Well, gosh. Now I’m stumped.
I came home expecting to give this tea its walking-papers. I enjoyed the morning mate so much, I felt sure there was no way this tea was going to compare. I go to the cupboard, open it up, pull out the basically fresh batch of this I’d reordered, sigh, open and sniff it…
…and decide that it still SMELLS good. …am I really getting rid of it? Maybe I’d better have some and make sure I want to do that…so I brew it up as a latte, intending to brew the other tea alongside in some grand conflagration of caffeine intake because clearly I need to compare the two. Only somewhere along the way I get distracted by how I’m enjoying THIS cup, and wouldn’t it be delicious-awesome as a treat if I threw in a tiny piece of Scharffen Berger milk chocolate bar to melt in it instead of sweetener? So I do, and it IS delicious-awesome.
At that point I realized I might need to re-evaluate my plans to ditch this tea. At some point I’ll do a side-by-side, it’s just a pain in the neck with lattes. Maybe tomorrow. For now…mmm. Tasty.
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MMM. Scharffen Berger. I’m absolutely addicted to their cacao nibs. I am now pondering the effects of cacao nibs on tea.
I crumbled it in once it was already steeped and milked, and the effects were delicious. I am fairly certain this is what a majority of chocolate blends are doing anyway, hence the oily quality of the water once steeped, but I have only personally tried these two, myself.
MMM. Scharffen Berger. I’m absolutely addicted to their cacao nibs. I am now pondering the effects of cacao nibs on tea.
I crumbled it in once it was already steeped and milked, and the effects were delicious. I am fairly certain this is what a majority of chocolate blends are doing anyway, hence the oily quality of the water once steeped, but I have only personally tried these two, myself.