My first tea from The Traveling Teabox!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I tried this one first because you could smell it the minute you opened the box :) Cinnamon, cinnamon, cinnamon!!! When you open the tea package, you can see great big pieces of cinnamon bark, and wee pumpkins made of sugar!
It brewed up into a nice medium bodied tea. The first sip was great! Really flavorful and spicy and strongly flavored of pumpkin spice. By the second sip I started to think of the flavored coffees that were popular in the early 1990s. By the third sip I started thinking of the super heavily scented candles!! I was then convinced I was drinking a candle and found the tea overwhelmingly artificially flavored. It was just Too Much.
But! If you like flavored coffee, you just might like this one! It is nestled back in the Traveling Teabox ready for more tastings from Steepsterites!
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Aww, it’s unfortunate your first tea from TTB wasn’t a success. Keep digging, keep trying! =]
Oooo…wait…that’s means it’s getting closer to me! LOL YAY!
Ricky – it was kinda cool tho – if I would have had that tea awhile ago I probably would have ADORED it. My tastes have really changed as I’ve learned more about tea, and having this tea really confirmed it. I think of it as a kind of backwards success :)
TeaEqualsBliss – I’ll have it out by monday! I’m gonna send it priority USPS so you should have it super duper soon!!!!!
How many teas are currently in the TTB? I’m kind of curious!
I took 10 different types of tea, and added 15, and I would say that I didn’t touch about … between 15 and 20! In short – a fantastic variety!
AWESOME!
How is it doing size-wise? I hope it isn’t getting out of control large.
Angrboda – I did my solemn duty :) I made sure that I took lots of things out and made sure that everything that I put in fit well into the box that came to me :) I did notice that it’s a different box than what started out – I’m not sure if it’s because the contents grew and the box needed to be bigger, or because the box got shabby and needed a replacement.
I took what is left of your raspberry oolong! I remember seeing your tasting notes and thinking how delicious it sounded but how I’d probably never get to taste it because it was from so far away. I’m glad to say I was wrong about that!!!!
I also noticed a distinct lack of stickers in the TTB journal, and made sure I stuck lots of stickers on my pages ;) Thankfully they are light!!!
Raspberry Oolong by A C Perch, mouth watering. See, I still remember it!
It seems your box vanished a long time ago, Angrboda. When I received it, it was already in a new larger container =P. I changed up the box a bit when I sent it to Mike. Haha, seems we keep changing around the box.
Angrboda – some pics so you can see the size of the box etc…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackiemania/sets/72157623366023242/
That raspberry oolong is turning out to be fairly legendary! I’m beginning to think I ought to buy an enormous lot and send it to people. :p I hope you like it. :) If you don’t and there’s enough left, I think you can just send it to Ricky. :p
Oh dear… already? I feel slightly… scared now. I’m imagening getting a whole truckload delivered to my door when it comes back. o.O
Jacqueline, you take lovely pictures!
takgoti – thanks! I just started but I really enjoy it.
So cool! Glad to see that it’s still making the rounds! :D
Gosh yes, it’s only in the first third of recipients still. :) I expect it to make it back to me in april.
Haha, fwahah, raspberry oolong! It’s funny because my co-worker asked me if I had raspberry tea. Unfortunately, I don’t! I’m sure he would have loved some of this. Strange request if you ask me, haha. When you finally get the traveling tea box back it’ll weight over 100 pounds =P You’ll have enough tea to last you a lifetime.
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halp…
Aww, it’s unfortunate your first tea from TTB wasn’t a success. Keep digging, keep trying! =]
Oooo…wait…that’s means it’s getting closer to me! LOL YAY!
Ricky – it was kinda cool tho – if I would have had that tea awhile ago I probably would have ADORED it. My tastes have really changed as I’ve learned more about tea, and having this tea really confirmed it. I think of it as a kind of backwards success :)
TeaEqualsBliss – I’ll have it out by monday! I’m gonna send it priority USPS so you should have it super duper soon!!!!!
How many teas are currently in the TTB? I’m kind of curious!
I took 10 different types of tea, and added 15, and I would say that I didn’t touch about … between 15 and 20! In short – a fantastic variety!
AWESOME!
How is it doing size-wise? I hope it isn’t getting out of control large.
Angrboda – I did my solemn duty :) I made sure that I took lots of things out and made sure that everything that I put in fit well into the box that came to me :) I did notice that it’s a different box than what started out – I’m not sure if it’s because the contents grew and the box needed to be bigger, or because the box got shabby and needed a replacement.
I took what is left of your raspberry oolong! I remember seeing your tasting notes and thinking how delicious it sounded but how I’d probably never get to taste it because it was from so far away. I’m glad to say I was wrong about that!!!!
I also noticed a distinct lack of stickers in the TTB journal, and made sure I stuck lots of stickers on my pages ;) Thankfully they are light!!!
Raspberry Oolong by A C Perch, mouth watering. See, I still remember it!
It seems your box vanished a long time ago, Angrboda. When I received it, it was already in a new larger container =P. I changed up the box a bit when I sent it to Mike. Haha, seems we keep changing around the box.
Angrboda – some pics so you can see the size of the box etc…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackiemania/sets/72157623366023242/
That raspberry oolong is turning out to be fairly legendary! I’m beginning to think I ought to buy an enormous lot and send it to people. :p I hope you like it. :) If you don’t and there’s enough left, I think you can just send it to Ricky. :p
Oh dear… already? I feel slightly… scared now. I’m imagening getting a whole truckload delivered to my door when it comes back. o.O
Jacqueline, you take lovely pictures!
takgoti – thanks! I just started but I really enjoy it.
So cool! Glad to see that it’s still making the rounds! :D
Gosh yes, it’s only in the first third of recipients still. :) I expect it to make it back to me in april.
Haha, fwahah, raspberry oolong! It’s funny because my co-worker asked me if I had raspberry tea. Unfortunately, I don’t! I’m sure he would have loved some of this. Strange request if you ask me, haha. When you finally get the traveling tea box back it’ll weight over 100 pounds =P You’ll have enough tea to last you a lifetime.
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halp…