Backlogged from Friday, because Steepster had the latency of a baked potato and I got aggravated with it.
This Waffles cake is another one that I dug out of my cabinet and decided to try again. I brewed it Western style in my Kati.
White2Tea probably named it Waffles because the cake physically looks like a waffle. It was pressed with a cross-section pattern to make it easier to break into quarters. I don’t think it’s actually supposed to be waffle-flavored. I get no notes of maple, butter, fruit, or waffle batter.
I agree with other reviewers that the first steep has a wet earth-fishy-peaty smell, which then wanders off into caramel and vanilla-land as the liquor cools, somehow. You can tell by the list of flavor notes people have tagged this one with that it’s a bit of an adventure and hard to pin down. It’s complex, it’s fun, it’s fermented, it’s pu’erh. If this one had an astrological sign, I’d say it’s definitely a Gemini because of its duality and refusal to be labelled with either one flavor profile or the other.
You have to be in the mood for it and be open to the journey, is all I will say. Tune up your tastebuds and bring your sense of humor.
Flavors: Burnt Sugar, Caramel, Decayed Wood, Fishy, Peat, Vanilla, Wet Earth
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Yep, trying to post some tasting notes and it JUST ISN’T opening tea pages again. sigh.
Also, it seems like many posts are for W2T lately! Or maybe it just seems that way because I’m trying to post about a W2T.
tea-sipper, I think it’s because those are teas with lots of reviews on them, which causes the page to simply time out instead of loading, as opposed to a tea page that has only a handful of reviews. It took me weeks once to finally get into the Random Steepings entry, which has over 1k tasting notes on it; it would 404 every single time, even if I tried in the middle of the night when (supposedly) there would be hardly anyone using the site.
Didn’t think of that, Mastress Alita! However, it seems to be every single tea with 404s at times.
Yes, I’ve definitely run into the “every single tea” issue as well. And it is quite annoying.
Yep, trying to post some tasting notes and it JUST ISN’T opening tea pages again. sigh.
Also, it seems like many posts are for W2T lately! Or maybe it just seems that way because I’m trying to post about a W2T.
tea-sipper, I think it’s because those are teas with lots of reviews on them, which causes the page to simply time out instead of loading, as opposed to a tea page that has only a handful of reviews. It took me weeks once to finally get into the Random Steepings entry, which has over 1k tasting notes on it; it would 404 every single time, even if I tried in the middle of the night when (supposedly) there would be hardly anyone using the site.
Didn’t think of that, Mastress Alita! However, it seems to be every single tea with 404s at times.
Yes, I’ve definitely run into the “every single tea” issue as well. And it is quite annoying.