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I requested a sample of this with my order and Stacy was kind enough to oblige. I made this first thing this morning and was quite excited because the dry leaf smells so good and the reviews on here were so favourable. Which is maybe what set me up…

The smell of the brewed tea is mostly black tea, followed by banana. For the taste I expected out of the ball park banana but I didn’t get that. It’s a muted flavour, more like banana walnut bread or some baked good featuring banana. Once you get past the juicy banana expectation — which I shouldn’t have had, not even given the name, I know! — the tea is quite enjoyable. You can smell it as it sits there on the table. I allowed it to cool and the flavour does come out a little more.

For the resteep I sweetened with maple syrup. I was itching to see what would happen. Sorry Stacy, hope you don’t think less of me for ruining perfectly good tea. But it was oh so delicious with the maple syrup, as I knew it would be, and I couldn’t resist. Yummy!!

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High Adventure

Maple syrup in tea? What whaat? You’re an innovator!

Nxtdoor

It’s a Canadian thing :)

High Adventure

That makes perfect sense. :)

Sil

maple syrup in smokey wonderful teas = the best time ever. I also love maple syrup in keemuns…. mmmm

Sil

i don’t often add sweetner to teas but maple syrup to straight blacks is wonderful!

TheTeaFairy

Glad you like this one :-)

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High Adventure

Maple syrup in tea? What whaat? You’re an innovator!

Nxtdoor

It’s a Canadian thing :)

High Adventure

That makes perfect sense. :)

Sil

maple syrup in smokey wonderful teas = the best time ever. I also love maple syrup in keemuns…. mmmm

Sil

i don’t often add sweetner to teas but maple syrup to straight blacks is wonderful!

TheTeaFairy

Glad you like this one :-)

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I started drinking loose leaf tea in the spring of 2013 (why do we feel compelled to mark the date of tea drinking somewhat like addicts counting their sobriety days?)

Never been much into tea before. Growing up in Romania, tea was something mom made for you when you were sick. As an adult, my hot beverage of choice has been coffee, both flavoured and regular. I’ve recently stumbled upon Teavana and DAVIDs TEA and quickly got addicted to the latter. Then came steepster and all else followed.

Formerly a mathematician and insurance adjuster, I gave up the corporate world and am now a professional chef. I drink wine and sometimes cheat on it with tea.

I lean heavily towards flavoured black teas. I’ve started to crave the occasional straight oolong and green but so far unflavoured black teas leave me unimpressed.

I’m learning so I drink them all. Am even introducing myself to pu’erh. So far I can do fine with the sheng cause frankly, they don’t taste like pu’erh to me. The shou is another story.

Note*: The virtual cupboard does NOT contain any of the samples I hold since most of them are one-cup quantity.

Note**: My partner, our home improvements, gadgets, mortgage, travel, wine and food have budget priority over tea.

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Toronto-ish, Canada

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