1024 Tasting Notes
Oops, I seem to have missed the mark on this one.
I gotta have a think about this.
This is the third guayusa I’ve tried—not just from Butiki, but in my life. The first was Blackberry Lime (pretty good) and the second was Good Morning Sunshine (awesome) but I’ve either hit a guayusa wall today after having two cups of GMS before trying this, or Tangerine Creamsicle and I just aren’t gonna be friends.
Thing is, I was super excited to try it because the dry leaf SMELLS so good! It’s the final flavour and the aftertaste that is rubbing me the wrong way here. I think it’s the cream flavour? Maybe? I don’t know? Maybe it’s true guayusa flavour? Adding some sugar definitely helped mute that particular flavour, so that could be what saves my feelings on this blend in the long run, but I don’t know when I’ll be up for trying it again with so many other delights in my cupboard.
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Urrrrgh I am too old to go out drinking until 3am when I need to work at 9am. Just kidding, I am the perfect age to do that, but gosh I wish I hadn’t.
Good thing this tea is near perfect for what I need right now. The cup of coffee I had first made me want to vomit but this is zesty perfection.
Preparation
First try of this one! Can’t remember exactly who’s to blame for me adding this to my order, but feel free to own up.
It’s funny checking out other reviews, so many people are specifically noting that they prefer Cantaloupe & Cream to this. How did I miss that constant reference when working out my first order? Oh well.
I followed instructions and added a bit of sugar (after having a straight sip) and I have to admit, I prefer it straight. Unless “a bit” of sugar should be literally a pinch? Because I added more like 1/2tsp and blech, too sickly candy sweet for these tastebuds.
Still, the straight sip I had was divine and I will be heading back in soon. Also wanting to try a cold brew of this. Yes… yes.
Trust me to get into cold brewing as the temperatures plunge toward the heart of winter.
Ok. Look. I bought a box of this at the T2 Mother’s Day event the other week because I couldn’t resist the plush packaging, and I preferred the sweeter notes of this blend compared to the other two (Fuchsia and Ruby, both far more tart and obnoxious). My friends thought it hilarious that I would choose the most understated, something something my personality something something those jerks. =P
Anyway.
I was going to keep it in the top of the cupboard until I’d gotten through some more open options, but I don’t feel like I have enough caffeine free options available right now, and I love a post-dinner tea but have been having some sleep troubles lately (she types at 2am). Plus there is the fact that I actually received a second box of this (and a storage container, and a pair of teacups and saucers!) as a thank you from the company for filling out some forms to do with them using an Instagram photo of mine in a potential future book they’re publishing. Well, the book’s gone on the back burner for now, but I was quick off the mark getting my form in so thanks via presents was still in order.
So yeah. Long story short, Rose is open and away from the other two blends released in this same promotion I find she is still crazy full of flavour. I get all three—rose, chocolate and fruit. I find chocolate strongest on the nose and fruit strongest on the tongue but all three are in there.
And KikiLibertine is bang on the money about the dry leaf smelling of Baileys. SO WEIRD. And now I want Baileys. It’s been a while… so creamy.
