Design a Tea
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Steep Information:
Amount: 1 teabag, 3.3g including paper teabag and plastic wrapper and paper tag.
Additives: none
Water: 6 ounces filtered boiling
Steep Time: a little over 3 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: Amaretto
Steeped Tea Smell: tea
Flavor: black tea
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: Very bitter
Liquor: nice translucent brown
This was one of two samples I ordered from design a tea. The tea was lackluster and smelled much stronger and interesting and delicious than it tasted. It tasted weak and plain with a lingering bitter aftertaste. I didn’t even steep it as long as the packaging suggested.
Post-Steep Additives: none
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 teabag, 3.7g including paper teabag and plastic wrapper and paper tag.
Additives: none
Water: boiling filtered
Steep Time: a little over 5 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Leaf Smell: nutty amaretto (contamination from other sample) vanilla with a slight caramel undertone
Tea Smell: rooibos, vanilla, woody
Flavor: rooibos
Body: Light
Aftertaste: caramel
Liquor: nice dark brown, fairly transparent
This was one of two samples I ordered from design a tea. The tea was lackluster and smelled much stronger and interesting and delicious than it tasted. It tasted weak and plain.
At this point I am not very enthusiastic about the second sample I got, but we’ll see.
Post-Steep Additives: none
Resteep: very weak and watery, plain rooibos, hints of vanilla in the smell and aftertaste
Preparation
Design a Tea’s Pumpkin Chestnut was so awful I ended up throwing it out. I figured that I might as well try the other sample I ordered from them and get it over with.
When I opened the package, the bright smell of pear hit me… hmm, this one might be better than the last. It’s rooibos, so I’m not sure what I was thinking mixing rooibos with apple and pear. Oh well, let’s see how it tastes.
The aroma is very sweet and fruity. The taste is also fruity, but not obviously pear or apple. Just sorta sweet.
It’s a middle of the road tea. Not bad, but not really good either.
Edited: It’s developing a strange aroma as it’s cooling. I think I’m headed for the kitchen sink with this one, too. Bleh.
No pumpkin flavor. Just black tea and (I suppose) chestnuts. sigh
booo…
I would like to have a tea that REALLY tastes like pumpkin pie. Perhaps it’s harder than we think to capture the essence of pumpkin.
Seems to me that no matter which pumpkin themed tea people review they’re always wishing for more pumpkin.
I suspect that it is… my sister brought up pumpkin flavored syrup for Thanksgiving (we use this particular brand of syrup in our coffees) and it didn’t really taste particularly pumpkin-y either.
I can’t finish this, I’m going to toss it. It’s pretty bad.
Boooooooo indeed. I’m anxiously awaiting the 52teas pumpkin blend. It may be a tastes like pumpkin first.
