Salted Cashew Oatmeal Cookie

Found this in my travel tea bag! Not sure how old this is, but it’s probably had several birthdays by now. The genmaicha is going strong flavor wise, but it feels like any other flavors left long ago. It’s a little creamier in the finish than I’d expect from a gen and I’m attributing that to the cashew. I really don’t get any salted oatmeal cookie though. I wish I had made a tasting note for this when I first tried it so I had a good comparison of fresh and aged.

Latte Sipdown (707)!

Welp – I was under 700 teas but then I got two tea packages yesterday so now I’m over again. So, time to get some sipdowns in! Starting with this one, which I got in that sample haul from AQ2T when they announced their hiatus – it’s a heavier blend because of the popped rice and nut pieces in it, so I had just enough leaf to make it into a latte and polish it off. Going all in, y’know?

It was pretty damn nice – not the most robust and flavourful tea ever but lots of subtle notes that came through in the taste to create something a little more nuanced and sophisticated feeling (but still delicious)! The soft roasted note of the popped rice was the most noticeable taste, and then hints of cashew/nuttiness and oats – with just a hint of salinity in the finish. So, all the major titular flavour notes were there to convey the overall concept of the tea – just in a mild way.

Still loved this though – and don’t regret using all the leaf in one latte!

Excited for another flavoured genmaicha! I enjoyed this one, although I really can’t say that I picked up any of the listed flavours. It just came off as a tastily-flavoured genmaicha, the specifics of which I don’t recall (sleep deprivation does this, apparently… I only drank this yesterday…)