1271 Tasting Notes
LATTE MODE!
BNB made with soy milk and a tiny bit of light agave, steeped for 10 minutes.
Flavor is pretty light – I get a little artifically banana, a sharp flavor of walnutty skin and a bit of date at the end smoothing it all out – but the soymilk is the front player here. I love the nut flavor in this, but wish the banana came out stronger – and I added 2.5t for my large latte.
Preparation
mmmmm Malty!
Malt teas are weird. I have them in a little tin and drag it out for others to smell on occasion. Some people think it smells amazing ovaltine malt yummyness, others think the malt tea smell is totally gross.
This malt is light, like a sweet corny honey taste, with strong smells of malty. The malt tea gets sweeter end of sip. It’s pretty interesting!
I’ve had these samples for awhile, but taking awhile to drink them – I need to be in the right mood for something completely different. Overall, very interesting and if you want something neat, give these malt teas a try.
I have evil ideas to maybe splice these with some chocolatey tea for extra maltyness!
I had my tea hating husband take a sip and he thought it tasted weird and like jerky. I dunno.
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DURIAN! you know, that big spikey fruit thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian
I’ve often ordered durian smoothies at Pho houses (or avocado or jackfruit smoothies – all delicious) and have had fresh durian bubble tea. I haven’t purchased a durian on its own, but no one in my household has ever supported me in this idea (probably for good reason).
When I heard about this tea, I was all over it – fruity tea? check. WEIRD EXOTIC FRUIT? OH HELLS YES!
DRY: sweet durian smell.. without the strong funk making fresh durian banned in airports.
STEEPED: Smells deliciously fruity durian and sweet. No funk.
TASTE: Strong fruity durian flavor up front, naturally slightly sweet, custardy savory like base (bit duriany but also from the green tea), mellow green tea that adds depth. After taste is MOAR durian, sharp and very slight dryness. Full flavor!
RESTEEP: Tea lost its sweetness, with green tea being the front of the party – on the more veg savory flavor, with a durian aftertaste. Kind of uninteresting.
COMMENTS: Man, Lupicia does fruity very well. The flavor is spot on and one can enjoy durian without it’s crazy smell. I’m thinking cold steeped or ice would turn out very well using King of Fruits.
I’d say the downfall in this tea is the price, being one of the more expensive teas there (that I saw), and coming only in 50g is a hefty price to try a more interesting fruity tea. It might do better as a sample size for the curious types to try. I’m unsure if I have any friends who would even try this tea – but whatever, more for me!
The steep times are boil / 45sec – I’d like to mess with this a bit, maybe to reduce the dry aftertaste.
Finally, I’m thinking we need more durian blended tea. I guess the more adventurous tea peeps would try it, but combining durian with creamyness I think would be amazing.
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i think i’d be afraid of durian anything lol. My roomates from singapore once bought one so that i could experience one. While the fruit wasn’t so bad, the smell was just so wrong lol
I remember walking into TnT with a friend and mentioning that the fish section was really stinky, given that we weren’t even near that area and yet there was an awful scent hanging around. Then he told me that it wasn’t the fish, it was DURIAN!
I wondering why all of the Lupicia teas I got, they all state boiling water to steep. To make it easy to steep?
I tried this tea at 190, and the oolong base is much nicer here – light, silky and not grassy, with a light peach and rose background. Though, I think I could steep this longer than the 3 minutes I did – I got really impatient for breakfast and tea.
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OOOOH YHEHAAAH Strawberry rhubarb pie tea! Lets rock this!
DRY: juicy strawberry with that funky honeybush smell? I think it’s the honeybush, the same smell is in my peanut butter cup cheesecake tea. Nice lumps of freeze fried strawberries!
STEEPED: Fruity and kinda buttery smell. Light brown tea.
TASTE: Very nice natural strawberry flavor with crust taste. The aftertaste is slightly tart rhubarb and butteryness. The crust and buttery flavor is close to the Peanut Buttercup cheesecake tea, could also be like graham crust taste too.
This tea is not that tart, its just in the aftertaste and it’s pleasant, like rhubarb pie, ya?
Sweetened with a bit of rock sugar, the strawberry is sweet like pie, yay, and the buttery crust is present. Not as tart, very slight, could pass for just strawberry pie here.
COMMENTS: I’d love to try this iced – overall, I prefer this tea unsweetened. I was scared this would of been a tart fest, but turned out very well! Happy to have another solid caffeine free tea in my cupboard.
Preparation
If you haven’t tried this as a latte yet, do ittttt! I made this cup with soymilk and a little rock sugar.
VERY chocolately! I actually like this more than hot chocolate as there is more going on – black tea base that is kinda smokey, rich dark chocolate flavor – like I melted one of those 70% rich dark chocolate bars in my tea.
MMMM!! I like this tea more as a latte! YUM! Feels like I’m spoiling myself this morning, ehhh almost christmas anyways.
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Mmm, I added sugar and a cinnamon stick to a pot of this apple pie tea, very good! So nice to have tea, I only had 1 pot yesterday since the power was out most of the day.
I got a serving left of this tea – I really need to make that latte with caramel with the last of it!
Preparation
Okay, this as a latte is pretty good.
I sweetened this with honey, with vanilla soy milk and double strength Forever Nuts. It’s like drinking nutty pie crust with lots of vanilla creamyness from the milk. The baby pink latte was also visually appealing.
Undecided if I’ll buy more of this tea. I wasn’t too keen on it regular hot tea type but it’s a good latte and I didn’t try it iced yet. Hmmm. Maybe.
I got a fat lip in jiu jitsu last night that really PO’d me. Last time, my ankle got cranked too fast – all this sitting out with ice packs doesn’t give me more mat time.
This tea was given to me by my mother in law, who hopefully doesn’t see my lip. What, $30 for this tea?
DRY LEAF: very nice looking whole leaves.
STEEPED: Strong sweet green tea raisin smell, gold colour.
TASTE: Full bodied, a little sweet, like artichoke and bean. Not grassy, but theres a little dryness coming out.
Not bad but not amazing either. I enjoyed the full bodied veg flavor. Now to go back to icing my face.
