Cold Brew!
I had to call in sick to work today; my Mom is on a business trip and my little sister was sick today so I stayed home with her because her Dad was at work/works as a bus driver and couldn’t take the day off. My manager is an actual human being though as was quite understanding since I was honest with what the situation was.
So, I hung out here at the house all day. This was the cold brew I’d made for work, but instead I drank it at home. It was pretty smooth with quite prominent notes of hazelnut and mocha but not actually a lot of butterscotch notes other than just a sort of “omnipresent” sweetness. I actually like that the other notes are commanding more focus though because usually the butterscotch is quite potent. Maybe this is a sign of flavour deterioration…
In other news I bought my first tea pet(s) today! While I started out looking for something in the style of a Goldfish to match my fish gaiwan I ended up falling for a set of Pixiu sold by Crimson Lotus. They were available in a few colours of yixing clay, but I went with the red because I think it’ll match more of my teaware. Check ’em out!
http://crimsonlotustea.com/collections/tea-pets/products/pixiu-baby-dragon-tea-pet-pair
I was also on the verge of picking up the lazy dog:
http://crimsonlotustea.com/collections/tea-pets/products/dog-teapet
If the site wasn’t in USD and the shipping didn’t scale I likely would have. I’m also probably going to buy this little banana gobbler. The only problem is that I don’t have an ebay account and don’t plan on getting one, so I’m gonna have to pay my Dad to buy it for me with his account…
The teaware thing is badly addicting! I can’t stop looking at Gaiwans and Yixing pots (Camellia Sinensis just added a whole bunch of pots which has me salivating pretty badly for them) and now I’ve tacked on tea pets to the addiction! Thankfully the only other one that’s made a splash in my mind are these Ruyao fish. They’d go PERFECTLY with my Celadon gaiwans (of which I have two) AND the fish gaiwan. I’m just not sold on the idea of a celadon tea pet because, while in theory very cool, I like the idea of keeping all my tea pets the traditional yixing ones…