Ancient Alphabet challenge – A
SO I’m starting an alphabet challenge again! However, the goal is not actually to finish teas, but drinking the oldest tea I own with that letter. So for example, shuffling my Steepster cupboard by ‘recent’ and starting on the last page, I look for the first tea (or maybe in occasional cases the second tea) starting from the end, that starts with the letter ‘A’. This challenge will get me to revisit some older teas, while not just drinking the teas from the last two or three pages of the cupboard to switch it up.
First victim! This one isn’t even properly stored. It’s a rare tea these days that still remains in my possession, in a thin ziplock. If anything, they get stored within a better resealable pouch while still remaining in the thin ziplock. This tea is still brisk… two teaspoons is way too much – at least it’s caffeine maybe? But if I had to unknowingly guess what type of tea this is, I would guess this is assam. So it’s still doing its thing. And hasn’t really muted into “generic black tea flavor”. Still drinkable! Which might be the comment on so many of these old teas…
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Yeah! Alphabet challenge! This sounds like a fun way to do it. I wasn’t sipping down the tea I picked for each letter either, as that was too much – just sampling through, and maybe an occasional sipdown.
I still have tons of badly-stored teas, in thin ziplocs and dime baggies. At one point I’d made some effort to separate flavoured and unflavoured, and pulled out a few particularly pungent ones (mint, smoke), but only from certain boxes.
haha, yeah I ALSO try to store mint and smoky teas separately. And it’s just a bonus this time if sipdowns happen. Hopefully there will be a couple!
I love this idea! Puts a fun spin on the alphabet challenge.
Sadly, “still drinkable” is the best I can say about some of my old teas, too.
Yeah! Alphabet challenge! This sounds like a fun way to do it. I wasn’t sipping down the tea I picked for each letter either, as that was too much – just sampling through, and maybe an occasional sipdown.
I still have tons of badly-stored teas, in thin ziplocs and dime baggies. At one point I’d made some effort to separate flavoured and unflavoured, and pulled out a few particularly pungent ones (mint, smoke), but only from certain boxes.
haha, yeah I ALSO try to store mint and smoky teas separately. And it’s just a bonus this time if sipdowns happen. Hopefully there will be a couple!
I love this idea! Puts a fun spin on the alphabet challenge.
Sadly, “still drinkable” is the best I can say about some of my old teas, too.