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Coconut Chai from Zhi Tea

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77/100

Coconut Chai

Black Chai Blend by Zhi Tea

Our Zhi House Blend Coconut Chai begins with organic coconut pieces and our top-quality organic Assam Black whole leaf tea.

Accompanying this superb pairing is a medley of organic coconut, cinnamon, ginger, and cardamom. Bursting with the essence of the tropics, this handcrafted blend will soothe, nourish, and uplift your spirits.Share a steaming mug with a good friend.

This chai loves soy milk and agave nectar!

4 Tasting Notes

Bethany
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Bethany 4 tasting notes

Prepared this in the takgoti chai style (recipe in my Chai thread on the discussion board), and it turned out.. okay. I really need to buy a tea strainer. I tried straining this in my Bodum Assam teapot, but there wasn’t enough tea for it to strain correctly. So it has more bits of coconut in it than I would like.

Either way, the chai is good – not too sweet, not bitter at all, and not too spicy. I’m curious to see how this tastes prepared with just water.

Again, this is very good – nice and sweet, but not overpowering, and you definitely taste the coconut – but it’s very mild for a chai.

See previous tasting notes for full review. I found this after doing some digging in my cabinet; my black tea stash is finally reaching pitiful status, so I sucked it up and made a SpecialTeas order last night:
Chocolate Cream with Cocoa Pieces 1/2OZ
Ceylon Nuwara Eliya OP 1/2OZ
Caramel with Caramel Pieces 1/2OZ
Peach with Peach Pieces 1/2OZ
Strawberry-Cream with Pieces 1/2OZ
Apricot with Apricot Pieces and Flowers 1/2OZ
Mango w/Pieces & Flowers 1/2OZ
Coconut with Coconut Pieces 1/2OZ
Sencha Fine 1/2OZ
China Fine Ti Kuan Yin Oolong 1/2OZ
China Keemun Imperial 1/2OZ
Nilgiri Tiger Hill OP (CL) 1/2OZ
Ceylon Pettiagalla FOP 1/2OZ
Kenya Tinderet TGFOP1 1/2OZ

Whew. I’ll have a lot to try. I’ve really liked the few blacks that I’ve tried from there, especially the flavored ones, so I’m excited!

Hm. I’m kind of conflicted on this. On one hand, this is a very good, very delicate chai. The coconut flavor isn’t overwhelming, but it’s definitely there, and the blend of spices is very similar to what was in Zhi’s Kashmiri Chai that I tried yesterday. On the other hand, this is rather weak for a black chai. I guess that’s good for me, since it’s how I prefer them, but I really would prefer more flavor, just not more spice.

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