518 Tasting Notes
I’ve really enjoyed this one today at work. I think oolong is my new thing. I’ve been drinking an awful lot of oolong lately. This one is really nice. Slightly sweet, slightly fruity, really smooth. Resteeps well. It’s kept me company through multiple mugs during a crazy frustrating day at the office. I don’t get piney from this one, like the description says, but I am really enjoying it. I’m debating on ordering more right now, or if I need to hold off as I have way way way too much tea on its way. This one will probably wait for a while, but Eco-Cha, you are on my list.
VariaTEA’s review of this tonight reminded me that I have this one in my cupboard, and it sounded really good to finish my evening. I really like this one. I added a little sugar and milk, which I rarely do, but it was exactly what I wanted tonight. Really sweet and creamy. Nommy nom nom nom. The extra milk I added really made it extra creamy, which actually satisfied my very real desire for ice cream.
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Don’t you love when tea can take the place of dessert ?!?! I love my ice cream too!, but have found a nice cup of tea can often take it’s place in the evening.
It doesn’t always work, but sometimes it sure does.
Wow, great review :-)
Haha! Cheri, I meant this comment for another review but that takes nothing away from yours :-)
Hahah! I wondered. ;-)
LOL!
This tea didn’t taste as good to me tonight. I’m not sure why. It tasted fake, really fake. I think it’s the stevia. I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me and I’m having an off night because I’ve liked this every other time I have had it.
It’s stormy here this evening. Blah. This meant that we didn’t have the dinner I had been dreaming about all day, but instead we actually used the leftovers in the fridge for once. I did manage to get the teeny tiny traveling tea box all packed up and ready to go for in the morning.
GRRRRR
I was mostly done writing up a whole big long note on this. Mostly, nothing to do with the tea except that I love it and it makes me feel good when I drink it.
Then I somehow lost the note. Poof. Gone.
I’d be more saddened and upset by this if I weren’t still drinking this tea (second infusion and still going strong.) I am, however, drinking this tea still, so I’m just going to take another sip and enjoy it, and feel my frustrations just drift away.
Steepster acting weird for me today
I sneezed while typing and accidentally hit control or alt (not sure which) and it got me in a weird state. I hit escape to get out of it, because this is not the first time I’ve done this and that usually fixes it. This also closed my almost finished tasting note. Ah well. I’m still drinking the tea, and I’m not worrying about it.
Bless you!
giggle Thanks!
This was one of my free samples from Nina’s. Really nice. This is a really nice balance.
I found the steeping directions on Etsy, and went with those. (1t/158 °F/3min) I’m really glad I did, because otherwise I would have had no idea where to go with this, being a blend like it is.
Yes, this tea is really good. I didn’t get too much from the black, probably from the low temperature. I definitely taste the green and the rice and the caramel vanilla. Nice. Really nice. It’s very creamy and toasty nutty and just the right amount of green to it.
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Oh wow, this is another amazing tea by Butiki Teas. Stacy really knows what she is doing.
Unlike the nutmeg and cream, this one is a tea I could drink year round.
Creamy, comforting.
I can still taste the green tea base, which is really nice, but it’s got the creamy mouthfeel of a good milk oolong. Smooth, just a hint of nuttiness, creamy eggnog.
Wow, this tea is delicious.
I’m so sad I can’t get it now, but I’m really glad it was in the teeny tiny traveling tea box and I did get to try it.
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This is is amazing. It has everything I found missing in Pumpkin Milkshake 2.0. The creaminess, the comfort. All that it didn’t have was the pumpkin, and I didn’t really get that from the small amount I had of pumpkin milkshake 2.0.
Wow. Stacy, this tea is really good. I can understand not having it year round, as it really is a fall and winter tea, but please bring it back in the fall. I will buy it.
It is just the absolute perfect amount of nutmeg. It’s super creamy. I’m not a fan of black teas so much, but the base on this one is outstanding.
I should put the rest of this tea back in the teabox, but I’m keeping it. So sorry everyone else in the teabox. (There’s really only about 1t left anyway.)
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I was really excited when I saw this tea was added to the teabox. It sounded so good. It’s not as oolongy as I hoped it would be. The citron aspect is very nice, though. I am glad in the end that I found my smaller mug so I could do just an 8oz serving of this tea so someone else can try this as well.
You can do oolongs western style?
Yep. I do a lot of them western style in a mug. As I’ve started drinking more oolongs, I’ve been wishing I had a smaller mug at work. That way, I could drink multiple infusions without drinking the same tea all all all day long.
I might have to try that, I have avoided oolongs because I thought they had to be done in a gaiwan, and that’s really inconvenient for me while I work.
Most of the Oolongs I’ve had actually have western directions and not gongfu directions on them.
why not try doing gong fu and western combination? small amts of water and short steeps. works out pretty well for me, though I have a gaiwan coming in soon…