Ricky

Oh no! I think the gnomes raided my cabinet too!!! Where’d it all go!??!

Angrboda

It was probably Ewa. Apparently she’s displaying some cleptomaniac tendencies…

Ewa

The reach of my buckets is vast, VAST!

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Ack, I have the first niggling pokings of a headache. How annoying.

Only way to fix such things that I know of is to have some favourite tea. It’s already getting a bit low in the tin again. Granted I shared some with a couple of you, but still… I think I’ll order a bigger batch when the time comes to re-stock.

For those of you that I’ve been waving this one teasingly at, I just saw a review over on Teaviews.com today about a strawberry oolong, which you can read about here http://www.teaviews.com/2010/06/04/review-naivetea-strawberry-oolong-4/
Maybe it would be a suitable replacement when this one is only really available to people in Denmark or people willing to pay a fortune in shipping. Reading about the strawberry oolong made me think of this one, at any rate.

Ricky

Adding that to my to buy list!

Angrboda

Then let me know how it works as a substitute, yes?

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TeaEqualsBliss inspired me. I wasn’t actually going to post about having this, but I’m doing it anyway. So we can all see the inspiration.

Or something.

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this tea is chosen based on how easy the tin was to open anhd also because i bloody well deserve some spoiling.

the only reason i’m posting anythung at all is to say i’m going to be quiet and lurky for a little while because i managedto cvut the tip of my right index finger at work so i can’t really use it for anything. this is all typed with one hand and as you can see it’s not really ideal. i don’t have patience for this. but i can still use the mouse so i am around, i just can’t really type much. it’s niot as bad as it sounds only two stitches, it’s just in a reallu impractical place.

Auggy

Oh my goodness! Not cool! I hope you heal quickly – drink more tea, that can only help, right?

LENA

This calls for an official “OMG”. I hope it heals quickly.

Ewa

whoo boy, ouchies! Thirding the heal quickly sentiment!

__Morgana__

Oh no! Poor finger! Let me add my heal quickly thoughts!

Rabs

You need a personal assistant to help brew the tea and then you can dictate what you need typed ;) Seriously – I too hope for a quick healing! ::hugs::

Shanti

Sending healing thoughts in your direction!

Alicia

Awwww. Long distance hug. But I generally only type with onr hand. They fight if I put both of them on the keyboard. No manners at all. :)

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Nom nom nommity nom.

Nom.

Nommity.

Nom.

Did I mention nom?

TeaEqualsBliss

And…a Nom…NOM,,,nommers!

Jillian

There might have been a nom or two in there. ;P

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Oh Rickyyyyyyyyyy! Guess what I’ve gooooot!

I made a little pot of this, drank it and resteeped. And angels started singing.

Oh berry! Oh oolong! Oh welcome back in my cupboard.

Jillian

And here I imagin angelic choruses singing ’Hallelujah!" XD

Angrboda

Something like that, yes. :D

JacquelineM

Yaaaaaay!!!!!! Enjoy the deliciousness!!!!!!!

Ricky

MEANNNN!!!

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Green moods don’t last long when you discover that the green you made wasn’t the green you wanted. I was packing up tea samples for Jillian and Bethany (if she’s still interested), and spotted this tin and decided I was really in an oolong mood now instead.

Mostly because whenever I see this tin I have to take the lid off for a couple of sniffs. Yummy.

I can definitely see myself stocking up on this again when it’s gone and I’m beginning to dread the day when it is.

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Inspirational tea for the WIN! Literally, actually, as I just hit 50094 words on NaNoWriMo. Just now.

Leonard Cohen is now singing ’I’m your man’ for me and I’m on the second steep of this now. The tea itself can handle a resteep quite well, but the berries, not so much. At this point it might as well just have been a regular plain oolong. A nice one definitely, though. It has plenty of flavour and plenty of lingering aftertaste. Like it’s crawling down into every little nook and cranny of my mouth and sitting there saving the nummy for later. Slightly astringent at first contact with the tongue but it goes away again.

Also, it makes me think of those of you who now and then describe a tea flavour as ‘baked’ and I can’t for the life of me figure out what you mean by that, but this tea reminds me of it, so maybe it IS bakey and only my subconsciousness is registering it?

I should probably make a pot of Pai Mu Tan since that one has turned into my celebration tea, but really, I’d rather see if I can get a third steep out of this one. So I’ll do that.

takgoti

CONGRATULATIONS!

teaplz

Whoooo! I won NaNo one year, and haven’t tried it since. Glad it went so awesomely for you, and that you’re drinking awesome-flavored tea as well!

