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I have come to the conclusion that I’m not huge on Coca River. My first steep last night had what I thought was a hint of bitterness that wasn’t in the Crio Brüs I’ve been drinking copious amounts of. So this evening, I decided to do a comparison between Cavalla and Coca River and the bitterness is unmistakeable. Much easier to definitively notice it next to the pure creamy deliciousness of Cavalla.
I really enjoy this Crio Brü. It’s spicy, but it doesn’t come off to me as hot pepper spicy, more like sweet-spicy. It really reminds me of something that I can’t quite put my finger on. That makes me a little crazy, but I’ll just enjoy this cuppa while I study some more.
I de finitely need to place a Crio Brü order here soon. I must have the pumpkin spice!
I’ve been steeping a cup of Crio Brü daily, or twice daily, or three times daily. But that’s not important. What is important is that it is delicious. Dark chocolate delicious. However, thus far I haven’t deciphered any noticeable differences in the ones I’ve tried. That is, until Maya.
Maya reminds me of something I’ve had before, but I can’t put my finger on it. There is a spiciness to it, but more like Christmas cookie spice, not hot pepper spice. It is delightful. Christmas cookie spice dark chocolate in a mug. Perfection.
As far as the other Crio Brüs, I’ll be doing some comparisons for sure.
this only makes me laugh because in April you guys were all like whatever..and jones and i were like BUT BUT LOOK! and now you’re all going crazy insane on the ordering and stuff lol
I missed it all in April haha. I only started noticing you guys with it when VariaTea got her order! Thank you exams, for putting me behind on trending teas. :P
I am glad I can bring it to your attention Courtney. Though Sil is how I found it and OMGsrsly is how Sil found it (I think) so it all works out lol.
And the reason this stands out is because it is the only one with flavors added. All the others just get their different notes from the beans themselves.
Ahh I thought this one had flavours from the beans themselves too. But it is still tasty, even if there are flavours added. I can’t wait to try the Pumpkin one.
My Crio Bru sampler pack arrived today with a free sample of their chocolate covered cocoa beans! Yum :)
This particular blend is like melted dark chocolate with a dash of cinnamon and just enough cayenne pepper so you feel the slight burn at the back of your throat. Very, very nice.
Sil, this is the one with cayenne pepper, cinnamon, and vanilla added so it is bound to be different. The others all have different “notes” that come from the beans themselves so I am guessing they will probably be harder to tell apart.
looking forward to seeing your other reviews… i’m kinda wondering if their nibs could be a replacement to stupid HI
Crio Bru – jones mc jones found it when i was in vancouver so i bought some, brought it back with me, introduced variatea to it and she just bought the samples pack lol
http://www.criobru.ca/ i can send you a sample if you like courtney, may take me a few days but i have after dark set aside for you too
variaTEA thought she was being helpful when she made this listing but all that means is that now i HAVE to put it in my cupboard whereas before i could pretend that it wasn’t eta and so therefore didn’t need to be added lol. I had this one iced in omgsrsly style tonight when i got home after a very long day. Let me tell you, the only thing better was addeing a splash of criollo to this for a bit of sweetness and alcohol ha!
My bad. Honestly, I made the page cuz I am anal and figured Cavalla was on here so this should be too
I know. Don’t worry. I will make pages for ALL the Crio Bru teas and then I will share them with you so you have that much more tea :P
Made the last of this with coffee this morning, and it was SO GOOD.
So good, in fact, I’m making a flourless chocolate fudgey cake right now because mmm chocolate.
Mmm…
Oh man. I made up a huge mug of this with hot almond milk and a little sugar. It tastes amazing, and smells amazing, but I can’t drink it. :( I’m finding the only thing I can tolerate right now is my water and lime.
That really hurt to pour this down the drain.
I definitely recommend trying these cacao"teas" as lattes, or even steeping them in milk on the stove. So good.
(20 minute steep…)
Preparation
Iced. With cream. Again.
I hung out with my mom this weekend, and it was awesome. I ate way too much good food (Gluten free crab eggs benedict! Triple Sec (hah! wrote “Triple Sex”) creme brulee!), went to the farmer’s market, bought cherries, visited a bunch of fruit and artisan stands, went shopping in Courtenay, convinced mom to buy a really nice shirt, bought more tea. :)
I also got loads of herbs and spices, and a gluten free lamb pie. Also gluten free pizza hand pies. Now I am home. And exhausted. And will probably be woken up in the morning by the sweet sound of jackhammers outside my bedroom window, as the back parking area is being repaved this week.
