Sipdown no. 47 of 2016 (no. 258 total).
I made a mistake with this one.
I was looking for a plain black tea to make into cold brew and was having a hard time finding ones I either hadn’t yet tried as cold brew or knew I liked too much to use that much tea at a time. I hadn’t ever tried this one so I pulled it out of the stash.
I didn’t read about it before starting to spoon it into the container and it wasn’t until I was five scoops in, I realized that the cold brew container was going to require all of this that I had.
Around the same time, I realized I was smelling smokiness in the tea. Doh. If I’d read the description I would have known this was “the original lapsang.”
So I used all I had off this for cold brew, and I don’t really like smoky teas in cold brew.
Bah.
It’s not horrible, it’s just that I’m sure I would have liked it a lot more if I had made it hot.
Not rating it.