6111 Tasting Notes
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 240)
2022 Sipdown 116/365!
Mastress Alita’s Sipdown Challenge March 2022: Tea with a flavour note/ingredient from a favourite Girl Scout cookie
As I live in Canada, we don’t have Girl Scout cookies, and instead have Girl Guide cookies – of which the flavour options are more limited (chocolate, vanilla, mint). My favourite are the chocolate/mint cookies, so I’m stretching a bit with a blueberry mint lemonade tea, but oh well!
Not a huge fan of this one – the green rooibos and hint of mint made it nicely refreshing, and there was some blueberry and perhaps a hint of some sort of lemon, but it just wasn’t my favourite flavour combo. Maybe it was the mint? I’d expect to enjoy a blueberry lemonade tea more!
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 239)
I still think the mate is just too present here. There is a nice blueberry flavour, and maaaaybe I can taste the green mango (not my fave flavour), but the… vegetal? Grassy? Strong? flavour of the green mate mostly overwhelms them. There’s some roasted mate in here too, and I’m sure it contributes, but I think I might like this tea more if the balance shifted towards roasted, and away from mango towards blueberry.
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 238)
I’m drinking hot tea! It’s a miracle! I actually cannot remember the last time I drank tea hot during the day, although it does happen rarely in the evenings. (For the moment, at least, my daughter is content to lay on her back on her quilt instead of being held 24/7. I can only hope it lasts like this for at least a few days!)
This is another tea I sweeear I had drank and recorded, but maybe I just drank it last year and didn’t write a tasting note. Doesn’t matter, it’s delicious. Anne’s “recipe” for chocolate teas has truly been perfected and just tastes fantastic, and there’s just a smidge of tart fruit behind the rich, velvety chocolate. Reminds me of chocolate covered berries, except better because the chocolate isn’t waxy and there are basically no calories here.
2022 Sipdown 113/365!
Mastress Alita’s Sipdown Challenge April 2022: Raisin-y tea
Although not a taiwanese tea, this black tea had some delicious, surprise raisiny notes! It was really quite good – very rich and thick, perhaps a bit of dark chocolate, and raisins.
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 237)
This was pretty nice last night. A spiced coconut chai distinctly different from the other I had recently (To Captain Hook With Love?), though I wouldn’t be able to pinpoint exactly what, as I was never really able to taste cumin here. It’s just a softer spice melange, perhaps? With a twist from usual chai spicing.
(DavidsTea 2022: 106)
2022 Sipdown 112/365!
Well, this experience is perhaps better than my last, as I was careful to only steep it for a short time to minimize the contribution of the fennel. It’s quite sweet, but also quite fruity – syrupy, even – with a nice tang at the end. I don’t particularly notice the fennel at all, but I’m fairly certain it would become overwhelming with a longer infusion.
(DavidsTea 2022: 105)
2022 Sipdown 111/365!
Mastress Alita’s Sipdown Challenge April 2022: Tea paired to the weather
This is actually the last of a packet of this tea that Roswell Strange sent me, and I believe I enjoyed that more than the packets I later purchased. However, I find Country Lemonade to be a bit pithy and bitter, with a hit of stevia that I don’t really care for. Consequently, I sweetened an iced pitcher of this and fed it to my husband, who thought it was “fine”. I prefer blends like La La Lemon, which made a really nice Nestea taste-alike!
ETA: Whoops, forgot to mention why I chose this for the weather prompt. Well, it’s because I brewed this up on the most beautiful summery April Sunday! Mid-high 20s (celsisus), and it was lovely.
I should probably just avoid buying blends I’m unlikely to enjoy. This would fall into that category – it’s a rooibos with peppermint. Why did I think I should buy this?? (or, maybe it’s a subscription box tea?)
Anyhow, I didn’t like this. Shocking. Nothing wrong with it aside from the aforementioned ingredients that I do not like.
