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65
drank Oolong Berry by T2
1146 tasting notes

Another from the Strange VariaTea TTB. The berry notes are very strong here. I’m getting an almost candy-like strawberry and/or raspberry flavor. It’s just a smidge too sweet for my taste, especially in the first steep, but still enjoyable. The base tea doesn’t totally fade away – it does have some heft – but I’m having trouble making out specific notes. The base gets even lighter and more non-specific in the second steep, but the berry flavoring gets lighter too so it’s ok. Not one I’d reach for but one I’m happy to have tried.

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70
drank Banana Bake by T2
961 tasting notes

This tea has been on my wish list for literally years and was the main reason I felt compelled to order from T2’s closeout sale. Unfortunately, the flavor was a bit of a letdown for me. I definitely get banana – actually, quite a nice, natural banana flavor with none of the artificial Laffy Taffy vibes I often get from banana teas. But the “bake” aspect is totally absent…it’s just a brisk black tea with a fresh banana flavor and none of vanilla, nut, or bakery notes I was hoping for to bring it more into banana bread territory.

Flavors: Banana, Brisk

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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90
drank Jaffalicious by T2
961 tasting notes

I was skeptical of this one, as chocolate teas tend to be pretty hit and miss for me. But this blend hits the spot! The orange flavor is juicy and natural and the chocolate is a rich, dark, dark bittersweet chocolate that balances the fruitiness perfectly. I like it straight and also with a bit of milk. It was also a huge hit with friends we invited over a few weeks ago, who were very disappointed to learn it’s no longer readily available in the USA. Wishing I’d gotten around to trying T2 before they closed down their American website!

Flavors: Chocolate, Dark Bittersweet, Juicy, Orange

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
Martin Bednář

You liked it and I disliked it. Well, it is amazing how different opinions we have :)

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100
drank Singapore Breakfast by T2
961 tasting notes

Of the 20+ teas I ordered during T2’s closing sale, this one was my favorite! Unexpected, since the inclusion of both puerh and genmaicha in the same blend made me dubious of the result. But the blend turned out to be very creamy, rich, and coconut-forward with a nice richness coming from the genmaicha. The mouthfeel was smooth and buttery like an oolong and overall it gave off STRONG popcorn vibes…my husband always refers to it as “that popcorn tea”. Both of us love it and are hoping we can still find a way to order it from Australia in the future!

Flavors: Butter, Coconut, Creamy, Popcorn, Smooth, Toasted Rice

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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60
drank New York Breakfast by T2
961 tasting notes

This blend smells lovely, but the flavor doesn’t live up to the aroma for me. I get hints of vanilla, maple, and cinnamon, but all the flavors are on the lighter side and the base tea is a bit smoother and less full-bodied than I expect with a breakfast tea. Adding milk mutes the flavors even more, leaving me with nothing but a milky black tea with a a hint of cinnamon. Disappointing overall, but the tin sure is cute!

Flavors: Cinnamon, Maple Syrup, Smooth, Vanilla

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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30
drank Jaffalicious by T2
1837 tasting notes

The TTB has arrived! So big, so many teas… no chance to try them all!
Tea #22

T2 closing sale, not so long time ago… I remember putting this tea to my order list, but apparently no shipping to Europe was available, so I have shrugged and moved on.

Actaully I am glad I haven’t bought it. Because it is such a huge dismal. Tastes like a cheap chocolate with no orange in sight and with alcoholic aftertaste. Jaffa cakes are my favorite snack, great with cup of tea… but as a tea, it doesn’t work.

I drank half a cup and my sister-in-law was asking what I am drinking that it smells lovely. I told her, offered her a sip. She really liked it, so I have offered her the rest of the mug… happily, because I don’t have to finish it and the tea wasn’t prepared in vain. Honestly I am not sure if I could finish it myself.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 2 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 10 OZ / 300 ML

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drank French Earl Grey by T2
961 tasting notes

Strange VariaTEA TTB #6

I think I made a pretty colossal mistake with this one by adding milk. I always drink my earl grey with milk, so I did it without even tasting it first…now I see in the description here that the company specifically recommends NOT adding milk. :( I don’t feel like I can really rate this one, since I didn’t drink it as it was intended to be drunk. Though I will say, I think it may be misnamed as an earl grey! The overwhelming aroma I got from the dry leaf and flavor I got from the brew was a sweet, juicy peach. The bergamot may be there, but it’s seems to be completely overwhelmed by the peach flavoring. I do like peach, so I think I might have liked this quite a bit if I’d drunk it straight!

