1845 Tasting Notes
A sipdown! (M: 3, Y: 36)
Another office sipdown; and well, pretty okay-ish tea. It was like a good green tea; fresh tasting — grassy and round; followed by strong floral notes of rose petals (there are lots of them) and it was refreshing too. Hibiscus is quite tamed and makes nice fruity line along with schisandra berries. A bit tart if steeped for longer than recommended 4 minutes.
Preparation
Accidentaly removed yesterday evening:
Mixed up 4 grams of weird fluffy white stuff (aka Wild Quince flowers tea) and 3 grams of black tea (because two seemed to me too little, aka Rolled Black tea). Both ingredients by Georgian Tea 1847. Steeped it together in fillable bag for 3 minutes.
Whoa, this is a good stuff. I get distinctly walnuts here, followed with herbaceous profile — maybe the chamomile as I noticed and warm hay; and all together wrapped in brisk, but not astringent, malty, black tea. That base has got also a little spicy element, which adds a depth and complexity to all of it.
The ratios can be updated to perfection, but I am not a blender here…
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Day 20
Gah, still one day behind. I may try catch up it today. Summer solstice. A bank holiday in Finland. And here, hottest day this year. At least some rain has come in the afternoon and it’s a bit better now in the evening!
Orange oolong (actually a typo in the list — oorlong sic!) sounds really tasty and refreshing.
Well, actually I got much more roasted oolong than in the picture. And in taste it was certainly quite roasty! Also quite mineral and sadly again, not much of the juicy orange. Like only orange peel being in and it wasn’t juicy at all. Thus not much refreshing either.
Preparation
A sipdown! (M: 2, Y: 35) Prompt: June 9 – National Earl Day: drink an Earl Grey type tea!
Another fast office sipdown. Using dian hong tea as a base for EG is uncommon, but great idea. It’s much less brisk, rather rye bread and chocolate, bergamot level is ok-ish, though. I think I noticed in all three sachets more of the orange peel, which is totally fine, but not sure if it was something I have been expecting.
Good for those who don’t like strong bergamot flavour…
Preparation
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Day 19
Flavoured rooibos. Usually a miss for me.
Sadly, no exception here. The rooibos is quite nice and flavourful, but finding the bergamot is like finding the needle in a haystack. You will find it eventually, but it’s not worth the work you spend on it. It’s again very weak here…
Preparation
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Day 18
Pine needles. Not tea which looks like pine needles. But actual needles from pine trees. Yes, I had douglas fir tips tea and it was delicious.
But sadly, pine isn’t douglas fir. It is very weak. Maybe higher dose would be needed. Steeped for long, very long… yet I got light forest breeze in my face trying to notice any flavors and scents.
Taste-like — it tastes rather herbaceous and nothing more. If anything at all. That herbal note is very weak as well.
I will keep it without the rating I guess.
Preparation
I bought a few teas for my brother’s birthday, a spices mix for another brother; and I took some linden tea for myself too.
They added a whole box (of tea bags though) of this tea for free (and one tea bag sample). So, thank you Sonnentor! I haven’t been expecting it at all.
Their series of greens and mostly flavoured ones are new on their webshop; and this contains 80 % of chinese green tea. Sadly they don’t say the region or such. And 20 % of lemongrass. Both ingredients being organic, at least.
Honestly, I am pleasantly surprised by this. I thought that using 20 % of lemongrass would be too much; but it seems it’s well blended with green tea and it was mellow, grassy with that lemongrass profile, which isn’t distinctly lemony, but not grassy either. A refreshing drink too and in the end… I think I will finish remaining 17 (now 16) tea bags quickly and if I put maybe a half of them to the TTB…
Preparation
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Day 17
Well this sounds like an interesting flavour profile!
Okay, brewed with colder water; because green tea base. Steeped rather short, as suggested. Well… it’s green tea indeed. But finding a prickly pear or figs? That was so hard. Actually in last, lukewarm sip, there was a sweet and fig-like aftertaste. It’s shame, really!
At least the base tea wasn’t offending in any way and was nicely grassy.
Preparation
A sipdown! (M: 1, Y: 34)
Well, that was fast. Within a week I finished all three sachets of this I had and brought to the office.
Well, it’s interesting twist to use Dian Hong for breakfast tea and well I liked it actually?! It wasn’t so bitter and brisk; but still filled with caffeine boost needed in the mornings.
It was very malty and quite rye bready. But also very smooth, and there wasn’t any astringency to be noticed in all three mugs.
Lovely, however it was a bit too little? I have been hoping for some longer aftertaste and different flavour profiles during drinking it from hot, through luke-warm, to cold tea?
Preparation
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Day 16
Another plain tea, but putting yellow tea in Advent calendar is interesting for sure. I could not find it on YDTC website; they have only tea called Yellow Sun there, and it looks like this one but not sure, so I don’t want to mix it up.
I have prepared it as a green tea, so not boiling water, shorter steep; afterall both is written in the list. So, 80°C, 2.5 minutes steep and voilá:
I got a very tasty tea, which tastes a bit more like genmaicha, but with fruity (tropical fruits) note. Yes, it was a bit roasted, a bit sweet, a bit toast bread like. It has been turning a bit buttery when it was cooling down, but overall enjoyable cuppa.
