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This was the tea that I had flying from SoCal to NorCal! Definitely forgot to log this in.
Decent tea. Definitely prefer it as a cold brew though.
Yes. People were staring at me on the plane because who even thinks of bring tea with them on a flight ahhaa

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So I flew an hour from NorCal to SoCal and I wanted to drink tea but I left my sachets with my mum back home so I figured that these little beauties would be great to drink on the plane :)
Yep. I asked for a cup of hot water and dropped these little bad boys in :)
It was actually really good! I had a great cup, but it definitely started getting bitter by the end of the cup. Not the best way to drink tea, but good enough who where I was at. I’ll be trying these sometime this week, this time actually taking time to make the right cuppa :)

So many teas to log and this should be the last of them!

I’m enjoying this tea along with my Oh Canada. Both were cold brewed overnight and both were a success.
Oh Canada definitely has more of a… rustic/darker taste, while this one is so very BRIGHT.
This one works great as a hot or cold tea so I’m enjoying myself very much. It did turn a bit sour, but nothing a small pinch of sugar couldn’t fix :)

Drinking this as a cold brew, recommended by VariaTEA!

It’s good as a cold brew, but I prefer it hot.
I only have enough of this tea for one more cup so into the sipdown pile it goes!

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Made this tea, threw into my Timolino with a drop or two of agave and drove 2 hours to Sonoma to visit my sister. Finally got to her apartment and started drinking my Blueberry Jam and it’s still nice and hot and beautiful! I was so happy when I weighed my tea and realized I had enough for two more cups, so the next cup would be a sipdown :(

I had my sister try this tea and she liked it! And she got mad because I never told her that it was hot and she spilled on herself ahhah. Well, I did tell her that the timolinos keep these teas freakin hot all the time! Just because it’s been sitting there for nearly 3 hours doesn’t mean that it’s gone ice cold :)

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Had some of this before bed last night!
A nice and bright bedtime tea :)
I loved it :) Mother had peppermint and my dad wanted to try both teas. He ended up liking both of them and loved how they were very different tastes.
I’m leaving a bit of this with my mom, along with a lot of other DAVIDs.

I bought the burgandy carry mug for my sister and they really like it! They might be placing an order online. One carry mug for each of them and I think they might be buying me tea :))

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Had this yesterday and prepared it the usual way I make my matcha, and my milk frother died right in the middle of making my matcha latte :( Ahh well, that’s what you get for using a $2 milk frother from IKEA bought nearly 5 years ago ahha.

But this was.. okay? I didn’t taste anything and I realized this morning that I was supposed to put 2 tsp, not my usual 1/2 tsp. When I read the back of the package, I was like.. isn’t that a bit much? But it is an “au lait mix” or whatever so maybe it’s just special ahha

Definitely going to try this with the intended amount of matcha sometime later on this week :)

I’ve been wanting to try this tea for the longest time because SPARKLES AHHHH

When I smelled this in store, it definitely smelled like a tea I would not enjoy. I don’t like super spicy teas? And the orange peel was a bit off-putting, but dude. Sparkles. So I just had to get it ahah.

I brewed this like SUPER quickly. Like I only brewed it for about 3 minutes, and it went straight into my Timolino with a dash of agave and I was out the door. I didn’t even have time to taste it on its own! But it ended up okay :) Sad that it was super rushed, but I managed to finish it all and enjoy my time. Definitely going to try this tea sometime this week, and this time it won’t be rushed ahha

In other news, the reason why I was rushed is because my cousins and I were almost late for the movie! It started at 4:05, and I started brewing my tea at like 3:40. 10 minutes to boil water and steep your tea really isn’t enough time. My dad literally rushed to the theater ahha. But we were sat up right at the front, but it was all good since I had my tea with me :)
Divergent is a good movie! I was kinda bitter about it because I broke my book/movie rule. This is the first time in years that I watched a movie first before reading the book. Ahh well, I have the book! I just haven’t found the time to read it :/ The quarter is starting so I’ll read as much as I can before I drown in all my tests and papers.

Okay. Story time with Kyra.

So yesterday I went to Lupicia and DAVIDs and I was super excited because I got my special San Franciscan blends from Lupicia, and DAVIDs only exists in the San Francisco area on the entire western side of the US. Luckily the DAVIDs and Lupicia are in the same mall so great for me!

I went to DAVIDs and there was a girl named Jillian who was helping me out. She was LOVELY. I told her that I was going to buy a whole lot of tea and I do have a list with me so she has to be prepared for this. So I finally got all my teas (it was like 10-15 teas okay) and as she was ringing me up, I told her that there were some teas that I wanted to smell. Didn’t want to buy it, but just smell. So when she finished ringing me up and I finished paying, I got to smell Birthday Cake and Coffee Cake. Then another person who was working at DAVIDs, Trish, was all “Good call on the Coffee Cake! It’ll be gone for good tomorrow!” And so I was like Dude I don’t care. It’ll probably be like another $5 so that wouldn’t hurt. Just get me an oz of that and I’ll be on my way!
It turned out to be like $4.75 and as I was getting my cash out, Jillian was all “You know what? It’s on me.” And I was like “Really? Are you sure?!” And I was just oh my gosh. This is the best day ever.
I wasn’t looking for free stuff. Heck, I wasn’t expecting to get the free infusers and the free tin! I was already going to spend like $150 at DAVIDs because mother wanted things, I was was already going to get a lot of the peppermint, so that tin was just a bonus. An extra $4.75 wasn’t that much for me, but ahh I just had a great experience and I felt like this needed to be shared :)

I’ve brewed this tea and it’s a really nice rainy day and I’m taking my cousins to the mall so it’s in my Timolino and we’re all ready to go!
Umm.. I actually haven’t had this tea yet. I’ll like.. I’ll edit this later tonight for the actual tasting notes part :)

GOOD TEA. Okay I’m the worst and I had this nearly 10 hours ago and I forgot how this tasted like. Coffee and desserts and good stuff but ahh I’ll write a better note the next time I drink this tea because I forgot how it tasted like. All I knew is that it was good and I’d happily drink it again :)

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Coldbrewed from a couple days ago, but I definitely strained it before it got bitter ahha. Cold brewed for 10-11 hours? Nice tea. Definitely been in my mom’s cupboard for a while so the taste wasn’t the best, but still decent. A touch of sugar and it tastes like nice and crisp apples :)