Angrboda

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Angrboda drank Earl Grey Smoky by Kusmi Tea

As mentioned before I’m not an Earl Grey fan, but you don’t get to be a tea lover without at least at one point in your tea carreer getting yourself outside an Earl Grey of some sort. It’s so much a classic that acquaintanceship is inevitable.

I’ve met a few in my time.

A few I have actively disliked.

Many I found drinkable, but otherwise neither interesting or pleasant in any way, shape or form.

Some I liked.

A few I found surprisingly nice.

Only one have I ever loved.

And this is it.

2011-07-07 11:44:17 -0400

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Kashyap 2011-07-07 12:09:22 -0400

its a good way to say it…i have yet to meet the Earl Grey variant that I’ve liked…its not that I can’t appreciate it..its just not my proverbial cup of tea…but nicely put

Angrboda 2011-07-07 12:20:56 -0400

You probably have a stronger dislike of bergamot than me. I suspect my problem with it is not so much active dislike as it’s failure to spot the appeal. If someone, Odin forbid, were to make a celery flavoured tea, for example, I don’t believe any amount of variation on the theme could rescue it for me. :)

teawing 2011-07-07 12:37:03 -0400

How about garlic flavor? It would at least have the added bonus of vampire repellant. :)

I laughed out loud at celery tea!

Angrboda 2011-07-07 12:44:41 -0400

Eww! :p

QuiltGuppy 2011-07-07 17:16:39 -0400

I would drink the celery tea.

teawing 2011-07-07 17:34:26 -0400

Your tastes are obviously more refined than mine, QG. :)

Angela 2011-07-13 16:43:51 -0400

I’m intrigued by this. I, too, have yet to really enjoy an Earl Grey.

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Angrboda felt her bio needed to be re-written, but she failed to consider what she wanted it to say instead.

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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