Another one that someone requested get added to the Discovery Tea Box that I felt like I should revisit while I had it pulled out of my cupboard and super accessible. I realize I’m making my cupboard sound like some sort of complex, hard to navigate filing system but, well, it kind of is!?
I should drink this one more often though; it’s really full bodied and flavourful which I know describes a lot of straight black teas – or at least a lot of the straight blacks that I own in larger amounts. But, in addition to that it’s also nice and sweet. Lots and lots of natural chocolate notes, but then also a really nice handful of other notes like oak wood, cinnamon, and allspice. I added a little cherry infused honey into this cup also, and that really mild hint of sweet cherry added this excellent little undertone of fruit flavour to what is normally a darker, more decadent leaning profile. Plus, with how chocolate-y this tea tastes I think cherry is a REALLY good pairing flavour.
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf8Tda6rmi4&index=13&list=WL
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My “cupboard” is also a complex, hard to navigate filing system! It is organized, but that organization spans between two kitchen cupboards, one shelving unit in the living room, a set of kitchen drawers, tins across the top of my stove, and a set of drawers located in my bedroom… and all this in a little one bedroom/one living room apartment… I have problems!
The first step is to recognize the problem. The next is to drink the problems away.
YES, that is exactly it, derk. :D
Nice song pairing! I like the cherry honey idea. I helped Mastress Alita set up part of that cupboard, and it’s a glorious tea selection to sample from. Like an underground tea shoppe. I also agree with derk.
Nearly all of my 600+ teas I keep in the same room – within that room I have a section for ‘cakes’ of tea, then I have two book shelves with all my tins of tea which are sorted by tea type. I have A LOT of samples of things though; so those are sorted into a series of boxes on top of two different desks. One desk has all straight/unscented teas which are then sorted into mini boxes of black tea samples, aged white samples, sheng samples, shou samples, and then green/oolong are together since I have such a small amount of both. Flavoured teas are in boxes of herbal/fruit infusions, rooibos, black tea, white/green together, and then pu’erh/oolong/mate. It’s just hard sometimes finding that ONE SPECIFIC tea – even if I know exactly what box it’s in there could still be 50+ teas in that box…
Also; there are A LOT of good Lucky covers out there Todd but this is probably my second favourite? This is my number one though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Cp55MvX54 Great song!
So true, even when I know exactly where a tea will be because I have, say, all flavored black samplers in a specific drawer, that doesn’t change digging through it to find a specific one when there are so many of them, and though I have all my pure greens in a specific spot on my shelving arranged in alphabetical order, I’ll still have to remove a bunch of bags if I need a certain one that just happens to be located near the back…
Basically, no organization system fixes the “too much” problem, heh. :-P
My “cupboard” is also a complex, hard to navigate filing system! It is organized, but that organization spans between two kitchen cupboards, one shelving unit in the living room, a set of kitchen drawers, tins across the top of my stove, and a set of drawers located in my bedroom… and all this in a little one bedroom/one living room apartment… I have problems!
The first step is to recognize the problem. The next is to drink the problems away.
YES, that is exactly it, derk. :D
Nice song pairing! I like the cherry honey idea. I helped Mastress Alita set up part of that cupboard, and it’s a glorious tea selection to sample from. Like an underground tea shoppe. I also agree with derk.
Nearly all of my 600+ teas I keep in the same room – within that room I have a section for ‘cakes’ of tea, then I have two book shelves with all my tins of tea which are sorted by tea type. I have A LOT of samples of things though; so those are sorted into a series of boxes on top of two different desks. One desk has all straight/unscented teas which are then sorted into mini boxes of black tea samples, aged white samples, sheng samples, shou samples, and then green/oolong are together since I have such a small amount of both. Flavoured teas are in boxes of herbal/fruit infusions, rooibos, black tea, white/green together, and then pu’erh/oolong/mate. It’s just hard sometimes finding that ONE SPECIFIC tea – even if I know exactly what box it’s in there could still be 50+ teas in that box…
Also; there are A LOT of good Lucky covers out there Todd but this is probably my second favourite? This is my number one though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Cp55MvX54 Great song!
So true, even when I know exactly where a tea will be because I have, say, all flavored black samplers in a specific drawer, that doesn’t change digging through it to find a specific one when there are so many of them, and though I have all my pure greens in a specific spot on my shelving arranged in alphabetical order, I’ll still have to remove a bunch of bags if I need a certain one that just happens to be located near the back…
Basically, no organization system fixes the “too much” problem, heh. :-P