Chocolate Chai

Oh, this is a treat. I added some almond milk and brown sugar, and then I had a nice, full chocolate-y chai cup of tea. It reminds me of gingerbread cookies

This is one of my favorite teas, one of the few I always keep stocked! It’s lovely on its own, but what I really love it for is smoothies. Add two bananas, chocolate yogurt, and a heaping scoop of crunchy peanut butter and enough chilled Chocolate Chai to make it smooth, and you have the world’s best to-go breakfast!

Chaiday 5 of 6:
I have to admit that I chose this tea because I already knew what it tasted like. I don’t usually enjoy teas with fake chocolate, but I know that I like this tea.

Especially compared to the last tea, this is definitely a chai. I can smell strong notes of cocoa, clove, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, and something a little spicy.

All of those spices come out in the brewed tea without being overwhelming. The chocolate comes through as dark cocoa notes, covering the bitterness of the base and subduing the sharpness of the spices.

It’s warming. This cup reminds me of snowy winter days and a fireplace I don’t have. This is my favorite so far of the chai blends, but I still have one more tea left.

I would prefer a little more chocolate in my Chocolate Chai, but since I keep a tin of regular black “Chocolate Chip” tea handy, I can easily adjust this on my next go-round. That aside is a lovely chai flavor. I am really enjoying my first mug of it. I’m currently on the search for my personal best, go-to chai, and I wouldn’t say this is “it.” At least not until I try quite a few more. :-) But it’s in the running.

I really like this chai. It isn’t too spicy for me, and has a light cocoa taste.

Not too bad. Definitely a nice rich chocolate flavor. However, the sweetness is balanced quite nicely with the chai spices. I sweetened it with a few teaspoons of rock sugar, which brought out the chocolate sweetness more.

It’s a quite tasty chai tea with a very mild chocolate flavour. I prepared it with water and milk (1:1 ratio).

Aaand it’s gone! I really liked this chai. Usually all chai’s taste the same to me but I love the chocolate in this one :3 This one is strong in the cinnamon and clove but the milk chocolate flavor mellows the spice and kind of rounds it.

As far as the chai, nice medium spices. I’ve been having too many overly spiced chaos lately. The chocolate, not bad. I taste it… enjoy it, am glad to have it. I really like chocolate teas lately. Not that it really needed it but I added a couple drops of chocolate stevia. Yum, yum!

I was surprised to see that 2 tsp. were recommended for 8 oz. Really quite a nice cup. I’m glad that the Teeny Tiny TTB had a large sample. Definitely a tea I will be keeping from the box!

Sipdown!

Sipped down two teas today and got two more so numbers just stayed the same. Ahh well. I’ll get through all my sipdowns eventually! I actually decided to rearrange my teas since I just moved in and.. dude. I have so much tea. I haven’t had a lot of them and I feel terrible! Oh well. I have a couple tea boxes coming in so I’ll take small samples of a bunch of teas, and I’ll replace it with tea I have a lot of, so I can get the amount down to sipdown status or something :)

I actually have no idea if I’ve had this tea before? Like it was in my sipdown pile, but I have no idea if I just sent this tea out to a lot of people.
Nice aroma. Chocolatey and I smell that good spice :)
Ehh. It’s just okay. The black base is a bit week, or the chocolate probably toned it down a bit. It does have a nice chocolate taste, and a bit of the spice. Tastes like the cinnamon sweet potato mash that my uncles sister made for Thanksgiving last year. Reminds me a bit of that chocolate orange spice from Teavana that I tried from the Teeny Tiny Tea Box! Good, but not great.