Aha! I beat you, sneaky browser you.
Firefox won’t let me post a note, so I logged in under IE and lo!! she works. I don’t like IE for most of my net app type activities, but once in a while she saves me so I gotta send a little love xo.
Anyhow! Me no likey MATE guayasa. It’s kinda tasteless and boring. With that earthy mate depth, but in a bad way that I’ve never seen before. Sticking with my sock reference, it’s worse than stinky sock. More like stinky ground up sock, fermented in soil. Bleh.
Now I did finish the cup, as it was still drinkable. Just far from enjoyable. Double bleh.
Mind you this was in my travel mug, and I’m sure it’d taste different in something ceramic or glass.
Nevertheless, I’ll use the rest of my small packet for blending. When I remember.
Also, is it weird that I’d often rather buy a cup of tea from the shop than spend less money to purchase 3-4 cups, so I don’t end up regretting the addition to my cupboard?! Sighs. You know you are addicted when you’d rather spend a an extra dollar or two so as to not expand your quite unmanageable cupboard!!
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I agree that it’s not the best straight, but blend it with herbals/rooibos for an extra kick. It’s a lot better for blending than mate, I find (and I keep both on hand for the exact reason I mentioned above), it’s just a touch sweeter than the mate.
I do notice it tastes grassier, like a light green tea, when I use a ceramic mug. I can’t actually drink anything but blacks or pu’erh out of my el cheapo metal travel mug, and only iced green/oolong/white from my timolino (but hot herbal/black/rooibos/pu’erh/some dark oolongs are fine). metalic + grassy = socks, apparently
also, use Chrome for a backup browser ;)
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Hum, good point Shayne! I’ll try it in ceramic before truly judging it lol
I dunno, I’ve had bad luck with Chrome. Will def give it a try when I get a new laptop though.
Ashmanra, I used it on a friends computer and it was awesome!! on mine, not so much. Ah well.
I can only assume you brewed it properly, did you try it again in a proper tea cup?
I agree that it’s not the best straight, but blend it with herbals/rooibos for an extra kick. It’s a lot better for blending than mate, I find (and I keep both on hand for the exact reason I mentioned above), it’s just a touch sweeter than the mate.
I do notice it tastes grassier, like a light green tea, when I use a ceramic mug. I can’t actually drink anything but blacks or pu’erh out of my el cheapo metal travel mug, and only iced green/oolong/white from my timolino (but hot herbal/black/rooibos/pu’erh/some dark oolongs are fine). metalic + grassy = socks, apparently
also, use Chrome for a backup browser ;)
Love Chrome!
Hum, good point Shayne! I’ll try it in ceramic before truly judging it lol
I dunno, I’ve had bad luck with Chrome. Will def give it a try when I get a new laptop though.
Ashmanra, I used it on a friends computer and it was awesome!! on mine, not so much. Ah well.
I can only assume you brewed it properly, did you try it again in a proper tea cup?