Sherlock Blend [DUPLICATE] from Adagio Custom Blends, Cara McGee

Sherlock Blend [DUPLICATE]

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Assam Melody, Black Tea, Cardamom Pods, Cinnamon Bark, Cloves, Ginger Root, Lapsang Souchong, Natural Spice Flavor, Orange Peels
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Caffeine
High
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Average preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 10 oz / 295 ml

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Created by Cara McGee based on the BBC’s Sherlock.

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This is a very smokey smelling tea. But once brewed the smokey flavor simply lingers in the back of the pack. The spices come out to play and the game is on!
Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 15 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
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I personally found this tea to be overly smokey, though I am not sure which ingredient it was that was overpowering everything. I tried lightening it up with cream and sugar though it did little to help. I was rather dissapointed as the other teas I have tried from this person have turned out rather well.
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katnip the sleeping 10 years ago

The smokiness was most likely the lapsang souchong. It basically smells like a barbecue pit on its own!

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I’m finding I can deal with Lapsang Souchong in small amounts and when it’s not the dominant flavor, so primarily in blends, I suppose.

This one, while it definitely has a smoke element, and smells quite strongly smoky, it muted heavily by the assam and then the spices, while kind of muddled, come out mid sip. I get a little cinnamon and clove, but neither is very strong. The lapsang pokes out at the end of the sip, and lingers in the aftertaste; it’s my least favorite part, but it’s not overwhelming and isn’t enough to make me dislike this tea.

I don’t think I’ll ever completely warm up to LS, but our relationship is definitely getting better.
Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 2 min, 45 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
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Terri HarpLady 11 years ago

Lapsangs originally freaked me out.
“Where’s the Fire?”
“You BBQing?”
But then I started noticing caramelized brown sugar notes, at least in some of them, & maybe on days when my tastebuds were more lively or something. There are still some lapsangs I just can’t really get behind, & sometimes a little Maple Syrup helps, sometimes not. The Maple really brings out the brown sugar flambee element, but most of the time I drink them unsweetened, & sometimes I really love them that way.

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