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Mastress Alita’s sipdown challenge – February Tea #7: A tea flavored like a favorite snack food

Stealing Mastress Alita’s idea here to use genmaicha to represent popcorn!  I have actually never written a tasting note for this one and I have by now forgotten whichever generous soul sent it over – thank you to whomever it was.  It’s a REALLY tasty genmaicha!  Even ancient, this is very good – very toasty and buttery… so identical to popcorn flavors. It couldn’t possibly taste MORE like popcorn.  It’s a great example of genmaicha, especially for its age… I swear there could be extra flavoring added to this ancient tea… I mean, it is probably ten years old by now.  I’m a little sad it’s a sipdown!   On a roll with sipdowns so far this year – these prompts certainly help.
2022 sipdowns: 25

derk

Glad the 10 y/o tea was up to par! I’m thinking if work calms down at all next month, I’ll be attempting Mastress Alita’s March sipdown challenge. Haven’t had much tea at all lately :(

tea-sipper

Yes, I’m still wishing I had more of this tea around. ha. I wish your work calms a bit, derk! (and more time for tea)

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derk

Glad the 10 y/o tea was up to par! I’m thinking if work calms down at all next month, I’ll be attempting Mastress Alita’s March sipdown challenge. Haven’t had much tea at all lately :(

tea-sipper

Yes, I’m still wishing I had more of this tea around. ha. I wish your work calms a bit, derk! (and more time for tea)

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Hi! I love tea and trying new ones – it adds a bit of variety to my day! Books, music, TV & movies are my thing… and tea, of course.

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My icon photo is Richard Mayhew from the graphic novel ‘Neverwhere’ by Neil Gaiman, Mike Carey & Glenn Fabry.

Most of the teas listed in my cupboard are actually sample sizes. I don’t really have 2,000 ounces of tea around here! Many of my teas have only one teaspoon left… maybe two. But I like keeping them in my cupboard list for reference to what I could be sipping. Usually, I write tasting notes once for each tea. I’m still drinking them, just not writing tasting notes each time!

I’m always in search of: Hattialli, Qu Hao black, Jin Jun Mei, teas using marshmallow root.

My dislikes: hibiscus, ginger (unless in chai), turmeric, bee pollen, charcoal type flavors

My ratings:
95-100 – Super awesome deliciousness favorites – cupboard essential
80-95 – Also pretty delicious
65-80 – Pretty good
50-65 – Okay
1-50 – Probably won’t want to sip it again

I’m planning on being a Steepsterer as long as there IS a Steepster, so if you’re not hearing from me, that means something happened to my health… if you know what I mean. (Or as evidenced by the great computer hiatus of 2019, something happened to my computer… I have a dumb phone so can’t access internet on that. As of 12/20/21 my wifi might start getting unreliable.)

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