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Iced Matcha Sipdown (286)

I’m actually surprised this has pretty good lemonade flavor without adding actual lemonade to it. A touch of grassiness but mostly lemonade. Not really any raspberry flavor though and as I keep drinking, it is sort of chalky. I don’t know if it like it or not if I’m being honest but I think that’s just because my aversion of the grassy flavor of matchas.

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drank Caramel Chai by Three 6 Tea
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Matcha Latte Sipdown (290)

Three 6 Tea has a really buttery caramel flavor and I don’t know how much I like it. I am comparing it to the Salted Caramel Matcha that DAVIDs came out with last year and I certainly prefer the caramel flavor DAVIDs has to offer. That doesn’t mean this caramel is bad, its just very different and not particularly what I am looking for. It’s sweet and distinctively caramel but it coats your mouth and that caramel dissolves into a more butter-like aftertaste. I guess that makes sense though since butter is a key ingredient to caramel.

As for the chai, it really doesn’t make much of an appearance in this mug beyond cinnamon. It’s cinnamon butter caramel.

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drank Chocolate Mint by Three 6 Tea
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Matcha Latte Sipdown (294)

This one smelled really good and certainly has more mint than the caramint did, which I appreciate. It’s also chocolate-y but unfortunately the matcha all clumped together on top so I got a mouthful of powder that was very grassy. Still good to try and would have been better if I didn’t let it sit a bit. Thanks for sending this my way, Roswell Strange!

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drank Coconut by Three 6 Tea
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Matcha Latte Sipdown (297)

This cooled before I drank it and it sort of bounced back and forth between sips full of sweet coconut and then sips of umami/grassy matcha.

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drank French Vanilla by Three 6 Tea
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Matcha Latte Sipdown (300)

So I realized after I finished Honey Dew Gelato that I didn’t put in my DAVIDsTEA order. Most of the purchase was restocking matchas I still had from the advent so the number didn’t really go up – though I do have more tea. So with this sample packet finished, I am back down to 300 teas.

This, like all the other Three 6 Teas, is from Roswell Strange. Thank you!!

I made this as a matcha latte. It certainly had a nice vanilla scent when steeping so going in, I hoped for the best. Drinking it, its just a smooth vanilla flavor. It’s pretty good. Rich and creamy and just vanilla. Not much to it beyond that but that’s okay.

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drank Caramint by Three 6 Tea
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Matcha Latte Sipdown (307)

Thank you Roswell Strange! This was one of the flavors I was really eyeing so I was very happy when I blindly pulled this one out earlier. I was less excited when it had a weird buttered popcorn scent when I dumped out the powder. Thankfully that didn’t transfer to the flavor, not entirely at least. This is buttery though, in a butter caramel sense and I’m okay with that. The caramel flavor is very thick, which makes this really sweet and decadent. I don’t get much mint, which would be a nice compliment here. It’s good, though I think I prefer DAVIDsTEA’s Salted Caramel Matcha.

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drank Peaches and Cream by Three 6 Tea
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Iced Latte Sipdown (310)

I didn’t have high hopes for this one because I when I tossed the powder into my chawan, I immediately got a huge whiff and artificial peach and grass. Unfortunately, the flavor was just that. It was not good. I got through 1/2 the cup and the rest got tossed. Thank you for sending this my way Roswell Strange but this was a no go.

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drank Winter Grey by Three 6 Tea
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Matcha Latte Sipdown (316)

This was another tea I picked to watch the Game of Thrones episode of Geek Steep. When I first started the episode, I knew I was going to pull out Highgarden but I also have gotten used to having my matcha each morning and I wondered if I had a fitting matcha for the show. I actually was looking to see if I had a rose matcha (I guess I had florals in my mind) but this caught my eye and seemed perfect. For one, it was a gift from one of the Geek Steep creators, Roswell Strange (thank you!! – I am loving exploring these matcha bursts!!), and also, “Winter is Coming” is probably one of the most famous lines ever uttered on the show.

