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drank Glitter & Gold by DAVIDsTEA
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Tonight we found out my brother-in-law bought his first house. It is in an area very coveted by most people (The Beaches of Toronto). He is practically across the street from a DAVIDs location. He doesn’t know this yet but I think he might be getting a tenant :)

This tea is not doing it for me. I have had many misses with tea today. Like when you’re in the mood for something but you don’t know what it is and you keep trying different things only to be left unsatisfied. After the morning miss with the Ginger Darjeeling Peach, you’d think I learned to stay away from spice teas today.

I smelled this bag (smells promising, like sugar and spice) and even saw a clove or two but went for it anyway, although i will give myself credit and say there was a slight hesitation. The ingredients are unfortunate: gelatin, some chemically sounding things… Whatever. Brewed it anyway. FAIL!

I added some caramel creamer so I can drink this. All I can taste is clove and cinnamon. And it is sweet (cause they put sugar in it for you). Maybe one night when I’m in the mood for chai I can drink this. It is rather festive looking, I’ll say that, so it goes with the fireworks display going on tonight. Boom! Happy Canada Day!

1.25 tsp, 8 oz, near boiling. Beautiful sparkly fake looking tea :) taste: sugar and spice.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 15 sec
Fjellrev

Happy Canada Day! And congrats to your bro-in-law on the new house.

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Fjellrev

Happy Canada Day! And congrats to your bro-in-law on the new house.

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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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