Ever had a morning where all your tea plans fall apart? First, I couldn’t find this tea anywhere. I have my teas “catalogued” and organized in a very specific way, and it just wasn’t where it should be. As a librarian, this was very frustrating. As a librarian, I also know it is entirely possible for an item to get miscatalogued and be “on the shelf” in the wrong place, so I basically had to go through my entire tea shelf digging through each section until I could find it (finally found it in the “white teas” section… ugh!) I moved house last year and am not entirely surprised that when unpacking over 500 teas a few mishaps happened along that way, but that put me short on time racing against the clock to get a cup of tea brewed before work… and then when I dumped the hot water into my gravity well infuser, it didn’t hold the water like it always has, and I had boiling water all over my counter! That was fun to clean up.
So, then I had to get my spare infuser out and start a fresh cup (I thankfully had just enough in my sample from teasipper’s cupboard sale to make another cup — thanks, teasipper!) and steeping another cup made me late for work. I don’t know if the other infuser is dead or if a really thorough cleaning will bring life back into it, but I cleaned it just a few months ago, so it may just be time to lay it out to pasture… I do make an awful lot of tea with it…
Anyway, the tea is quite a fudgy flavor. I do recall it brewed pink originally in my infuser, but I’m drinking it in a closed thermos here at work, so I can’t really enjoy that “novelty” of it now, and don’t really taste any difference from the beetroot to the flavor. It does taste a little fruity, though; it reminds me of the subtle fruity notes from a good dark chocolate, like a hint of berry that I can’t quite place (I’m leaning raspberry, but not quite).
It’s a nice chocolately tea, I just wish it hadn’t been such an utter mishap to make it! Thanks for the sample, tea-sipper!
Flavors: Berry, Chocolate, Dark Bittersweet, Dark Chocolate, Fruity, Sweet
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You’re welcome but sorry about all the tea problems today.
It happens to us all. I just see it a a small setback.
Yes, one of those mornings.
The fortunate news is that after a long soak in the Mandala Smart Soak and then reassembling the infuser, it seems to be holding water again, so I’m wondering if some minute particles got lodged somewhere that were keeping the release plate “lodged” in a way to allow the water to flow through. So maybe there is still life in the ol’ girl yet.
You’re welcome but sorry about all the tea problems today.
It happens to us all. I just see it a a small setback.
Yes, one of those mornings.
The fortunate news is that after a long soak in the Mandala Smart Soak and then reassembling the infuser, it seems to be holding water again, so I’m wondering if some minute particles got lodged somewhere that were keeping the release plate “lodged” in a way to allow the water to flow through. So maybe there is still life in the ol’ girl yet.