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Sipdown no. 5 of 2021 (no. 625 total).

This was a tiny tin, with just enough for about 3 pots of 2 cups each.

Three years ago, I really liked this and remarked on the chocolate/orange flavor. Which is a flavor I really do find enjoyable.

Not so much now. I don’t know whether it’s an age thing or a taste thing. Or maybe it’s just that I have had better orange/chocolate combos? Not sure. Bumping it down.

As an aside, I love that I have all of these prior notes to look back at. It’s very educational about how my own tastes have developed over time.

I would love it if Steepster had an export function that would periodically back up my notes on my hard drive in case something awful happens. It would be horrible to lose 10+ years of notes.

Mastress Alita

That’s precisely why I write all my notes off the site on a Notetab file, then paste the data into Steepster. I have all my notes in the text file on my HDD, and I have that file backed up in multiple places.

Martin Bednář

At least we have our feed.rss which works quite well as kind of backup, though it would be good to write a little bit more there and format it somehow, but I am too lazy (and busy) to do that right now.

__Morgana__

Yeah, way too late for that now. It would be sad to lose the notes but I have so many other projects I need to get done I cannot see when transferring note manually would ever get done…

Mastress Alita

Ya, I never had to transfer; I basically moved off an independant tea blog that had no readers to Steepster, and when I did that, I copied my blog posts (again, which I always wrote “offline” first) as my first set of Steepster posts, then just continued the file from there on. I have over 700 notes plus my Profile and some yearly stat keeping stuff all on that one file, ha!

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Mastress Alita

That’s precisely why I write all my notes off the site on a Notetab file, then paste the data into Steepster. I have all my notes in the text file on my HDD, and I have that file backed up in multiple places.

Martin Bednář

At least we have our feed.rss which works quite well as kind of backup, though it would be good to write a little bit more there and format it somehow, but I am too lazy (and busy) to do that right now.

__Morgana__

Yeah, way too late for that now. It would be sad to lose the notes but I have so many other projects I need to get done I cannot see when transferring note manually would ever get done…

Mastress Alita

Ya, I never had to transfer; I basically moved off an independant tea blog that had no readers to Steepster, and when I did that, I copied my blog posts (again, which I always wrote “offline” first) as my first set of Steepster posts, then just continued the file from there on. I have over 700 notes plus my Profile and some yearly stat keeping stuff all on that one file, ha!

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I got obsessed with tea in 2010 for a while, then other things intruded, then I cycled back to it. I seem to be continuing that in for a while, out for a while cycle. I have a short attention span, but no shortage of tea.

I’m a mom, writer, gamer, lawyer, reader, runner, traveler, and enjoyer of life, literature, art, music, thought and kindness, in no particular order. I write fantasy and science fiction under the name J. J. Roth.

Personal biases: I drink tea without additives. If a tea needs milk or sugar to improve its flavor, its unlikely I’ll rate it high. The exception is chai, which I drink with milk/sugar or substitute. Rooibos and honeybush were my gateway drugs, but as my tastes developed they became less appealing — I still enjoy nicely done blends. I do not mix well with tulsi or yerba mate, and savory teas are more often a miss than a hit with me. I used to hate hibiscus, but I’ve turned that corner. Licorice, not so much.

Since I find others’ rating legends helpful, I added my own. But I don’t really find myself hating most things I try.

I try to rate teas in relation to others of the same type, for example, Earl Greys against other Earl Greys. But if a tea rates very high with me, it’s a stand out against all other teas I’ve tried.

95-100 A once in a lifetime experience; the best there is

90-94 Excellent; first rate; top notch; really terrific; will definitely buy more

80-89 Very good; will likely buy more

70-79 Good; would enjoy again, might buy again

60-69 Okay; wouldn’t pass up if offered, but likely won’t buy again

Below 60 Meh, so-so, iffy, or ick. The lower the number, the closer to ick.

I don’t swap. It’s nothing personal, it’s just that I have way more tea than any one person needs and am not lacking for new things to try. Also, I have way too much going on already in daily life and the additional commitment to get packages to people adds to my already high stress level. (Maybe it shouldn’t, but it does.)

That said, I enjoy reading folks’ notes, talking about what I drink, and getting to “know” people virtually here on Steepster so I can get ideas of other things I might want to try if I can ever again justify buying more tea. I also like keeping track of what I drink and what I thought about it.

My current process for tea note generation is described in my note on this tea: https://steepster.com/teas/mariage-freres/6990-the-des-impressionnistes

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