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I have been a bit MIA because I have been enjoying myself in Montreal. Part of that enjoyment was finally getting to meet my tea twin, Roswell Strange, which was perfectly wonderful. I can’t speak for her but I think we hit it off in person just as much as we do online. I guess when you know someone is a friend, you just know. Of course this meeting also served as an in-person tea swap…my few samples to literally 7 lbs of tea samples from Roswell Strange. Christmas definitely came early for me :P

Yet, despite having all those teas, I have yet to get a chance to log them so who knows what number my cupboard is about to hit. My guess is 250, for sure. Most likely more…we will see. And, they have all made it safely to my home…with no apparent crushing from being shoved into my suitcase. Hooray!

This tea, however, was my advent tea for today. It seemed like the easy cup to make seeing as I haven’t sorted through everything yet. That will be tomorrow’s fun. I actually don’t recall picking this one. While it is entirely possible that I did and just don’t remember, I have been having this odd feeling that some of the teas in the advent were not ones I selected. I swear I picked more matchas/powders than what I got and I know if you were over a certain amount of matchas/powders there was an additional fee. I am starting to wonder if I was not charged that fee and thus was given random other teas. Or, I just don’t really remember what I picked. Either way, it worked out with this tea.

Rooibos and coffee beans is not a combination I usually love because why add caffeine to a caffeine free blend. However, it really works here. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this cup. It tastes like how I always want coffee-flavored things to taste…which is basically less like actual coffee and more like a creamy and sweet mocha-coffee-ish flavor. No bitterness. Like coffee coffee buzz buzz buzz ice cream from Ben and Jerry’s. Even my sister commented on how this one smelled good (I made her carry it upstairs for me since my knee is quite sore following the trip and I needed my hands to help myself up the stairs). All in all, I was quite pleased and would actually consider stocking this blend.