6444 Tasting Notes
This tea is delicious but I just don’t reach for it as often as I should. I have had this since December and I think this is the first cup I have made. It is gooey caramel, fresh vanilla, and malty Assam and it is awesome but for some reason, it always gets forgotten.
Got this iced as my $1 refill and it tastes just like caramel corn! Yum!
So is it any time you bring one of their mugs or cups back in you get a $1 refill?
It’s one of this year’s iced tea cups, OR if it’s an old cup you have a $10 buy-in for the season. I haven’t asked about anything other than their iced tea cups.
I got the sticker…my mom got it for me, actually. I’ve already paid for it by having 3+ iced teas. I put the sticker on my Frequent Steeper card so it would not get lost or destroyed by being on my cup when I wash it.
Good idea, Amariel.
Last night I tossed some of this into my new iced tea mug to take upstairs and drink it. Unfortunately, I never got around to drinking it last night and so I am drinking it now, keeping with my fall theme of the morning, mostly because I need the mug back to get my $1 refill at the mall :P. Today’s cup has a bit more vanilla sweetness than the last but pumpkin spice is still the most dominant flavor and chocolate sauce is no where to be found.
Pumpkin pie crepe + ice cream + chocolate sauce seems like it would be way too much going on in the same tea
Commented elsewhere, but worth repeating: This was so insane. The story behind this is that I was taking suggestions for bonus flavors to create and then having people vote on their favorites. In one round, I accidentally concatenated two suggestions “pumpkin pie” and “crepe with vanilla bean ice cream and chocolate sauce” when I was copying and pasting suggestions to the update where I asked people to vote on their favorite idea. Well, this new hybrid flavor won by a landslide. I did my best to create it, but I think there might have just been too much going on.
Apparently I was in the mood for fall flavours this morning as I grabbed this and a pumpkin pie tea for my morning cuppas. This particular tea I loved so much when I tried it that the fear of losing it inspired me to buy 250g of it. Then I promptly fell out of love with it and was left with a surplus that I had no idea how I would ever drink. As I brewed my cup today, I half expected to be putting this in my swap pile. However, I don’t know what I did but this is tasting like a delicious cinnamon coffee cake with vanilla icing drizzled on top. Or perhaps a tasty snicker doodle cookie. Whatever I did, I am really liking it and it is making the thought of drinking this less of a chore and more of a delightful prospect.
I am working on some of my older teas and I found this sample package from December that I haven’t even tried. I don’t know why I have put it off for so long as this tea is not bad. It is not something I will be stocking either but I doubt I will struggle getting through the sample. It definitely has the warming fall flavours of pumpkin pie but nothing is particularly distinctive – it is like a slightly spiced black tea with subtle notes of chocolate every now and again. Not bad. Not great. Drinkable.
I actually really like this one. I don’t know why but so many times when I brew this, I expect the black base to be overpowering and so with each cup, I am shocked by just how much this tastes like just like a walnut truffle. Seriously. It has a rich chocolate truffle flavor with a beautiful full-bodied walnut taste to compliment it. Delicious! Thank you Roswell Strange for helping me stock up!
Had this earlier today but at the time I didn’t know what it was called, however, I did know it was amazing! http://steepster.com/rachel12610/posts/250960
