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Very popular fall/winter tea blend. A toasty blend of almond, cinnamon and safflower blossoms. Perfect comfort tea for wintertime.
Received this in a tea swap. It’s tasty. It’s mostly almond in smell and taste and a little cinnamon but it’s fairly sweet too. It’s different from the Almond Cookie one that MandyB sent me a while back. I like them both but they are both different.
Steep Information:
Amount: 3 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 1 full cast iron teapot of filtered boiling
Steep Time: a little over 4 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: sweet and nutty (almond biscotti or cookie to AmazonV)
Steeped Tea Smell: almond cookie, or almond sweet breakfast cereal (Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds)
Flavor: not sweet almond black tea
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: astringent and bitter briefly (MilitiaJim says it doesn’t do that when hot)
Liquor: cloudy translucent reddish brown
Steepster Traveling Teabox Tea, grabbed because MilitiaJim loves almonds
MilitiaJim: It tasted more almondy than it smelled which is a good thing.
AmazonV: The smell was so sweet, I think the tea needs sweetening to match the scent. I also think a splash of almond milk would do it well. This was a great tea.
OMG this is near me, I can go there!!!!
Post-Steep Additives: none
Resteep: 8+ minutes, fail, watery almond water
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/premium-steap-tea-store-loose-leaf.html