Cofftea

I seem to neurotically add everybody

Cofftea

grrr… there was more to that LOL… Anyway. I do too so we can be neurotic together:) I also compalin that my dash board is never ending which I shouldn’t because it’s my own fault lol.

Angrboda

Hah, I WAS wondering why you were quoting my own profile info back to me. :p

Carolyn

You rock! Congratulations on the win!!! You are the NaNoTeaGoddess in my estimation.

Calochortus

Congratulations on winning NaNo! I haven’t been able to participate for the last two years, but I love seeing everyone hit their 50,000 word mark at this time!

This tea sounds absolutely lovely — I love berry teas, and this sounds like it’s a good mix with the oolong.

Angrboda

It’s absolutely gorgeous. It doesn’t have a very strong fruity flavour, but the smell of the dry leaves is to die for. :)

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I felt like something fruity, so I put the kettle on. And then I was too slow in cleaning out the pot, so it had cooled a bit before I was actually ready to use it. And since I had cleaned the pot in hot water (and the hot tap water gets really really hot where I live) the pot was already nice and warm. So that left me wondering if I should boil new water and use this to scald an already warm pot or what to do.

And then I thought of my raspberry oolong and decided to just pretend that it had been my plan to make that one all along (instead of the blueberry from Adagio). Perfect really.

I’m spending the day trying to bury myself in the last little bit left before I can say I’ve won NaNoWriMo. 2K to go. Estimated 30K to go before I reach the end of the story. The plan is to reach the 50K words to win NaNo and then continue writing and eventually finish the story. I’m not interested in publication at all, but when I’ve finished the story (If I ever make it) and it’s been rewritten and heavily edited I know where I want to upload it on the internet and will of course share the location of it if and when that time comes.

Anyway, this tea is going to help me do this today. It’s to give me some focus and concentration. Maybe I should have used a crappy tea, since if all goes well, I’ll end up with half a completely forgotten cup.

I have my tea. Leonard Cohen is singing ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’ for me. I’m ready.

Carolyn

I’m so happy for you that you’re nearly NaNoComplete! I won’t win NaNo this year, but I really like the book I’m working on so we plan to extend NaNo through the end of December to give us a lot of thoughtful time to finish our novels. Then January will be our editing month. February will be TradeAndReadNaNo novels month.

So, I am winning through you Angrboda. Write like the wind!

Jillian

Congrats, I’d love to read your story when it’s finished.

(BTW, yay Leonard Cohen!)

Angrboda

Yay indeed. :) I’ve learned to love him in recent years, and I was lucky enough that I got to see him in Copenhagen last year. It was fantastic. Nothing, NOTHING beats Hallelujah performed live!

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Good morning Steepster.

Someone has, while I’ve been sleeping, logged a white tea with blueberry. You’ll forgive me for not have paid attention to who you were, sorry. At any rate, it inspired me this morning. And you would think that this inspiration would mean to make something with a white tea. Or something with blueberries. Er… well it’s got berries in it. And it smells heavenly. All sweet and fruity and it’s full of dried berries. It’s the sort of tea that you almost don’t even have to drink. Just sit around and sniff the tin. Yum.

Due to the nature of the cup I’m using this morning I can’t really tell you about the colour, but it looks like a light golden one while pouring. The brew smell primarily of oolong with a heavy berry note on top. I get associations to desserts and cakes and bakeries. A nice raspberry muffin, oh yes.

This development continues in taste. Where the dry leaves smelled heavily of berries and the brew was sort of half and half leaning towards the oolong, the taste is very primarily oolong and then a nice fruity sweetness, as if has been sweetened with fruit instead of sugar. Note, I haven’t actually added sugar or anything else. It’s extremely rare that I add anything to my tea, and if I do, I promise you’ll hear about it. But IF I had sweetened it, it tastes like I’ve used fruit instead of sugar, and… Okay this is turning strange. I’m even beginning to confuse myself. I’ll just stop.

teaplz

I’m not a fan of adding anything to my cup either. But I think I know what you mean! A natural sweetness is coming from a fruit sugar rather than a sugarcane sugar. I love it when that happens. It tastes so much more natural.

I can never add sugar to my tea, because I can always taste it, and it tastes ridiculously fake.

Suzi

I’ll add honey to oversteeped black tea, but that’s about the only time I use sweeteners. I prefer the ‘natural’ taste of the tea whenever possible!

