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So this tea was not my favorite. It may have been my fault because all I had was a sample size and I used a big mug…probably 12 oz. So it was probably underleafed. That being said, I mainly get a buttery taste from it with maybe a tiny bit of caramel. It just tastes kind of odd. Maybe I’ll try a resteep with less water and hold off on rating it until then. Anyway, thanks for the sample, Butiki Teas!

Resteep: I used about half the water this time. The weird taste is even worse now. This is just not the tea for me. There must be something wrong with me since everyone else seemed to be raving about it!

I used the rest of this sample to cold brew for about 10 hours. It has even less flavor now. I’m not impressed by this tea.

I had two different teas in my two large infusers and I thought I saved the ATR Brioche for a resteep, but it turns out I saved the H&S Soho blend instead. It’s hard to be mad about this, but I don’t have much of the Brioche! Mondays…blech. Any tips on how to save and keep track of the different teas you drink for resteeps?

Yes, again. I apologize for nothing. Lovely floral taste that also tastes somehow clean. Not in a soapy way at all! Also, it’s so great before bed. I’m so chilled and relaxed now. I hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day! Being 1,000 miles from my mom sucks, but we got to talk and she loved her gifts :-)

Backlog! I almost forgot about this one. I had this at a friend’s house today while I was over for his breakfast brunch. I also had an amazing tofu scramble, waffles, and mimosas, which is not relevant but is very pleasant to reminisce about :-). Anyway, this tea was very good! I normally don’t like fake cherry flavored things all that much, but this cherry was quite good and paired well with the vanilla. I added a little foamed almond silk and this turned out to be a very tasty cup!

ZOMG. This tea. Yes. The coconut and the barley are at the forefront with the cocoa really rounding out each sip. It tastes like a mounds bar and a chocolate rice crispie treat had a tea love child. In other words, wonderful. Chocolate and coconut are always a winning combination for me and this tea does it in a new, delicious way.

This tea smells really interesting and has huge chunks of (presumably) figs and nuts in the dry leaf. The taste is mostly roasted sesame wrapped around figginess. It’s not quite figs, but it has a certain figginess to it. Yes, I know figginess is not a word, but it’s the only way I could think of to describe it. Overall, it’s a pretty pleasant cup, but it won’t be a tea that I’ll order again.

The tea was pretty disappointing to me. It doesn’t taste bad, but the flavors are really weak. I don’t taste any coconut at all (sad face) and I only get a whisper of pineapple in the aftertaste. Even so, it doesn’t really taste like actual pineapple at all, more like a pineapple candy flavor. This may have been my fault because I brewed it with boiling water rather than the recommended 185F, which I didn’t notice until I was pouring the boiling water. I think I’ll try this as a cold brew.

I’ve been busy this weekend! Not too busy for tea, mind you, but I haven’t been able to get any reviews done. I’ve just been drinking my favorites (Butiki Killer’s Vanilla, Harney and Sons Soho Blend, American Tea Room’s Brioche, etc.) but the best part is that I’ve been introducing my friend Joe to all my awesome teas as well. He recently decided not to drink soda anymore and to drink tea instead. He bought a Bigelow sampler and liked everything but the Earl Grey (Blergamots unite!). I loaded him up with a bunch of samples, brewing some for him here since he doesn’t even have an infuser yet. He said “All your teas are so amazing! Much better than soda and I’ll save money now that I’m not buying soda.” I managed not to laugh but didn’t have the heart to break it to him that he will probably be spending much more on tea!

This tea is amazing. I drank it with sweetener and frothed milk and it tastes just like a cinnamon roll. Seriously, just like it with the icing and all! So bready and yeasty with cinnamon….mmmmmmmm. How do they do that? This tea is the very best version of having your cake and eating it too because you get to have your breakfast pastry and not get fat.