Flavors: Fruity, Juicy, Peach, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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90
drank Carrot Cake by T2
961 tasting notes

Strange VariaTea TTB #2

This one smells SO good…and the flavor almost lives up to the scent! Not sure if it’s quite reading carrot cake for me, but it definitely has spice cake vibes. A good balance between the spices, nuttiness, and sweet, cakey flavors. T2 has been hit and miss for me, but I’d call this one a hit!

Flavors: Cake, Nutty, Spices

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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80
drank New York Breakfast by T2
316 tasting notes

Ashmanra’s Sipdown Challenge | October 2023 | A tea that gets you going

Easy come, easy go! I pulled this one from the most recent TTB and really enjoyed it. I wish there had been more in the package! It’s a flavorful breakfast tea, even if I continue to be perplexed by the name/inspiration.

2023 sipdown count: 51

gmathis

When I hear “NY breakfast,” the conclusion I jump to is coffee and a bagel.

Kelmishka

Right?! Not chocolate pancakes with maple syrup…

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80
drank New York Breakfast by T2
316 tasting notes

Sampled from the Strange VariaTea Traveling Tea Box

After two weeks with the box, trying to cram in tastings during this oh-so-busy season of my life, I’m finally getting ready to send it on! I’m squeezing in a few more samplings before doing so.

This morning I drank this tea while revising the first paper for my clinical practice course. I don’t really understand what’s New York-y about a pancake breakfast, but I don’t mind the tea itself! It’s definitely evocative of pancakes and maple syrup, with a full, unctuous mouthfeel and, oddly, notes of chocolate? Maybe they’re chocolate chip pancakes! :D

Normally I prefer some astringency in my breakfast black teas (don’t ask me why!) but I think it makes sense, thematically, that this one is not terrifically tannic.

I actually like this quite a bit. There are only one or two servings left in the bag, so I’ll probably keep the rest.

Flavors: Chocolate, Maple Syrup, Pancake Syrup

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drank Mango Cucumber by T2
15575 tasting notes

Cold Brew!

This is the tea I had waiting for me when I came home from work yesterday, and it was pretty fantastic. Definitely becoming one of my favourite T2 blends, and I’m also realizing that in general I think T2 does fruit flavours really well. Though the cucumber could be a smidge stronger, this makes for a great balance of cooling and refreshing slightly vegetal undertones with sweet, juicy mango notes – a bit like a cross between fresh mango puree and a more mellow mango gummy candy. Not too intense, and very playful and dynamic.

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drank Mango Cucumber by T2
15575 tasting notes

Cold Brew!

Though I wish the cucumber was a little stronger and more vegetal, this was such a surprisingly delicious mango blend from T2! It was very sweet and juicy, with somewhere between a mango gummy candy type of taste and the more realistic notes of freshly cut ripe mango. I think what i enjoyed most was that, though there was a slight top note acidity and brightness, this was a hibiscus free blend so those mango notes were really able to shine and stand out on their own.

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drank Creme Brulee by T2
5 tasting notes

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75
drank Just Peppermint by T2
114 tasting notes

Drank this for the month of June’s “A minty tea” prompt. Yes! This is just peppermint. What else is there to say except it’s the perfect thing to ease a stomachache, and excellent with honey. Can’t get more straightforward than that.

Flavors: Mint

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drank Melbourne Breakfast by T2
1440 tasting notes

Thanks Kelmishka for sending this my way!

