#SPB1 Pumpkin Pie Chai

Another tea in the wonderful package from TreeGal. Again, I really appreciate it! A pumpkin chai from TeaRevv certainly will be interesting to me. The blend has some ingredients I haven’t seen in a pumpkin chai before, like rosehips? And hibiscus? Luckily, these didn’t result in the flavor too much, so I’m fine with it. I see the sprinkles that look like the sprinkles used in B&B’s pumpkin tea. However, sadly, this blend is not as fantastic as B&B’s blend. It isn’t bad. But much like most pumpkin teas, there is never an actual pumpkin element. (B&B at least uses carrots.) I think there is a higher ratio of black tea leaves than spices. The flavor is slightly spiced with hints of sweetness, not sure if it’s from that lone sprinkle. The black tea has medium depth, so it’s tasty enough for me. I’m not sure why this one gets such a low rating.
Steep #1 // 1 teaspoon for a full mug // 6 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #2 // just boiled // 3-4 minute steep

Pleasant chai with no overpowering spice, but also no outstanding flavors. Recommends adding a dash of milk or mix with hot frothed milk for a lattea. Added honey – the sweet notes of the tea were greatly enhanced. Improved rating from 5/10 to 8/10 from honey. Tasted 12.2018

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I made this last night and intended to review it for Sororitea Sisters. However before I did that I tried to place an order for bras and what should have taken 5 minutes ended up taking TWO HOURS!

I was ordering my bras from Lane Bryant/Cacique because they were on sale for $35 USD. I planned to send them to a store near my Dad in LA since my sister will be there next week and can bring them back for me. My Mom has a Lane Bryant card with benefits so we intended to use that but when we went to check out online the American store wouldn’t let us use the card because the billing address was international. We called customer service and they said it was impossible. This makes absolutely no sense because we could go to the Canadian site and have it shipped to Canada but the conversion was off and had us paying more for each bra than we should have been. Finally we said fuck it and just put in our address in Florida as our billing address and hoped for the best. It seems the order was processed so now we are just hoping it doesnt get flagged. Honestly though the whole thing just didn’t make sense. Why not accept your own company card with an international billing address?!?

Anyways, by the time that was dealt with this tea was cold. I took a sip and it was just a muddy mess of spices. Not good at all. I dumped the mug. Probably for the best I didn’t end up reviewing it for the blog.

Tea Revv Advent Calendar – Day 4

(originally written November 4th)

Okay, let’s just get this one over with. I always find pumpkin spice teas to be highly underwhelming, so I’m not expecting much. The packet is decorated with a cute geometric pine tree design.

Yeah, this is pretty much what I expected. It’s a mild, unexceptional black tea base with some light spicing and no pumpkin to be found. There’s a bit of cinnamon and clove mostly, and some artificiality. Perhaps some ginger as well, my tongue does feel a little tingly.

Meh. Just meh. But that’s okay, pumpkin spice teas are almost always “meh” to me.

This is from the 24 Days of Tea advent calendar from Tea Revv. This tea is slightly sweet and has a bit of cinnamon. Overall I found it too weak tasting for my personal taste.