6106 Tasting Notes
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 67)
I don’t know what a whiskey sour is supposed to taste like, but this doesn’t taste to me like there is any flavouring. However, the base is fantastic, rich and flavourful. It’s probably age that has killed the flavour, but it’s still a great cup because of the base tea.
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 66)
Tastes a bit like I overleafed this – it’s a bit potent. There’s an interesting cooling sensation to the sip; I wonder what that is? I’m also tasting lime, which is interesting. Maybe that’s the soda part? I can also get the cranberry a bit, as well. This is nice, but I think it would taste better a) diluted and b) cold.
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 65)
This smells better brewed up than it did right out of the packet. It’s actually a fairly nice, very lightly gingery spiced apple flavour – it does remind me both of apple cider and gingerbread. Not my favourite flavour combination, but I’m pretty sure I’m enjoying it more than I did the first time I tried it (and more than I had expected to). Upping rating from 64 to 74.
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 62)
My last packet of this tea; there’s only a generous cup’s worth left now. Such a yummy creamy blueberry. The 2022 12 days of Christmas would be a great time for it to be reblended :D
I have been debating with myself about this year’s 12 Teas of Christmas. I have tossed around the idea of doing a full advent – but this really isn’t a feasible thing for me. I am a one person operation – and to make 24 teas in addition to the 5 teas per month that I’d be doing for subscriptions – I neither have the studio space nor the energy or sanity to pull that off. I wish I did – but until I can afford to pay employees and have a larger facility, I simply cannot pull that off.
An idea that I’ve also been tossing around my mind is maybe doing an actual 12 teas of Christmas – focused on teas that can be in some way – inspired by the 12 gifts from the song. I actually have come up with most of the teas that I’d blend to the 12 days of christmas song – some would be reblends and some new teas – and they all have an abstract connection to the gifts mentioned in the song. But this would negate the vote and I know that people appreciate that ability to vote on the reblends that would be featured in the box, so again – I don’t know.
My final idea was to maybe do a tea translation of the song for the holiday – and then put together a 12 reblends box in December (since the tea translation box would already have been sent out in November) and ship out the 12 reblend box as a 12 Reblends for the New Year box – or maybe go with the current formula (8 reblends + 4 new teas) and call it the 12 Teas for the New Year box?
I don’t know. My S/O tells me that I need to just keep it to one box because I drive my household crazy during the blending/production of the box and I don’t need to double that. What are your thoughts? (Also, I think I’m going to cut/paste this and post it to the discussion forum so that I can get more opinions – for those who may not read this…
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 61)
Review for the approx Jan 2016 reblend, which had a crazy amount of delicious mapley aroma when I opened the packet! Scent translated nicely to the tea, and it was a yummy cup.
Aside: my child had a weird day of too much day sleep and I’m having serious regrets right now, at 2:53am, while she’s complaining in her crib… again…
Since I’ve been working a lot with the maple syrup cotton candy in the teas, I’m thinking I might add it to the Pancake Breakfast tea – with the new reblend I might do that – and see how people like it.