6444 Tasting Notes
I started my week by booking all my remaining vacation days on Monday. Then I decided to end the black and white photography challenge (thanks Sil for challenging me) by starting a 365 days of tea challenge (again) on Tuesday. So of course today I would wake up sick with the weird pressure in my head, the sore throat, and the runny nose. That means I can’t actually really taste my teas so I’m drinking those I have in large quantities or don’t nuch care for. This is a bit of both and as an added bonus it’s got orange and ginger and other ingredients recommended for colds and sore throats. Unfortunately it seems some of my taste receptors are working while others aren’t so I am picking up a lot of sweet and nothing to balance it out. I’m drinking it because it’s warm and soothing but taste wise, I am not pleased right now.
Iced tea Sipdown (328)
I don’t know what happened but everything is coming off a bit chemical in this iced tea with the medicinal green base/fake blueberry and artificial vanilla coming through strongest. I remember this being better but at least now I won’t be craving this now that it’s gone.
Eggnog latte Sipdown (329)
I’ve opened the package but never wrote about this and can’t recall ever trying it so that’s weird. Anyways today I decided the flavors in this would make for a great eggnog latte and I was right. This is a punch of flavor with spicy gingerbread (actual baked gingerbread, filled with molasses…not just ginger) being the first to hit your tongue. That then melts away to a sweet and cream pumpkin-y custard. The eggnog helps boast the pumpkin spice-like flavors while also upping the creamy custard factor. I could see this possibly being over-the-top spiced on its own but with the addition of milk and eggnog, it is toned down slightly and elevated to a new level of dessert.
Sipdown (332)
Thank you Kittenna for the share. I think I have had this double-bagged in a box in a drawer for over a year. It maybe wasn’t the best to leave this sample for so long since it is really a bit bland. It is smooth and maybe a touch creamy but not much else going on. No chai spices. No eggnog. My guess is that could be just flavor deterioration from age and especially next to the very flavorful Gingerbread Chai latte, this felt flat.
Sipdown (333)
Apparently I was in the mood for 52 Teas holiday chais this morning because I ended up brewing this as a chocolate milk latte, and Eggnog Chai plain. This sample came to me courtesy of Evol Ving Ness and since Gingerbread is one of those flavors I gravitate towards, I was more than happy to see this in the shoe box full of teas she shared.
So here’s the thing, with the chocolate milk component, this tastes like chocolate gingerbread…heavy on the ginger. It’s certainly a chai but also captures the molasses-rich baked good. I enjoyed it quite a bit so thank you Evol Ving Ness for the share.
Hope that you have dispatched this cold and are on the mend. And yay for accepting this challenge! Go you!