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4 grams backwards Western, starting out with 4 minutes, than 2, than 3, and than that was it. My first cup was heavy with corn and florals, tinged with apricot, melon, and honey. Second brew was more vegetable, tasting like buttery green beens, lettuce, spinach, jasmine, and some typical gaoshan clean green qualities with a little bit of darker aspects not making it too green. Last steep was vegetal, floral and sweet, but layered. The fourth cup was after a bit of time, and I mostly got cabbage.

I’ll say it’s pretty good, but I’m clamoring towards my blended or typical tea favorites despite the generousity and customer service of this company. This one is a little bit acidic for me, which I know is a weird way to describe an oolong. It almost makes the water harsher for me with it’s greener tannins, so I’ve stayed back from it and the Dayuling. I don’t know if I’m just imagining it. I’d be happy for input from other people on here.

Sipdown of the Audacious Root Chakra tea. I decided to do it Chai stlye by boiling a generously unmeasured amounf of the carob tea directly in a Turkish pot. I slowly added some sweet cream as I boiled the leaves and water, lowered the setting to medium to let it heat right. I put in a cup, sipped it, then added a splash more of the sweet cream to cool it off. This is the best way I’ve had this particular tea, so I’m concluding the best way to have chai is by making it in a boiling pot .

This morning I only did it long in a hot water then added the additives, and good, but not as thick as the boiled version, hence my new conclusion about chais for now…until I get the Chaibot machine….if it ever comes in October. I’ve waited 2 years for that thing, so I hopes it will help me plow through some tea for work quickly in the morning. I’m open to see if anyone else saw that on kickstarter and was smart to not get into it, but you know me-I’m always curious to see what the new things go. I admit it is kinda fun reteaching myself Econ by using this industry, and then helps me teach that subject when I have to in the classroom.

I loved this one, avoided it, and now I’m one cup away from a sipdown. This is a current tasting note as I write as well as a backlog. This tea can be extremely malty either gong fu or western. Sometimes I crave it because it’s got the reason why I started drinking unflavored and unsugared black teas with a little bit of osmanthus for fun, and other times there’s a little bit too much tannin. Sometimes I can get cocoa, other times I get wood, malt and tannin overpowering the osmanthus.

I’ve been on a latte kick as of late trying to cut back on coffee for less acidity, plus adding collagen protein to justify the calories, so I decided to do it with this one. I went friendly with about four teaspoons, four minutes, and then just sweet creme and collagen. It was malty, cocoa-like, with just a wisp of peach and osmanthus lifting beneath the malt and cream. This was a good decision to get through more tea in a faster amount of time.

I rebrewed it again straight, and it was a perfect cup of malt, tannin, cooca, and florals. So nice for the morning.

I still have no idea what to rate it. I stand by it having one of the best black bases I’ve had in a while compared to some other hongcha’s I’ve had. Some of them are just malt and berry for me. I haven’t tasted anything resembling a caramel note in a while like I used to, except for the Smoke and Mirrors Lapsang I got. I hope I remember to come back for a sipdown note of this one.

Solid ice tea backlog. I liked this one. It’s more citron heavy than pina colada in my opinion, but the orange coconut combo works pretty well. The rum is a little bit overpowering smelling the leaf, but it’s cohesive and subtle in the background behind the citrus. It does sometimes overstep the coconut, which is my issue. I like citrus, but the lemongrass and orange overpower the coconut imo for it to be a pina colada. On the other end, it works pretty well and is very refreshing. Coconut milk can beef up the pina colada coconut quality to cut back on the rum. They’re low calorie mocktail recipes are kind of cool too for this one too.

I like it, yet don’t love it. My biggest gripe is that you need to add more ingredients to get a true pina colada feeling.

I like this one officially. There is a little bit of lime, and it goes well with the melon and the coconut. I still wonder what the black version of this tea was going to be, but I’m happy with how it turned out. Easy drinking fruity white tea with a good ginger combo.

I got this one ‘cause it’s pretty and it’s wild in the ingredient combo. Scratch that-I asked nicely, and I got a very generous sample that came with homemade sachets of it. So, win and something I have a lot of grattitude for.

