518 Tasting Notes

I got this tea a few weeks back and while it was nice and jasmine-y, I had a bad blend with no jasmine flowers in it. The Tea Spot fixed it for me and sent a whole tin full of Jasmine flowers right away.

And then I couldn’t taste Jasmine for a while. That was sad.

Today, I can taste Jasmine. Perhaps not as well as normal but I finally taste it again.

And yes, I like this tea.

The base green is quite nice, but the Jasmine flavor in this is strong. In a good way. I would spend more time describing this tea, but honestly the codeine is kicking in and I don’t think words are coming.

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This is another one that just wasn’t doing it for me. I got pumpkin spices, and maybe even a little pumpkin, but nothing that made me think milkshake. I have up and added milk about a third of the way through the mug, and that helped, although it really isn’t helping my cough.

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I wanted to like this one so much more than I did. I don’t know why I didn’t. It was chocolaty, rich, but just didn’t do it for me. I thought about adding milk to it to see if it helped me like it better, but didn’t feel like getting up. Maybe next time.

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Since this arrived in my package from MissB I have been dreaming about it. The big success of almond in with the leaves and the thought of drinking almond sugar cookies….mmmmmm…… so I made this as my late morning brew. It is quite tasty, very almondy. It’s not quite as cookie as I would have liked, but it’s in the background. Maybe a touch of milk would bring that out more.

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drank Bolder Breakfast by The Tea Spot
518 tasting notes

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drank Bolder Breakfast by The Tea Spot
518 tasting notes

My computer won’t boot up again, and recovery doesn’t seem to be working, either, so I’m posting from my tablet.

I decided to try this one this morning because a little chocolate seemed needed. It was a very good choice. The pu-erh adds the right balance of earthiness to this tea, and the touch of chocolate flavor just rounded it out.

It smelled like an instant hot chocolate pack when I opened the sample pack, so I was actually a little worried this would be too chocolate, but my fears were unfounded. It was a perfect touch of flavor.

I can’t post a rating but it’s going to high. Even my husband likes this one.
Husband: It tastes like tea. It’s good. I like it. A+. Will drink again.
Me: would you like me to order some?
Husband: Sure. I like it.

This is the same man who laughs at me every time I get more tea in the mail.

So I’ll be placing an order with The Tea Spot later today.

TheTeaFairy

Yay for “tea friendly” hubbies :-)
(You are good I must say, pretend you are ordering for him, that’s a good trick, lol)

Cheri

He’ll have it every once in a while, I’m sure. And we both know it’s mostly for me.

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drank Kalahari / Khalahari by Tea Desire
518 tasting notes

I needed something without caffeine to try and this seemed like a good idea. Still not quite tasting everything, but I could get the Orange (quite nice) and a hint of chocolate. I’m not sure if the chocolate wasn’t strong enough for me or it’s my taste still being off from the antibiotics. I’ll have to try this one again.

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Oooh…I’m starting to be able to taste jasmine again. That has been one of the flavors that I haven’t been able to taste for the last few days. It’s just barely there, but I can really smell it. I’m overleafing so maybe I can taste something. So it’s just barely there, but it’s good. I have gotten all this new tea lately and I’m not drinking any of it because it just seems like a waste. I’ve still got some of these local teas that I might as well drink up now, right?

I wish I had something stronger here at work, though, higher in the caffeine. I went to robotics after work, and we didn’t get home until almost midnight. And then the coughing started back up for me, after not much coughing during the day for the first time in a while. Yeah, so not much sleep. I don’t have much hope for the day here at work being an easy one, either, because we’re down half of our team, and we just released a new version of our software.

But I came into work early so I could leave early. I’m headed back out to robotics because it’s the FIRST Robotics Michigan State Championships. I’ve been a key volunteer at four events this season, so I took this one off. I just was asked to come as early as I can today because they need me. I guess it’s good to be wanted, but I was kind of looking forward to not being responsible for anything. Ah well.

But I can taste jasmine!

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I have all this wonderful new tea, so why am I drinking this one? Sigh. My antibiotics seem to have impacted my tastebuds. (According to my pharmacist friends this is not common, but not unknown.) But it’s warm and I can smell it, so I’ll use this for a few days. Hopefully it doesn’t last long.

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Still relatively new to drinking teas, or so I feel, even though I’ve been at it for several months now.

I’m drinking more and more of different varieties of tea.

It’s been a few months that I’ve been on here. I’ve expanded from greens and flavored teas to now I’m all about the oolongs and some unflavored blacks. I’m mostly drinking unflavored teas now, but there are a few of those flavored ones that have a special place in my heart.

Pu-erh is also something I’ve recently found that I enjoy.

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