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drank Farewell, Butiki by Butiki Teas
681 tasting notes

Caramelised tangerine. Tangerine tanghulu! I forget what the other flavours were for this one, but that’s what I get from this. I think it works better with only one or two of the flavourings coming across, it was a bit muddled as a concept before when the flavourings were strong. Upping my rating yet again, this time from 66, because while it’s still not a favourite, I seem to enjoy it more every time.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 4 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
ashmanra

That’s a sad tea name!

LuckyMe

It’s too bad Butiki closed down. Wish I’d ordered back when I had the opportunity.

Nattie

Yep, I miss Butiki something rotten. I’m following Mastress Alita ‘s prompts for the year (I started in November but I’m doing as many as I can from the whole year), and I chose this for the prompt of a discontinued/unavailable tea. I thought the name was appropriate.

tea-sipper

I remember I won the ‘guess the flavors’ competition for this one back in the day. Looking at my tasting note, directly from Stacy, the official flavors are:
1. Base Tea-Fu Shou Shan
2. Waffle flavoring
3. Tangerine Flavoring
4. Cashew Flavoring
5. Strawberry Flavoring
6. Maple Flavoring

Nattie

Thank you tea-sipper , you’re a gem! Funny, I don’t think I ever knew there was cashew flavouring in this. I don’t get that or the strawberry at all now. I’d say it’s mostly tangerine and maple at this point, maybe with some waffle in there too.
Do you remember how close you were with your guess?

tea-sipper

Needless to say, all these flavors were much more noticeable years ago! I had to look at my note again… I got a couple flavors wrong on my guess. I said “sugar” but that was probably really the “maple” and “waffle” I was tasting. I guessed “raspberry” when it was really “strawberry”. And I knew there was a nut in there somewhere. But I did get the base of Fu Shou Shan oolong exactly right! Somehow I was still the closest guesser in the contest. haha.

Nattie

That’s much better than I did, I got the Fu Shou Shan too (one of my favourites), but then didn’t get anything else XD I think I might have said strawberry, but I said orange instead of tangerine and don’t think I ever picked up on the nut, even new.

gmathis

I love the notion of a guess-the-flavors contest! I would fail miserably, but it sounds like fun.

Nattie

It was a lot of fun, but I was mostly too sad to enjoy it because Butiki was closing. If another company was to do that now, I’d be all over it!

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ashmanra

That’s a sad tea name!

LuckyMe

It’s too bad Butiki closed down. Wish I’d ordered back when I had the opportunity.

Nattie

Yep, I miss Butiki something rotten. I’m following Mastress Alita ‘s prompts for the year (I started in November but I’m doing as many as I can from the whole year), and I chose this for the prompt of a discontinued/unavailable tea. I thought the name was appropriate.

tea-sipper

I remember I won the ‘guess the flavors’ competition for this one back in the day. Looking at my tasting note, directly from Stacy, the official flavors are:
1. Base Tea-Fu Shou Shan
2. Waffle flavoring
3. Tangerine Flavoring
4. Cashew Flavoring
5. Strawberry Flavoring
6. Maple Flavoring

Nattie

Thank you tea-sipper , you’re a gem! Funny, I don’t think I ever knew there was cashew flavouring in this. I don’t get that or the strawberry at all now. I’d say it’s mostly tangerine and maple at this point, maybe with some waffle in there too.
Do you remember how close you were with your guess?

tea-sipper

Needless to say, all these flavors were much more noticeable years ago! I had to look at my note again… I got a couple flavors wrong on my guess. I said “sugar” but that was probably really the “maple” and “waffle” I was tasting. I guessed “raspberry” when it was really “strawberry”. And I knew there was a nut in there somewhere. But I did get the base of Fu Shou Shan oolong exactly right! Somehow I was still the closest guesser in the contest. haha.

Nattie

That’s much better than I did, I got the Fu Shou Shan too (one of my favourites), but then didn’t get anything else XD I think I might have said strawberry, but I said orange instead of tangerine and don’t think I ever picked up on the nut, even new.

gmathis

I love the notion of a guess-the-flavors contest! I would fail miserably, but it sounds like fun.

Nattie

It was a lot of fun, but I was mostly too sad to enjoy it because Butiki was closing. If another company was to do that now, I’d be all over it!

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I first got into loose leaf teas when a friend of mine showed me Cara McGee’s Sherlock fandom blends on Adagio a good few years back, but they weren’t on sale in the UK so I started trying other kinds instead and have been hooked for almost three years (and have purchased several fandom tea sets including the Sherlock one I lusted over for so long).

Flavoured teas make up the majority of my collection, but I’m growing increasingly fond of unflavoured teas too. I usually reach for a black, oolong or white tea base over a pu’erh or green tea, though I do have my exceptions. I will update my likes and dislikes as I discover more about my palate, but for now:

Tea-likes: I’m generally easily pleased and will enjoy most flavours, but my absolute favourites are maple, caramel, chestnut, pecan, raspberry, coconut, blueberry, lemon, pumpkin, rose, hazelnut and peach

Tea-dislikes: vanilla (on its own), ginger, coriander/cilantro, cardamom, liquorice, pineapple and chocolate

I am a 25 year old bartender, English Literature sort-of-graduate and current student working towards finishing my degree. I am hoping to one day complete a masters degree in Mental Health Social Work and get a job working in care. Other than drinking, hoarding and reviewing tea, my hobbies include reading, doing quizzes and puzzles, TV watching, football/soccer (Sunderland AFC supporter and employee of my local football club), music, artsy weird makeup, and learning new things (currently British Sign Language).

I should probably also mention my tea-rating system, which seems to be much harsher than others I’ve seen on here. It’s not always concrete, but I’ll try to define it:

• 50 is the base-line which all teas start at. A normal, nothing-special industrial-type black teabag of regular old fannings would be a 50.

• 0 – 49 is bad, and varying degrees of bad. This is probably the least concrete as I hardly ever find something I don’t like.

• I have never given below a 20, and will not unless that tea is SO bad that I have to wash my mouth out after one sip. Any teas rated as such are unquestionably awful.

• This means most teas I don’t enjoy will be in the 30 – 50 range. This might just mean the tea is not to my own personal taste.

• 51+ are teas I enjoy. A good cup of tea will be in the 50 – 70 range.

• If I rate a tea at 70+, it means I really, really like it. Here’s where the system gets a little more concrete, and I can probably define this part, as it’s rarer for a tea to get there.

• 71- 80: I really enjoyed this tea, enough to tell somebody about, and will probably hang onto it for a little longer than I perhaps should because I don’t want to lose it.

• 81 – 90: I will power through this tea before I even know it’s gone, and will re-order the next time the mood takes me.

• 91 – 100: This is one of the best teas I’ve ever tasted, and I will re-order while I still have a good few cups left, so that I never have to run out. This is the crème de la crème, the Ivy League of teas.

I never rate a tea down, and my ratings are always based on my best experience of a tea if I drink it multiple times. I feel that this is fairest as many factors could affect the experience of one particular cup.

I am always happy to trade and share my teas with others, so feel free to look through my cupboard and message me if you’re interested in doing a swap. I keep it up-to-date, although this doesn’t mean I will definitely have enough to swap, as I also include my small samples.
Currently unable to swap as I’ve returned after a long hiatus to a cupboard of mostly-stale teas I’m trying to work through before I let myself purchase anything fresh

I also tend to ramble on a bit.

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