Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Assam Black Tea, Flavor, Lapsang Souchong, Yunnan Black Tea
Flavors
Burnt Sugar, Campfire, Smoke, Toffee, Caramel, Malt, Pine, Resin, Vanilla, Whiskey, Cherry, Brown Sugar, Molasses, Sweet, Tobacco, Wood
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
High
Certification
Not available
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 5 g 10 oz / 288 ml

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  • “I know I’m not a lapsang fan, but I bought this anyway since I was ordering all the flavors I hadn’t tried yet. Yep, as usual, the lapsang isn’t even that strong, but it’s too strong for me. I...” Read full tasting note
  • “I had some expiring AU rewards points to use up, so I ordered a few sample-sized bags of some blends I hadn’t yet tried. I’ve seen this one compared favorably to Low Country, which I enjoy, so I...” Read full tasting note
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  • “SMOKE!!! Caramel, and vanilla. I seem to fall into the group that loves this tea. I find the smoke to be pretty front heavy and undeniable; I think it runs the risk of dominating the sweet dessert...” Read full tasting note
    80
  • “My third of the samples, and the one I enjoyed the most. Two other two are reviewed on notes on my phone, will have them up soon (it’s charging). I havent’ been that impressed so far with the...” Read full tasting note
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From August Uncommon Tea

Elegant black tea with burnt toffee notes

This is a potent blend of black teas with burnt toffee notes. It’s a powerful breakfast tea for those who enjoy smoky sweetness. Try it with milk to get a fantastic crème brûlée flavor. Ice it for an intense twist on classic iced tea.

INGREDIENTS: yunnan black tea, assam black tea, lapsang souchong black tea, flavoring

TASTES LIKE burnt sugar, walnut, mahogany
FEELS LIKE: belle époque train travel

VEGANGLUTEN FREENON GMO

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33 Tasting Notes

1711 tasting notes

I wanted to log this tea earlier, but Steepster wouldn’t load it and gave me an error page. :/ It was a sipdown. I enjoyed my cup and the resteep, but don’t feel compelled to buy this tea again. I really wanted to love AU teas, but I’m just not falling for them, sadly.

VariaTEA

I had the same experience with AU. The blends all seem so unique but none stand out as that great to me.

OMGsrsly

I really like a couple of the herbal blends, but not enough to order again! Although, I think now they’re not all in tins so maybe customs wouldn’t have a fit about the metal in the package…

Dustin

They do come in bags now and in sample sizes. I think I ordered around 20 different blends and none of them were ones I need to keep in stock.

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3986 tasting notes

Home – 6:00 PM

I realized that I forgot to try an August Uncommon Tea blend yesterday. Oopsies!

It’s interesting to me how they don’t really mention the lapsang in this tea in the description. I looked at the ingredients, so I knew to expect it, but anyone who didn’t might be quite surprised by the scent! XD

To be honest, I could do with a bit less lapsang in this blend, it does dominate the Yunnan and Assam a bit (even though it’s listed last).

I think a bit more toffee flavor would be nice too. I do get a burnt brown sugar sort of note, but to me toffee has to taste buttery. This is closer to molasses with its dark and toasty sweetness.

The base tea blend does have some nice notes of tobacco, wood, and malt, and it’s definitely rich-tasting. However, I think the smokiness is a bit heavy-handed and it masks some of the other subtleties present here.

Not bad, but could definitely be improved.

Flavors: Brown Sugar, Burnt Sugar, Malt, Molasses, Smoke, Sweet, Tobacco, Wood

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML

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1299 tasting notes

Honestly love this one so much it just smells so good and tastes just as good. Very elegant feeling. Honestly can’t ever imagine running out of this one. Drinking this as a Mood Booster today. It feels very 1920’s glamorous and smoky.

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15019 tasting notes

Sad times. this one smells more like toffee now when i open the tin, but still just tastes like a boring old lapsang. So i added rum cream to it. Much improved but not one i’d recommend from AU unless you a) like lapsang and b) get it for a fraction of the regular price.

Lexie Aleah

If your review had been up when I ordered my free sample size of this tea I would have gone with the Loops one instead. At least it was free, just wish I didn’t already have a bunch of Lapsang.

Sil

just be glad you didn’t order black lodge…or did you? haha

Lexie Aleah

Nope I’ve never tried that company’s teas before and they had a promo for 4 oz of free tea to pick from 4 flavor choices. You only had to pay .99 cents for shipping. I’m definitely glad I didn’t order that one.

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15575 tasting notes

Sipdown (584)!

Another sipdown where I finished the tea off with some added in eggnog. ’Tis the season, I guess!? I really, really liked the addition of it here though because the rich, creamy/custardy sweet element of the eggnog really helped to smooth out and balance some of the course, smoky lapsang in this blend that can be a little bit choppy/rough and too savory. What was left with this sort of “smoked” eggnog brulee profile!? And it was pretty tasty!

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