Valerie

Oh this is just lovely! I’m not a huge pumpkin fan but this is warm and creamy with just a hit of spice. Aaaaaaaaaaah I love it!

I couldn’t decide what to drink this morning and polled my Twitter followers. Someone suggested an Irish Breakfast and this is the only one I had.

I’d forgotten how lovely this blend is! I took it straight without any sweetener or cream and it was very lovely. I of course drank it from my Weeping Angel mug. And then just to finish off the pain, I watched The Angels Take Manhattan. Ooooops.

Backlogged from last night.

Lately I’ve been staying up past midnight to write with a friend, and last night I as determined to get some sleep. So I decided to try a cup of tea before bed, but something caffeine-free. So I gave this one another go, and it’s definitely my favourite 52Teas tea!

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Second tea of the day! Going to try as many during my time off this week since I’ve been slacking. This is another sample I received from Kasumi, and this is my first time trying a floral blend!

I taste the floral/lilac but more than that I taste something fruity? I like it, though! I think it’s a nice introduction to floral tea blends.

It also smells amazeballs.

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Good god, this is good! Kasumi sent me a bag of it (smooches!) and included a note that it tastes like hot chocolate. It does! Smells like it too, with cinnamon and nutmeg. I added quite a bit of milk to this, and I think it might taste good as a latte too. =D

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Oh my, this is nice. I’ve been trying to figure out what it reminds me of and I’ve finally pinpointed it: anyone remember those fruit candies called runts? The banana ones were always my favourite, and that’s what this tea reminds me of. Sweet, sugary, creamy banana. Love it!

So Christmas came in January this year, because the wonderful Kasumi sent me her 12 Days of Christmas along with so many other wonderful samples that I’m dying of excitement and I want to try everything all in one go. But I’m being a good girl and starting with Day 1, which is Cotton Candy Black Tea.

Dry, it smells exactly like cotton candy! Yummmm.

Brewed and tasted hot, it’s quite sweet, but not that sickly cloying sweet you get with a lot of flavoured black teas that use too much stevia right in the leaves. (I prefer to add my own stevia if needed — definitely don’t with this!)

As it cools down a smidge the sweetness has mellowed a bit. I love it~

Down to my last teaspoon of this — let’s see how many steeps I can get!

On a sidenote, I need to keep up with my tealogging; I’ve been slipping on adding tasting notes but not on drinking tea. Writing a lot of fanfiction lately and going through at least a couple cups while I write!

With lots of cream and sugar. :DDDD

Fixed myself a cup of this to drink in the bath with a good book, and oh my gosh the leaves alone are just so pretty with the pearls and everything. The taste is light and sweet, and I don’t get that earthy/fishy pu-erh taste that I get with the others I’ve tried. Lovely!

This is okay. I don’t think I like lemongrass? It’s got a weird taste to it and the lemon-y taste masks the rest of the flavours.

But I need something to calm me down because spoilers for the BBC Miranda finale just came out and I’m sobbing into my teacup because FEELS. This show is worse than Doctor Who because Doctor Who never claimed to be a sitcom that would RIP MY HEART INTO TINY PIECES.

…yeah I think I need another cup.

Another highly-recommended blend suggested to me when I placed my first DT order! I love this. It’s not a fake vanilla taste, it’s a very real vanilla.

I’m beginning to think green tea just isn’t for me. I’ve yet to find a blend that works for me. I received this in my January Amoda Tea Tasting Box and sadly all three blends in the box were just the exact opposite of what I like. Two of them are going to a coworker and this one is going up for swap.

This was my first order from DT and this blend came highly recommended. I haven’t had much with roobios since even my Davids Tea infuser can’t hold the micro-tiny leaves that seem to be prevalent in roobios blends, and I’d end up with debris at the bottom of my cup which would drive me nuts.

So, solution to the problem — I used a tea filter. I added 2 teaspoons since I was doing it in my small teapot. I think I could have steeped it for just a smidge longer since it was pretty mild, but fruity, tasted like actual blueberries, and no bitter aftertaste which I’ve found in some black teas with fruit. (The Earl’s Garden springs to mind right away). But this is reaaally nice.

Received a sample of this and took it in to work yesterday. It’s pretty good! I don’t really taste the apple pie in it, but it’s definitely a chai I don’t mind. (I am not crazy about 99% of the chais I’ve tried).

okay this is pretty awesome. sweet, fruity, a bit of a pinch/bite to it. i steeped it hot but i definitely think this is one i need to try chilled too. this 25g bag needs to last long enough for me to do it!

I’ve been drinking a lot of these while sick because I needed something flavourful I could actually taste — even orange pekoe at its strongest without cream or sugar tasted like slightly flavoured water. I think it’s the tartness of this tea that actually hits my tastebuds amidst the nine layers of cough syrup and mucus. (Sorry for TMI).

Thankfully, I am now beginning the road to recovery — although I’ve actually pulled a muscle in my abdomen from coughing for a week solid and one of my lymph nodes still feels quite swollen. I hope it’s not strep. Ughhhhh.

So I’ve had a hardcore flu since Sunday morning. I’m so miserable right now, omg. Even tea isn’t soothing my throat because I’ve coughed it raw kfhaksdf. I’ve taken to just holding the warm mug against my throat ahahah.

If I die, I love you all tons and I bequeath my tea collection to you.

True story — I’ve gotten most of the people who work at my branch hooked on teas. Or rather, re-interested in them. Today a coworker brought in some tea that her hubby had bought for her for us to try. It was CT’s Black Cherry and when I sniffed it smelled exactly like those sore throat/cough teas I drink when I’m under the weather. It smelled comforting and familiar, and when I tasted it, I loved the tartness and the berry added as well. And no medicinal aftertaste, hahaha!

Me, yesterday to the girls on the member services side: “First I got you all hooked on Doctor Who, now I’m getting you all hooked on tea. Basically, I’m turning you British.”