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I think that I have found my chocolate tea! This is sooooo good! Yum,yum,yum. When I opened this up it smelled like a chocolate truffle, deep dark and delicious! Brewed it for about 3min. which I thought was sort of short for a black tea but it seemed to do the trick.
First taste, it was a bit bitter… like semisweet chocolate… so I added just a bit of sugar and tasted it again, you can taste the chocolate but the tea is still there which is good! It does taste a bit like hot chocolate or dark hot chocolate which would be a better description. I let it cool a bit( which I have found really brings out the tastes) and wow does the chocolate pop it was great, I love it… next time I may add a bit of milk to get more of a fullness.
At the end of the cup there is a bit of liquid dark chocolate yum, yum,yum that is all I can say!
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I really like this tea…When I opened up the pouch I smelled coconut and something else… it wasn’t really chocolate, I think it is vanilla, anyways smells really really good. Brewed it up and could smell the tea mixed with coconut and vanilla. When I tasted it, it was really smooth and left a nice refreshing feeling almost minty aftertaste in my mouth. I might not get much chocolatyness but I do get sweet and it tastes goooood!
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This is really juicy and summery and fruity and YUM!!!! Without being tart, too! I really like this both hot and cold! The green tea is a tad grassy but it offset by the white tea and fruit. The white tea gives it the mellower and pretty factor and the fruit has a mind of it’s own! All of the fruits pair nicely together! The cooler it gets the juicer it gets! The more I like it as I sip! This tea has lots of character!
I am heading to the farmer’s market where they sell every other Saturday in about a week to check Praise Tea out. I can’t wait to see/smell it all in person! What is on your ‘must try’ list from them?
I would say…
Chocolate Truffle (PMS Blend)
Oolong Royal
Lemon Soleil
Roo Lemon Pie
Bolivian Black
Goji Berry Blue
so far…
Thanks! I will check these out!
Se Chung is not as well-known as other styles of Chinese oolong such as Ti Guan Yin, but it is frequently servied in Hong Kong Chinese restaurants. The flavor and texture are velvet smooth, slightly sweet (even without sugar) and rich. Se Chung Oolong holds up better than many dark oolongs to multiple steeps.
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I’ve had a rough few days, don’t feel well, and am in the process of getting snowed in. It seems like the perfect time to break out the PMS Blend. This is by far the creamiest, richest chocolate tea I’ve had. The black tea flavor comes across only in the aftertaste – the chocolate is clearly the main player in this blend. Very, very good. Prepared with almond milk and stevia.
I like Goji Berry flavored things when they are done right and so far Praise Tea is 2 for 2 on the “doing it right” at least for my liking!
I could taste the berry right away then I could taste a chewiness to it and then a hint of floral but then it came back to the berry! Full circle! Very nice! I like this one much more than I thought I would! A delight!
Thank you Queenoftarts for sending me a sample in a swap! Wow-ie! SO delicious! Right off the bat, I could smell the loose tea from the bag! Heavenly! Divine! This is what I needed. Sometimes I get mild allergic reactions to soy from certain chocolates, but this one didn’t give me any problems! The leaves are nice and dark with bits of chocolate and cacao nibs of some sort. Again, the scent is STRONG of chocolate. Not the artificial kind but the type that might be like dark, creamy chocolate.
I steeped it for too long since I forgot it about it in the midst of cooking >_< Nevertheless, this is a VERY forgiving tea. It didn’t turn bad or bitter on me! The liquor was a deep brown. The scent was still very strong of chocolate. The taste… DIVINE! This has to be my favorite chocolate tea. It is real chocolate. I added some sugar, and it made the chocolate stand out more. This can do without sugar or milk. I tried it with milk, and it was creamy! I love LOVE LOOOVVEEE dark chocolate, and this one was dark chocolate but not bitter to me. Delicious.
Preparation
DRY – this looks like a woodsier Oolong mix. The aroma is mostly oolong and mango. I can tell there is a little something else fruity-wise too but it’s not really identifiable as berries or passionfruit per say.
Once infused…the liquor is pretty dark for an oolong…much like a medium-brown colored black tea. It smells slightly fruity and woodsy…but oh-so-slight!
The taste is DARN GOOD. It’s a smoother oolong taste with hints of sweeter-wood but the fruit notes pair up beside the oolong very well. All of the fruit ingredients mesh well with each other and no one ingredient really barges in front of the others.
The rose hides out in the background and if I didn’t take the time to really notice it I probably would miss it.
There is just something about this that says “I’m YOUR tea…treat me well…and I will treat YOU well.” And you know what…it looks like we are on the same page!
New Friends are FUN!!!
Even tho this is in loose leaf form and not a nest I gave it a little rinse.
Dry this doesn’t have much smell…once the hot water touches it – this has a very strong fishy/earthy pu-erh smell with an almost equal rose aroma. I don’t really care for the smell to be honest. But I will try not to judge a tea by it’s nose…
After the rinse was complete it did take a lot of the rose aroma away with it. But the pu-erh smell was still very strong.
This has a very dark liquor.
The taste is better than I excepted. It’s a cross between a black Yunnan tea and a clichéd pu-erh, I suppose – there are rose notes within the sip, too. I will say this is bold and burly. The end of the sip is much more my style compared to the front.
This is alright tho! Better than I expected…glad I rinsed and went with a lower infusion time tho!
Prior to infusion this smells mostly of ripe mango! Lovely!
Post infusion I can smell Mango, Strawberries, and Lemon! Very nice!!
The color is that of rooibos!
The taste is very smooth, pretty sweet and fruity! The Mango, Strawberry and Lemon flavors all mix well together! Not one flavors is over powering the others but I can taste all three pretty equally!
The aftertaste is a bit more lemony, however.
This is quite good, indeed!
FrenchVanilla AKA QueenOfTarts sent me some of this and it does smell great! Like Milk Chocolate and cinnamon. I do have a large cinnamon stick within the mixture I am infusing, too! This infused very dark! Like a black tea would, actually.
The flavor isn’t as sweet as the aroma…you can certainly pick up on the spices and the cocoa is delish yet a bit more subtle than I assumed it would be based on the aroma. It’s still pretty good tho!
I doubled the amount but not the length – I don’t think I would do it any other way! This seems to work well with a ‘double shot’ as I like to call it!
QueenOfTarts AKA FrenchVanilla sent this my way! Thanks!!! :)
This is a nice creamy lemony rooibos! Very nice! It certainly smells like a lemony-pie – mostly lemon with a little pie hint…you know…crust. The creaminess is really the feature here, folks, it’s a pure delight!!! Almost yogurt or lemon curd-esque!
Thanks FrenchVanilla!
This is alright…
It’s a nice solid black base with semi-sweet caramel chunks that do provide a little sweetness to the overall taste. I do like it…but I wish it was more caramelly and more sweet due to the caramel chunks. That taste is pretty good tho…just would love MORE…