This tea sounds very yummy :D

Angrboda

Exactly. Sugar is something that I add if something has been mistreated a bit and has gone bitter, or if I’m going to ice something, since I prefer my iced tea to be sweet. Always cane sugar although it’s more expensive, because it’s a rounder sort of sweetness than the white beet sugar that is most common here. Cane sugar has a more natural sort of sweetness than beet sugar which is just… sweet. Or maybe it’s phychological thing. I don’t actually know if I can taste a difference in the two types of sugar if I tried, but it’s just as much the fact that I know it.

I do milk (never ever cream) sometimes in heavy blacks or as experiments with flavoured blacks if I think they can carry it but most often I prefer it without.

Angrboda

Suzi: You’re right, I use liquid honey sometimes too, but mostly if the tea already has a honey note. It’s really rare though.

It is a very yummy tea, but although I’m sure you could use their webshop, I think you would run into the same problem as I have with most other tea vendors. Hideously horrible shipping charges!

Auggy

Glad my blueberry white inspired your totally different tea. Hehe! Yay berries?

Angrboda

Ah so it was you. :D Yeah. Berries. :p

Auggy

Yes, it was me – but I’m only admitting it because you liked the tea you drank because of it. If you hadn’t, I’d be hiding in a corner, attempting to blend into the wall. :)

Suzi

Angrboda: Ouch on the shipping charges! Usually I don’t get caught by the nastiest ones, because there’s so many companies based in the US, but AC Perch is super expensive to ship here :-( I guess I’ll just enjoy the tea vicariously through you!

Angrboda

Auggy: Don’t worry. This is my nearly-as-good-as-sweets tea. :) And I got if by coincidence too because I just wanted to buy some lapsang souchong and figured I’d see what else they had before checking out. And then this one, and the book and the seriously expensive nepalese oolong just sort of jumped into the basket as well. :)

Suzi: I’m not surprised. It’s the Atlantic’s fault. Everything gets expensive when it has to cross the Atlantic. :(

Hyrulehippie

@teaplz- I’m glad someone besides me thinks that sugar in tea tastes fake. I really don’t like adding anything to my cup, but I see that it’s necessary sometimes. Oddly enough I generally prefer stevia to sugar, though.

That said, I really really like tea that’s sweet on its own.

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Yeah this again. Nothing to say about really. But I had to enter a tea in order to make a post so… shrug

Am I the only one whose Dashboard page is acting up?

The ONLY updates I’m getting is what people liked and commented on. No reviews at all since some time yesterday.

And that’s not like you all to be so active with comments and stuff and logging nothing!

What’s up???

(Is anybody even going to see this…?)

Auggy

Not just you… I thought people just weren’t posting. But if you go to Explore —> Tasting Notes you can see what people have been posting. Not as friendly as having it all on one page though. :(

Angrboda

Fantastic. Thank you! It was driving me nuts.

Mike

Woah! You all are correct, we were experiencing some technical difficulties with publishing tasting notes to the dashboard. Everything should be back to normal now.

If you’re still seeing issues, please let us know (feedback@steepster.com). Thanks!

Auggy

Yay! It is fixed!

Angrboda

Awesomesauce! It’s working like it should now.
On the upside, I (re-)discovered the tasting notes page. I’d been missing that since the site face lift. Don’t know how it slipped past my attention. I DID think it was odd if it had disappeared.

takgoti

I definitely thought they’d done it on purpose.

Angrboda

It did make me wonder though if it might be an idea to separate what shows up on the Dashboard, so that we get reviews on their own and other activity on their own. I’ve thought about two columns but I think that might be ugly and annoying or two different pages but that might be annoying. IDK. I can’t decide if I should suggest somehting of the sort or not, because I can’t decide if it’s something I’d actually want…

Jillian

I sort of liked how it was before with the comments/likes/etc. in their own column off to the far right.

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97

I seem to have my innards back under control (fingers crossed) and I have also managed, it seems, to get rid of that godawful bad taste in my mouth. Good thing, that, because I’m sick and tired of peppermint infusion!

I’m sticking my neck out and trying some real tea. Hopefully I won’t regret it later.

This one was my first ever flavoured oolong (that I can remember), and it’s quickly become a favourite. It was lucky I found it because I was buying something else from the site at the time and just randomly started clicking around to see what else they had.

It smells absolutely divine and it tastes equally as lovely. I like it better and better every time I have some of it. It’s just what I need for a post-sick comfort tea.

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97

I’ve already reviewed this tea earlier and I’m having some now because it’s bloody cold around these parts tonight!

I just wanted to say: Comments! Comments on Steepster! YAY! tosses confetti

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