Sipdown for ashmanra’s sipdown challenge: tea with more than 5 ingredients. I picked this up YEARS ago at a tea festival – I don’t think the company even exists anymore. From a purely flavor perspective, this is not my favorite version of this type of blend, and that’s mostly because the pepper note is really prominent. That’s a big part of why I don’t love DavidsTea’s Super Ginger either. I like pepper in food, but a little goes a long way in a tea blend and I find that it’s easy to overdo it. Besides the pepper, I can taste lemongrass and ginger. Nothing else really comes through. Maybe that’s due to age, maybe it’s due to the blending ratios, I don’t know. I’ve been drinking this down over the past few weeks but can’t for the life of me remember what it tasted like when I first got it.
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Geek and nerd (shoutout to GeekSteep). Still trying to get a handle on this whole work/life balance while ALSO succeeding at work thing. I have some chronic illnesses that make that harder. Tea is my respite.
Favorite tea types, in order:
oolongs
green
herbal
white
yellow
Don’t drink:
black
pu’erh
A sampling of tea shops I like:
Te Company
Calabash
Volition
Tea Thoughts
Harney & Sons
Yunomi
Teavivre
RIP Butiki
I’m with you! A little pepper goes a very long way in tea for me! I don’t mind a few of the pretty pink peppercorns.