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drank Soursap by Say Tea
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Yes! So good! I knew when I smelled this, that I had to have it.

Lots of Asian restaurants around here give out soursop hard candies instead of mints with the bill, and admittedly, when there’s just a bowl of them by the till, I usually grab as many as I feel I can get away with. They’re delicious and I’ve yet to find them in Chinatown to buy.

This tea tastes like those candies. The black base is a bit rough, but the soupsop flavour is so good that they work together really well. The flavour is mouth filling, very accurate and lingers beautifully on a long finish. This isn’t a complicated tea, but it’s so tasty.

I will give this a try with sugar at some point, but I’m really pleased that it doesn’t need it. It’s got a bit of natural sweetness, a bit of sour that isn’t actually tart and it’s amazing.

I sometimes think that maybe I’m drifting away from flavoured teas, but ones like this bring it all home for me.
Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
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Sil 10 years ago

you’ve got me intrigued by this tea company… didn’t even know it existed haha

Anlina 10 years ago

You should check it out: http://sayteaonbloor.com Their prices are really good too, so even though they do a minimum of 55g, you can try a lot of stuff for not a lot of money.

Sil 10 years ago

yeah it’s on my list to go visit when i’m back from travelling heh

Daddyselephant 10 years ago

De and I will definitely have to go back when we return from the States in January.

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Sil 10 years ago

you’ve got me intrigued by this tea company… didn’t even know it existed haha

Anlina 10 years ago

You should check it out: http://sayteaonbloor.com Their prices are really good too, so even though they do a minimum of 55g, you can try a lot of stuff for not a lot of money.

Sil 10 years ago

yeah it’s on my list to go visit when i’m back from travelling heh

Daddyselephant 10 years ago

De and I will definitely have to go back when we return from the States in January.

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I grew up drinking jasmine green tea with meals, but really fell in love with tea on a trip to Britain in elementary school. My first great love was Earl Grey, and I still adore it and all its variants.

I discovered the beauty of loose leaf tea much later, when, on impulse, I picked up a few teas that were on clearance at a home store. My introduction to loose leaf teas were Masala Chai and Provence Rooibos by the Metropolitan Tea Co and an unknown brand of kukicha and gyokuro (little did I know what a precious treasure I’d stumbled onto with that.)

At the time I was lucky to live in a place with multiple tea shops and several places to have afternoon tea, which is a delight I still miss.

Tea is part of my daily ritual and a nice, affordable way to appease the collector in me.

I enjoy distinctive whites, greens and oolongs, flavoured blacks, and herbals that are heavy on the citrus, lavender or mint.

Rating rubric, to give myself some consistency:
0-15 Yuck, not even drinkable.
16-30 Disappointing, not really inclined to give it a second try.
31-45 Disappointing, but maybe there’s potential? Worth one more try, prepped differently.
46-60 Mediocre, not terrible but not memorable.
61-75 Not bad. I’ll definitely finish what I have and might buy again.
76-90 Very enjoyable. Tasty, complex, it’ll keep me coming back.
91-100 BEST! I love everything about it and I will drink it forever.

Beyond tea, I’m a sex educator, polyamory activist, and radical queer. I love backwoods camping, abstract painting, baking & cooking, nail polish, cats, ceramic sculpture, and home nesting.

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Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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