Butter Beer

I originally disliked this tea because it had one of the pepperiest honeybushes I’ve ever tasted. I couldn’t taste any other flavor outside the pepper. There’s very little black tea in the blend, and the flavoring is pretty mild. I randomly tried this tea again recently, and it tastes fine! It’s a very mildly flavored honeybush tea. Really I’d guess chocolate orange if I had to guess. It did have chocolate chips, though that seemed like a weird choice for butter beer. It’s certainly not amazing, but it’s okay!

Geek Steep S1E13 – Game of Thrones

This was the episode I was dreading all season – I’m not a fan of Game of Thrones, and more than that I actually pretty actively dislike it. So, I was worried to get into an episode that really dug into those reasonings and that would possibly be too critical…

As such, I picked a pretty comforting/fun and upbeat tea for the recording! I wanted to keep my head space light, and so that’s how I landed on this super fun interpretation of a Butter Beer type of profile! It’s not really what I picture butter beer tasting like – more of a creamy and sweet milk chocolate with pops of sweet apple cider. It’s unique and interesting to see the chocolate and apple paired this way and the tea overall tastes very delicious – but I know I’ve definitely had interpretations that were much closer to what I always imagined butter beer tasting like as a child.

Also – if you’re wondering why I’m laughing so hard at the beginning of the episode when Marika does her lead in, basically saying “Before we get into a highly controversial, political fandom lets talk about what’s in our cups…” it’s because at the time of recording the episode the news had just broke that Johnny Depp had resigned from Fantastic Beasts. Marika had no idea I was drinking a Harry Potter inspired tea blend, and I just LOST IT at the irony of it all…

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Perfectly fine, but not extraordinary. Has a mild butterscotch flavor that is pretty one-note. The apple pieces give it a tanginess that I don’t entirely care for with the butterscotch. The mini marshmallows are super cute!