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This is very nice, but I like the Lavender Earl Grey much better.

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73
drank Formosa Gunpowder by Culinary Teas
2888 tasting notes

A nice surprise..has more of a sweet, nutty taste that many gunpowder teas. Smooth and not sharp.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 15 sec

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78
drank Lady Londonderry by Culinary Teas
196 tasting notes

A really pleasant summery tea, one of my favorites. Good hot or cold

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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72

This I’s black tea and chocolate. You can the chocolate in the black tea. I’t smells like black tea and chocolate. I steeped it for two minutes or so. This tastes like a nice black tea with a medium white chocolate taste. Pretty good.

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Culinary Teas had exceptionally speedy delivery service—thank you!

This evening I decided to try their Belgian Chocolate Rooibos and I was enthralled. The aroma is deep, rich, and exudes chocolate decadance.

After steeping for 7 minutes, I had a perfect calorie-free,, chocolatey dessert. The tea is smooth and lucious. I was open to adding sugar but simply did not need it. I often like the creaminess of a little milk, but this Belgiam Chocolate Rooibos was creamy “au natural”.

I’m still going to be sampling teas, but right now if I were told that Culinary Teas’ Belgian Chocolate Rooibos was the only dessert tea I could ever have, I would go to bed happy.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 7 min, 0 sec

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75

Post-call day. I finally found some time to go on steepster. Oh how I miss steepster. I’ve drank several teas since my last visit but haven’t recorded them.

A solid black tea with milk and agave. Yum. Just what I need.

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75

Had some stove-top chai tonight. I’m burning the candles since I have an exam coming up. Yummy! :)

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75

I’m drinking this in the afternoon. It’s really gloomy, cold, and wet outside, and this is the perfect cup for this weather! Woke up my senses! It has a nice malty flavor, and it tastes great with a dash of milk and sugar. The color was a deep red. This exactly how I want my Assam to be.

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75

Very nice; gentle and good for afternoons. When I have the patience to wait to brew it properly, has a nice little nutty thing going on in the background.

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75
drank Chai Spice Mix by Culinary Teas
865 tasting notes

I LOVE THIS! This allows me to use a flavored black tea (I love a blend of 1.12g each of caramel and chocolate black teas) and add the amount of of spice that I want. I can’t stand fenell or anise so it’s nice to find a product like this that doesn’t have them so I don’t have to putz around and make my own. The only thing this particular blend is missing is a pinch of crushed red pepper flake. Depending on my mood it’s either 1:1 , 1:2, or 1:3 ratio of chai spice mix to black tea. Steep in boiling purified water or simmering milk. Serve unsweetened.

To make it chilled I love making a large batch using as little water as possible to make a concentrate, chilling, then using milk to fill the liquid discrepency. If serving it over ice, make ice cubes from more tea or tea steeped in milk. I prefer it blended when iced.

Have a green, rooibos, white, or oolong tea you love and want to make a chai out of? Go for it!:)

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75
drank Angels Dream by Culinary Teas
2888 tasting notes

Placing a note here, as I’m pretty confident this is a Metropolitan Tea blend that’s marketed by multiple shops; in this case, Bates Nut Farm in southern CA—shared by a work friend.

With that said, there’s something firing in my synapses that makes me think I’ve tried this many years ago (pre-Steepster). There’s an Assam base, some blackberry, a little less maple—almost hard to catch, and a “mystery green tea” that keeps the berry/maple from getting too sappy and murky. And also makes it a tiny bit finicky to steep. I think that’s what the synapses are remembering—some bitterness from too-hot water.

But today, I think I hit the parameters correctly, and it’s pleasant. No unwelcome sweetening added; just hints of fruit and syrup with a little crispness.

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75
drank Angels Dream by Culinary Teas
2888 tasting notes

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75
drank Angels Dream by Culinary Teas
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drank Pralines and Cream by Culinary Teas
30 tasting notes

The husband and I could barely taste anything but plain black tea. We aren’t going to purchase it again. It was rather boring.

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75
drank Canadian Ice Wine by Culinary Teas
2888 tasting notes

An hour of chipping away at the ice barely put a dent in it, but we were able to bumble and bounce out for a lunch break. This is dessert before going back outside in the (now slushy) tundra.

Enjoying the last of the packet that came from Azzrian; it’s still more floral-tasting to me than when I had a pouch of my own some years back. Wonder if they changed their formulation or my preferences have shifted some.

Recommendations for a decent grapey tea that tastes really grapey?

Azzrian

Muscat oolong from Lupicia and Den’s Tea Grape Sencha are two of my favorite grape teas.

Azzrian

Also that Culinary Ice Wine – it has to be about a year old almost now. It could have lost a lot of the flavor I imagine.

gmathis

Could be. It’s still pleasant, though.

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75
drank Canadian Ice Wine by Culinary Teas
2888 tasting notes

Okay, say it with me: My name is…and I’m a Steep-a-holic…

Good to be back, eh?

My tealog says I haven’t had a cup of this since 2009; Azzrian kindly provided a little sip down memory lane this weekend. Still good and grapey, but a little more floral than I remember it the first time. If you’re looking for a reasonable balance between good black tea and in-your-face fruity, this is a viable selection.

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75
drank Canadian Ice Wine by Culinary Teas
2888 tasting notes

Last of the packet. Sigh. Goodbye, friend—-I will miss your grapeyness.

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75
drank Canadian Ice Wine by Culinary Teas
2888 tasting notes

I love fruity teas that are not sharp or tart; this one fits quite nicely. I like the grapey flavor.

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100

Love, love, love this one!

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75
drank Pumpkin Spice Tea by Culinary Teas
21 tasting notes

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