Hot Chocolate

Day 4 Davids Tea Advent Calendar 2023

I like this one. It’s not too heavy but has a solid hot chocolate taste. More like powdered packet with water hot cocoa not homemade cocoa with milk.

This is pretty darn good!
It’s become cold again tonight after being mild for a few days (which was lovely) so I wanted something that would give me cozy, comforting vibes in a mug.
This is doing the trick!
I love Tim Horton’s steeped tea and this reminds me of a chocolate-infused version of that and I’m here for it!

It does taste like hot chocolate, but something is missing. Maybe I needed to brew it up with more milk because it was on the thinner side for hot chocolate. Idk, I think I would just rather drink hot chocolate

I do not generally like pu’erh teas. In fact, I put off tasting this for quite some time because of it. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I really enjoy it. I don’t care for the stevia (it always tastes bitter to me), but the chocolate notes are great.

Here is yet another tea that I decided to sip down, only to discover that it isn’t even listed in my cupboard. But my pouch is nearly empty and there are no tasting notes from me so how did that happen? Needless to say, I am adding to cupboard so that tomorrow I can have the pleasure of deleting from cupboard.

It isn’t quite a sipdown yet, but will be soon.

This was a gift from Superanna, I bet about five years ago! Maybe even more. Then I hoarded it, waiting for cold weather and company to coincide. Time to drink it!

This is a blend of puerh and black tea. I don’t taste the black tea much as the puerh and strong, strong chocolate dominate. It was nicely chocolatey and I have grown accustomed to chocolate flavored tea over the years. It isn’t an abomination to me now and I no longer complain about it being thin and unlike REAL hot chocolate. It doesn’t seem to have suffered from aging. There is a deep, dark almost coffee note (mocha?) that is pretty nice at breakfast,

There is a lot of oil floating on top of the cup, but I expect that from some flavored teas, especially ones with real chocolate in them. I had this with breakfast, which was a heavily buttered Bays English Muffin.

Once the muffin was gone, I sipped and realized that this was way way too sweet to be just sweet from melted chocolate pieces. I looked at the package and saw stevia extract. Normally I hate stevia but with food it wasn’t as apparent. Now that the muffin is gone, I get the weirdness of stevia.

This was decent with food, and if you like stevia it is decent on its own. I won’t repurchase, but I enjoyed it well enough. If I want chocolate puerh, I will order Lupicia Chocolate Strawberry!

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Had a Hot Chocolate “latte” the other day; it was pretty tasty and used up a good portion of the remainder of this tea. Generally, though, I’d prefer to just have brewed cacao shells with milk if I want to have an unsweetened but delicious hot chocolate.

I love this tea. It’s a longer steeped tea for me, which is just fine as I tend to like teas that I can steep for a long time and not have to worry about oversteeping. I don’t like to fuss about with my teas. Although, Oolong teas are worth the fuss! But I digress, onto the hot chocolate review!
I steeped it for the duration of my cup and while it was lovely on it’s own, it really felt like a cup of earthy hot chocolate once I added a pinch of sugar and a dollop of cream to it. Then it was the chocolately treat my heart desired! Creamy, chocolately without being too sweet, with an earthy charm from the Pu’erh. It was simply heavenly and claimed it’s spot on the favourites shelf.

Additional notes: I bought this in the David’s little sampler tower of cardboard boxes with six teas… I was kind of hoping for more tea in them. I think I only had two steep sessions with this tea, which probably only means a little over three teaspoons, maybe four was in the sample. Oh well. I wanted a chocolate tea today. I’m not a fan of this — it tastes mostly like cloying stevia. It would have been so much better without it!
2021 sipdowns: 19

The flavor of this tea is one that is truly unique. Of course, the rich pu’erh leaves let off a slightly smoky hint. However, this is quickly cleared by the creamy and delicious combination of chocolate and cocoa. This tea is extremely rich in chocolate flavor, to me the essence is a more of a dark chocolate vibe rather than a classic super sweet milk chocolate which makes sense given the slight bitterness of cocoa nibs. Personally, I’m a major fan of dark chocolate, so this tea, especially steeped as a latte and topped with warm steamed milk, is one of my favorite winter tea treats.

I had some of this in a Christmas pack a few years ago and don’t remember being impressed, but it appeared in another Christmas pack I ordered, so I gave it a try. Without milk, the black tea is a bit astringent, and it’s not very chocolatey. When you add milk, it tastes much better, and you definitely get the chocolate. I wish I’d added it earlier! I wouldn’t seek this out necessarily, but it’s pretty satisfying with milk! Though I also had actual hot chocolate today and of course it’s nothing compared to that.