726 Tasting Notes

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At my Aunt’s place and SHE EXPANDED HER TEA COLLECTION. Now she actually has tea sachets. Aww I’m proud :‘)
Went for this tea because I wanted Genmaicha right now. I’ve had Genmaicha before, and I love it so much! This just tastes.. okay compared to the one that I have back home. Dude. The one I have back home I bought in Japan in Epcot so it’s legit and nothing can compare.
This is pretty good though so yes yes I like :)

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I have a headache. Sister says peppermint will help with headaches. So here I am drinking spearmint tea hahha totally the same thing, right?
Well it’s in a sachet and it’s full leaf so it’s good.
Out of the package it definitely smells like spearmint, without the whole toothpaste-y smell.
Drinking it wow. It’s really good. And the aroma that comes out isn’t strictly spearmint. Can definitely tell that it’s a blend with a floral-y flavour. And lemony. Must be that lemon Myrtle! Well yeah. It’s good and it works. Probably going to add some honey just because I can :)

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 15 sec

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Still don’t have my strainer so I have to brew in my wee little tea balls that I hate so much because CONSTRICTION. But I think I’ll manage.
Decided to just pop one pearl into my wire ball sachet droppy thing and put it into the tiniest cup I own. Yeah I don’t even know what that thing I’m using is called because I NEVER USE IT. MOTHER BOUGHT IT. But better than nothing.

BUT YEAH ONTO THE TEA. Smells dry and earthy and much like black tea :) The smell from the bag was very nice, and brewing, it doesn’t have that deep earthy smell. But the taste of it is very smooth! It leaves a bit of an aftertaste though. A weird and bitter aftertaste. I think it’s probably from the orange juice that I had earlier haha. Let’s see if the aftertaste will be gone in a few sips or so :)

OKAY SCRATCH THAT. ORANGE JUICE AFTERTASTE IS GONE. THIS TEA IS SMOOTH AND WONDERFUL WOWY WOW WOW I LIFE VERY MUCH. 12/10 WOULD RECOMMEND.

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100
drank Golden Honey Dew by Lupicia
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Because it’s late and I want tea and my mother brought me the wrong tea things from back home so I CAN’T DRINK LOOSE LEAF NO THIS IS NOT OKAY.
But yeah. Tea sachets for now till I get my strainer back :/

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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71

You have no idea how many times I’ve drank this tea and I don’t know if I like it or not.
Red tea is.. interesting. It may be a bit too fruity for my tastebuds? Ack idk. I’ll try another cuppa in a few days. Don’t think I’ll completely fall in love with it, but it’s still a pretty good tea to have at night :)

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec

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Okay at first I was all 1tbs for one cup of tea? Isn’t that a bit much!? So I just did something just shy of 1tbs and let it steep for longer and.. no. Do what the instrudtions say. It got a bit bitter, but it’s still really good!
I mainly bought this tea because I’ve never had lapacho before. Still don’t know how it’s supposed to taste like, but I do taste the cinnamonny, gingery goodness! Perfect watmth for the holiday season… even though it’s nearly 75 degrees out at a quarter past 10pm.. this isn’t regular December weather for me, but hey! I’ve got my gingerbread tea and my peppermint brownies. I’m set for the holidays :)

side note: definitely going to try this tea again later on and put the right amount and steep it for the right time so it’s not all bitter and weird.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec

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70
drank White Christmas by Lupicia
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Mother just sent me a Christmas care package and it had a pack of these little beauties in it! I’m not exactly the biggest fan of teas with chocolate, but this actually tastes pretty decent. It’s a different Christmas. Not much of the apple and cinnamon spice type of Christmas, but the sweet chocolatey type. It’s nice! Definitely taste the chocolate with very subtle hints of apricot. The black tea base is very light and not overbearing at all :)

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60

Smells like green tea with mint. Tastes like green tea with mint.
Ehh nothing too special. Just green tea.. and mint.

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70

Tastes very similar to their Wedding blend.
It’s good, it’s good, but probably not one of my go-to teas of choice.

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65

I don’t know if I like this tea. I was expecting something totally different! I like how you can really taste the apple, but it has a really weird aftertaste that I don’t really like.
I thought I made it a bit too bitter, I let my roommate try it and she said it tasted like water. Ahh I don’t even know! Maybe my first time trying this tea, I made it all weird.
I’ll try again soon enough

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Kyra.
22.
Tea lover.
Food and Beverage lover (food, wine, beer, TEA)
DCP Alumni (WDW Fall 2013 and DLR Fall 2014)
Future management intern, WDW Fall 2016
(jump62359 is my everything okay)

Teas in my cupboard are in my personal collection.
I’m always looking forward to reducing my stash so let me know if you wanna swap :)
Likes/dislikes here:
http://iloveyousomatcha.tumblr.com/tea

Tea rating guide:
100-95: Best thing to ever touch my mouth and I want more. Restocking is a must
94-80: Love this tea. Restock if I can
79-70: Decent tea. Neither love nor hate.
69-60: I won’t be upset when it runs out. I’ll drink it but won’t restock.
59-30: I’ve done whatever I can to like this tea and I’ll finish the cup.
29-10: I’ve done whatever I can to like this tea. It may or may not have gone down the sink…
9-below: Let’s not even hide it. This definitely went down the drain.

I love tea.
I drink it.
I log it.
I have a good time.
Lather, rinse, repeat.

I first discovered my love for tea with jasmine teas because that’s all my mother would buy, so for the longest time, I thought that all teas were jasmine! And then in 4th grade, I watched the tea episode of Good Eats and that’s when the education started! I’d like to blame Alton Brown for starting this obsession because now I only like loose leaf tea.
It wasn’t until my second year of college that I actually expanded my tea taste buds. Special shout out to Cara McGee, Tea Queen for her Adagio Fandom blends. Because of Cara, I actually started drinking blacks, herbals and whites and pretty much everything else in between. I still have a special love for my jasmine though :)
I (try to) drink tea daily. Usually just straight up, no sugar or milk. This little obsession started young and just… kept going, I guess.

also I apologize in advance for lazy tasting notes and horrible grammar in everything I write. I was an avid fandom blogger on tumblr and tumblr talk can get in the way of everything kthxbai

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