Funny thing…
I was actually getting done posting my write-up about this tea (which you can find here: http://steepstories.com/2014/02/25/taiwans-wild-side-big-brass-butikis-round-1/) when I thought to myself, Oh yeah! I should brew up some of that! First time that’s ever happened. So, for my way-to-work tea, I brewed some of this up.
SO much going on here – cocoa, malt, mint…uh…awesomeness. I seriously wish I had more of the stuff. It has all the features I adore in Taiwanese black teas plus a little roughness behind the edges – like porno hair. (Wait ,no!)
Flavors: Cocoa, Malt
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delicious tea. To me it’s more honey and candied fruit but I love it so much I ordered 8 oz….I don’t want to get out of stock of this one
Hahaha. Love love love this tea, especially at 30 second steeps. One of these days, I’m going to have to coerce you to try one of our flavored teas.
@Ysaurella – I did compare it to a Yunnan Dian Hong for that very reason, actually! Good catch on the honey.
@Butiki – I would try one of the flavored teas IF it has an interesting origin story. :-)
Hmmmm, well I’m biased and like to think that most of the teas have interesting origin stories but here are a few ones I like:
With Open Eyes (strawberry, toffee, ginger, buttery dragon well)-based off of a painting and the tea had to be completely made in less then a week (usually takes months to fully complete a tea) for a project that consists of 130 artists and that tea is the inspiration for a Wes Craven Character/plot. More info here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/consenses. Just not sure if that tea would be your jam.
Hello Sweetie-Coconut, Toffee, praline, banana, Premium Taiwanese Assam. Really fun custom blend that took both me and the customer down a random path. James was initially looking for a coconut cream pie puerh.
Watermelon Xylophone-Came up with the name after hours on a trip to pretty much nowhere.
Foxy Roxy’s Banana Walnut Treat-A random customer mention while we were having an email conversation, which just happened to be at the same time I was working on a banana tea and decided to make a sample based on her ideas.
I like the stories behind pretty much everything except maybe a few of our older staple teas. Right now I’m working with my mother-in-law on a special tea based off of a Philippino dessert.
@Butiki – You had me at strawberries, Dragonwell and Wes Craven.
delicious tea. To me it’s more honey and candied fruit but I love it so much I ordered 8 oz….I don’t want to get out of stock of this one
Hahaha. Love love love this tea, especially at 30 second steeps. One of these days, I’m going to have to coerce you to try one of our flavored teas.
@Ysaurella – I did compare it to a Yunnan Dian Hong for that very reason, actually! Good catch on the honey.
@Butiki – I would try one of the flavored teas IF it has an interesting origin story. :-)
Hmmmm, well I’m biased and like to think that most of the teas have interesting origin stories but here are a few ones I like:
With Open Eyes (strawberry, toffee, ginger, buttery dragon well)-based off of a painting and the tea had to be completely made in less then a week (usually takes months to fully complete a tea) for a project that consists of 130 artists and that tea is the inspiration for a Wes Craven Character/plot. More info here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/consenses. Just not sure if that tea would be your jam.
Hello Sweetie-Coconut, Toffee, praline, banana, Premium Taiwanese Assam. Really fun custom blend that took both me and the customer down a random path. James was initially looking for a coconut cream pie puerh.
Watermelon Xylophone-Came up with the name after hours on a trip to pretty much nowhere.
Foxy Roxy’s Banana Walnut Treat-A random customer mention while we were having an email conversation, which just happened to be at the same time I was working on a banana tea and decided to make a sample based on her ideas.
I like the stories behind pretty much everything except maybe a few of our older staple teas. Right now I’m working with my mother-in-law on a special tea based off of a Philippino dessert.
@Butiki – You had me at strawberries, Dragonwell and Wes Craven.