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January 2024 | A CTC tea

I pulled this single teabag from the TeaTiff TTB a few months back. Lupicia still feels like such a luxury to me so I jump at the change to try anything new from them. I steeped it for a minimal amount of time and it came out just right for milk and honey. It’s not bitter or too light. There’s a nice caramel undertone. It’s really lovely.

Sipdown Progress Challenge
January 2024 | My oldest tea

I have a handful of teas from 2015 (!), this being one of them. The others haven’t been opened yet so I decided to go ahead and work through this one as my oldest opened tea. It still tastes great, very smoky and not at all weak in flavor. I made a note last year that it was on my sipdown list for 2023 but I guess I never got around to finishing it. Maybe 2024 is the year!

Happy New Year, Steepster!

I’ve finished off the last of my two favorite Nabo teas from Courtney and am so bummed to find that they are no longer available on the website. Here’s hoping they are seasonal and I can get them later in the year. This one and Som en Dröm have the same ingredients so far as I can tell, so I thought they might taste too similar. In reality, while both are berry-flavored, they are quite different. Som en Dröm is light in color and tastes like blueberries to me, though I don’t think there are actually blueberries in the mix. Skogsförjd is deeper and the base comes through much more here. The raspberry flavor shines. I’ll miss these two – I’ve been drinking nothing else for the past week or so. I’m hoping Nabo has something similar that I’ll enjoy just as much.

Edit: Using this for my January Sipdown Challenge – a tea I’d love to have all year!

Not very flavorful but definitely very caffeinated. Feeling a little resentful that it’s already got me amped up and I’m only one cup in for the day. Especially since it’s nothing special.

One of my very favorites and it’s extra delicious today, so I’m bumping my rating this morning by a lot. This is a sipdown but it’s already on the grocery list so I expect I’ll have some more tea bags back in my hands in the next few days. This isn’t a complicated tea – as far as I know it just has the two ingredients (black tea and spearmint) but it’s really just perfect.