Three Friends (Orange, Marshmallow, Chocolate)

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Chinese Black Tea, Chocolate Chip, Organic Natural Flavors (Vegan), Organic Orange Peel
Flavors
Chocolate, Malt, Marshmallow, Orange, Dark Chocolate, Cream, Creamy, Orange Zest
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
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Average preparation
Boiling 3 min, 15 sec 7 g 11 oz / 317 ml

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  • “1100 tasting notes down. An infinite number to go! I’m logging this one under this tea since it’s essentially “my” version of 3 friends. By that I mean that one of the other wonderful surprises...” Read full tasting note
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  • “this seems like a good tea to drink on the day after Halloween! I’ve been trying to curb my cravings for chocolate but a dessert tea is healthier and pretty tasty too!” Read full tasting note
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  • “So, pretty much Sil (and Stacy!) are awesome, because I get to try “Sil’s version” of this tea, which is just chocolate orange assam. This tea pretty much smells like a dark chocolate Terry’s...” Read full tasting note
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  • “It’s been quite a while since I had this – and it’s a backlog from at least a few days ago. Followed the recommended parameters on this and added some milk and sugar. The orange has faded from...” Read full tasting note
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Three Friends (Orange, Marshmallow, Chocolate)
One day we got a call from Marina, a local shop owner, asking us if we would be interested in selling packaged tea in their store, ShowCase Collective, in Bordentown, NJ. We were very excited to be a part of a shop that sells high quality products from local artists. We got to spend a good amount of time in the shop handing out samples of our tea and getting to know two of the owners, Marina and Roya, and got to hear about how creative the third owner, Cindy, is. The two owners were so amazing and inspiring that we wanted to create a blend for the shop that would speak about each of their personalities. Marina is energizing, fun, and has a wonderful spirit. For her we chose orange. Roya is warm, friendly, and family oriented so we chose chocolate for her and the Zhen Qu base tea. Cindy, the creative owner, gets marshmallow because it adds that extra creative element to the blend. This tea has strong orange notes followed by marshmallow notes and dark chocolate notes that linger. The chocolate is very dark and just misses being bitter. Three Friends really shines with a little sugar. The dark chocolate becomes milk chocolate, the orange is juicy, and the sweet marshmallow remains prominent.

Ingredients: Chinese Black Tea, Chocolate Chips (vegan), Organic Orange Peel Pieces, Organic Natural Flavoring (vegan)

Recommended Brew Time: 3 minutes
Recommended Amount: 1 1/2 teaspoons of tea for 8oz of water
Recommended Temperature: 212 F (boiling)

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For some reason, I thought this was a green tea, so I brewed it up this afternoon. I didn’t realize it was a black tea until I had already put the tea in my steeper and boiled the water. But as the tea boiled and I poured it over my leaves, I thought wait a minute…..boiling water on green tea?? And then I looked at the description and saw black tea.

It is really late in the day for me to be having black tea, so I just took a couple of sips. The rest is going into the fridge to try cold.

Anyway, about the taste of the tea….this tea is delicious. Of course, I love chocolate! The orange is fresh and tasty. The marshmallow adds a pinch of sweetness. This is a decadent treat.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec
Anna

I really like this one, too. Have you tried that chocolate orange one from David’s Tea (I think) too?

tigress_al

Ya, I like the David’s tea chocolate orange as well. It is a pu’erh though so it’s a little different. I haven’t had it in a very long time. This one is definitely more natural tasting

Anna

I just have a hard time imagining a better chocolate orange than this one.

tigress_al

Anna, I looked at my note about chocolate orange and I had rated it really high. That was 2 years ago, and my tastes have changed toward more natural tasting and straight teas. This one would surely win in a comparison!

Anna

Yes, I think that’s a really good point, and spot on in terms of what sets apart DT and Butiki.

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Tea #22 from the Here’s Hoping TTB

As I’ve said time and time again, I really really hate orange, but I love almost all things Butiki so I gave this one a shot. Guess what, I really liked this tea and it’s my favorite chocolate orange tea to date. It was a little too tart for my tastes so I ended up sweetening it a little bit with german rock sugar, which was suggested in the description. What I really like is that I can pick out all three flavors, they’re balanced beautifully with the black base. I did find myself longing for a little more creamy flavor from the marshmallow, but the sugar really helped draw the missing flavor out.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec
TheTeaFairy

I also like this one a lot, it’s not too candy like. I understand why you still like it even though you hate orange. IMO, the citrus part has more of an orange essential oil feel rather than that synthetic fakeTang orange juice taste found in most flavoured teas…

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I chose this as my first Butiki tea to try (Thank you, Stacy!) because unlike the others, it came in little tin and hence balances precariously atop the rest of the pile of bagged-teas-to-try (No untried teas go in the cupboard! Rules are rules! Stand down, Cantaloupe & Cream!) but also because it’s one I got against my principles – generally, I’m reluctant to drink teas containing actual chocolate chips rather than chocolate flavouring, but this seemed like such a well-done chocolate-orange that I couldn’t quite resist.

In the (very cute) tin, it’s all Terry’s Dark Chocolate Orange, but in the cup, the tea base becomes more prominent nose wise. In terms of flavour, the steeped tea balances the orange and the chocolate very well, but it’s very subtle. What I assume is the marshmallow is a hint of very lightly vanilla-esque sweetness topping off the chocolate notes. I enjoy how the tea base is present throughout the sip, without overpowering the flavouring, in spite of its lightness.

