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I like this one but the steeping parameters give a thin cup. I tasted it at 4 minutes and wanted to continue steeping for an extra minute but I forgot about it so this steep was probably about 7 minutes. I thought I was screwed for sure but no, it is a good cup!

Yesterday morning I had the chocolate covered strawberry by Culinary Teas and this reminded me of it so much. Slightly tart, slightly chocolate. Sure, this one is a mate but the flavour is similar.

1.5 tsp, 8 oz, off boiling water for 7 minutes (accidental). I might keep this steep time.

ETA: I noticed my teas at work are weaker than at home, it might have to do with the fact I am using a ball here, as opposed to a proper steeper. I just thought of this, didn’t research it or anything so I’m not sure if this is the reason. It makes sense in my head

I tried to get three steeps out of this but the third is a little on the weak side. I should have used less water. I did increase the temp and time but used 8 oz. of water all the way through.

The 1st steep, 1.5 tsp for 8 oz at around 94 C. I was maybe a minute off boil. Seems a little high for oolong but I went for it. I have a giant 250 gram bag of it so I can afford to screw up the first one. However, I did not screw it up. And it was so deliciously banana!

The second and third steep lost most of the banana so being a big banana fan (banana fan first, oolong second) I enjoyed the first steep the most. Still a very good tea. Thank jebus because 250 of the same tea is a lot of tea.

I would never drink this hot. I have never drank hot lemonade so why on earth would I start now just because the base is tea? I see people think it’s sweet. I actually add sugar to mine. Like southerners add loads of sugar to make their nice sweet ice tea, I do the same both for ice tea and for lemonades. Beverages or foods that make my mouth pucker will seldom find a place in my kitchen.

This tea, I always brew a 1.5 L pitcher combining two steeps. I sweeten it while hot and then I add the ice. To drink, we further pour it over ice. We think it’s refreshing although it does taste kinda fake. And we had a couple of misses with it but I couldn’t tell you what happened.

I prefer the pink Passionfruit and Goji Pop to this one, however I will replenish if it’s gone before the summer is over.

It was sipdown day yesterday and I have to say it was not all that satisfying. Most of the time it was probably because I wasn’t in the mood for a particular tea but I would drink it just to finish it off. Or it might be that these are the bits you know you don’t enjoy, which is why they’re still dragging around your cupboard, you couldn’t make yourself drink them when you had so many other tastier alternatives. It really is a moronic thing to do, this planned sipdown thing. if you’re going about it the wrong way it can be a waste of tea. Like the guy who enters a contest to eat the most hot dogs in a minute. He’s not enjoying them, he’s doing it for sport.

So given the mostly failed tea experiences yesterday, I woke up this morning to remedy the situation. And since I’ve been thinking about the peppermint patty since two days ago when I had it, and since everyone is still talking about it, I made myself some. All is right with the world.

I hope this tea is around for a long time because it is so so good it makes you want to weep. In a good way. It is a masterpiece.

I don’t know what I did to this tea today but it tasted so different than my first attempt which was oh so yummy. I timed it but it almost tasted like I overstepped or something. I failed to get a lot of tamarind and then as it cooled it got bitter. Can’t figure out what I did. I know it’s good because I had it before. Anyway, I took the last of the sample from Dexter3657 and I am cold steeping it in a jar till tomorrow. We’ll see what happens.

Buh-bye sample from Sil ! You were not all that cherry, just so you know. Actually, you were more nori than cherry at my second attempt. Not a fan on the liquid nori, sorry! You would make a good sushi tea I think.

Still my favourite tea to make Ice tea with. Sadly, I only have one cup’s worth left. And this is after restocking already. But I forgot to reorder with my last DT order and now I will have to wait a long time because it’ll be a while for the next DAVIDs. Hopefully the teas I did order, in massive quantities, will be just as good. My hopes are resting now on Paradise Found since I bought more than 0.5 lb (250 gr)

Goji pop is lovely. The melon comes through so nicely, probably more than any berry or other ingredient for that matter. It is a nice “juice” tea.

The houses on either side of ours have put in small above ground pools this week (there must have been a sale?) so I’m sitting here trying to enjoy myself on dry land with the sounds of water splashing all around me. So I’m taking out my large pitcher of Kanpe and trying to pretend that i also have a pool. if they splash hard enough I might even get a spray!

Getting back to this giant pitcher, sample sipdown, by the way, Dexter3657 so loved this tea that she sent me a generous sample thinking I will absolutely love as well and therefore will need a giant bag of it :) Not so.

This still tastes like apple cider to me, I think partly because of the cinnamon. I cold steeped it and am having it with a slice of lemon and some ice cubes. It is a pretty orange-pink tea but the only way for me to drink this is if I booze it up. It really is not a bad tea, I just don’t like apple cider. Maybe i should try this in the winter, hot, with a slice of orange and a cinnamon stick floating ’round.

Thank you Sil for this sample! (And it’s a sipdown!)

When I saw the two tea bags I wondered why I got two. Not complaining, just wondering. It all became clear once I read all the Steepster notes — people complaining one bag lead to weak tea —so I hot steeped both of them in just over 8 oz of water, added a slice of lemon and stuck it in the fridge to have for later. Now Sil instructed me to steep with boiling water, which I disregarded, and went with water just shy of boiling. I was afraid of wrecking it.

It’s a citrus tea. For me, with the ice and the slice of lemon it’s pretty much lemonade. It is a good green, it didn’t go bitter on me and you can’t really taste much of the base — hence my calling it lemonade. Patio umbrella is up, ice cubes and vodka in, let the weekend begin!