Cinnamon Cookie Puer

Additional notes: So I was craving a coffee tea today and this was a single teaspoon holdout that I was hesitant to sipdown, which I’m pleased to now finish, as I can now order more! Blame my love of this tea on the tea box I found it in. The dry leaves still smell like coffee, even with a best by date of 2015. Yowzas. I love this: black tea, puer, cinnamon, coffee. It’s a unique combo. And the flavor remains the same throughout all three steeps. It hits the coffee craving without me having to actually drink coffee.

After I buy some teas from Cameron and this Lupicia order, I MUST stop buying teas for at least a year. I will try harder than I ever have tried. But I am always breaking my loose ‘no buy’ rules. Tea is truly something I love and appreciate, so it’s hard to resist. I’m going to try keeping track of sipdowns (I remember I tried a few years ago.) To me, sipdowns are less important than enjoying the teas I want to, when I want to, especially when they are fresh. I had a really old blend of Graveyard Mist that still tasted fantastic the other day. There is always something to enjoy in any tea. But I believe I’m a bit overboard on tea for a while, even if I appreciate every tea that arrives at my door, especially from you awesome Steepsterers. :D
2019 Sipdowns: 1

Sip down! Seriously, I drank this entire 50g trying to figure out the best way to steep it and never found it. I tried even cutting it with chocolate teas and vanilla beans.

I’ll just deduct this tea sucks. It’s got a bitter burnt coffee vibe, mineraly, yet not very cinnamon or cookie like. It was fishy the first 25g too. Hard pass.

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I’ve tried this tea with many variations trying to pull out the ‘cookie’, but the most predominant flavour that I got was roasted coffee almost bordered on burnt. It wasn’t until I added cream and sweetener until I finally got a little of that cookie profile. I do drink coffee, so it wasn’t hard to drink.

It was ok, but not something I would necessarily need to keep. I do appreciate getting the chance to sample it, though, as I was curious about it. Thanks for sending this my way, TheLastDodo!

Still tasting coffee more than cinnamon or cookie, and still a fan. Weird because I have always detested coffee, and many well-meaning people have assured me that it is an acquired taste or that it tastes almost as good as it smells…I don’t even like the smell. But I found this pu-erh off putting at first, and now it has grown on me enough to reorder despite the coffee undertones. Go figure.

Thanks Stephanie for passing this along to me! I haven’t had any Lupicia blends yet, and this one sounded really lovely.
Little did I know there would be coffee in this blend. Le sigh. that kinda ruined it for me. This would have been so nice if it wasn’t for the coffee! I got a light cinnamon kick somewhere in each sip, but the coffee was like, “Hey! look at me!!”
Although I did not like this blend too much, it did remind me of early mornings at my grandmother’s house. Every morning, at around 5:30, she would wake up and brew the biggest pot of coffee known to man. Whenever my family visited, there was always at least 8 or 9 people going in and out of that teeny tiny farmhouse, including the 4 or 5 of us. She would always put cinnamon in her brew, and this is exactly what it smelled like. She would let the percolater do it’s thing while she went back to bed, and in an hour or two, everyone would be up, eating the usual breakfast of rice and beans with eggs and listening to the radio or watching the news on a small 25inch TV screen with DIY rabbit ears.
A nostalgic brew, just not one I am into. Thanks all the same steph!

All I got was roastiness a la coffee from this….definitely not cinnamon or cookie. That’s not to say that I don’t totally love this tea! I just wouldn’t have given it this name.

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Mastress Alita’s Sipdown Challenge (October) – “A cinnamon tea”

This one is almost really good. To me, it tastes a bit like a cinnamon graham cracker, and I enjoy the mixed puerh and black tea base – it’s smooth and flavorful.

However, there’s something here that’s coming off as savory to my palate, and it’s throwing the whole thing off for me. I’m not sure if it’s the puerh or something else? Maybe I’m tasting the elderflower and it’s not meshing well? I really don’t know, but it keeps it from being a yummy cookie tea for me.

I’ve been alternating between excited about and scared of this tea, LOL!

It SOUNDED delicious…then the dry leaf smelled kind of weird…then once steeped up it smelled delicious. I’m picky about my cinnamon teas so this was quite a gamble!

But I like it! I can’t really taste the puerh. Maybe it is adding to the earthiness of the coffee aspect of the flavor though. The cinnamon is definitely there but pretty mild. I don’t get the cookie part but I’m drinking this unsweetened and without milk. I have a feeling this is another one that would be really incredible if sweetened. I’m sure it would be fabulous brewed up extra strong with some sugar and cream, like a cinnamon latte :)

Oops, I didn’t realize there was coffee in this, the pu’erh was risky enough at 9pm!

This tea is really tasty, slightly cookie-ish and lots of sweet cinnamon. Not a tea for coffee haters because that’s a very strong component! I almost think the name should be more like “cinnamon coffee pu’erh” vs cinnamon cookie. Coffee stands out for sure.

I added cream and it was a nice post supper treat. I will try it for breakfast sometime wheni not worried about caffeine.

Definitely another Lupicia win!

Oh this one is tasty! It doesn’t have a strong cookie note to me, but I can pick up on the cinnamon and coffee a bit. If I were to make this as a latte, it would make me feel like I was having a cinnamon dolce latte from Starbucks. I could see myself drinking this one regularly. :)

Thanks for sending this one, Dexter! It’s super yummy!