Stormy Night (Organic)

Black tea, chocolate, cinnamon, coconut, vanilla. This tea sounds great on paper, like an Almond Joy with a hint of cinnamon. However, the reality is a little bit different. The flavors all kind of get lost together. It’s a little cinnamon forward and the chocolate does lend a bit of creaminess even though the flavor is quite subdued.

It’s not a bad tea. I don’t think I would buy it again though.

Light, cinnamon-y chocolate. Not as strong as I’d like black tea to be.

It’s a dark and stormy Halloween night, so perfect for this tea, right?

No. It was awful. I love teas with all the ingredients this one has, so there’s no way on earth I should have hated it. I tried it brewed regular strength and it was super weak, so I brewed it literally triple strength and long, and it was still weak. It had no real flavor except the cinnamon, and I agree it was just murky and blah. I’m so disappointed in it, I was hoping I would love it in spite of the mostly mediocre reviews. I couldn’t finish either cup.

Not much to this one. I usually would try 4 tsps in 16 oz but I didn’t have that much left :(

Geek Steep S1E19 – Frankenstein (Novel)

The penultimate episode of season one!

This is the first proper “book” we did for the season, and boy oh boy am I glad we put it at the end of the season because this was the biggest time commitment that any of our Geeks took this season. If we do another full novel for season two, you can best bet it’s gonna be one novel and it’s gonna be near the end of the season again.

This was Marika’s choice of episode, but I’m glad she picked it because Frankstenstein has been on my reading list for years. Spoilers for the episode, but I loved it A LOT and I had a ton of fun with my tea pairings while reading. This, however, was the tea I drank while recording and I really liked it too! My favourite thing in the novel with the extensive use of weather both as a symbolic representation of the character’s emotions/mental state but also as this beautifully crafted way of setting ambiance and highlighting the significance of plot events. Like, I could wax poetic about the use of weather in Frankenstein for paragraphs.

So, I chose this as a way of honoring that element of the novel that I loved so much. I also debated DT’s “Electric Lemonade” for other symbology related reasons but this was just more perfect…

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This tea is like a warm hug.

I tried this tea as a free tea in store today. They still had it on the tea wall from Halloween. It smells cinnamony and sweet. Hot, with agave, it is amazing. Chocolatey with just the right touch of vanilla and cinnamon. I would definitely consider purchasing and am sad this is limited edition and discontinued. I found that it didn’t oversteep and the longer I steeped it, the better and the richer the flavour.
ETA- I recently picked up 100 g of this on sale in store. I have no regrets and will enjoy this tea while I have it.

One of my favorite flavored teas, but it does make a mess to clean up with the real chocolate bits.

Had high hopes for this tea as it involves all my favorite flavors- chocolate, cinnamon, coconut. Nothing tastes right about this tea and the amount of oil and tea bits floating in this tea made it unappealing. It’s like all the flavors need to be increased. I’ll try it with more tea next time and see if that helps.

This is a good tea if you like chocolate in your tea. I tend to have this more around October/Halloween time. It tastes strongly of chocolate with a hint of cinnamon-y goodness, and I barely notice the coconut, which is great. This tea is lovely hot, or as a latte. Sweet and chocolatey. It’s all in how you steep the tea, though. Sometimes I get a weird aftertaste with this tea – and sometimes I don’t. I don’t know why.