I know I’m writing about teas with the theme of bonkers ingredient combos, but this one was WIIILD with the kind of direction it went. Since this is a botanical tea company, they went with the Scorpio symbolism involved with shamanism and total spiritual transformation-hence the blue lotus. Although I’m an Aries, my moon’s scorpio so there’s a little bit of magical thinking appeal for me. Then they went with the sensual direction with the orange blossom and citrus dessert flavor profile of the tea. It’s almost creamsicle tasting, and very floral. It’s subtle in the flavor though, and not as pronounced as a regular flavored tea.

I brewed it western with probably a whopping 7 grams of the tea or more for three minutes, thus writing the notes hot above, and then I coldbrewed the remainder to try it out. My girlfriend mostly tasted the guava and orange, making her think of POG. The pineapple is kind of there to sweeten it out and not super noticeable. They write tres leches for their notes, and I can only think creamy. I’ve had that kind of cake once, and I think it’s a bit of a stretch, but I can see it because the of creamy vibes. I only have a little bit of the sample, so I can’t fully dissect it. However, know it’s mild, floral, and very creamy and citrusy. They went for the feminine sexy version of scorpio in this blend for sure.

This is the first tea I saw on instragram for Artemis, and wanted to try it, and I finally got some. HEAVY on the berry in smell and profile with a like of the cocoa like dark chocolate in the dry leaf, and the same goes in the brewed flavor western. The yunnan teas are a bit faded in the background in the first cup I made because the berries and wine skins dominate. The second cub (heehhehe get it? This was a typo that I decided to keep, ’cause ursa, ’cause “cup”) I rebrewed western had much more of the Yunnan Black with a smooth profile blending into the cocoa nicely with a little bit of chocolate tannin in the aftertaste despite being on the way lighter side of tea.

This one is like Byzantium’s older berrier sister. It was what I hoped for, and I really didn’t need 60 grams of it, but it’s a very good tea I don’t mind having around with all the others. No ratings yet, just enjoying it for the different take on a berry blend. To think of it, this tea reminds me of the Icewine flavored teas I used to get from Canada…

I’ve resisted having this one, but I’ve been craving for it straight without any additives despite saving it for sweet and condensed milk again. I tried some, and it definitely works for the blend iced, but it’s more comforting hot. Granted, I like hot tea over iced tea most of the time anyway even in hot months, but the way the anise melts into the clove and creamy vanilla always sits right with me, especially amidst the puerh and softer black tea bases. It’s actually very soothing on my stomach and my throat, and I was a trigger away from getting more of this one in my next order if it weren’t for the fall flavor sampler going on discount, especially with an oolong I’m gunning for.

I’m back in a phase of wanting to try no teas and limited editions in addition to bulking my staples. So stupid of me. Then again, there’s What-Cha and other sites adding really cool experimental teas more within my tasting range too, but I haven’t bought from in a while and I keep going towards blends with occasional pure teas. Now, you have back to school angst coming in, and now I’m planning on my work rotation for the dealing with the Youth.

Going back to this one, it’s soothing and grounding while tasting like Eggnog. It definitely has a Thai tea tasting profile, yet it’s way more mild compared to the spice punch from the Tamarind you get. I can’t decide to rate it. I know I’ve stood in my 80-90 comfort zone lately, and me wanting to keep coming back to this tea is throwing off my rating a little bit. It rebrews pretty well, scores points for being forgiving and easy to drink on its own, and is versatile, so that’s at least above a 70%, + 10% for the balance of flavors, and then the soothing nature of the tea that keeps me coming back to it pushing it near 90 for me. Sometimes, it’s a little too mild and I wish there was a little bit more of a spice kick, and other times I want the mild nature of this tea. It’s roughly $11 for an oz of this, and I think it’s $33 for roughly 4 oz of it, though I think I’m partly wrong.

I think this is an easy tea for beginners for sure, and I think more experienced drinkers would want more kick and richness for this one to justify the price perhaps. I also see people who really don’t like Pu-Erh yet want to like Pu-Erh enjoying this one, and I’d hate to say it, it kinda reminds me of the few Butiki blends I’ve gotten to try. Simple and soothing and …basic.

I’ve had some of the herbal with honey, and served it to my dad. It really helped his throat, and I’ve had some myself with and without honey as the rooibos herbal blend. It’s grown a little more on me. If it weren’t for the price, I’d easily reorder more of this one. The lavender white chocolate and mint profile would have me keep coming.