Claire

As an example of how differently two people can perceive flavor, I had Rayn take a sip of this and after a moment he made a frowny face and said “Bleh”.
He is crazy about the Chocolate Phoenix Chai, though.

Whoa a 99 rating – now that’s impressive!

I hope you midterms are going well

Like a lot of other people on Steepster, I was really impressed by the quality and complexity of this black tea!

Thanks Nadia – I’m working on a paper now comparing Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus to Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy. Fun stuff. ;)

I love this tea!I drank 2 cups today, just for the mouth-feel, adding stevia so I could taste somethings, LOL! Tony hates it.
Have fun writing your paper, Claire! Good luck with midterms.

I’m beginning to think that there are Green Tea people and Black Tea people(although there are those who are happy with both and some people who gobble up every tea in sight like a tea Vacume Cleaner). What I’m refering to are those who taste Black tea’s and go blech… and Black tea drinker’s who do the same with any Green tea giving the same blech reaction.
‘Sigh’…this makes me scratch my head in bewilderment.

I think you’re onto something Bonnie! Rayn loves green teas (one of his favorites is gunpowder) and will also happily drink any oolong I put in front of him.
I like black tea, especially the maltier ones, but I do tend to drink a lot more green/oolong tea than I do black. For me it’s mostly the caffeine, I definitely get a bit of the jitters with black tea (and forget mate – tried that once and won’t again).

I wonder if it’s one of those flavor things like how some people love cilantro and for some people it tastes like soap. Hmmm…

Right on, Bonnie. [points to self] Vacuum cleaner, right here.

Good call Bonnie! My boyfriend loves matcha and oolong but find every (unflavoured) black tea tastes the same, and that taste is blech! lol

(even this tea! Which is like heaven in a cup!)

Oh yes, I have VACUUM spelling block! The curse of a former English Major.