Another big thanks to Sil for a sample of this one. I never drank eggnog until relatively recently; my boyfriend loves it so I learned to enjoy it as well. Also, good news is that my kettle apparently can stop at green-tea temps, but is having trouble shutting off at temps between ~180°F and boiling? We’ll see. But it did work for this tea.
I admit that I didn’t quite follow the steeping instructions as I only left the tea in for 3 minutes, not four. I will be good and steep it for four next time because I didn’t get too much eggnog flavor from this. It is a pleasant, lightly creamy green tea with a hint of spice that does remind me of nutmeg. I certainly enjoyed my cup of it, and will happily enjoy another.
I do appreciate the base tea on this, which was a little buttery and overall quite a nice green; I really only like flavored greens these days when they are done like this, which is to say with an eye to how everything (including the base tea) goes together, and not just throwing any flavor on a sencha base and being done with it. But I wouldn’t expect anything less from Butiki.
yay!
told you this one isn’t really like eggnog….i mean sort of..but not really.
Yeah, I don’t know how much I would be into an EGGNOG eggnog tea, if you know what I mean. The creaminess alone is nice. :)