A coffee and tea shop opened up in Beverley, near us, recently. Naturally I got all excited and had to charge in at the first opportunity. So, I checked it out. It seems to stock mostly flavoured teas and coffees with few ‘proper’ teas. Shame that. The place seems like a step up from Whittards, but not so much to my taste. Unfortunately, this tea I bought from there is the same. I have tried it with different amounts of leaf, at different temperatures and varied the steeping time. It tastes like a Darjeeling, but only just and the variable elements don’t seem to change it much. It is certainly not a patch on the other Darjeelings that I drink more regularly, but then it is cheaper too and that shows in the taste. Shame about that. I had hoped for a regular source of everyday tea but this one is not it. Perhaps the shop has others that are better …
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How disappointing… Tea shops just don’t open around where I live, but if they ever did, I’d be so mad if they didn’t offer a certain standard of quality!
I’m hoping that they develop and improve, but I also wonder how well they will survive in town. I may have to ask some leading questions next time I go in! :) I did buy a grapefruit-flavoured puerh as well. I still have that to try, and it is a definite point in their favour that they even had a puerh of any type in stock, so there is still hope.
How disappointing… Tea shops just don’t open around where I live, but if they ever did, I’d be so mad if they didn’t offer a certain standard of quality!
I’m hoping that they develop and improve, but I also wonder how well they will survive in town. I may have to ask some leading questions next time I go in! :) I did buy a grapefruit-flavoured puerh as well. I still have that to try, and it is a definite point in their favour that they even had a puerh of any type in stock, so there is still hope.