15575 Tasting Notes
Made up a round of Stash bagged teas on, uhh, I think Wednesday? Wednesday and Thursday are kinda blurring together for me right now.
I wanted tea, but I didn’t have the strength to put in the effort to make nice, loose tea so lots and lots of bagged stuff. This one wasn’t really agreeing with me, though I normally adore it. It just sat funny on my tongue and left a weird sour taste in my mouth. During the sip it was nice creamy caramel, though…
Bleh.
So I had Wednesday/Thursday off but spent both days curled up in bed (my couch) highly drugged up, coughing up phlegm and finishing season two of GOT in between long, extended naps. I drank a lot of this; my “justification” being that it was great for staying hydrated. That was probably true…
Tre also got back from Regina on Wednesday (well technically late Tuesday night), sadly with no tea! Wah wah wah. I don’t blame him though; Regina was super flooded while he was down there, and I don’t think Cuppa’T was easily accessible to him, especially with the flooding. Definitely disappointing though.
What did he bring back? Three huge Plexiglas light sabers that he forgot to bring up when we initially moved over half a year ago. What has he been doing with those light sabers? Having light saber duels late at night in the living room, with just himself. Yeah, he’s fighting imaginary opponents…
My roommate is a dork.
Sipdown (153/160)!
So I cold brewed the last little bit because I’d enjoyed it more cold brewed than hot but I had a lot of problems with this particular cold brewed batch; it tasted sorta medicinal (maybe just because I’m sick – but I think not) and was very thin flavour wise.
But really, my biggest problem with this particular cold brew was that I was drinking it alongside a hot thermos of Cherry NeoCitron at work and the NeoCitron tasted significantly better/more flavourful. That’s just not right…
So I’m done with this one. I played around, but overall I just don’t like it so there’s no need to pick up anymore. It’s not what the name promises and that’s a sugary sweet, flavourful candy cherry flavour. Nope.
So like I pretty much just noted with this one, I drank it a lot this weak because it’s an awesome sick tea; but I’m making special note of this particular timolino full because it tasted quite significantly different than the other cups I enjoyed this week.
I made it in a timolino and I’m not sure if it was because of how it was prepared or just because I was at my “peak sickness” but it tasted thin, watery, weak a little metallic. Definitely the worst cup I’ve had of this one in a long time; but definitely an outlier to the other cups I’ve had recently.
Finally feel like I’m making a bit of a dent in my tin of this one. Thankfully I’m still loving it though! It too makes a good sick tea; mostly ‘cause of the licorice root. It’s sweet and indulgent and definitely something nice to cradle and feel the heat from.
This cup in particular was lots of chocolate and not so much “nut”. Still good though.
Flavors: Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Licorice
This is always one of those teas that I think “Man, I should just sip it all down and move on” about, but then I get sick and it becomes a major tea crutch for me. Seriously, it’s one hell of a great sick tea.
It just really relaxes and soothes the throat, and it makes you get all sleepy and stuff. Just lots of good stuff jumbled all together in it like chamomile, licorice root, peppermint, and goji berries. And on top of everything it’s sweet enough to still be flavourful when you’re sick and hopped up on medication and can’t taste shit all.
So I don’t know. I’ve made a pretty good dent in the tin this week; still not close to a sipdown though. I think it’s one of those things I just kinda need to have around though in at least a small quantity because it’s a really affordable sick tea.
Hot brewed cup Sunday evening. It looked like very crystal clear blood. Smelled slightly better than blood…
These are the notes I jotted down (because fuck writing long things when you’re sick):
- Very tart blood/beet like flavour initially with more mellow “cherry koolaid” type middle flavour
- Lemon grass very present
- A few odd sips were medicinal
- CB is better
I’m really feeling like this is something I could only enjoy with sweetener and I just don’t want to have to rely on that to make my tea good! Bumping the rating down.