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“Countdown To Catching Up – Tea 2 This is one of my faves from my recent blends. It’s warm & cozy without being too spicy – making it the perfect cuppa for yesterday – maybe not today, but I’ll...” Read full tasting note
A fantastical, flavorful black tea blend that tastes like something you might find at a bakery! You’ll discover notes of maple & hints of butter & vanilla swirling around with preeminent flavors of gingerbread. This one makes an incredible latte!
Countdown to Catching Up – Tea 2 (Counting Down from 10 to 1!)
I love it when a tea comes out the way I want it to, but I can’t say that this happened when I conducted my first taste test of this tea. It needed something else to it. Then I realized it needed a bit of a creamy element. I had already added the vegan butter flavor to it to give it a “scone-ish” quality, but it needed more “cream” (clotted cream? Maybe.)
So, I added some vanilla bean to the tea & let it cure a little while with the new addition (this is why it took a little while for this batch to come out, a couple of the teas that I worked on needed some tweaking – like this one did!)
Anyway, the vanilla did the trick! Now it tastes like a lovely gingerbread scone, complete with a bit of clotted cream on it to complete the flavor profile. DELICIOUS is all I can say now!
This blend starts with a blend of black teas (Assam, Yunnan & a bit of Vietnamese to round things out) & to that, I added a few spices that you might find in your average gingerbread recipe, stuff like ginger (of course!), cinnamon, cloves, allspice & my favorite: nutmeg. Then I added some essence to complete my “gingerbread scone” recipe. After the first taste test, I added a bit of vanilla bean to bring out the creamy notes of the butter & give it a “clotted cream” note.
I think you’re gonna love this – even if it does arrive a couple of weeks after Christmas! It’s organic, vegan, gluten-free, allergen-friendly & all natural!
organic ingredients: black teas, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, nutmeg, vanilla beans & natural flavors
to brew: shake the pouch to ensure that the ingredients are well incorporated. There are quite a few different spices in this & you want to have them thoroughly dispersed throughout the tea when measuring! Use 3g of tea to 12oz of nearly boiling water (205°F) & steep for 3 ½ minutes. Strain & allow to cool for at least 10 minutes before sipping.
serving suggestion: As I mentioned in the above description, I love this as a latte, so I highly recommend brewing this a little stronger than you might usually (to accommodate for the addition of dairy) & adding a little bit of your chosen dairy to the cup. You won’t regret it! It’s also good served without any addition at all. If you want a sweeter cup, add about ½ teaspoon of sugar to the cup. It will help those spices come to life!
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Countdown To Catching Up – Tea 2
This is one of my faves from my recent blends. It’s warm & cozy without being too spicy – making it the perfect cuppa for yesterday – maybe not today, but I’ll just transport myself to yesterday in my head since I was out adulting yesterday (aka running errands: grocery shopping, doctor appointments, – you know, all that less than fun stuff that still has to be done & I didn’t really have the time to sit down with a lovely cuppa.)
This tea is also incredibly tasty, so even though it’s not “that” season any longer & we are quickly moving into Spring, this is still so good that I’m going to be enjoying it well into spring.
The black tea base is nice & smooth, the spices are warm & inviting & this makes a fantastic latte if you wanna go that way with it, but I’m currently sipping it hot, no dairy & just a little bit of sugar to bring out the spices a little more. There are notes of maple here – while blending it, I decided that if I were having an actual gingerbread scone, that instead of clotted cream, perhaps some maple butter would be more appropriate & that little bit of maple really elevates the flavor of this cup.
I don’t rate my own teas, but if I were to rate this, I’d probably give it an 89. Yeah, not a perfect score & that’s just fine with me. This tea isn’t perfect, but, I also don’t know what else I would have done to make it better. A delightful, delicious tea that brings a smile to my face every time I sip it.
PS: I also just updated the inventory on this one, so there is some of it left!