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Tastes like a standard black tea. Good, but nothing spectacular.

This one smelled like cinnamon hearts. A lovely cinnamon taste, very sweet, none of the burn one would get from eating cinnamon hearts. I liked it, but too sweet for my taste. Definitely like drinking a dessert.

I’m appreciating it for a long time !

Sturdy and pleasant

Today was 34 C. So I picked a tea that would remind me of a summer bonfire. It’s odd that we celebrate the heat with even more heat, but in another way it’s accepting of summer.

What I love about this tea is that you can breath the flavour in after drinking it.

The tea base itself was mild and unobtrusive. How can I describe the smoke demons that dance on my tongue. There are so many types of wood to use. Previous teas have tasted like burning green pine needles. Acrid. There was a little of that, but overall it was smooth. Perhaps this was from Wuyi, as there were greens beside this. This is a lot milder than what I have had before. The liquor was a lighter orange red.

The only experience I get like this is real bbq. Smoking ribs, brisket, and pork.

Well, maybe smoked salmon too. And of course maple syrup.

Lapsang Souchong unknown.

Bagged teas are not preferred, but if I’m on the go and need a fix and the only place I can get my tea is a Starbucks, this is what I choose. Floral notes with blueberry gives a fragrant and tasty tea, but as to be expected, the flavor is lacking compared to loose-leaf.

I usually detest bagged tea, and this is not an exception, but I found a few bags of it laying around and decided to try it iced. Quite…different.

This one always hits the spot. The lavender is calming and the coconut adds sweetness. This makes for a pleasant cup on any evening.

Re-steeped the leaves I had earlier. 180 (degrees F), 2 minutes, 2 teaspoons leaves, 2 cups water.

Still enjoyed it this time around. :)

I need to agree with some other opinions written about this tea : these are excellent tea bags (in my opinion most probably the best quality and taste you can get from a teabag available nationally in a major store)… and when I finished the first box I bought (without writing about it in steepster), I bought another one. As someone else said : the Kenyan tea is quite strong, and in UK this implies mostly that people add milk…I like my tea black, but indeed, better steep it a short time if you want to avoid it getting too strong (I don´t really think it gets too bitter, it gets “deeper” if that makes any sense). It´s quite funny : when I bought the tea, the cashier at M&S told me that he had lived in Kenya and that he really believed that one of the better teas (and coffee) came from there, but that in general they are underrated. The strength of the tea is rated as 2, and I agree again with a comment I read on steepster that some teas rated 2 actually seemed smoother than some rated 3 (the same applies for M&S´s single estate Rwandan Rukeri teabags). I compare both with coffee (as I like it : strong and full-bodied).

One of my favorite teas, great for this cold, wet and windy day.