Mastress Alita’s sipdown challenge Wednesday, September 8th: National Ampersand Day Tea #1
I had to check my “next-cup-a-sipdown” list but no, I had no Ampersand teas over there. So it seemed the perfect rainy day for the first time to try this blend, which I was hoping was comfort in a cup. Can’t really go wrong with hazelnut, chocolate and strawberry on a black tea. I went with a very short steep to finagle as much of the added flavor as possible out of this blend. Not too much noticeable hazelnut… Mastress Alita mentioned dark chocolate which I was hoping for, but the first steep seems like lighter chocolate to my tastebuds. The brew color is light as well, but there is definite strawberry here, which is awesome (plenty of little strawberry bits floated to the top of my infuser while it was steeping). It’s definitely chocolate and strawberry (yay, cocoa shells forever) but I wouldn’t call it a nutella blend. I wonder what adding some to a mug of tea would do… though I don’t have any nutella on hand anyhow… The second steep had more chocolate than strawberry on the long steep but it didn’t get brisk, and I really do love a good chocolate black tea. And definitely the actual pancake in the name doesn’t make sense, unless you’re just thinking about toppings of a pancake.
Steep #1 // 1 1/2 teaspoons // 20 minutes after boiling // 1 1/2 minute steep
Steep #2 // 3 minutes after boiling // 4 min
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So I actually noticed when this tea was first added to the website under the February subscription box that it was just called Strawberry & Nutella. Later, they edited the name to what it is now. So I’m thinking it wasn’t originally supposed to be pancake flavor, and they just slapped the name on there so they could include it in the pancake collection. Just my fan theory.
huh, weird. I think years ago it WAS called “pancake” though? I think it definitely shouldn’t have “pancake” in the name though.
I’d LOVE to try this one if you have enough to share a hot plain 16 oz cuppa. :)
Tiffany – I can definitely send you some of this in our swap!
So I actually noticed when this tea was first added to the website under the February subscription box that it was just called Strawberry & Nutella. Later, they edited the name to what it is now. So I’m thinking it wasn’t originally supposed to be pancake flavor, and they just slapped the name on there so they could include it in the pancake collection. Just my fan theory.
huh, weird. I think years ago it WAS called “pancake” though? I think it definitely shouldn’t have “pancake” in the name though.
I’d LOVE to try this one if you have enough to share a hot plain 16 oz cuppa. :)
Tiffany – I can definitely send you some of this in our swap!