4170 Tasting Notes
Thank you for a sample of this one, MissB! Always up for trying a EGC! This one was steeped at 2 1/2 minutes at just boiling. I like it, but there are other EGCs I like more. I don’t think the bergamot is prominent enough or the cream is prominent enough. At least the black tea base isn’t overpowering the flavors. But I like a stronger tea with it anyway. The elements that are there work together and I can see many people not usually liking EG liking this one. I appreciate trying it!
Buttery green tea, coconut and almond slices (and almond flavor, I think). This is tasty! It seems to be more of an almond tea… marzipan. I can’t really taste the coconut. This blend works well together, and I’m always up for another marzipan-like tea! I’ll have to drink this one fast though, since it’s green and also coconut. I realized the other day that with my old tin of 52Teas coconut cream pie, the coconut has NOT started to age yet and get that weird taste! Nice! I thought this one might be hojicha from the picture (which might have been delicious) but it is the usual green tea. I’ve very happy with this one. I think it’s the last I had to try from my Black Friday order (oh geeze, it’s the middle of March!)
Here’s a sample pouch from the HH teabox! I’m using half the sample.
Steep #1 // 40 min after boiling // 1 min
Very sweet scent and flavor. It’s surprising! Tastes kind of like creamed corn this time around. Very sweet creamed corn. Little bit of vegetableness.
Steep#2 // 1 1/2 – 2 min steep
With this steep I couldn’t wait a half hour to cool so I stopped the electric kettle when I thought it was time. It seemed to have worked! Not too hot and the leaves didn’t burn. Green teas sometimes taste to me like sweet strawberry on the second steep. This one definitely did! This has happened a couple times before… the vegetable/creamed corn flavor is gone and there is strawberry. A nice one!
This one is from Terri Harplady by way of the HH teabox a while back. thank you! A rose earl grey sounds interesting! As Verdant suggests, two teaspoons. Plenty of big rose petals in the mix!
Steep #1 // just boiled // 2 min
The Laoshan makes this one like chocolate… which means rosey, bergamoty chocolate. Seems like an odd combination! It’s good but not great. The rose seems to overpower the tea. Not really much bergamot. But the Laoshan is so much like chocolate that it seems like chocolate was added to this tea. I like that Verdant uses roses that are the same as the roses in another rose blend I have. That makes the other tea seem more legit.
Steep #2 // just boiled // 3 min
This one seems like it has more bergamot. Still chocolatey. All three ingredients are nice, but together they don’t really make the most ideal combination. I’ve got a couple more teaspoons I’ll enjoy!
Additional notes: The last of my 52Teas reblends to try! This one IS the same as past blends… I just wish there was more lemon & mallow. But the same is better than having less mallow & lemon. A nice one! I’m happy with two of the reblends, but the other two just do not work with the new black tea base… not for me anyway. Those band aids have been ripped off though, now that I’ve tried the reblends (hey, any new teas I buy are kind of an investment for me!)
Back from the Black Friday order… but oh no! It’s the apple flavor that I thought Della Terra got rid of completely, as I haven’t tasted it in other apple blends for a while and the other apple flavor they use is so good. This one just isn’t for me. It’s the artificial perfumey apple, rather than the baked pie filling apple. Caramel apple! I was hoping this one was good. I don’t think the caramel cubes melt a whole lot, or there needs to be more of them. Also, there is supposed to be spice here? But it was an okay cup despite my distaste for the apple. It would have been so much better with the other apple though! But this one is actually better than the other teas from Della Terra that use this apple. Really, the only bad apple teas I’ve tried from DT are the Caramel Candy Apple and the Apples & Herbs. All of the others are GOOD apples.
Thank you Dexter3657! I needed something low caffeine after all that matcha. Hojicha is a good option if you’re not feeling like white/green/red tea but definitely low caffeine. I went with Zen’s instructions for hojicha (since no one really gives instructions for hojicha). Two teaspoons, 203 degrees for one minute (well.. I went for two minutes). Always love a nice cup of hojicha! Roasty, toasty, a little bit sweet. I’m surprised there isn’t more flavor here though, especially with two teaspoons. The second steep I went with just boiled water and the flavor is the same. I’ll enjoy the few teaspoons remaining in my meager hojicha collection, but there are better hojicha teas out there.
Michelle sent this one a while back for her sale! thank you! It’s an individually wrapped serving of matcha with sugar in it, but it looks like a BIG serving. Probably twice as what Red Leaf’s matchaccino scoop is. With all the mess of ingredients I put in my smoothie, it was hard to tell how nice with the matcha was, but it wasn’t not good! :D A banana, raspberry yogurt, milk and whipped cream on top! So delicious. I’m getting addicted to these things.
Another from Fusion! I wanted a strawberry tea today so it was time to try this one! I like the peach and sweet strawberry fragrance when I open the pouch. I don’t what “crispies” are but okay! There are actual strawberry pieces here. The black tea is brisk enough, but I certainly wouldn’t recommend 5-6 minutes like Fusion’s instructions say (especially when they also recommend 1 1/2 teaspoons.) But the flavor is nice! Strawberry & peach! I don’t think I’ve had any other blends with a strawberry & peach combination. A nice one! Might make a very delicious iced tea. The second steep, the black tea was much tamer. The fruit was able to make itself known. Very juicy! Scratch that – this WOULD make a very nice iced tea!
Another one to try from MissB! thanks so much! I was confused as to which tea this was, since there are two from Upton that have the same name but different ingredients. I guess it’s this one? I don’t see roses but this also doesn’t taste like chocolate. I don’t think this one can decide whether it wants to be a chai or a black tea. There are spices here, but not many. (One big green cardamom floating in the infuser looks a little weird.) There is plenty of sweet cinnamon though. It’s like it’s trying to be spicy, but not really. I like the black tea flavor itself, there just wasn’t much of it. Not outstanding, but I enjoyed the cup anyway.