Kenya Kangaita

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195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 30 sec 10 oz / 295 ml

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  • “I added this to my shopping cart a few weeks back on a whim, mostly because I’d like to get around to trying all of Stacy’s blacks and because Stacy was kind enough to let me add to my order to...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Thanks Stacy for this tea sample! The last time I tasted this tea, I had been drinking loose leaf tea for about 4 months, so tasting it again was a fun comparison! I’ve learned that I LOVE strong...” Read full tasting note
  • “So, my mom just called to ask me if I saw the weather for Sunday and Monday. Let’s just say I have some pretty amazing -15F (-26C) weather to look forward to. I’d imagine this was once of the last...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Stacy thank you! This is a great black tea! A nice Kenyan Tea! It’s bold, full-bodied, a nice eye-opener! It has a touch of dried apricot flavor to it as well as a citrusy note. I really like...” Read full tasting note
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From Butiki Teas

Kenya Kangaita is a high elevation Orange Pekoe grade orthodox black tea. Originating from Kangaita, a settlement in Kenya’s Central Province, this tea is full-bodied and complex. Kenya Kangaita has apricot, citrus, and biscuity notes and finishes with sweet roasted notes. Most tea in Kenya is cultivated with machinery; however, this tea this hand picked.

Ingredients: Kenya Kangaita Black Tea

Recommended Brew Time: 2 minutes and 30 seconds
Recommended Amount: 1 level teaspoon of tea for 8oz of water
Recommended Temperature: 210 F

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Thanks again to Kittenna for the sample of this one! It’s another that I missed during Butiki’s prime – straight teas generally weren’t often on my radar at that point in my ‘tea drinking career’ so I likely just skipped right over it.

I definitely enjoyed it a lot though, which just makes me all the more sad I missed this one in its prime. It was super bright and refreshing, though! Really, really strong and lively citrus notes and jammy red fruit undertones, with a sweet caramelized sugar and freshly baked bread sort of finish. I find citrus notes in black teas, Kenyan ones in particular, can be awfully brisk and often emulate more of a citrus peel or pithy citrus kind of flavour but this was sweet and juicy, more like the flesh of the lemon without any sourness – and I deeply appreciate that sort of lemon note in a good tea; black or otherwise.

It totally made the whole cup.

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This was a sample from Butiki, and if you’ve read my reviews before, you know I have a tendency to have “weak” luck with Butiki samples! Even this time, knowing that I usually use too much water, I seemed to do it again. What I was able to get out of this tea were faint notes of fig, a tad of raisin and a bit of earthiness…like the skin of sweet potatoes. I here by swear that I will NOT make a Butiki tea from a sample without having 2 samples to combine in my cup. I’m sure there’s some magic here, but mine was too watered down to grasp it….

Preparation
Boiling 2 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 10 OZ / 295 ML

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