Not Recommended
Day 8 of DIY mostly Adagio advent. This one smells better than it tastes. At least it smells great, though! The cookies and cream scent of the dry leaf got my hopes up. The brew didn’t live up to it. The cream flavor is ok, but the base is so tannic it detracts from my overall enjoyment of the cup. A two-minute steep might have been better than the three suggested on the packet. I tried adding oat milk. That didn’t do much to make it less tannic. This was drinkable but not worth the caffeine.
Way-y-y-y-y-y back in my early days, I loved this. But in ensuing decades, my Steepster friends have introduced me to so many lovely options, it’s dropped off my radar.