Crème Brulee

this is actually this tea + divine temptation and my whole house smells like a delicious wonderful thing. I am in my happy place now. Glad to have this back in my house! Thank you for sending more my way omgsrsly! so that i could try blending the two teas together. sooooo good!

huh…3100 tasting notes, now isn’t that a little scary! 1333 teas rated heh

I really shouldn’t have since it’s midnight, but I’m getting sick of writing this paper and felt that I needed a little boost even though I should go to bed and try to get up earlier tomorrow. I made this with some milk and a hefty helping of Bailey’s Irish Cream. It’s necessary. Oh, believe me, it is.

I think I prefer Bailey’s with homemade cocoa (Fry’s cocoa with milk and sugar) but it pairs nicely with the hazelnutty/coffee notes in this tea. I also way overleafed. I was staring down into my measuring cup like a zombie, mindlessly pouring the leaf directly from the pouch, and twice the recommended amount ended up in there. So it’s a strong cup too.

Hot diggity, the holidays can’t come soon enough.

I only have one cup of this left! And that’s only if I mix it with some Divine Temptation!

Wow.

Anyways, delicious as always. Very coffee-like today. All I added was some creamer.

I think I’ll ‘have’ to pick up 50g of this one, and 100g of Divine Temptation (when I eventually head back out there), because the mix is perfect for the winter!

Why does this make me think of coffee? I keep emptying my cup before I fully review it. Good thing I stopped for the last few sips!

So I am getting a nice black base, hazelnut and vanilla, and a bit of creaminess which I assume is from the coco bean? It’s very smooth and luxurious, and only a little astringent. I really enjoy this.

I’ve really enjoyed a lot of these flavoured Bayswater teas. Sil and Kittenna – you guys better like them too because I might want to order more and want to split the shipping cost! I split your samples up, double-baggie’d them, and then wrapped them in tin foil for MAXIMUM freshness. :P Now that I’ve done this, I can fit my parts into my travel box and drink them all before I see you guys.

Thanks for giving me some of this tea, Cavocorax!

Both the dry and brewed tea smell ridiculously like coffee. Like, ridiculously. This tastes absolutely nothing like creme brûlée to me, but hazelnut coffee? Very much so! With a 2-minute infusion, it’s pretty smooth – just a suggestion of astringency that blooms slightly as dryness in the throat post-sip. I think this tea would be crazy delicious with milk and sugar, but for now I’ll resist…. I only say this because although flavourful, I think that eliminating the dryness would do wonders for it.

Anyhow, yum! Glad to have sampled this tea, as it’s not a flavour combo I’ve really tasted before (well, in tea at least!) :)

Picked this one up in Vancouver last week for the Vancouver Meetup before Cavocorax moves to Toronto. We spent a long time in Baywater looking at tea and sniffing, and this one was one that a lot of us liked, so we shared some.

Anyway, so my day ended up a little frustrating, and I had a bit of anxiety toward the end. I made the Gui Fei Oolong from Butiki earlier, and while it was tasty, it was not the warm hug around my heart that I needed tonight, so I brewed up a cup of this.

The first thing I pick up with the smell is almost a coffee bean smell, but if I smell deeper, it isn’t coffee bean, it’s the burnt sugar topping from creme brûlée that I am smelling. There is a sweet vanilla undernote, but it’s not an artificial vanilla…it feels warm and earthy.

I added milk and sugar to this. The sugar was fine, but I’m not sure of the milk. I was hoping it would be an enhancement to the creme part of the title, but I don’t know. I think it may have muted it too much, though I can still detect the burnt sugar notes through it.

I don’t know if I will like this one as compared to Divine Temptation, but I did have a thought to mix the two to create Hazelnut Creme Brûlée. So this is a winner from Bayswater. The only one I did not like so far was the Lemon Basil Oolong.

Mmm, I’m in a dessert tea mood, which is nice because I have a pile of tasties from OMGsrsly and not much to do today.

This is an interesting one. It tastes a lot like the burnt-sugar caramelized crust of the creme brulee but not a lot like the cream custard itself. I think the burnt-ness of it is what evokes coffee a bit. It’s a bit too burny for me overall, but I am still enjoying this pot it this afternoon. Interested to see how it will play out when I mix with Divine Temptation.

I knew I’d like this one, but it’s nice to have it confirmed. I can definitely get cream and burnt sugar from this, but I see what people are saying about hazelnut coffee as well. :) Yet another nice dessert tea. I think I’ll have to make a cup of this and one of Divine Temptation and compare them directly.

Sipdown (104)!

So, I have like six hours of paid online training to do for Sobeys but it took a week for them to process my employee hire info (even though I started working) during that week and get me an employee number and add it to their system. I get it, ‘cause Dollarama had to do that too for new employees; but it took two weeks to clear. I finally got my employee number on grand opening though, but I still can’t log online to do the online training portal. My account just gets rejected. It’s very frustrating because if I don’t get that done I’ll get in shit, but also because, I’ll repeat again, it’s paid.

But anyway, thank you again Sil for sending this. I cold brewed the last of it because sweeter dessert teas usually work surprisingly well when prepared that way and this is definitely a sweeter dessert type tea. Sadly, I didn’t like it very much as a cold brew. Here’s basically what I jotted down in my online notes:

- Coffee/Burnt Caramel notes
- Sweet but in a very artificial way
- Kept getting strange bitter coffee notes too
- Not actually a huge fan; took me all day to finish it off…

Sample sipdown from OMGsrsly, my second creme brûlée tea of the night.

It’s a pretty potent tea. I definitely get that slightly bitter burnt caramel note.

It’s a very heady dessert tea that I wouldn’t mind having a small quantity of, but nothing I would want to drink regularly. I’d probably add a bit to my cart if I was ever going to place an order but I wouldn’t place an order just for this.

Thanks for sharing, OMGsrsly!