Hide

Welcome to Steepster, an online tea community.

Write a tea journal, see what others are drinking and get recommendations from people you trust. or Learn More

Spicy Chocolate from Kusmi Tea

This one is a freebie teabag that was put in my recent(-ish) Kusmi order. I’m not a huge spice-in-my-tea type girl, but hey, always up for trying stuff. (Well, almost always.) And I do enjoy Lindt’s Chili dark chocolate so who knows!

The smell is more cinnamon spicy than cayenne spicy (and I was anticipating/wanting more cayenne so that’s kind of uninspiring). The chocolate is there in the smell, somewhere between a cocoa and a not-so-creamy, kind of cheap milk chocolate. So far this isn’t looking good.

The taste isn’t all that… well, all that anything. It’s a bit warm spicy. Warmer than cinnamon, not as warm as cayenne. The chocolate… isn’t. I mean, maybe there is a faint hint of it but it’s more like Tootsie Roll chocolate than chocolate bar chocolate and the strength is more like licking the wrapper than eating the Tootsie Roll.

All in all, it’s just kind of boring. It’s not bad. But it’s not great either. It’s not going to turn me into a spicy-in-my-tea fan but it’s not going to turn me off of tea, either. I give it a solid ‘meh’.

(By the way, is it just me or are notices not working? I mean, the little red number shows up but I can’t get to the page to see them detailed.)

People who liked this

LiberTEAS
RachanaC (Rachel)-iHeartTeas
__Morgana__
Stephanie
Dinosara
Angrboda
Ninavampi
Amy oh
chrine
CHAroma

Comments

__Morgana__
__Morgana__ 2012-01-14 18:19:24 -0500

What you said is pretty much exactly how I felt about this, though I probably like spices in tea a bit more than you do — if I didn’t focus on the lack of chocolate flavor it was a decent spice tea.

Auggy
Auggy 2012-01-14 21:21:33 -0500

I did like the warmth of the spices, that was nice. But I felt like it needed more oomph in a flavor other than spice to make it a good tea, you know? Give it a little depth or something.

__Morgana__
__Morgana__ 2012-01-14 22:00:40 -0500

Yeah, in general I have found that the things that Kusmi does well they do very very well, and they things they don’t are kind of fair to middling.

Ninavampi
Ninavampi 2012-01-15 10:33:26 -0500

I really need to get around to trying Kusmi…

Auggy
Auggy 2012-01-15 12:08:17 -0500

Morgana, I think that’s a fair assessment of Kusmi. And I seem to have the same complain for the fair to middling ones – kind of bland/no depth.
Ninavampi, Check your PMs! :)

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

Profile

Bio

I’ve decided to brave the slowness that is Steepster because I miss seeing all the good teas folks on here discover! Sometimes my notices for PMs and such have been questionable. Email me at your own risk at aug3zimm at gmail dot com.


1 – 10 – Bleck. Didn’t finish the cup.
11 – 25 – Drinkable. But don’t punish me by making me have it again.
26 – 40 – Meh. Most likely will see if the husband likes it iced.
41 – 60 – Okayish. Maybe one day I’ll kill off what I have in my pantry.
61 – 75 – Decent. I might pick some up if I needed tea.
76 – 85 – Nice. I’d probably buy but wouldn’t hunt it down.
86 – 100 – Yum! I will hunt down the vendor to get this tea!

Not that anyone but me particularly cares, but there it is.

Location

Texas

Website

http://pinkness.danzimmermann...

Following These People

jennlea
jennlea

Tea lover and blogge...

Luthien
Luthien

Australian, tea, fem...

Dax Pamela Dean
Dax Pamela Dean

Note: I'm open to of...

Bethany
Bethany

I'm (almost) always ...

Jason
Jason

I'm one of the peopl...

Angrboda
Angrboda

Angrboda felt her bi...

takgoti
takgoti

Former coffeeist, tu...

Jane Quigley
Jane Quigley

Works at crayon. Dis...

Des
Des

I really enjoy tea (...

Teaman
Teaman

I love loose leaf te...

Boo Boo Rocks Out
Boo Boo Rocks Out

I am a professional ...

Jillian
Jillian

I'm a university stu...

Jack
Jack

Jack of all trades, ...

oOTeaOo
oOTeaOo

I'm a medical reside...

LENA
LENA

lover of tea, travel...

Oh Cha!
Oh Cha!

I'm a foodie. I've w...

See More