Steepster's Ho-dduk Ho-dduk Goose

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Butter, Butterscotch, Honey, Pastries, Tea, Bread, Cinnamon, Malt, Sweet, Yeast, Nutty, Pecan, Brown Sugar, Burnt Sugar, Cake, Sugar, Toasty
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Not available
Certification
Fair Trade, Vegan
Edit tea info Last updated by LiberTEAS
Average preparation
Boiling 3 min, 15 sec 21 oz / 621 ml

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  • “Another tea from this morning. I still don’t know how to describe this tea. I like it, but couldn’t tell you why. It’s got a baked good sort of feel to it, it’s smooth, not sweet….there’s...” Read full tasting note
    82
  • “I have a very specific craving but can’t quite put my finger on what it is that I want. So instead I went with an Evol craving and decided to crack open the seal on this one. It certainly is a good...” Read full tasting note
    69
  • “There’s that perfect moment when the tea cools to just the right temperature to allow the buttery fried dense pastry dough with burnt brown sugar with a bare hint of cinnamon melding beautifully...” Read full tasting note
    100
  • “Im sad. I saw so many amazing reviews on this tea that i thought for sure id be in love. WTF. All I taste is black tea. No nuttiness, no sweetness, no cinnamon, no cake, no walnut, no maple…what...” Read full tasting note

From 52teas

For this VIT, I started with a Thyolo OP1 Black Tea from the Satemwa Estate in Malawi (a fair-trade, rainforest alliance certified tea). I like this tea because it has a really nice, smooth flavor and I felt that the natural flavors of the tea would play well to the brown sugar and nutty notes and the bread-y pancake-y flavors that I was trying to develop in this blend.

Then I acquired some cinnamon and natural flavors. Then I tossed in a little bit of calendula petals to make it pretty. The result is a tea that has a lovely pancake-y, nutty, sweet flavor with just a hint of warm spice from the cinnamon.

Quite tasty – and I think that this tea will have you longing for autumn.

ingredients: black tea, organic cinnamon, organic calendula and organic natural flavors.

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19 Tasting Notes

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15006 tasting notes

Another tea from this morning. I still don’t know how to describe this tea. I like it, but couldn’t tell you why. It’s got a baked good sort of feel to it, it’s smooth, not sweet….there’s another taste in there too. Overall just a nice tea, but I can’t quite explain what I like about it haha

gmathis

I can! The name. Bonus points for creativity! :)

52Teas

Jason is responsible for the name. :)

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6444 tasting notes

I have a very specific craving but can’t quite put my finger on what it is that I want. So instead I went with an Evol craving and decided to crack open the seal on this one. It certainly is a good tea but if I am being honest, it is not my favorite. It’s got a cinnamon dough flavor that is nice but as a kid I lived for elephant ears and this seems to trend toward that but falls short for me.

Evol Ving Ness

I am rather flattered that you get Evol cravings :)

VariaTEA

Lol I couldn’t figure out mine but in light of your positive note about this one I was like maybe that is what I want since it stood out in my cupboard of teas.

Evol Ving Ness

lalallalalalalala, can’t burst my bubble. I will just remain flattered :)

I find this one benefits from cooler water steeps.

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1403 tasting notes

There’s that perfect moment when the tea cools to just the right temperature to allow the buttery fried dense pastry dough with burnt brown sugar with a bare hint of cinnamon melding beautifully with the toasty fried dough bits and the base to emerge all in the exactly right proportion. Another masterpiece.

And it’s a sipdown!

Sipdown 64

VariaTEA

I have a sealed package of this I keep looking over. Perhaps I need to start drinking it.

Arby

I desperately want to try this tea

52Teas

This is one that was made possible with a very special base that I don’t usually keep in stock – and really, I haven’t purchased any for quite a while so I don’t know when/if I will reblend it.

Evol Ving Ness

Well, VariaTEA, should you decide that it doesn’t work for you, I’d be happy to take it off your hands. :)

Sil

V – would love to try if need help haha

VariaTEA

Duly noted Sil and Evol Ving Ness

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85 tasting notes

Im sad. I saw so many amazing reviews on this tea that i thought for sure id be in love. WTF. All I taste is black tea. No nuttiness, no sweetness, no cinnamon, no cake, no walnut, no maple…what did I do wrong? I followed the instructions. Grrrr. I even shook the bag! Maybe I got a bad batch? I dont know. I am going to keep trying it and see if I change my mind. Hmph.

Flavors: Tea

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206 tasting notes

NEW BAE ALERT.

This is my Tea of the Week. I bought this taste-unseen* based on its description. It was supposedly a sort of cinnamon bread pancake thing. It’s described on 52Teas’ site as “a lovely pancake-y, nutty, sweet flavor with just a hint of warm spice from the cinnamon.”

( * “Taste-unseen” is a phrase that makes no sense.)

There are malt notes, cinnamon notes, bread notes, sweet notes, and warm black tea notes.

I didn’t write a note last time (the first time) I drank this because I was shocked at how much I liked it.

I was like “I doubt it’s actually this amazing. I’m going to hold off until I’m in a more rational state of mind.”

