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“Tea Advent Calendar – Day 11 Oh my goodness, this is SO GOOD! My whole kitchen smelled amazing while it was brewing and it tasted almost as good as it smelled: notes of sweet toffee, pastry, and...” Read full tasting note
“going to be a few of these samples today – trying to get through more of my samples so that i can focus on having a proper weigh of my cupboard this month sometime. this one is SUPER aromatic. ...” Read full tasting note
“I found a new recipe for tea-infused hot chocolate because I was intrigued to find something different. I stumbled upon this one by Savvy Eats: http://www.savvyeat.com/tea-infused-hot-chocolate. It...” Read full tasting note
“This is a queued tasting note. Brought this one with me to DAVIDsTEA to drink on shift earlier this week. Everyone was pretty excited about it/the dry smell. It’s so sweet and rich smelling and the...” Read full tasting note
Tea of the Month for November 2016
Rich and malty handrolled tea from Yunnan, China with english toffee, pastry and a beautiful custard note.
This tea resteeps many times!
This tea is limited run, so once it is gone, it’s gone for the season. It is sold only in 0.5oz quantities.
Ingredients:
Hand rolled yunnan black tea, gluten free cinnamon grahams (brown rice flour, white rice flour, tapioca starch, sweet rice flour, butter, brown sugar, sorghum flour, gluten-free oat bran, molasses, natural flavors, cinnamon, potato starch, sodium bicarbonate, baking soda, sea salt), calendula petals, natural flavors
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Tea Advent Calendar – Day 11
Oh my goodness, this is SO GOOD! My whole kitchen smelled amazing while it was brewing and it tasted almost as good as it smelled: notes of sweet toffee, pastry, and something that’s reminding me of dates. This is the best dessert tea I’ve had in a long time…huge thank you to Shae for including it in my advent calendar, especially since it was limited edition and is no longer available. (Pretty sad about that, because I would gladly buy a couple of ounces if I could!)
Flavors: Bread, Dates, Sweet, Toffee
going to be a few of these samples today – trying to get through more of my samples so that i can focus on having a proper weigh of my cupboard this month sometime. this one is SUPER aromatic. Toffee explosion all over the house…making me want to go bake something haha. I probably overleafed this as my one complaint about the directions for this is 1-2 tsp, which isn’t very helpful when you’re dealing with BALLS of tea. Better would be something like 4 -6 balls or whatever per 8oz.
taste wise though, i’m a fan. the flavouring sort of stays in your mouth, so it’s not a tea i would drink a TON of, but for that indulgent dessert tea you need every now and then, this would be a good one. thanks Variatea!
I found a new recipe for tea-infused hot chocolate because I was intrigued to find something different. I stumbled upon this one by Savvy Eats: http://www.savvyeat.com/tea-infused-hot-chocolate. It seemed simple enough and tbh I was skeptical that it would work b/c you only steep the tea in cold milk for like 15 minutes. I also used an older tea and was unsure how much flavor it still had.
The steeped milk gets mixed with a tbsp cocoa powder, a tbsp (a little less) of sugar, and 2 tbsps chocolate (I used 1 tbsp milk and 1 tbsp semi-sweet). I was surprised after all was said and done that I actually got some toffee flavor. It obviously was VERY chocolatey and very creamy but there was a caramel/toffee sweetness that snuck in.
fun!
Lol the only fun in my life right now :P
you know who you’re talking to right? lol
hahahaha I had a feeling you’d call me on this :P
of course :) ‘cause i’ll trade you! my “fun” for this week was getting the new cloth diapers i ordered.
hijack NEW CLOTH DIAPERS?! That sounds very fun. I got a fantastic deal on a lot of barely used ones and it was great, but I have run out of drawer space.
@VariaTEA – that does sound good. Now I want Laoshan Black hot chocolate. I am clearly on an LB kick right now.
@kitenna – 75% off so even with the exchange rate they averaged out to 5$ each including the 2 pairs of maxaloons i also bought (reg 30)
now i jysr need more flats or fitted….not sure which i prefer yet.
This is a queued tasting note.
Brought this one with me to DAVIDsTEA to drink on shift earlier this week. Everyone was pretty excited about it/the dry smell. It’s so sweet and rich smelling and the name and then the appearance of the leaf really draw you in.
Here are the notes I scribbled on my cup drinking it:
- Added milk
- Malty, sweet, caramel, freshly baked bread, cocoa
- Smooth with no bitterness, minimal astringency
- Almost tasted like an Assam profile?
I loved it a lot overall; the one change I think I’d make is a slightly shorter steep time because I went with around five minutes, and I’m pretty sure that’s where the astringency came from. Also, I think I’d like to try it without milk as well – the primary reason I added it in the first place was to soften the astringency, and if that wasn’t an issue I don’t think the milk would be needed.
This sounds sooooo good!
Ooooooh!