Espresso Yourself (Organic)

Thanks again, Julie Jones! I thought I’d like this one… it seemed like it would be a stand-in for coffee that I don’t really like. With two teaspoons, the flavor was WAY too much chicory. It resulted in a mostly bitter cup. Trying it again with one teaspoon, the chicory is still at the forefront which is a shame. It’s just not sharing the cup with the other ingredients like the cinnamon and coffee beans. Too much chicory to me tastes like splenda and I don’t love that at all. This isn’t the worst tea I’ve tried, but I don’t feel like I’m going to want to steep it often.
Sipdowns: 1/22 Butiki – with open eyes & Della Terra’s Winter Nog

I was suprised at how much I liked this tea, considering I am still not a huge coffee person (there’s only a couple of ways I can drink it, both involve lots of milk, LOL). I liked the taste better than the smell on this one, and I may actually purchase some so that I can drink it when I’m craving coffee but can’t actually get coffee.

This is as close to coffee as it gets, folks. I am not a coffee drinker so I was sceptical going into this, but the flavours work very successfully as a tea. A powerful coffee bean flavour dominates, helped along with more subtle notes of cinnamon. The flavour isn’t complex so much as bold. Quite delicious and rich, this would go well with many desserts.
Part of the DAVIDsTEA permanent collection.

Oddly, this reminds me of Christmas morning. Our family is never without a bag or five of Ganong’s Chicken Bones candy during the holidays, and this tea manages to taste remarkably like our favorite festive treat. Cinnamon and dark chocolate with coffee notes and warm memories all in one. Resteeps up nicely at least once, in truth I might prefer the second steep, in which the more subtle flavours stand out. Oh, there will be more of this in my future.

Coffee or tea? I know that they are usually mutually exclusive, but after I smelled this last week I couldn’t forget it, I had to break down and buy a cup on my pilgrimage to David’s Tea today. It tastes just as good as it smells, and if it doesn’t keep me up tonight, I may drink it regularly.

This was awful, I tried this in-store when it first came out and it tasted fine at first, and as I continued to take more sips, it got more worse. I usually love black teas, but this one really let me down. I couldn’t even finish one third of the cup, it was pretty rancid.

With any luck I had this early enough in the afternoon to not be up all night, but with no work/school tomorrow it wouldn’t be the end of the world.

This starts on a coffee note which quickly progresses into something akin to cinnamon coffee cake. I almost get a touch of caramel in there too. Very interested to see how this would do as a latte. Maybe I’ll pick up a little so I can make one at home.

I woke up feeling gross this morning, like on the verge of getting sick. And you know how sometimes you get that hollow feeling in your stomach and you’re getting continual mixed signals throughout the day regarding hunger? Like you’re hungry but you’re not? I’m so getting that today, and ended up eating more than usual today and feel horrible for it. Have been so good at restricting lately. Ugh.

DAVIDsTEA’s email advertising their 40% summer sale, including this tea (online only, though, I guess) prompted me to get off my behind and walk over to pick up more of this before it’s gone, plus some others.

With light cream, it’s like Mexican hot chocolate with a shot of espresso. I do enjoy it. Not a favourite, but it’s good.

Honestly, this was better than I had expected, but not a tea I need any more of. Had it in a Timolino at work, and thought that the coffee flavour was pretty tasty, and it perhaps would be good with milk, but whatever was causing the sweetness (chicory???) made it a little weird and unpleasant for me. Also, kind of fruity, which was… weird. Not too surprising that it was okay though, since I do like the flavour of coffee, and it was added with the help of real coffee beans… but if I want coffee, I’ll get coffee. I’d rather just have tea. So thanks, but no thanks.

Posting out of my queue again;

I should screen cap my desktop for you guys; there are partial tea notes/reviews everywhere, and a giant list of backlogged tasting notes with jot notes for each tea to remind me what I thought of it. At this point it’s getting very cluttered/disorganized so I’m trying to add as little knew to the list as possible.

I picked up 15g of this one at DT yesterday; I didn’t really expect to love it since I’m not big on coffee in the first place and I’m sorta already found my “go to” coffee tea for the rare times when I am craving it (Latte Macciato from Tea Desire) but the dry leaf from this one actually smelled really intriguing so I got some anyway.

This was my tag-along tea for work in the morning; there was something almost laughable about being one of those people (or at least as close to one of those people as I’ll likely ever get) who showed up to work with a piping cup of “coffee”. It’s not an overly complex tea by any stretch of the imagination; basically it tastes like a sort of “medium roast” coffee with cream and maybe the faintest touch of cinnamon. The cream element is what I liked about the dry smell; I’m a sucker for creamy teas. I tasted the chicory root a little bit; but I think mostly this just delivered a nice coffee/cream flavour. Pretty average overall.

I have maybe two cups left of it; I think I’m going to try one with milk because if I ever end up in a situation where I’m drinking coffee that’s how I take it and the second I think I’ll try my Butter Pecan creamer; I think this would benefit from some sweet, nutty notes as well. I feel like it’s safe to say this one wont be a repurchase though.