Advent 12.
Wide awake at 1:30 am after going to bed at 10. It’s going to be a long work day.
The aroma is overwhelmingly herbaceous-cooling spearmint, spicy cinnamon and ginger, floral-perfumey rose reminiscent of little molded soaps with barely detectable sweet clove. I do not notice the pink peppercorn, maybe it’s hidden by the rose florality and cinnamon-ginger spiciness.
The taste is spearmint-herbaceous-earthy-brassy, cooling-mellow and warming-sharp at the same time. I do not like the aftertaste. Is it slightly bitter ginger-spearmint?
The steam coming from the cup really penetrates my senses. Spearmint and cinnamon combinations are very difficult to get right for me. The rose is really throwing me. Instead of feeling centered, my sense of smell is being pulled in an elemental, multi-directional tug-o-war. I just don’t understand the purpose of combining mint with spicier, warmer ingredients without providing a base to tie together what on my palate are entirely disparate flavor profiles. For an example of successfully marrying many elemental attributes in a similar mint-cinnamon-floral heavy (albeit caffeinated) blend, see Chroma Tea’s Aquamarine.
Flavors: Cinnamon, Clove, Earth, Floral, Ginger, Herbaceous, Metallic, Perfume, Rose, Spearmint, Spicy
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Poor you waking up so early!
It allows plenty of time for tea in a dimly lit room. A slow waking :)
Ugh! I know from personal experience that 3.5 hours of sleep is not enough. Good thing you have lots of tea!
Well, I agree. If I would be home alone (or at least in my room), I would drink tea from 4 am today as well.
But not having a room alone means no way enjoying a cuppa. Almost all tea is stored in my bedroom which I share with brother.
You’re commendable to be doing something as soothing and productive as drinking tea in what I call The Dark Night of the Soul Hours. When I have that issue-bed at 10:30 p.m., wide awake at 2:30 a.m., I do breath meditation or turn on my Headspace app. Hope your day goes by quickly and easily.
My back started spasming early this morning at work. Of course!
derk If you have a bathtub sized to accommodate a normal sized human, fill it with hot water and Epsom salts. Soak for 20 minutes. The magnesium does wonders to body and mind.
Poor you waking up so early!
It allows plenty of time for tea in a dimly lit room. A slow waking :)
Ugh! I know from personal experience that 3.5 hours of sleep is not enough. Good thing you have lots of tea!
Well, I agree. If I would be home alone (or at least in my room), I would drink tea from 4 am today as well.
But not having a room alone means no way enjoying a cuppa. Almost all tea is stored in my bedroom which I share with brother.
You’re commendable to be doing something as soothing and productive as drinking tea in what I call The Dark Night of the Soul Hours. When I have that issue-bed at 10:30 p.m., wide awake at 2:30 a.m., I do breath meditation or turn on my Headspace app. Hope your day goes by quickly and easily.
My back started spasming early this morning at work. Of course!
derk If you have a bathtub sized to accommodate a normal sized human, fill it with hot water and Epsom salts. Soak for 20 minutes. The magnesium does wonders to body and mind.