I’m trying to keep up with reading tasting notes but it is an advent avalanche! Thanks very much for this one AJRimmer! I have no idea what lemugar pancakes are but I’m tasting lemon lemon lemon. All sorts of lemon: creamy lemon, tart lemon, lemon cleaner. Very sweet. It gets to be a bit much lemon really. I don’t see how pancake flavor can squeeze through all this lemon if it tried. The second steep was much more like lemon rind. All of the sweetness seemed to go in the first steep. They are using something called coconut nectar sugar which I’m not sure I have seen in a tea I’ve had before. Not sure if I like coconut nectar sugar yet? But the blend overall is too cloying to me.
For recent holiday teas: Simpson & Vail’s Gingerbread and TeaRevv’s Sugar Plum Spice
Steep #1 // 1 1/2 teaspoons // 20 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #2 // just boiled // 4 minute steep
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Hahah all the lemon!
Yep, keeping up with all the tasting notes is a challenge. I wonder if this is what Steepster was like in its heyday many years ago.
(I’m not that old!) but yes, this is the kind of traffic I remember from when I was a newbie Steepie.
Several of us are doing multiple advents which means a TON of new tasting notes. I’ve been having a hard time keeping up this month too.
I remember a lot more conversations and group explorations of various companies here in years past. More participation from companies as well.
gmathis, I think Steepster’s heyday was only five or so years ago and I wish I’d discovered the site earlier.
It would be fun to do more group tastings and have conversations around different teas. That’s one reason I’m slightly envious of all of you doing advent calendars, though judging from the reviews, they’re mostly full of chais and hibiscus blends! :P
Hahah all the lemon!
Yep, keeping up with all the tasting notes is a challenge. I wonder if this is what Steepster was like in its heyday many years ago.
(I’m not that old!) but yes, this is the kind of traffic I remember from when I was a newbie Steepie.
Several of us are doing multiple advents which means a TON of new tasting notes. I’ve been having a hard time keeping up this month too.
I remember a lot more conversations and group explorations of various companies here in years past. More participation from companies as well.
gmathis, I think Steepster’s heyday was only five or so years ago and I wish I’d discovered the site earlier.
It would be fun to do more group tastings and have conversations around different teas. That’s one reason I’m slightly envious of all of you doing advent calendars, though judging from the reviews, they’re mostly full of chais and hibiscus blends! :P