I brewed this up not realizing there was vanilla, just thinking it was a more “straightforward” breakfast tea. The scent is really lovely, with the vanilla obvious, yet soft. The taste itself is quite smooth with a creamy, vanilla flavour at the forefront. The vanilla is mellow in taste, yet prominent. I have to check if Angrboda ever tried this tea on her quest for the best vanilla tea because I feel this would have been a good contender!

I have yet to find a vanilla tea that hasn’t really caused my stomach to be upset, until this! Quite thrilling. I find myself quite happy with this, so much that I would consider having this in my cupboard — as an added bonus: the sachet would also make it easy for work.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec
ashmanra

I wonder if vanilla teas upset your stomach because they usually use a fairly strong base? I wouldn’t think it would be the vanilla itself unless you are sensitive to artificial vanilla.

Courtney

I’m honestly not sure. I am fairly sensitive to overly strong artificial things in scent and taste, and have many a sensory sensitivity in general haha!

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58
drank Pink Juniper Sling by T2
316 tasting notes

I snagged a couple of these bags from the TTB, not realizing initially that they’re meant to be cold-brewed — so I was a little surprised when I read the packet later! I brewed one up this afternoon, and it’s very welcome on a 90˚F day.

The tea brews up a gorgeous vivid pink, but I find the flavors a bit muddied and weak. The titular juniper is almost nonexistent and the yuzu comes through more than the grapefruit. I find the blackberry leaf almost too sweet — it hits at the back of the sip in an unpleasant way. I thought it was stevia for a hot second!

Well, I’m glad I tried it, but I won’t be too sad when I use up the remaining sachet.

Flavors: Citrus, Herbal, Stevia, Sweet, Yuzu

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drank Jaffalicious by T2
2170 tasting notes

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drank Singapore Breakfast by T2
2170 tasting notes

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82
drank Caramel Brownie by T2
2170 tasting notes

TeaTiff Traveling Tea Box | No. 14

I’m surprised by how much I really like this blend. It’s very chocolaty, not watered down at all. I’m guessing this is due to the cacao shells? I don’t taste the caramel, but the brownie is coming through loud and clear. Delicious!

Thanks to PamelaOry for including it in the tea box!

Flavors: Chocolate

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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70
drank China Jasmine by T2
1146 tasting notes

Sipdown of another tea I could have sworn I had already written a note for… is Steepster eating notes again? This jasmine is fine. It’s not terrible, but it’s also not the most stunning jasmine green I’ve ever had. It just sort of falls squarely in the middle as floral on a vegetal green base. Brewed just-so, at 175f for 2-4 minutes, it tastes floral and fine. But if overbrewed, it takes on that aftertaste you get from a jasmine tea that’s been flavored rather than scented. I don’t definitively know that to be the case here and can’t tell from the T2 website – it may be that this flavor is happening because the base has oversteeped. Either way, not super enjoying that element and ended up adding some vanilla agave to soften it.

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drank Melbourne Breakfast by T2
6444 tasting notes

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76
drank Earl Grey by T2
2284 tasting notes

Grabbed this teabag from a TTB over a year ago – I’m bad about neglecting my teabags! This is really a pretty decent EG. The black tea is hearty and the bergamot is quite strong, which I like. I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy this, but I certainly wouldn’t mind having more.

Cameron B.

I’m also bad about neglecting teabags lol, I have to make an effort to focus on them or I completely forget about them. Oops? :P

Martin Bednář

You know, rather than neglecting tea bags, you can always send them my way :)

AJRimmer

Ha I never buy them, I just end up with a couple each time a TTB comes through – otherwise I totally would!

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drank Detox by T2
15575 tasting notes

This is definitely not a tea for me. Questionable wellness messaging aside, I just found the combination of spearmint – which is already pretty sweet – and licorice root to be much too intense and cloying for my own tastes. I finished the cup, but I could be pretty content never revisiting this one again. I’ve tasted many, many other similar blends and it’s just never a combination that works well for me.

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73
drank Gorgeous Geisha by T2
114 tasting notes

Drank this for the “Strawberry day” prompt this month! Cold brewed as usual. I think my next cup of this will have to be Arnold Palmer style, that would amp up the sweet and juicy berry in such a great way

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