July Sipdown Challenge Prompt July 3 – Air Conditioning Appreciation Day: drink an iced tea
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I had this hot months ago and didn’t make a note here and have forgotten what it was like hot. I remember thinking the orange flavor was very mild. I also remember thinking I really wanted this iced because it sounded like it would be so good that way.
Today I used all the remaining leaf to make a half gallon of iced tea. It is very good, and has so much coconut in it that the coconut oils are floating around a bit in the ice cold tea. That’s not a problem, though! It tastes great. It is really smooth and creamy, and I think a mild vanilla flavor perhaps dominates and the coconut is close behind. Orange is a distant whisper to me. Though there is black tea in this, I don’t get black tea flavor, just the shou mei, which I really enjoy.
It is so smooth, I think I could down the whole pitcher this afternoon. As it is, I chugged twelve ounces at lunch, sitting in the house enjoying the a/c on this cooler day with a heat index of merely 93F. I will leave plenty for Ashman to enjoy when he gets home!
