Apparently I’m in a chai mood. Since most of the ones I’ve tried today have been great, I’m going to keep trying them (and I have quite a few tucked into my box o’ samples). This is another one from LiberTEAS. If I didn’t know better, I’d say she was trying to convert me into a chai fanatic!
This one is very mild on the spices. They’re still there and are in the fore of the flavors, but are not overpowering or intimidating at all. The vanilla and the citrus are great, making it a smooth cuppa. I really like the thought of having vanilla in chai…makes me want to experiment with making my own!
If someone had a fear of chais (like I do? used to?), this would be a perfect gateway chai to introduce to them. I’d highly recommend this one to any tea drinker, and even a few non-tea drinkers.
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Have you tried 52teas’ Mayan Chocolate Chai?
Yes, Meghann sent me a sample. It’s delicious, but a bit too hot for me.
lol, “gateway chai” Love it!
Sad. Did you try it w/ milk or creamer? I always bump up the steeping time by a min when adding dairy, but you could just leave it as is.
No, I didn’t try it with milk or creamer, but that would probably help it. My sample is gone now, or else I’d try that next.
I love vanilla in my chais! When I make my own (I bought a separate spice-only blend once) I use a homemade Vanilla Assam as the base.
teabird-I like the idea of adding vanilla assam. I need to remember to add a base black tea to the chai spices in my chais, or just more base tea, as they seem weak in the caffeine dept. Vanilla assam sounds like a great base!
Jaime-seeing another positive review of this tea makes me want some. Too bad I bought about 20 different teas at Adagio today. Mostly samples and 3 large bags of tea! I need to start consuming more tea…
Meghann, I can send a few cups’ worth your way if you like! I’m so jealous that you got to go to Adagio…and I can honestly say that I probably would have come out of there with more teas than that!! Is the new store everything I want it to be?
I’m so happy I live so close to this shop…and by close I mean 1 1/2 hours away, but still close to other things I go to. It was more than I thought it would be. I think they will help change the way tea is seen. The way the store is set up is great. There are grab and go items, samples, teabags, loose tea, lots of teaware, it’s just fun. I had to stop at 8 samples and 3 large pouches of tea or I would be broke, moving on 2 shelves of tea and have a very mad hubby! (especially since I placed an order online last week to get the mate samples free)
It sounds so, so wonderful. I want to go so bad.
I just expanded to two shelves as well…a friend was over tonight (she enjoys tea, I sent her home with some), and she told me I needed an intervention.
Have you tried 52teas’ Mayan Chocolate Chai?
Yes, Meghann sent me a sample. It’s delicious, but a bit too hot for me.
lol, “gateway chai” Love it!
Sad. Did you try it w/ milk or creamer? I always bump up the steeping time by a min when adding dairy, but you could just leave it as is.
No, I didn’t try it with milk or creamer, but that would probably help it. My sample is gone now, or else I’d try that next.
I love vanilla in my chais! When I make my own (I bought a separate spice-only blend once) I use a homemade Vanilla Assam as the base.
teabird-I like the idea of adding vanilla assam. I need to remember to add a base black tea to the chai spices in my chais, or just more base tea, as they seem weak in the caffeine dept. Vanilla assam sounds like a great base!
Jaime-seeing another positive review of this tea makes me want some. Too bad I bought about 20 different teas at Adagio today. Mostly samples and 3 large bags of tea! I need to start consuming more tea…
Meghann, I can send a few cups’ worth your way if you like! I’m so jealous that you got to go to Adagio…and I can honestly say that I probably would have come out of there with more teas than that!! Is the new store everything I want it to be?
I’m so happy I live so close to this shop…and by close I mean 1 1/2 hours away, but still close to other things I go to. It was more than I thought it would be. I think they will help change the way tea is seen. The way the store is set up is great. There are grab and go items, samples, teabags, loose tea, lots of teaware, it’s just fun. I had to stop at 8 samples and 3 large pouches of tea or I would be broke, moving on 2 shelves of tea and have a very mad hubby! (especially since I placed an order online last week to get the mate samples free)
It sounds so, so wonderful. I want to go so bad.
I just expanded to two shelves as well…a friend was over tonight (she enjoys tea, I sent her home with some), and she told me I needed an intervention.