6106 Tasting Notes
(DavidsTea 2022: 46)
2022 Sipdown 52/365!
Mastress Alita’s Sipdown Challenge February 2022: Grapefruit tea
Dry, this didn’t smell like much, but as soon as the water hit the leaves the grapefruit was like a punch to the face! It smelled like Body Shop grapefruit bath products, or at least, my memory of them. Flavour is a tart but not bitter grapefruit, with some sweetness. It’s actually rather tasty, although I’m not the biggest fan of grapefruit teas generally.
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 87)
In my desperate effort to get my notes to show up by deleting/reposting, I inadvertently deleted my note on Pumpkin Juice. Urgh. I remember rambling on about how I thought this was a reblend, but realized that the original was actually a green base. And then noting that I have the original, and should compare the two one day, a day where I pay more attention, because I had literally nothing to say about this tea aside from the fact that I enjoyed it and the flavour intrigued me both on the initial sip, and when I finished the cup after it had fully cooled.
Why can’t my stupid notes just show up properly?! Urgh. (Or maybe the dashboard is actually just stuck?)
ETA: This isn’t showing up either. I give up.
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 86)
I’m a fan, even though I oversteeped it! Lovely creaminess, toastiness, and lime flavour. Mmmmm. Looks like I similarly enjoyed it last time too (I assumed I’d lazily not rated this, but I was wrong). I think I’m a fan of “genmai-chunmee” more than the typical genmaichas.
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 83)
I guess the dashboard is acting up again; a bunch of my recent tasting notes have zero likes, which means nobody has seen them. Which also likely means that there are a bunch of notes from other people that I’m not seeing as well. Annoying.
Anyhow, this tea was predictably tasty. Maybe a little lighter than it could be, but still good.
On another note, I’m having trouble looking at screens today for some reason, and it’s really irritating. My eyes keep watering uncontrollably. Hopefully a side effect of lack of sleep or something?
Do you add tea notes with no actual note attached, then go back and “edit” it to add the note to the entry later? I’ve noticed that with people who do that the time stamp stays the same from the original posting, but since there wasn’t a note attached at that time, it didn’t appear in my feed. Once the note is attached, since it had the original time stamp, it “appears” down in my feed in the past when I’ve already caught up my reading way past that point and never look down there. There are a few users I have to remember to just manually click into their account and mass read their notes once a week since I don’t get them through my feed due to this. Not sure if that was the case for you or not.
I definitely know what you’re talking about, but no, I write the note when I post it :/ It actually just happened to me again with my latest note, three times in a row (I’m trying to repost it so it shows up; I don’t usually check if my notes are on the dashboard but I am today!) Perhaps if I can figure out the cause, I can ask for a fix…
I do know that if I inadvertently leave a note open, unfinished, I should copy it, delete, and repost, because it time stamps to when you click “Add Note”, so it would pop my note way down in everyone’s feeds. So I usually do that as long as I remember.
Shae’s notes appear to post late for me. I go through my dashboard and read all the most recent things, but later when I go back to look at new comments there will be a new one from Shae I haven’t seen.
Ashmanra: Shae is the situation I spoke about above. If you click into her account, she “adds” a bunch of teas without notes, so the time stamp reflects that initial add date. The she edits in a note later, so they then appear into the feed, but with that original time stamp (usually days earlier) so unless you scroll days back into your feed, you won’t see them. I have to manually check Shae’s notes off her account because of this.
I was looking through some tasting notes for this blend and came across these comments I must have missed before. I do typically click Review this tea right when I start drinking and then type my note as I finish the cup (sometimes it takes me a couple of hours to type it out and sometimes I come back to it later). I like for my tealog to reflect when I drink each tea instead of when I sit to write the note, but I had no idea it was causing trouble for others here. I’m sorry if it’s super annoying or messing up the dashboard. I hope no one feels like they have to go back and read through all my notes. I can promise that most aren’t all that interesting!
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 81)
Berries and toasty houjicha = yes. This is just so tasty, and I really love that the base is so forgiving. Anne makes lovely berry greens and blacks, but both tea types need a bit of care when steeping, whereas this white/houjicha just doesn’t get astringent at all, at least in my experience.
