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This is my advent for the day!
I like cinnamon a lot. It’s one of my favorite flavors, but this was almost too strong. Very, very cinnamon-y.

And this is a sipdown!
Impression? It’s chai! jazz hands
Perhaps a more sophisticated chai taster than myself could figure out the subtleties and nuance of this tea, but for me, I found it warming and solid, and it never went cold in my cup.

I’ve got to catch up with my advent tea logging! Whoops!
I don’t really like chocolate teas, and so this tea works out for me, as I don’t taste too much chocolate.
The spices taste rather bitter to me, so this is not my favorite blend. Not bad to try, but I’m not going to bring it in permanently.

This was yesterday’s advent tea. It appears to be chai week!
It’s chai! This advent is really showing me how little I understand chai. It all starts to run together. Ah well. It was warm, slightly spicy, and beyond that I cannot provide in-depth tea analysis.

Advent of the day!

This is a very mild chai, almost more a gentle black tea with the lightest dusting of spices. Not what I was expecting from a blend called “Rise and Chai”.
I don’t dislike it, but it’s not left the very strongest impression.

Day three of my little advent calendar is this chai, which is new to me.
As I’ve said before, I feel that I don’t have a very sophisticated chai palate, unable to really taste a lot of the subtle qualities of them, but I generally like it.
This is a nice chai! Rather peppery, which is something I enjoy. It’s a good tea for a cold, wet morning like today.
Om nom! This tea advent is proving to be delightfully fun.

Day two of my tea advent has yielded this blend, which I’ve had before. I remember it as being heavy, and that’s what I got here again as well. I like all the flavor parts separately, but I feel it a bit unbalanced, too bold. But it was fun to try it again, like re-reading a book.

I’ve always wanted to try a tea advent calendar, and, to my utter delight, my sister made me one! She’s given me a bunch of little tea samples from her own (fabulous) tea cupboard, and I am excited for the month to come.
Day one was this. It’s a pretty decent raspberry tea, not bitter at all, but not quite as juicy as I’d like.
I’ve really got to stick my head in Trader Joes soon and look at their teas.

I’m starting a habit, apparently. On mornings when I need to be awake and alert early (today), and have not had enough sleep due to the cruel plots of the world (last night), I’m reaching for this.
Fog Cutter is strong, but the lemon note lightens it up and keeps me from falling further into a stupor.