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Mastress Alita’s sipdown challenge – November Tea #9 -A tea from a small business

I wanted to get this tea over and done with!  Not a fan.  I drank it for this sipdown challenge.  I’m also happy to find out this is the tea I inadvertently deleted from my Steepster cupboard a couple months ago.  Honestly, this is the rare tea I dumped in the sink. It’s not “double cream” — it’s double the bug spray flavor.  I couldn’t do it. Sorry tea and sorry Tiffany for sending it – luckily it was only a two cup sample!  But now I know anyway.  I REALLY need to catch up on reading tasting notes before you all start posting notes for advents!! I think the advent notes are what set me back last year! 
2022 sipdowns: 114

Mastress Alita

As the resident non-religious, non-commercial Festivus-celebrator, there will at least be no advent spam from me. :-)

tea-sipper

But how bout a Festivus advent? :D

Mastress Alita

Considering Festivus is both non-religious and non-commercial and Advent Calendars are a) a religious tradition and b) extremely commercialized, that just wouldn’t seem very… Festivus-like. I’ll just throw a teabag in a cup of hot water and mumble “Bah, humbug!” next to the aluminum pole in my living room. :-P

tea-sipper

haha, got it!

Lupiressmoon

Well, a description of double bug spray flavor isn’t what they were going for I am hoping LOL

tea-sipper

Nope, all the more disappointing because I really wanted that double cream :/

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Mastress Alita

As the resident non-religious, non-commercial Festivus-celebrator, there will at least be no advent spam from me. :-)

tea-sipper

But how bout a Festivus advent? :D

Mastress Alita

Considering Festivus is both non-religious and non-commercial and Advent Calendars are a) a religious tradition and b) extremely commercialized, that just wouldn’t seem very… Festivus-like. I’ll just throw a teabag in a cup of hot water and mumble “Bah, humbug!” next to the aluminum pole in my living room. :-P

tea-sipper

haha, got it!

Lupiressmoon

Well, a description of double bug spray flavor isn’t what they were going for I am hoping LOL

tea-sipper

Nope, all the more disappointing because I really wanted that double cream :/

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Hi! I love tea and trying new ones – it adds a bit of variety to my day! Books, music, TV & movies are my thing… and tea, of course.

Some of my favorite tea shops (still operating):
birdandblendtea.com
teavivre.com
52teas.com
svtea.com
whisperingpinestea.com
justea.com
harney.com
Dammann Freres
fusionteas.com
Javateaco.com
Lupicia
Octaviatea.com
Davidstea
eco-cha.com
what-cha.com
singleoriginteas.com
teasenz.com
tealyra.com
Mandala
verdanttea.com

Favorite tea shops (RIP):
butikiteas.com
steapshoppe.com
steepcityteas.com
aquartertotea.com
dellaterrateas.com
zentealife.com
angrytearoom.com
theteamerchant.net
joysteaspoon.com
tealiciousllc.com
Rivertea
Specialteas

My icon photo is Richard Mayhew from the graphic novel ‘Neverwhere’ by Neil Gaiman, Mike Carey & Glenn Fabry.

Most of the teas listed in my cupboard are actually sample sizes. I don’t really have 2,000 ounces of tea around here! Many of my teas have only one teaspoon left… maybe two. But I like keeping them in my cupboard list for reference to what I could be sipping. Usually, I write tasting notes once for each tea. I’m still drinking them, just not writing tasting notes each time!

I’m always in search of: Hattialli, Qu Hao black, Jin Jun Mei, teas using marshmallow root.

My dislikes: hibiscus, ginger (unless in chai), turmeric, bee pollen, charcoal type flavors

My ratings:
95-100 – Super awesome deliciousness favorites – cupboard essential
80-95 – Also pretty delicious
65-80 – Pretty good
50-65 – Okay
1-50 – Probably won’t want to sip it again

I’m planning on being a Steepsterer as long as there IS a Steepster, so if you’re not hearing from me, that means something happened to my health… if you know what I mean. (Or as evidenced by the great computer hiatus of 2019, something happened to my computer… I have a dumb phone so can’t access internet on that. As of 12/20/21 my wifi might start getting unreliable.)

Happy sipping!

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