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Fantastical cacao tea, you’re next. I steeped this in my Timolino for over half-an-hour. I honestly lost track of the time. I love how despite it steeping for that long, it’s still piping hot in there.

I like this just as much, if not more, than the strawberry variety. I don’t really care that it’s on the thinner side. I just love the flavour. Deep chocolate. Reminds me of the hot cocoa my grandma makes with Fry’s cocoa. None of that gross overly sugared up hot chocolate mix.

Now I’m tempted to brew more before heading back out. Actually, I wonder if I should try leaving the basket in the Timolino and just sip it as I go with the dry leaf in there? This may call for an experiment.

Maybe more tea will keep me full too. Today’s a weird ghrelin-gone-haywire day. For those who don’t know, it’s basically a hormone which induces hunger, and unfortunately, increases during periods of stress and/or lack of sleep. I just ate 700+ calories for lunch and I’m still hungry despite waiting for nearly 45 minutes, but I have to suck it up since I like to aim for 1200-1400 calories per day. Whine whine whine. Let’s hope more tea will trick my body and make it stop.

Last “milk” oolong in the Battle of the Milk Oolongs series. RIght away, you can tell this has a lot more fragrance than the others. And I’m talking creaminess, and almost caramel-like too.

Yeah yeah. it’s not a true milk oolong, but I really don’t care. What matters is how it tastes, and it indeed tastes lovely. I can see where others get sweetened condensed milk. It definitely has that going on. I actually oversteeped this as I was frantically putting on my makeup because today already sucks so much; yet, it didn’t turn out bitter or vegetal. According to my last note, this was a little on the bland side, so I wonder if that was due to a much shorter steeping time. Time will tell.

For now, I’m really glad I picked this one up.

Really sad sip down. I can’t wait to get more someday.

I’m really grateful HI offers sample sizes, which definitely makes it convenient to try out their stuff, but the downside is when you end up loving something, it goes very fast. :)

First note on this despite the fact that I’ve had it several times before. I love genmaicha. And I love LB. And I love chocolate. So I figured this would be the greatest thing EVAR. But it isn’t. I mean, it’s really good, but to cut to the chase, I think the oolong in this is throwing things off kilter, at least for my tastebuds. I’m not crazy over that mineral note, especially here. It detracts from the maltiness of the LB and the extra shot of cocoa from the cacao nibs.

The smell of the dry leaf reminds me of puffed wheat squares. But oddly enough, when I left the wet leaves in my strainer while I stepped out for a few hours, when I got back and went to dump them, I wondered, “What is this supposed to be? It kind of smells roasted, but meaty. But roasted chicken.” Weirdest thing ever. But hey, at least roasted chicken didn’t show up in the flavour.

Too bad because apparently roasted chicken is an option in the flavour profile list underneath. Good times.

So yeah, this is nice but I would have preferred it without the oolong, ultimately. I’d also rather have plain LB. But it’s still pleasant and can easily be polished off.

And thaaat’s a sip down, thanks to the wonderful Sil. This reminds me too much of Florence, of which I’ve had my fill, so it was nice to try this and know that’s it’s essentially another H&S tea in disguise.

One more sip down and I’ll be under one hundred again, and I’m totally going to do that today.

Continuing the Battle of the Milk Oolongs from yesterday, I’m going with this one today. The sample is courtesy of Angel, which I very muchly appreciate!

Compared to the Della Terra one I had yesterday, this one is on the floral side and not as buttery. Rather, it’s fresher and lighter. I know this sounds contradictory, but even though I always look for that luscious creaminess in a milk oolong—so the creamier/more buttery the better—overall, I prefer this one over previous milk oolongs because it’s fresher and lighter, and lacks that heavy butteriness. Maybe this is a sign that I simply prefer lighter floral oolongs over milk oolongs? Who knows.

Simply put, this is a dainty floralesque milk oolong. It’s beautiful, but like yesterday, I’ll reserve rating until I’ve tried all the milk oolongs sitting around. Thanks, Angel!

666th post. This kept staring at me, all evil-like, so I figured it would make an appropriate post. Too bad I only ordered a sample because I have one serving left and I didn’t really anticipate liking this enough to want more so soon. Maybe it’s just a phase?

Melted Neapolitan ice cream again. I kept picking up the mug and taking another sip in agony; while each sip is blissful, it’s simultaneously terrifying, because I’m inching my way closer… and closer… to the bottom of the mug.

Perfect thing to drink for this post, I guess. Plus I’m all decked out for the occasion wearing a Metalocalypse t-shirt, and I just watched an episode when I got home too.

I’m sipping on this while I’m impatiently waiting for my supper to be ready so I can scarf it down and get back to work. Mmm, violet. It could use a better base, though.

I realized that I have three milk or milk-like oolongs lying around that I’ve yet to review, so why not start a Battle of the Milk Oolongs, starting with this one. I picked this up last spring and somehow haven’t opened it until now.

The smell of the dry leaf is more floralesque than expected. The taste is more buttery than milky. The creaminess comes out a little more as it cools but I’m not sure how I feel about the balance of the notes here. I’m going to reserve rating any of the so-called milk oolongs until I’ve tried them all.

To add onto my note, the second steep is nicer. It’s on the sweeter side and just simply more delicate.

Taking a supper break but need to head back soon. I’m overstaying my welcome at my own damn home haha.

The second I ripped open the parcel, I smelled strawberry. Strongly. I ordered both this and Strawberry Justice but I had a feeling that it was this one that was giving off the strong strawberry note.

I let this steep for upwards of half an hour whilst I was preparing my supper.

Seriously like melted Neapolitan ice cream. Each sip lends an initial sweet, strawberry cream note, then the cacao steps in afterwards. I’m glad the strawberry isn’t overly artificial. I mean, it is a bit, but not like chemicals per sé.

This is really neat. I look forward to try HI’s other cacao blends. I was able to try Tisano’s cacao tea at the Victoria tea fest last year, since Tea Sparrow was offering it, and I really liked it but passed on it. So it’s nice to revisit the whole idea of steeping cacao bean shells.