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drank Darjeeling by Twinings
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This is without question the most bitter thing I have ever put in my mouth. I’m very sensitive to bitter flavors, and this one was just too much. The bag smelled like maté, a Chilean beverage which tastes like alfalfa and tire treads, but the tea turned out to be much more bitter than maté, which I didn’t think was possible.

I took the first cup straight, and steeped it for only 3 minutes because it smelled so strongly. That first cup practically ate through the lining of my stomach. I steeped the next cup for only 2.5 minutes and I added milk and sugar, which did not cut the bitterness at all. For the third cup I tried honey, but I just couldn’t make it drinkable.

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I’m a recent ex-Mormon, which means that I only recently began drinking tea (oddly enough, tea is verboten in Mormon doctrine). I started drinking tea (Earl Grey, hot) because of Jean Luc Picard, but I keep drinking tea because it’s delicious. I am a supertaster, which means bitter teas (I’m looking at you, Darjeeling) are much more bitter to me than they are to the average human. I’ve enjoyed getting into tea thus far and I look forward to tasting a great many more teas in years to come.

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