1473 Tasting Notes
This tea is in the sipdown tins pile and with good reason. It’s okay, fairly good, actually, but it’s not something I ever reach for…
…okay, now that I’ve given it a shake and the sugar has mixed into this coldbrew, my opinion is changing. The strawberry is coming forward and while I’d call this a strawberries and cream more than shortcake, it’s still yummy and deserving of the 94 rating.
Staying in the sipdowns, though.
Having a grumpy evening so I’m trying to cheer myself up with a tried and true favorite.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the greatest cup. Good, but not the cup of liquid frosting I was looking for.
Grump.
Oh no. I hope things start to look up soon. Also, if you haven’t tried it yet, you should take a page out of Roswell Strange’s book and try this cold brewed.
The first time I had Birthday Cake, back when it first came out, it was iced and so, so good.
And things got a lot better when my wifey got home. She makes everything better.
Love this tea. Love, love, love this tea. Damn you, Adagio, for your insane shipping prices. Ah well, there are other teas for me to love.
I ran out of cold brewed teas and didn’t quite know what to do with myself. So I sorted the Adagio samplers into “drink hot” and “drink cold” and had to have another cup of this. I have enough for two more cups and then I will be crying forever.
It’s still delicious blackberry pie in a cup and I love it.
Today I had a Moment and reorganized our tins, picking out 10 for sipdowns/giving away so almost all of the tins fit in the drawers of our tea cabinet. It looks so much better.
Anyhoo, yis. Eric is a friend of mine, but he needs t’ go. So I have him cold steeping for tomorrow and then there’s just enough for one more cold brew. And then I’m going to work on The Mad Hatter’s Blend.
Color me surprised, however. I sent a timolino of this to work with my wife and she really likes it! And as a general rule, she doesn’t like iced teas that actually involve, well, tea. So yay for trying new things and liking them!!
Coldbrew sipdown (323/305)
This is a decent tea. it’s not great, it’s not awful, it’s not a must have, but it’s not something I mind drinking, either. It’s a peachy black, but with nothing special about it. It’s just…there. If you’re in the States, it’s fairly good for a peachy black, but here in Canada there are other teas I have better access to than this one.
Once this brewed up, this smelled like Honeybee from Davids, but taste…no. Ugh no. It tastes like honeyed black licorice. It was a coldbrew I will not be repeating and the wifey has a bunch of swap packages going out, so hopefully this can be dropped into one of those.
This tea is three years old, and while I can see what it once was, it is no longer the tea I loved. I avoided this one and I don’t know why. Well, I know I don’t like Adagio’s black base, so that likely had a lot to do with it. Still it is lovely for what it is and doesn’t deserve to lose any of the rating because I let it go stale. Creamy berries, I’m sorry I failed you.
How can you avoid Eric Northman?! :P
I knoooow right? He’s so pretty….
He really is gorgeous :). Plus, he is like a billion feet tall, I imagine it would be hard to evade him. haha
My sister in law saw him at TIFF. We no longer speak to her XD
OMG I would die. It would be a serious problem :P
Last of the giant jug I made for the weekend and it is so yummy. It’s really hitting the spot today after I woke up from a five hour nap. Arg, self, get it together and stop sleeping so much!
Light, juicy, and refreshing. Rethinking my decision to put it in the sipdown pile.
