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“I am having an increadibly tough month. I am one of the co-organizers of Ruta de las Iglesias. It is a 10km race that goes through the colonial down town of Quito. While I love doing it, it is a...” Read full tasting note
“I really do quite like this one cold brewed with a little sweetner. After tonight’s giant mugs i have just enough for one more cup of this before it’s out of the cupboard. May not get to any...” Read full tasting note
“Oh this is good. I cold steeped it overnight and I couldn’t wait for later in the day to try it out. I love the new black tea base, I taste it first and foremost and I really like it. I’ll have to...” Read full tasting note
“12 Days of Tea #1! Also, 1000th tasting note! Wooooooooo!!!!!! Last time I tried this tea as a sample, it was not great. I couldn’t really taste the cotton candy. This time however? WOAH!...” Read full tasting note
This week’s tea of the week is a real gem. I am enjoying a big icy stein of it as I write this. I’m sure it’s good hot too, but as an iced tea, it’s amazing. A friend of the family is over visiting and he insists it’s “like a carnival in your mouth.”
I’m having a hard time trying to come up with words to describe the aroma and flavor, except that it tastes like cotton candy–which is basically spun sugar that has been a bit caramelized in the process.
This week, we are also testing a new black tea base which is a blend of Chinese, Assam, and Darjeeling black teas. I’m quite enjoying the depth of the blend even with the very strong and captivating cotton candy flavor dancing on my tastebuds, there is still a rich and complex black tea base that is definitely present.
This is a tea you’re not going to want to miss out on, particularly if you want an awesome iced tea that’s sure to garner appreciative remarks from whomever you serve it to.
Incidentally, we have more iced tea blends coming in the near future. I’m working out the final packaging details, but I believe we are going to be dividing it up into actual teabags that yield two-quarts of iced tea! Stay tuned for those.
Our Tea of the Week for the week of May 14, 2012
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I cold brewed the last of this in the hopes of coaxing out more of the cotton candy/candyfloss, but it still tastes like a whole load of nothing to me (except tea). Then again, candyfloss tastes like a whole lot of nothing to me too, so I guess it’s accurate? My mam said she could taste the candyfloss, but only after I told her what it was, and before then she said cherry. Idk, I don’t even like real candyfloss so maybe it’s me. Shrugs. I do prefer it cold steeped, though, I think.
Note: This is Frank’s original version, not Anne’s newer one. It’s super old now, but even fresh my experience of it was the same.
Sipdown 209/399.
Not trying as many new teas to write tasting notes for, but here are some sipdowns!
Sipdowns: 1/18 Tealux – Sencha Berry Fig
1/19 one of two pouches of Fusion – Cocoa raspberry mate
1/20 S&V – Chocolate Brownie & one of two Butiki White Rhino (so maybe these aren’t really sipdowns if they are stored in more than one place? I’m trying here. :D)
1/21 52Teas – Cotton Candy
Two sipdowns in one! I had just a tiny bit of this left, so I dumped in with it a bit of cotton candy white that I had. Brewed them both up and made them into iced tea, because it’s gorgeous outside! It’s sweet and really tasty.
Other random thoughts:
- I am finally watching ep. 2 of Game of Thrones, so that I can not worry about the world spoiling it for me.
- I am looking for secret shoppers in Rochester MN, Houma LA, and Detroit Lakes MN if anyone is near there!
- My daughter picks up her cap and gown today. It is feeling very real :) :( :/
Like VariaTEA the lovely gal who shared this with me, I’m getting little out of this. I have to wonder if what she’s sent me is a re-blend, and thus why the differentiation in experiences between her and I, and many others. It’s just a slightly astringent black tea, I’m not even getting anything sweet out of it. Boo.
