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I liked this tea a whole lot when I first had it. Now it’s just.. weird? Dude it’s fault on me though. I like overleaved and understeeped… I think? What the heck is wrong with me. It tastes bitter, but watered down.
I totally didn’t measure it correctly, and I didn’t time it so it’s totally my fault haha

But on the plus side, I managed to convince my parents to a SF trip tomorrow since my dad has the day off and HELLO HONEY DEW. And I’m definitely stopping by DAVIDs and picking up my frequent steeper card :)

Sipdown and so very happy for Sil sending me a sample of this tea!
My family and I drove to Sonoma yesterday to attend my sister’s graduation and I think mother cried hehe. We decided to stay there and booked a hotel with breakfast soooo hot water for me it is! This was very easy to drink in a restaurant. Just drop the cones inside, let it steep, and pick it out with a fork. Luckily they were tied together pretty well so there wasn’t that many loose leaves floating around.

A really nice black tea! Nice and dark, and with a small touch of milk it tasted amazing!

Thanks again Sil for sending this to me!

Backlog from yesterday morning.
Parents wanted to treat me to Starbucks right when my flight got in so I ordered this because it sounded interesting.

Prepared in store, no special additions/substitutes. Honestly, it was just okay. It tasted like a weak chai base, with a bit too much spice. Does anyone know if they still offer their old chai? I liked that one SO much better.

Slept at 1am because of my cousin’s celebration party thing. Woke up at 5 to catch my 7am flight to make it on time for my sister’s graduation!
Yep. I had this tea on the place :) Thank you QueenOfTarts for supplying me with the tea, and awoogah for supplying me with the sweetener (DAVIDs agave sticks)!
Sadly, this tea isn’t as great as I remembered it :( When I first had it, I tasted the nice vanilla and caramel, but today, all I tasted was the chestnut. Even understeeping it a little bit turned out to be fairly bitter, luckily I had the agave to help!

But thank you tons, QueenOfTarts for sending this tea my way!

A decent tea :)
Tastes like… watered down coffee? Ahh well, I needed all the caffeine I can get since I’ll be crazy busy all day long.
In the past 18 hours, I’ve bade 12 dozen cookies and packed for the weekend because my sister’s graduating tomorrow! Cousins are getting confirmed tonight and I’m flying back home tomorrow early early in the morning just so I can make it in time. Hoping I can convince my parents to see if they’d let me go into the city to get more tea..

BUT YEAH this tea is good because I need the mate haha

Mmm this is so good!
Smells like Butiki’s Watermelon Xylophone, and tastes a bit like it. It tastes like nice and bright melon :))
This can easily be a favourite of mine and I think this would taste really nice iced! I’ll probably try that sometime next week :)

Thank you tons to VariaTEA and QueenOfTarts for sending me a sample of this! it’s a sipdown of Rachel’s and luckily I have more of Sony’s stashed away with my other teas :)

Bleh.
I made this tea as a cold brew last week and I’m finally drinking it now.
It’s great! But it’s getting hot and I literally just grabbed my mason jar from the fridge and walked to class, but it definitely lost its cool on the walk up the Hill and now it’s down to room temperature. Yeah, this tea is only good cold. Like ice ice COLD.

So I took this from the TTTTB and I totally forgot to add this to my cupboard, so I didn’t get the wonderful chance of pressing the “remove from cupboard” button! Aww darn.
Ahh well, this tea is good! I’ve never had legit stone fruit before, so all I smell from the package is the white tea with a bit of a fruity scent… wait. I’m not smart. I just googled it and is stone fruit just fruit with a nut inside like a peach or nectarine and cherries? WOW I’M SO SMART.
Yeah well this smells like a fruity white tea! Legit thought that stone fruit was an actual name for an actual fruit wow.

The grassy white tea does come out a bit more though, but there’s a background of the fruity bits :)

It’s good! Reminds me a bit of Thranduil? Gandalf? I think it’s Thranduil. Just less roasty and more tart. Ehh, it’s an okay tea. I think I only grabbed it because the sample was pretty small and it had enough for one cup, or two wee little baby cups :)

In other news, Disney is keeping me in the loop with the whole DCP thing! I love it so SO much. It’s getting me even more stoked to start! 35 more days till Disney!! But they sent me an email about how they do these “Vidnouncements” which is a fancy schmancy name for a Video Announcement haha. But it was just a video of a group of people having fun, roaming through a completely empty Disneyland, with just dates and news rolling through the bottom. It was so cute and I’m so so very excited!

And as I was making dinner, my roommate asked me if I can turn my music off so she can watch a movie called GBF and it was actually really cute and adorable. The people bothered me so much and I was literally yelling at the tv criticizing the costuming department (because high school students don’t wear freakin 6 inch heels to school) and people were just so rude with what they said.
But it was actually really cute okay.

I only had a single pearl left because I gave a bunch of these to my sister.
I used to love love LOVE this tea, but alas, it’s just a simple black tea and I’m happy to get rid of it to make room for more :)

((done with assignments for tonight so CELEBRATION TIME))

I made sure to keep this tea at the very very bottom of my tin of all the swaps because this is definitely one of a kind! I love this tea so much! It has been deemed a special occasion tea and I’ll only drink it when I really am craving this tea. I normally stop drinking tea at around 9pm, but for this tea, I’ll do anything. It’s already past 12 and I’m just finishing this last assignment and well, why the heck not! I love this tea, I haven’t had it for a while, and I will dig through my teas just to pick this one out.

I have no idea how Butiki was able to make the scent and the flavour so dead on. It legit tastes like a root beer float, ice cream and everything! Very sad that I only have one more serving of this tea left. I will always have room for this tea! A definite must buy when I make my first purchase with Butiki over the summer when I actually have an income hahah

A great big shoutout to NayLynn for sending me this tea!

(I accidentally grabbed one of my larger mugs, and my hand was definitely heavy on the pour. Doesn’t really taste well watered down, but that’s definitely fault on my part. If I brewed this correctly, then it would have been lovely. But I’m keeping this at 100. It’s fault on me, not the tea. There’s no need for improvement on this tea, it’s just absolute perfection)

If you’d like to see my little freakout of when I first had this tea, I have it here
http://steepster.com/jump62359/posts/238597
I think it’s one of my best, most well written tasting notes yet ;)