Roasted Chestnut

Tea type
Black Green Yerba maté Blend
Ingredients
Almonds, Chinese Black Tea, Flavor, Hojicha, Roasted Yerba Mate
Flavors
Almond, Caramel, Chocolate, Coconut, Vanilla, Autumn Leaf Pile, Cream, Roasted, Roasted Nuts, Dark Bittersweet, Maple, Nutty, Smooth, Toasty, Herbs, Wood, Cocoa, Chestnut
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Caffeine
High
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Edit tea info Last updated by Mastress Alita
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 30 sec 11 oz / 335 ml

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This is a deep, dark, rich black tea blend with a delicious aroma. It has a roasty nut flavor with a little sweet silkiness. This is a perfect cooler weather black tea blend. Voted 2016 Customer Favorite Tea.

This has proved to be one of two TeaSource teas that coffee drinkers tend to love. The other is Puer Tuo Cha.

Suggested Steeping Instructions: Use 1 rounded tsp (3 grams) per 8 oz cup boiling water. Steep 2-4 min.

Ingredients: China black tea, roasted yerba mate, Houjicha, flavor, and sliced almonds.

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11 Tasting Notes

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149 tasting notes

Definitely doesn’t taste like Chestnut. More like a bitter medicinal almond. Or maybe Walnuts, but nothing close to chestnut.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 15 sec

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2464 tasting notes

Inkling Advent Day 24. This is heading toward bitterness, so next time I’ll certainly give it a shorter steep. The flavor really does taste like chestnuts, plus that slightly harsh black tea. I’m enjoying it sweetened with milk, but it may be a little simplistic for me to want to purchase for myself. And as always, I wouldn’t mind the flavor being even stronger. I like the nuttiness though.

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20 tasting notes

It’s not really what I expected.

Solid tea, but the overwhelming, almost artificial, almond/coconut flavor tends to drown out the others. It’s not bad but I feel like that lowers the rating overall for me.

Smooth, but a blast of almonds and coconuts. Underneath there’s some chocolate, caramel and vanilla. Hard to taste anything else.

I would turn down the almond/coconut – from 10 to like 4? – and I think this tea would be better. I’ll be drinking it through the cold months, but not sure I’d order again.

Flavors: Almond, Caramel, Chocolate, Coconut, Vanilla

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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20 tasting notes

I received this tea as a loose-leaf sample in a subscription box. I was very excited when I opened it and found that it smells like an Almond Joy! I love Almond Joy. I didn’t see coconut listed as an ingredient on the package, so this intrigued me. I could still faintly smell it after steeping. The taste of this tea has a nice mellow nuttiness. It seems to linger for just the right amount of time, keeping me sipping, but not making me feel like the tea is lacking.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp

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4147 tasting notes

Home – 6:30 PM

Another of my randomly purchased teas from TeaSource. I think I may have ordered because I got a sample I liked in my Sips By box? Unsure.

I didn’t realize that this also has hojicha and maté in it, so I steeped it as a black tea. Luckily it turned out fine.

I can definitely taste the hojicha, it has mellow roasted and autumn leaf notes. Otherwise, this tea seems more almond than chestnut to me. But not in a marzipan way, which is nice. It brings to mind more of an almond-vanilla custard sort of flavor. And I feel like there’s some coconut here as well?

Unfortunately, it just can’t compete with Simpson & Vail’s Almond Sugar Cookie black tea.

Which reminds me, I need to drink that one again… ❤

ETA: The more I drink this, the more it reminds me of coconut macaroons. Which is odd as coconut isn’t even mentioned in the flavor description…

Flavors: Almond, Autumn Leaf Pile, Coconut, Cream, Roasted, Roasted Nuts, Vanilla

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML

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1246 tasting notes

Happy Festivus! (I’m probably the only person on here who celebrates Festivus as their winter holiday, so Happy Day to everyone else!)