So. Yeah. How’re you doing? :)
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Hmmm, back to reality. Sounds like a great weekend. I just had a pretty interesting discussion with an aliexpress dealer about a whole bunch of other teas from Shandong quite a few that I hadn’t heard of and some that I had, but he gave me a better understanding of. It was pretty interesting.
Whenever I have a great weekend, it makes it that much harder to return to work on Monday. Cause I just want more Sunday. Don’t we all…
VariaTEA, you are genius.
I was sad that it was too hot to enjoy this chocolatey goodness. So she suggested I ice it.
YES.
I added 2 tsp sugar, which was too much. 1 tsp next time. But otherwise:
4 tbsp Cavalla (I know)
10 oz water
1/4 cup or so cream
ice
Brew the Cavalla for 10 minutes, pour over cream and ice. Sip. Be blown away by the rich, bitter (sweet if you added sugar) chocolate goodness. It’s not chocolate milk, really, but it’s so so good. :)
Flavors: Dark Bittersweet, Dark Chocolate
Preparation
HOLY MACKEREL.
This is CHOCOLAAAAATTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously in your FACE chocolate. Ahem.
It is ground cocoa beans, so I’d expect that. However, I hadn’t actually made this as recommended. 4 tbsp (yes, 1/4 CUP of the grounds) of this, 12 oz water. Steeped 12 minutes.
WOW.
Just. Wow.
I don’t think you NEED to do this to get the chocolate delicious flavours, but it certainly is fun. It’s super bitter because duh, it’s cocoa beans, so I added 1 tsp honey. It’s also a bit of an oil slick because duh, it’s cocoa beans with all the cocoa butter still inside, so I added some cream to make it luxe instead of icky.
Yes. Thank you. I will be making this with coffee in the morning.
Flavors: Chocolate, Dark Bittersweet, Dark Chocolate
Preparation
I think I might be in a chocolate coma now. Chocolate… http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/15092/847047-drooling_homer_mzy5cnunepk4_1_.gif
Yeah, ok, this might be stretching it a bit with the whole “herbal tea” thing.
I found this in a local grocery store and could not resist. I bought some. Yes. And finally tonight I brewed some up. 2 tbsp this and 1 tbsp coffee (I KNOW! Coffee isn’t tea!) in a 10 oz mug for just over 3 mins. I added cream.
It’s actually REALLY good. Think 90% dark chocolate. Blended with coffee. This would be a great addition to some teas, although the website says this stuff brews best at 8-12 minutes. Maybe treat it like a chai and cook it on the stovetop, adding tea for the last few minutes? Any tea you want to taste intensely dark chocolatey and have that rich delicious mouthfeel of chocolate (that might be partially the cream talking!). That’s what you’d brew it with. I’m thinking a couple puerh teas I have might be really nice with it. Hazelnut teas. Yes. It is time to experiment.
This one says it has notes of coconut and cinnamon. I definitely taste the cinnamon notes. So delicious. I think I’ll brew up some more without the caffeine, maybe in almond milk, for a before bed treat!
I was unpacking from yesterday and today, and the kettle was on… I couldn’t resist. :) It’s steeped ground cocoa nibs. That should describe the flavour pretty well! Just too bad it calls for SO MUCH per cup! I’ll update later after I have a latte version.
Report back: I steeped 2 tbsp this in 12 oz-ish final volume of unsweetened almond milk. I heated it on the stove then covered it and left it for… a while. 15 mins? 30 mins? Somewhere in there. Then I strained it carefully into a mug, and sipped. OMG. It’s like drinking 99% chocolate. So I added sugar. And more sugar. And ended up with 1.5tsp sugar in my mug, to get it to the “rich dark drinking chocolate” level of barely sweetness.
Interesting. I quite like it because it’s richer than cocoa powder due to the whole bean-ness of it. Not for every day though.
Cavalla is fish. And a river.
I’ve been to Kavala, which is in Greece.
The name of this tea confuses me.
The chocolate is grown near the Cavalla River, apparently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalla_River
I think tomorrow after work, I will start doing comparisons of these teas. I will be sure to watch for the creaminess in this one and the bitterness in Coca River