I ran this tasting in 4 parts of the same brew.
Packaged in a solid black foil, resealable bag. Smells amazing, like cookies or a cake baking. Large, mostly unbroken black tea leaves.
1). No add ins: Smells like the stuff in the bag. Tastes pretty ok without anything added in. Slight sweetness already. Looks like black tea.
2). Sugar : 1 small spoonful: Enhanced the sweetness, still smells awesome, like vanilla extract used as perfume on a WWII re-enactor.
3). Sugar: my usual amount of enough sugar to give a horse diabetes: Really brought up the tannins (maybe it sat too long/cooled a bit by this point?) Smells like tea, loosing the vanilla-ness.4). Whole Milk: just enough until the tea looks like He-Man’s plasti-skin: HOLY CATS! The vanilla popped right back out, the tannic feel went away (like its supposed to do when you add milk). Tasted like the toffee butterscotch in the gold wrapper, or the inside of a Skor bar. Fantastic!
Flavors: Butterscotch, Tannin, Toffee, Vanilla