This is, in fact, the first year I haven’t had to work on Festivus, so I decided to treat myself by going out to lunch. It is a rainy, rainy day today, so I definitely wanted warm and cozy… so I went to my favorite cafe in town (and the only one that actually serves loose leaf brewed pots of tea, offering a small selection of teas from TeaSource) and ordered a BLT on toasted sourdough with a side cup of today’s soup (Squash Bisque, mmm!) and a pot of this tea.

This is a really nice nutty tea! It brews so smooth, and the base almost has a dark chocolate-bittersweetness to it, underneath roasty, toasty nuts. It’s incredibly smooth and wonderful on a dreary day. I’d really recommend giving this a try to folks looking for Chestnut teas, or nutty teas lacking the syrupy-sweet marzipan flavor that seems to be present in most of them.

Flavors: Dark Bittersweet, Maple, Nutty, Roasted Nuts, Smooth, Toasty

Crowkettle

Happy Festivus!(are socks involved? I love overly colourful socks) :)

Mastress Alita

I’m wearing socks cause my feet get cold inside, but that’s a year-round ordeal for me, hahaha. (I recently learned about the Icelandic Yule Cat, a giant cat that eats children if they have “old, ratty clothes” on Christmas, leading to the tradition of gifting new socks before the holiday so they will have “something new to wear” for protection… that mythos was a new one to me, hahaha).

gmathis

Yule Cat is new to me, too—glad to know it! A house on my way into town has a beautifully lit Festivus pole in the front window. Makes me grin every time I see it.

Mastress Alita

I have a Festivus Pole in my living room! However I go traditional by keeping it unadorned aluminum. :-)

Martin Bednář

Happy Festivus!

derk

Happy Festivus to you :)

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2965 tasting notes

A bit too dark and roasty for me. It reminds me a lot of burnt coffee. I think it could have been the mate, but I’m not sure. While my sample is a bit old, I would have liked more nutty flavours in my cup. It might be the age of the sample, though.

Flavors: Almond, Herbs, Roasted, Wood

Mastress Alita

This is one of the teas I have in my home cupboard. I’ve found that it does have a pretty dark, roasty taste on longer steeps (5-6 minutes). That produces a very dark color that does look very coffee-like. I usually steep this one around 3-4 minutes instead, so that it will come out a bit lighter; usually a sort of maple-tone. Mine has a very full, nutty flavor with very strong scented leaves, but with a sort of “toasty” or “roasted nut” appeal. Certainly not desserty like some nut teas I’ve tried.

Arby

That sounds like my experience with it. I’ve had a few cups with it, but none were as desserty as I was hoping.

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98 tasting notes

As stated by someone previous I’m really surprised that this tea is rated so low. It makes a great alternative to coffee in the morning for really waking you up and the flavor and aroma is amazing. I agree that it smells more of almonds than of chestnuts, but for an early morning tea it’s really hard to beat. My wife also loves this tea so this is one of very, very few teas that I buy by the pound. If nothing else try a sample.

Flavors: Almond, Caramel, Chocolate, Cocoa

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 15 sec

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961 tasting notes

Not sure why this one has had such low ratings from others. I find it to be absolutely delicious and the perfect holiday tea! The black/oolong base is perfectly balanced: deep and rich but with a nice silky mouth feel and the flavor is spot-on chestnut. I find myself reaching for this one on those days when I’m not in the mood for a straight black tea but I also don’t want the sweet/heavy flavor of the many dessert teas I have in my collection. I gave my roommate 2oz of this one for Christmas and she has already finished it and gone back for another 4oz bag!

Flavors: Chestnut, Nutty, Smooth

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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52 tasting notes

i’m skeptical of blends that combine green, black, oolong, white, etc. this one has mate, oolong, and black tea in it, and my first thought is, “sounds like a year-end blend trying to get rid of all the tea that didn’t sell” i wish they had named this almond instead of chestnut. it smells like almond, and it tastes like almond. not as strong of almond as i would like, however. if i drink a flavored tea, i really want the flavor to stand out, and here, it’s really just ho-hum. it’s nothing better than what you could go buy at the grocery store in tea bags, it’s a perfectly okay, but mundane, cup of tea. so there you go.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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