Angrboda

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Angrboda drank Ceylon Pekoe by Den Lille Tebutik

Sshhhhhh! looks shifty I’m skiving off for a few minutes!

I took this one with me to work, because frankly it’s too boring really to drink at home. I have now found out that it’s not very suitable for work either. It’s difficult to brew it consistently and there are enough distractions at work that oversteeping happens every now and then. It’s not a very forgiving tea about that.

It’s got a bitter edge today because I forgot to take the leaves out in time. I don’t think I’ll buy this one again and I’m not sure I’m going to keep it here at work. I think maybe I’ll take it home again and bring something else. If I get around to it before the tin is empty, that is.

Better get back to some sensible, productive activity.

2009-12-08 03:27:29 -0500

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Amy 2009-12-08 11:54:56 -0500

Love your comment! To bad the tea’s a dud. I find that plain ceylon needs something to make it a tad more interesting. It’s not like a malty assam that can really hold it’s own. Do you find the same to be true?

Angrboda 2009-12-08 16:28:23 -0500

I don’t know, I think maybe as Ceylons go, it’s a good Ceylon. I may have come across some flavoured things from that shop that wasn’t a big hit with me, but I can’t really put a finger on the quality. I just don’t think I’m much of a plain Ceylon person. (The weird thing, though, the REALLY weird thing, is that I had an Uva Highlands Estate a few years ago and that one was awesome. So why is this so dull?)
Maybe it would help if I could make it consistently, but whenever I make it and look at my previous comments, I can never recognise my own thoughts.

I don’t have much experience with plain Assams, so I can’t really make the comparison there.

Amy 2009-12-08 18:46:28 -0500

I read that teas are like fine wines. The taste from a single estate can change from year to year due to environmental elements. That’s why blending is so popular because it’s harder to identify those changes from year to year. So the overall taste is more consistent.

Angrboda 2009-12-09 03:04:03 -0500

It was funny because I was thinking about the same thing last night when Lexitus and I had a wine made on a different grape than the wine we usually have. It was a good wine, but it was an enormous surprise when I tasted it the first time. It was SO not what I was expecting to get in my mouth. And then I thought maybe Steepster had been training me in tasting stuff more thorougly.

Amy 2009-12-09 10:27:41 -0500

I think you’re right. For those tea lovers who prefer single estate teas to the blends, it must be frustrating because there are tons of blogs and reports about which vintage years a stellar for wines, but I haven’t come across hardly anything that provides continually new info about vintage years for estate teas. Maybe that’s something that can be created on steepster?

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Um…

Okay. Ang prefers black teas and the darker sorts of oolongs. She has to be in the mood for green and white and she enjoys, but knows little to nothing about, pu-erh.

Her preferences with black teas are the Chinese ones, particularly from Fujian, but also Keemun and just about anything smoky. She occasionally enjoys Yunnans but they’re not favourites.

She is sceptical about Indian blacks as she generally finds them too astringent and too easy to get wrong. She doesn’t really care for Darjeelings at all.

She likes flavoured teas as well, particularly fruit flavoured ones, but also has an obsession with finding the Perfect Vanilla Flavoured Black.

However, she thinks Earl Grey is generally kind of boring. Cinnamon and ginger are also not really a hit, and she’s not very fond of chais. Evil hibiscus is evil. Even in small amounts, and yes, Ang can usually detect hibiscus, mostly by way of the metallic flavour of blood it has.

Ang is not super impressed with rooibos or honeybush. She doesn’t care for either, really, but when they are flavoured, there have been known to be surprising exceptions to this rule.

Ang has a number of teas that she regards her Standard Panel and will always try to have on hand.
-Lapsang Souchong, any brand really, but preferably AC Perchs.
-Blackberry flavoured black or similar, any brand.
-Late Summer Blend, AC Perchs
-Raspberry Oolong, AC Perchs OR Red Fruits Oolong, Le Palais des Thes
-Caramel, Kusmi OR Toffee, Le Palais des Thes
-Something orange flavoured, black or pu-erh, any brand.
-Tan Yang Te Ji, Teaspring OR Bai Lin Gongfu, Teavivre
-A good Keemun, any brand.
-The Perfect Vanilla Black if and when she ever finds it…

Angrboda is almost always open to swapping. Just ask her.

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