Turns out I’m never in a rational state of mind. This is so good I almost can’t handle it.

Flavors: Bread, Cinnamon, Malt, Sweet, Yeast

LiberTEAS

I love this review. I will have to use taste-unseen in the future. :)

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15560 tasting notes

So I’ve actually never had the treat for which this tea is named and inspired by, but it sounds absolutely delicious and I really, really found the name of this tea very compelling so I figured this one was absolutely worth a try.

And honestly, it’s phenomenal. Probably the best creation by 52teas that I’ve tried in a LONG time – and I’m definitely including my reblend in that list as well.

It’s just this wonderful, rich and full bodied dessert-type tea that hits the pastry nail right on the head. Personally, I’m drawing a lot of waffle-y, sweet, maple and nutty type notes from this one. Having never tried Ho-dduk before I can’t speak to the accuracy, but in addition to those maple and waffle notes I also I get hardcore pecan pie or butter tart vibes from this (and lord knows I love pecans) crossed with kind of Elephant Ear like pastry? You know, light and fluffly dusted with lots and lots of powdered sugar and cinnamon. The stuff you get hot at the carnival or as street food. Mmm!

No song pairing for this one; I got too caught up in the cup and I never found a song to pair it with before I’d finished it. Here’s a hilarious video instead, though:

https://www.facebook.com/viralthread/videos/553731768149858/

VariaTEA

Elephant ears <3

Rasseru

first Tea eggs, now Ho-dduks…? much new food

Super Starling!

DUCK DUCK GOOSE. OH GOD. I was looking at the name for a while trying to figure out where “Goose” fit in. The name is so clever. Adding this to my cart.

Evol Ving Ness

Err, wow. This one sounds scrumptious.

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6105 tasting notes

Another interesting one! I drank this around the same time as Mayan Chocolate Chai, so probably need to try it again on its own to get a better picture of how it tastes.

However, I do certainly recall a lovely nuttiness that I quite enjoyed, and in reading a bit more about the tea, I see that it’s supposed to taste like walnuts and sweetness, which I’m pretty sure it did. More details to come some other day, maybe, if I get around to it, but this is a generally positive review :D

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115 tasting notes

I finally got to try the special tea that 52Teas created for me as part of their Kickstarter campaign, and it definitely lived up to the hype!

To start, I was concerned that I gave Anne and Amethyst a tricky one to try and replicate, but they definitely delivered. This reminds me a lot of the Ho-dduk treat my fiancee loves so much (and I do too). It’s got that sweet cake flavor that’s like the fried dough pocket. It’s got the sugar and nutty notes from the brown sugar and walnuts fried on the inside. This tea is all types of good. Plus, I left it to cool for a while and the flavors were even more pronounced, which is a nice change of pace because usually ho-dduks are so hot they burn the crap out of your mouth.

I’m super pleased with this one and couldn’t have asked for a better custom tea to be made in Steepster’s/my name. Thanks to the ladies behind 52Teas for the wonderful treat!

If you’re interested, they’ve shared a little more about the tea on their tasting note here: http://steepster.com/LiberTEAS/posts/337703

Lastly, sorry for the ridiculous name. It’s obviously a duck, duck, goose pun…and coincidentally, one of my nicknames is “goose”. But it’s quite a mouthful to say, my bad.

Flavors: Brown Sugar, Burnt Sugar, Butter, Cake, Cinnamon, Nutty, Sugar, Sweet, Toasty

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 30 OZ / 887 ML

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4843 tasting notes

For those of you who remember – last year we had a Kickstarter campaign going to raise funds to be able to take over 52Teas from Frank. One of our contributors was none other than Jason! (Thank you so much Jason!)

And he wanted to create a Ho-dduk flavored tea (which is a Korean street food dessert type of pancake thing that is fried in a bunch of butter and filled with a filling of brown sugar, cinnamon and peanuts – or pecans or other nuts) It took me a while to get the flavor balance just right for this tea. My first batch turned out tasting a bit more cinnamon than I wanted it to – but I do believe I finally got the flavors right!

The black tea base is a Thyolo OP1 Black tea from Malawi – it’s smooth and flavorful but not overly heavy or aggressive. The pancake flavor comes through (but don’t go looking for maple flavoring here which is what my palate was kind of looking for at first because – pancake.) There’s a nice warmth from the cinnamon and a touch of buttery taste. I actually used pecan flavor rather than peanut because I like pecans better than peanuts. I also felt that the pecan flavor would come through better than the peanut flavor would with this particular base.

It’s sweet, cake-y, nutty and warm with cinnamon – with just a touch of butter. Really tasty. I hope Jason likes this as much as I do!

LiberTEAS

Whoops, dang it – I meant to post this as 52Teas.

Liquid Proust

Drop me a line when this one is on the site :)

Kittenna

Darn you for making so many tasty things.

LiberTEAS

Thank you? :)

Kittenna

Mumble mumble exchange rate shopping cart mumble.

LiberTEAS

What’s worrying me right now is the shipping because of the postal strike! And my concern is trifling compared to how you must feel because I know I’d be so frustrated if I were not receiving mail.

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