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Got this from the Toronto Tea Festival as I’m trying to cut coffee derived caffeine on work day mornings (really not a morning person…) and switch to tea derived caffeine instead. This looked promising, since it had a combination of coffee and tea. It has loose leaf puer and coffee beans, mixed with brown granules that I would guess is sugar and perhaps some other flavours. Trying this now just brewed in water, but I think this could work nicely as a latte. Taste-wise I find its still more puer than coffee, and thats probably because the coffee beans are still kept whole in this blend, so I can’t imagine a lot of coffee extraction going on.

I also found that because the leaves and coffee beans are quite light relative to the sugar granules, it takes a bit of work to scoop out a nice even blend of the tea, coffee and sugar. The one improvement suggestion I’d have is to have the sugar separately added which avoids this problem from happening – I think it’ll be quite uneven once I approach the end of the blend.

Flavors: Brown Sugar, Leather, Molasses

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 5 min, 45 sec 2 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
Anlina

I really liked this coffee & tea blend if you’re looking for a different one to try. http://www.luxberrytea.com/collections/black-tea/products/cocoa-java-black-tea I’m not sure if their site is in CAD$ but theu do free shipping in Canada for any quantity.

leaf in hot water

oh that one sounds great! and they even have chocolate in it…yummm

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Anlina

I really liked this coffee & tea blend if you’re looking for a different one to try. http://www.luxberrytea.com/collections/black-tea/products/cocoa-java-black-tea I’m not sure if their site is in CAD$ but theu do free shipping in Canada for any quantity.

leaf in hot water

oh that one sounds great! and they even have chocolate in it…yummm

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finding myself in hot water again and again…

I grew up in a tea drinking culture, but my parents were seriously hung up on jasmine tea and oolong tea, so I never really had much exposure to other teas. My horizons expanded when I moved to Japan and discovered genmaicha (roasted rice tea aka popcorn tea). after that, I discovered black teas, red teas, and flavoured teas, how different teas could be by the region, processing methods, water used.

Now I can’t get enough of it!

I experiment with different teas, blending them sometimes to see what the outcome would be. I find my tastes to be quite diverse, but run away from the more floral side of things. Tie Kwan Yin is probably the only one that most people seem to enjoy, that I don’t. Otherwise I am game for most teas. Fruity? love it. Smoky? Mmm. Earthy? bring it on! Light and vegetal? keep pouring!

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