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drank Candy Cane Tea by Bulk Barn
894 tasting notes

Another revisit of a tea that’s been sitting in my cupboard for far too long.

This is nice. There’s lots of mint on the nose and also a great sweet, chocolately note. It smells like a peppermint patty.

The flavour doesn’t have the same sweet, chocolate notes as the nose. It’s a dry mint with a balanced black tea base. Better with a bit of sugar that brings out the candy cane qualities of this.

Flavors: Candy, Chocolate, Mint, Sweet

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
Fjellrev

It’s cool that you are exploring the Bulk Barn teas! I keep wimping out whenever I pass them.

Anlina

When I started getting back into loose leaf teas Bulk Barn was one of the first places I picked up tea. Most of what I have in my cupboard has been sitting for a long time in crappy bags, but fresh, many of their teas are pretty great. I have lots of love for their orange oolong.

Anlina

They’re also so inexpensive, and you can buy as little as you want, so you could just grab a single cup sample of any that are interesting to you. :)

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Fjellrev

It’s cool that you are exploring the Bulk Barn teas! I keep wimping out whenever I pass them.

Anlina

When I started getting back into loose leaf teas Bulk Barn was one of the first places I picked up tea. Most of what I have in my cupboard has been sitting for a long time in crappy bags, but fresh, many of their teas are pretty great. I have lots of love for their orange oolong.

Anlina

They’re also so inexpensive, and you can buy as little as you want, so you could just grab a single cup sample of any that are interesting to you. :)

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I grew up drinking jasmine green tea with meals, but really fell in love with tea on a trip to Britain in elementary school. My first great love was Earl Grey, and I still adore it and all its variants.

I discovered the beauty of loose leaf tea much later, when, on impulse, I picked up a few teas that were on clearance at a home store. My introduction to loose leaf teas were Masala Chai and Provence Rooibos by the Metropolitan Tea Co and an unknown brand of kukicha and gyokuro (little did I know what a precious treasure I’d stumbled onto with that.)

At the time I was lucky to live in a place with multiple tea shops and several places to have afternoon tea, which is a delight I still miss.

Tea is part of my daily ritual and a nice, affordable way to appease the collector in me.

I enjoy distinctive whites, greens and oolongs, flavoured blacks, and herbals that are heavy on the citrus, lavender or mint.

Rating rubric, to give myself some consistency:
0-15 Yuck, not even drinkable.
16-30 Disappointing, not really inclined to give it a second try.
31-45 Disappointing, but maybe there’s potential? Worth one more try, prepped differently.
46-60 Mediocre, not terrible but not memorable.
61-75 Not bad. I’ll definitely finish what I have and might buy again.
76-90 Very enjoyable. Tasty, complex, it’ll keep me coming back.
91-100 BEST! I love everything about it and I will drink it forever.

Beyond tea, I’m a sex educator, polyamory activist, and radical queer. I love backwoods camping, abstract painting, baking & cooking, nail polish, cats, ceramic sculpture, and home nesting.

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Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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