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231 Tasting Notes

Northern Berry Kyss from Zen Tea
Vanilla Honeybush from Infusion Bouteaque
88

Oh, this is lovely! Via cavocorax and roodswing, hee! It’s so mellow and creamy, nom nom nom. Also tastes a tiny bit like mint cream to me, idek. They need to get on with finishing that web store asap >:D

Raspberry Spice Chai Tea from Murchie's Tea & Coffee

Interesting! Not what I’d expect if I bought something called chai, but yum enough anyway. Thanks Cavocorax! >:D

Nut & Honey Crunch from Della Terra Teas

YMMV, but this tastes exactly like Forever Nuts (David’s Tea).

Strawberry and Guava Romance from Tea Desire
75
Strawberry and Guava Romance from Tea Desire
75

This is a really mellow/subtle flavour with a really strong black tea. So don’t go in expecting dessert tea. :P It’s good though, but not cupboard-necessary.

Earl Grey from Twinings
85

Yummers easy hot tea with my nutella fudge cookies! >:D

Cranberry Pear from DAVIDsTEA
39

I just had a tiny bit of this leftover in that sweetness sampler from Xmas, I dunno, don’t really have anything to say about it. It’s a boring tea, ngl.

Evening Lights - herb from Zen Tea
34

Soooo, this is not a tea for me! Smells amazing (I love the SMELL of chamomile but rarely the taste), but the sweetness is like a punch in the face, augh, but then there’s a really lovely minty aftertaste! But you have to make it through the cloying sweetness first…

Earl Grey Cream from Zen Tea
90

This is a super lovely tea for when you want a black tea that’s way more mellow than EG. Yum. ((not a HINT of curry, wtf, now I kinda really want a curry-ish tea though. I was so sick when that curry taste happened, haha, I want a curry-ish tea without being sick!))

Northern Berry Kyss from Zen Tea

…..berry berry good??

XD! I’m sorry. I love this tea, though! Most of my ZenTea order was caffeine free stuff, I had to get some interest going in that direction because I have the worst sleep hygiene and need all the help I can get. :P

Ginger Peach (Decaf) Black Tea from Zen Tea

So, I don’t generally like ginger, in food or in tea, and I love peaches (love love love) but am usually disappointed by them in teas… yet I still really needed to try this tea! It’s good, too. I’m not going to rate it just yet, but it’s definitely not boring! Not SUPER peachy, but not super.. gingery.. either. It really would make an amazing iced tea. I think K especially would loooove it.

ALSO, Zen Tea spoiled me with samples?! I am super excited to see their Earl Grey Cream in there because I can’t find my last bit from cavocorax and I NEED to try that again to see if the curry(?!)esque taste was just me being sick or WHAT. XD! Anyway, I have a satisfyingly large pouch of jasmine dragon pearl green tea (necessary for survival!) and I don’t have to scare the postman peeping out the door constantly anymore.

Green Seduction from DAVIDsTEA
83

Last bit of this one. I miss it already. :P

Coconut Oolong from Zen Tea
82

SO buttery… and no wanting to harf at the smell of oolong anymore! \o/ I enjoy this, but will probably rarely want it.

Jasmine Dragon Pearl from Zen Tea
92

2 steeps of this yesterday, for some reason the 2nd didn’t turn out as good as it usually does. I love this tea, but I hate messing around with temperatures.

Read My Lips from DAVIDsTEA
90

K & I finished off the last bit of this. So good! Not something I’d want often, but I’ll probably get it again sometime.

Butterbeer from 52teas
83

Strange and intriguing!

Raspberry Truffle from Butiki Teas
80

Hit with a nostalgia blast because dry, this smells just like the little touristy knick-knack shop my mom had when I was little. Potpurri O__O but I don’t really taste raspberry OR chocolate, even though I know they’re in there, I saw them. My brain insists I am tasting flowery things to go with that potpurri smell, I guess. Nummy, though!

Fantasy Island from DAVIDsTEA
83

Needed something tasty this morning, child has been a CHALLENGE lately. This hit the spot perfectly… and NOW I’m ready for something badass.

Oh, also: have never really tasted raspberry in this? More like a coconut-fruity candy flavour that is nevertheless YUMMERS.

Kenyan Tinderet from DAVIDsTEA
82

Probably should have done this one in the finer of my two infusers AND also turned the volume up on my phone so I’d hear the steep alarm? YOWZA, that’s a strong tea! Nothing coffeeish about it, imo, but it could PROBABLY strip paint. :D?

Lapsang Souchong Star (organic) from DAVIDsTEA
82
Forever Nuts from DAVIDsTEA
72

Nice to sample, but not a keeper.

Eleven from Custom-Adagio Teas
81

Sweet & strong says it, I guess? Good tea. #nothingtoadd

Raspberry Vanilla from Zen Tea
82

Finishing this up tonight. That was a huge sample you sent me, cavocorax! But yummers, jeez.

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I drink a lot of tea (and coffee!) and do other things sometimes, like hug cats (3 black cats!) and homeschool a child (the Snick, Snickety Snickface the Sharkboy) and make art and draw things and watch too much television and pretend I’m not home when people knock on the door!

I love art (comics, illustration, storytelling, handcrafts, papercrafts, making things, sharing things, INK, COLOUR, puppetry, painting, photography and obsessively recording things, making up songs and making up words and singing to my cats, plotting melodramatic horrible fanfic with K (the partner in crime), poetry that punches you in the face, having ideas and seeing them turn into THINGS and STUFF, scissors and glue and glitter and making a big mess on the floor)

..and FOOD (yummy things, fall harvests, special treats, preservation and crock pots and canning and growing green things, bright colours and spicy things and new to me foods and fresh fruit and veggies from the garden and living gluten free with no regrets, baking omg baking everything, and into health and how food affects bodies and brains and emotions and how a cup of black tea can be comforting with milk and sugar)

…and most houseology pursuits (well, the fun ones like alternative housing, diy, renovations and building creatively, creative spaces, decluttering and organization and half-assed feng shui, design, eco-housing, cob, small houses, voluntary simplicity, having a good place for a good family and filling it with cats even if you have to pull cat hair out of everything you eat, engineering a less stressful life through environment and care of that environment and light and fresh air)

…and the outdoors (it’s scarf and hat times and fingerless mittens, rocky beaches and bird-watching, racoons and otters, orcas and squirrels, thunder and lighting, windstorms, boats and the ocean and seagulls shrieking, environmental concerns, water, sunshine, bike rides, short cuts through the bush, tree climbing and fire pits)

…and humans (even though I’m a hermit and an introvert, humans are so cool – alphabets and language and dictionaries and body language and mirroring and the way humans talk to one another and make themselves understood, mental health and brains in general, therapy and brain-detangling, daily rhythms, laughing, children, babies, autism and ADD, different ways of learning, homeschooling and reading and listening to radio shows and podcasts, transformative works in all their brilliant varieties, lists and ambitious projects even if they’re never completed, architecture and science, habit and routine, jokes and songs and rhymes and memory work and family stories passed down)…

I LOVE A LOT OF THINGS.

My ratings probably skew high because of this, but I can’t help being optimistic, it is the natural way of things.

Location

Trenton, Ontario, Canada

Website

http://ottersgram.tumblr.com

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