16703 Tasting Notes
Sipdown (again before it entered my cupboard)!
Another generous add in from Kat_Maria.
Typically, I hate teas like this one which promise/boast about having great health benefits because I really don’t think that’s what tea drinking should be about. If those benefits are true, that should be like an “added bonus” for drinking tea, not the sole reason you do it because most of the time the benefits are way over hyped/played up.
An example would be the belief Green Tea is great for weight loss. The way some people push this, it sounds like Green Tea on its own is going to help you shed the pounds, but you need to combine drinking green tea (on a very regular basis) along with a good diet and exercise to see any real benefits. I once witnessed a girl purchase 100g of Bancha from Tea Desire. She had no tea knowledge at all, and was quite clearly asking about Green Tea (she just asked if they had ‘Green Tea, like is healthy for you’) because it would supposedly help her lose weight and I just felt so bad for her (she was a bigger girl, and couldn’t have been more than 15 years old) because it was clear she was looking for some cure-all when it really doesn’t work that way.
That said, and semi-rant over I actually thought this one was surprisingly very tasty, though I can’t remember what was in it. It was sort of fruity but also kind of minty/refreshing and vaguely reminded me of cookies. I’d totally drink it again, but because of the flavour and not its ability to “purify the skin”.
Sipdown!
This was an extra on top of the Stash bagged teas I so generously was given by Kat_Maria from the Take It Away thread, and I sipped this one down before it even entered my cupboard. Go me! I was not going to let my tea number increase.
I’ve only tried a few Twinings teas, and that was a fair while ago. Stash is definitely my tea bag company of choice. Overall, this was pretty decent but a little bitter and harsh on the end sip. For a bagged Earl Grey, I’ve had much worse though.
So, apparently this one had been removed from my cupboard a while back despite my still having it which is disappointing because it means my numbers were a little off.
Anyway, I enjoyed a large cold brewed mason jar of this yesterday with lunch. It was absolutely delicious cold brewed, and ate up a ton of leaf so I think that’s likely how I’ll finish the bulk of it up. It was like drinking liquid maple (which I now realize is a stupid thing to say, because that’s essentially what maple syrup is), but without being cloying at all. Also, I could hardly taste the rooibos in it.
Catch up (going through previous tasting notes/notifications from yesterday) only took about half an hour today, so I surprisingly still have time to log some of yesterday’s backlog. Normally I’d be able to catch everything up but I have an interview later this early morning/afternoon! Yay me! I’m also going to take advantage of being in the mall and distribute some resumes.
I kinda of get all the fuss about this one now that I’ve had it (whisked into cold milk) because it does smell and taste surprisingly like Caramel Popcorn complete with the buttery flavour. That said, I’m not so sure how much I like it because of that. I’m not typically a fan of butter-y things, for example the buttery taste of 52Tea’s Pancake Breakfast is my least favourite thing about that blend (the exception to this rule is Movie Night, which I think works for me because it’s so light in flavour in general).
I’d probably stick to plain caramel over caramel popcorn, but this was still pretty good. I wont have difficulty finishing what Cavocorax so generously shared with me.
Flavors: Butter, Caramel
And so concludes yesterday’s backlog! And consequently Tre just got home, so I don’t get to log any of today’s tea… So, tomorrow there’ll be backlog all over again. What an unpleasant cycle.
Teabags from Kat_Maria showed up a few minutes ago, so over 200 teas… Again. At least several are just one bag amounts, so easy sipdowns. I’m going to try to finish them all today, and maybe sipdown a few other things?
This cup was nice, though! I steeped the leaves for a shorter amount of time than usual, and consequently the raspberry and coconut were more prominent. Sadly, this cup was also fairly oily? Not just visually, but kind of it mouthfeel too, but that was maybe a fair trade off?
This sample comes from VariaTEA.
I’m a little confused why Santa’s Milk and Cookies has maple leaf sprinkles in it, to be honest. Like – sprinkles is fine, but why maple leaf sprinkles? It’s not like the flavour is abundantly maple or anything. I guess Canada has been doing their publicity stunt thing about Santa being a Canadian Citizen/getting Canadian Citizenship but I highly doubt that was the thinking or logic.
Taste wise, this wasn’t bad, but it was’t good either. It actually tasted very familiar but I couldn’t place where from which bugged me just a little bit. There was a bit of cookie taste, but not really anything too impressive. Maybe some vanilla? I’ll try it with milk next time and see if that helps, I guess.
Sipdown (199/202)!
It took me a while, but I finally finished off the sample I received of this from VariaTEA. This cup I drank cold, and it was pretty good – definitely more chocolate than I’ve come to expect from this one. Overall, this tea was less than impressive but not exactly unpalatable either. Occasionally it tasted metallic, which was weird.
I agree! My friend here found this tea company that boasts all these things a few weeks ago and the box of bagged tea was $30! She asked me if I wanted to do a joint order. Uh, nope.
Haha. I remember someone on here was like “saying tea is good for your health/weight loss/whatever is like telling people to have sex to burn callories”
Better be a damn big box for $30!
Yes a 14-day “teatox” for $35. The company isn’t on Steepster as far as I can tell. I’ll take my regular delicious tea any day, thanks. :)
Haha I went to Teavana and the woman at the store very excitedly pushed Weight To Go and told me her manager dropped 10 pounds in a week just by adding the tea to her usual routine. My mom and I just looked at her like “Wtf have you been smoking?!?” because it was just such an absurd statement to make.
I totally agree with your rant there. That sort of thing is more than enough to make NOT want to try something.
I once had a tea that was just called “Weight Loss Tea” and even though the tea itself was pretty tasty I never wanted to drink it just because I hated the name!
I can only tell you that it did not purify my skin!
A dramatic reduction of dairy in my diet did, though ;)