For the matcha itself, it is a combination of chai and earl grey and honestly why? Both are pretty polarizing flavors and for me, I am quite picky with each separately, that the two combined on a potentially grassy matcha base does not seem like the best plan. Watching the episode it seemed more right though since Game of Thrones seemed to be pretty polarizing for Marika and Roswell Strange (i.e. right now they are specifically talking about their views of sexual violence on the show and both have interesting but different opinions on the matter).

So, is this matcha any good? The short answer is not really. It is better than I expected but sweeter than I expected too, which seems out of place. My first sip was a lot of chai spice with a sweeter and more floral bergamot flavor in the end. My next sip had more earl grey flavor, with the spices taking a back seat. Honestly both flavors aren’t bad as far as they go. The bergamot is pretty smooth and the chai spices are nicely balanced – I just don’t know if they should be in the same cup. Somehow the two components + the sweetness are sort of making me think of cinnamon gum and that’s not a flavor that should be coming from a matcha latte in my opinion. So this is better than expected and not necessarily bad but also doesn’t quite work in a way that I would want this again.

Is the Geek Steep episode good? Yes! This is one fandom I am familiar with and it is one that I know well. It’s interesting to hear the different opinions, especially on one of the most crucial moments of the show – The Red Wedding.

Roswell Strange

Glad you enjoyed the episode even if you didn’t love the matcha – I was really worried about doing Game of Thrones because I know how passionate its fans often are and my views are, uh, less kind…

VariaTEA

Less kind but not without merit and not just shitting on it for the sake of shitting on it.

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drank Raspberry Chocolate by Three 6 Tea
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Matcha Latte Sipdown (319)

Now that the matcha advent calendar is done, I am getting my matcha fix from the ones Roswell Strange bought me for the holidays. Thank you!!

The various matchas, along with the plum deluxe teas from the start of the calendar, all got added to my box of single serving teas. With those and the teas already in there (either samples sent or ones I drank to the point that there is only a serving left), the box is so full it no longer closes. So I am working through them slowly which means more sipdowns are in store.

This one is odd because it tastes like a hot chocolate at first, which I really like, but then it turns into a really artificial candied raspberry flavor. That means the hot chocolate part of the sip is awesome but it goes downhill as you keep drinking. I am happy to say this doesn’t have a texture issue at least. Overall, I think the raspberry ruins the chocolate for me, but I could see a chocolate matcha from this company being really nice.

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drank Chocolate Chai by Three 6 Tea
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Matcha Latte Sipdown (255)

Today’s treat from the DAVIDsTEA matcha advent was matcha honey. Not my thing but it meant I could have a different matcha today. I was more than happy to pick a random matcha burst from the box of them Roswell Strange sent me for the holidays. Thank you!!

I made this up as a latte, because that seemed like the best call for this flavor, and it was pretty good. Each 15 gram matcha burst is one serving so it’s similar to the DAVIDsTEA flavoured matchas in that they recommend using a lot of the powder because it has other ingredients like sugar. That obviously made this sweet and also makes the powder heavy so there was a fair bit of settling in my glass that required swirling before each sip to get rid of. Also, there were a couple times where this came off a bit chalky to me but overall it was pretty good, texture wise.

As for taste? It was like the DAVIDsTEA flavoured matchas in that it is on the sweeter side. There also wasn’t a lot of matcha flavour. That’s my preference but I know others feel differently so figured I should mention it. This also was distinctly spiced with typical chai spices. I got cinnamon mostly, which played off the chocolate note well. I would say this was a touch more chai than chocolate but overall it was an enjoyable start to my Matcha Bursts exploration.

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95
drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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Flavors: Brown Sugar, Caramel, Ginger, Maple, Rooibos, Rose, Spicy

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drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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Flavors: Fruity, Ginger, Goji, Maple, Maple Syrup, Rooibos, Rose, Spicy, Sweet

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drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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Flavors: Coconut, Flowers, Ginger, Honey, Maple, Maple Syrup, Molasses, Rooibos, Rose, Spices, Spicy

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drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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Flavors: Candy, Coconut, Earth, Ginger, Roasted Nuts, Rooibos, Spices, Spicy, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 2 min, 45 sec

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drank Oh Canada by Three 6 Tea
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