52teas

Absolutely delicious pot of evening tea with honey and a splash of dark chocolate cream. This is a great ending to a Wednesday!

I’m winding down my night with a big cup of Neapolitan Honeybush. I let it brew for an extra long time and it is now almost thick like real melted ice cream. It is just yum!

I’m really, really glad that honeybush doesn’t get bitter. I kind of forgot about steeping this tea and realized this about 40-50 minutes later. But wow!! This is better than ever. Really tastes like Neapolitan ice cream when all the flavors are starting to melt and mix in the bottom of the bowl. I absolutely love this tonight. Perfect way to end a Monday!

This is really, really good. I’m getting a lot of strawberry and vanilla with a hint of chocolate. It really does taste like Neapolitan ice cream! I knew it would be great though – Frank rocks honeybush! As a result, honeybush has quickly become my nightly vice. Delicious! My cup is disappearing way too fast…

OHHHH this one is so good! I still do not see it listed as a permanent addition though :( starting the sniffling now!
I love this! I get great coconut taste with a tangy bite to it. I am trying to ration my one and only pouch but it is hard!
I love the fact that it is a honeybush blend and without caffiene for me to enjoy in the evening!!

This is REALLY GOOD! Coconut and I am getting a bit of a tangy bite to it, I think the cheesecake part. I hope Frank is considering adding this to the permanent collection! Yummy! You know a tea is good when you finish it in no time and want/crave another cup! That is definitely occurring with this one!!!

I rearranged my tea cupboard today and found that I still had a bit of several teas that I had forgotten about. This was one of them and now it is a SIPDOWN!

This is a very smooth tea but I’m not getting a lot of chocolate this time, mostly mint but I’m still enjoying it.

I picked this out for my morning tea today and I would say that it went surprisingly well with my spicy bell pepper omelette – the mint is helping to soothe my mouth after adding a bit too much hot sauce.

Well, I just had to make this tonight! I found a Dark Chocolate Breve Creme at the store earlier and when I saw it, I knew that the creamer and this tea were a match made in heaven. This is really good. The mint is still prevalent, but now there is an extra dose of chocolate. Wow, I’m really enjoying this tea tonight!

When I first started drinking tea, I had come across a box of bagged chocolate mint oolong which I adored. That tea was delicious and really reminded me of Thin Mint cookies. But, I’ve since realized that putting an oolong in a bag (especially a regular teabag and not a pyramid one) is just not good practice so I won’t be buying those again.

Luckily, Frank just happened to have this tea in his permanent collection! I received my package today and knew that I just had to brew some up immediately. This tea is definitely more mint than chocolate, but the chocolate is still noticeable. I do think this is a great alternative to the bagged tea mentioned above…except this is better than I remember the other tea being. This is really delicious as a latte and I bet is great plain also.

Note to self: this would probably be amazing with a bit of chocolate syrup! Once again, Frank does it again! And the best part is I have another pouch of Frank’s infamous honeybush blends to try later tonight!

While going through my stash the other day, I came upon a few teas that I was apparently hoarding and hiding from myself … including a full package of this that I bought from the first blending. Yay! I thought I had finished this off … So glad I get to enjoy more of it.

This is easily one of the best blends that Frank created … however, I must say that this first blend was superior to that which I received in the Christmas sampler box from 2011. That batch from the sampler box was good, but this … this was great. I notice that time has taken a bit of a toll, but, not so much that I’d lower the rating on this by much if this was my first sampling of it. I considered this to be a 99 with that first pouch, now, after two years, I’d consider this to be somewhere like 93 or 94. Time has taken a toll, but not much of one.

Still rich, creamy, vanilla-y and deliciously yum.

Yum! It’s probably a bit late in the evening to be having an Assam, but, oh well. I just baked some cookies (peanut butter blossoms) and I thought it would go well with them. It does. This is my kind of christmas dessert.

Backlog:

On the Eighth Day of Christmas, 52Teas sent to me … my very favorite tea that 52Teas made this year (that doesn’t have tomato).

I love this tea… but I have to agree with the other notes from today regarding this tea …. it is different this go around… and I think I like the first batch better than this one. I shall have to dig out my pouch from my stash and try it to see… perhaps I shall do so today.

Anyway, here is my article for today: http://sororiteasisters.com/2011/12/21/on-the-eighth-day-of-christmas-52teas-sent-to-me/

I’m up much earlier than I want to be and I won’t have the opportunity to head back to bed after getting the little one off to school, so I decided that I better get myself some liquid motivation.

Oh goodness, this is so good. If I could rate it higher than 100 I would. It’s just that awesome.

I have increased the rating on this, because I have deemed it Frank’s best blend to date. Yep, even better than the Chocolate Banana Rooibos. Even better than the Banana Peach Green. Even better than any other tea he has made. This is amazing.

And the thing that surprises me the most is that I’m getting all excited about a VANILLA tea. But this is no ordinary vanilla tea. The combination of the Assam and the vanilla flavor creates one of the most satisfying tea experiences I’ve ever had.

It’s awesome. AWESOME. Amazingly awesome at that.

Yay! This arrived today! and OMG it is indeed De – li – cious! It tastes to me like someone dropped a vanilla bean into my teapot while this infused. It’s super vanilla-y and so completely yummy.

Certainly not your run of the mill vanilla tea! Not by a long shot!

Cinnamon, strawberries and graham crackers. Fruity, spicy and warm. So comforting!

It’s a cuddle up flavor. I love it. :)

I’m spending this whole stormy, rainy day cloistered indoors—and sipping this feels so cozy and uplifting. I mostly taste tangy strawberries and sugary cinnamon. Maybe even something graham-y like pie crust? This is a very “homey”, warm strawberry.

I love it!

I was greatly hoping that this would be an extraordinary custardy, creamy tea. To me, I just got black tea with the sweetness of strawberry. Where is the cream? Yes, I had it plain.. but I think there should be some creamy aspect to it! This is a decent tea, but I wish I could have tasted all of the dimensions others have mentioned.

I finished this tea up. This is definitely a good tasting tea, and I might consider buying this in the future. However, I have a lot of tea to go through still. The strawberry is perfect in this black tea. Great blend, and it is very good with milk and sugar.

Backlog: I drank this tea yesterday and it was delicious as always!! :)