Additional notes: So I was craving a coffee tea today and this was a single teaspoon holdout that I was hesitant to sipdown, which I’m pleased to now finish, as I can now order more! Blame my love of this tea on the tea box I found it in. The dry leaves still smell like coffee, even with a best by date of 2015. Yowzas. I love this: black tea, puer, cinnamon, coffee. It’s a unique combo. And the flavor remains the same throughout all three steeps. It hits the coffee craving without me having to actually drink coffee.
After I buy some teas from Cameron and this Lupicia order, I MUST stop buying teas for at least a year. I will try harder than I ever have tried. But I am always breaking my loose ‘no buy’ rules. Tea is truly something I love and appreciate, so it’s hard to resist. I’m going to try keeping track of sipdowns (I remember I tried a few years ago.) To me, sipdowns are less important than enjoying the teas I want to, when I want to, especially when they are fresh. I had a really old blend of Graveyard Mist that still tasted fantastic the other day. There is always something to enjoy in any tea. But I believe I’m a bit overboard on tea for a while, even if I appreciate every tea that arrives at my door, especially from you awesome Steepsterers. :D
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Well, I found fossilized milk in a fourteen-year-old unopened box of instant chai… that is when you know a tea is officially Too Old™. There is nothing to enjoy at that point (except the LOLs :-P ).
Yeah, a 14 year old tea is a little TOO old for me. I think my oldest tea is about eight years old and I’m VERY surprised some of them aren’t older than that… unless I acquired a tea from someone else when it was super old, so I don’t know HOW old it is.
I got into my hobby at the end of 2016, so at least for teas I purchased, nothing is older than that (no idea with stuff acquired through trade, though!) As for the tea that expired in 2005, my best guess is I bought it when I moved into this apartment and it got lost in the back of a cupboard and only recently rediscovered… truly like a fossil, hahaha.
DOUBLE fossil tea.
Well, I found fossilized milk in a fourteen-year-old unopened box of instant chai… that is when you know a tea is officially Too Old™. There is nothing to enjoy at that point (except the LOLs :-P ).
Yeah, a 14 year old tea is a little TOO old for me. I think my oldest tea is about eight years old and I’m VERY surprised some of them aren’t older than that… unless I acquired a tea from someone else when it was super old, so I don’t know HOW old it is.
I got into my hobby at the end of 2016, so at least for teas I purchased, nothing is older than that (no idea with stuff acquired through trade, though!) As for the tea that expired in 2005, my best guess is I bought it when I moved into this apartment and it got lost in the back of a cupboard and only recently rediscovered… truly like a fossil, hahaha.
DOUBLE fossil tea.