I’d like the flavours to pack just a little bit more punch, mostly because I’m used to my arsenal of rich, French blacks, and I find myself missing some added element of complexity. This is a very honest tea, which I admire, but I’ve always been one to pay far more attention to the trickster anti-hero than the golden hero, so what I’d like is for Three Friends to trick me just a very little.

An additional element of excitement is how well the rich, natural orange is executed – it’s a very difficult flavour to get right, and as the (hopefully winning!) Lemon Macaron entry in the Butiki Custom Blend Competition states, it would be a treat if Stacy were to make a lemon blend, something I agree with fully.

[From my Butiki order to Santa Clara, October 2013.]

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec
TeaLady441

I like this one too, but I agre e- I wish it punched more of a punch.
Maybe if she had a stronger version it could be named Three Fiends! :P

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I got this as a sample from the awesome Stacy. This is one I wish I had grabbed! The flavors of orange, marshmallow and chocolate are a perfect medley, without being too sweet. I can taste each flavor individually and in harmony in each sip. Yum!

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I was a little trepidatious about brewing this quickly and tossing it in a Timolino, but did it ever work out for me! I took it to a training session this morning and this was just the ticket to get me through. The orange and chocolate were super comforting and the heartiness of the base kept things interesting. This is such a great chocolate orange tea and it totally made my morning!

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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The new website seems to be having difficulty with saving the tasting notes. Or at least mine. This is the second time this has happened so far where it hung after the save button was clicked and then it loses my whole tasting note.

So here goes again: I underleafed this a lot because I didn’t come here and read about parameters first, my bad. I do have more of this in my Butiki order that I just unpacked so I will be able to try again.

I’m picking up faint hints of very sweet orange and a creaminess of the marshmallow (root or flavour or something. Vegan marshmallows) but not any chocolate. I’m going to hold off on rating this until I can brew it correctly.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 14 OZ / 414 ML
cryptickoi

comments are getting “eaten” too..

Sil

hey steepster gets hungry sometimes…esp after a transformation giggling

Dustin

When you do get the ratio right, this tea is SOOOOO good!

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So this is actually ‘Two Friends’, but I’m ‘Too Lazy/Busy’ to create a listing for it. It is Sil’s custom blend from Butiki, & as always, Stacy is the awesome Mistress of the Arts of blending! Here’s what I like about it:
1 It’s bold! The chocolate isn’t some wimpy milk chocolate flavor, it’s dark chocolate, all the way. Very satisfying!
2 The orange is very juicy, very mouth watering, & it’s not ‘life savers’ kind of orange flavor, it’s more like a grown up orange, like an orange liquor.
3 They are blended together perfectly, & remind me of candied orange slices dipped in dark chocolate.
4 It’s decadent!!! I’m kind of grumpy. I need decadent! It’s tasty plain, it’s delicious sweetened, add french vanilla coconut milk creamer & it’s chocolate & orange pots of cream. I love them all. Its probably also delicious cold, but I haven’t tried it that way yet.

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Backlog:
I had this tea yesterday evening. It smells so divine in the can, but as is so common with flavor blends, much is lost after brewing. The orange comes through strong enough. I like orange in my tea, so no problem there. The chocolate is my only complaint. I’m finding it difficult to get along with chocolate (vegan or not) in any of my teas. I kept getting the feeling that this tea would be so much better with milk of some sort. Maybe the milk might enhance the chocolate and give it more of a hot cocoa vibe. I haven’t tried milk in my tea and I’m not sure that I want to, but I may try it some time.

I love the orange and the tea base; not getting much marshmallow. If the chocolate was either tastier or not there at all, I’d probably really love this tea.

ETA: my mother says that this tea smells and tastes like a Macy’s department store. . . I don’t get that, but thought I’d put it out there :)

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 30 sec

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I probably underleafed this one because I shared some of this with a good friend, and there was about 2 tsps left, so it was either 2 1 tsp servings or 1 big serving, and I opted to have this one again so I went for less leaf. It is still incredibly tasty, though probably a little milder than I would like normally, so I might add the last of my caramel vanilla assam which is also a small amount left. But maybe not…we’ll see.

How is it that Stacy has such a smooth black base that doesn’t get bitter or astringent or anything? It’s so mild that the flavour blends beautifully with the tea in an amazing harmony and balance. And this isn’t mild in a bad way….sort of like the difference between real and artificial flavoring or something. I’m not sure I’m explaining that well enough.

Anyway, on the the tea…I love the chocolate chips in the mix, and it smells divine, but then I love this kind of blend…Chocolate Orange Pu Erh is a winter staple tea in my house. This one is not as strong or as bold, being a lighter base, but that doesn’t mean it is less yummy. They are both tasty in their own ways…I do love the heavier pu erh base from the DT blend in winter, because it seems heavier and heartier on a cold day, but I think this could hold up well enough too, perhaps with a little heavier hand in the leaves.

It’s going on my wishlist for sure, because it is so yummy. It’s just so smooth.

keychange

Amazing harmony and balance describes Stacy’s teas perfectly!

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