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Decaf & Herbal TTB, tea #5

First looseleaf tea I took from the TTB. Seems to be a bit oldie, as it is now known as Happy Mind by Kusmi Tea.

It is… fine. Pretty fruity flavourful, probably the apple; some spices and herbaceous notes. Dragon fruit? Well, my very limited experience with this sadly didn’t comply with the tea experience. So I won’t tell it is there or it isn’t there.

End of the cup and sips were a little more spicy (fiery) thanks to ginger, but it wasn’t too overwhelming.

Decaf & Herbal TTB, tea #4

I have to agree with Arby in all point related to flavours. I prepared it hot, but it still was very refreshing and citrus forward. As a backbone there is working peach and its sweetness; sadly I didn’t notice any acai in this. Again, plus points for mouthwatering tea wrapper, great for my collection.

Decaf & Herbal TTB, tea #3
Not bad, to be honest! Camomile was fine, vanilla wasn’t fake, honey was sweet and surprisingly not fake either. Very mellow and smooth in the throat, relaxing and enjoyable. I wouldn’t drink this one regularly, but it would be nice to have a few, when looking for camomile tea. As I don’t like plain camomile, this seems like a blend that I can drink.

Decaf & Herbal TTB, tea #2

Well this tea delivers what I have expected… red liquor with tart notes of hibiscus and cranberry and some kind of apple flavour… not fake per se, but hard to find a pleasure note in that.

Very boring and pretty much non-descript.

Decaf & Herbal TTB, tea #1

Yesterday I have received this TTB that I joined just because my curiosity, and hopefully also to share a few herbals with others, as I have just too much of those and hardly drink them.

I took this one at it sounded so good in hot day; even prepared hot.

Ehem… well it is blueberry; but that’s all that I have noticed from promised flavors, sadly there was a hibiscus tartness, and not refreshing from citrus at all. Basil? Where? Hardly any herbaceous note here; though present in the outer wrapper aroma.

A new wrapper for my collection and that counts; and I think I will try (take) all other from this Botanicals series just for this reason.

After a few weeks I have received a bunch of postcards from postcrossing; and soem with tea in. This one of those teas and it smelled through the envelope. It was so strongly scented, but sadly a little falls flat in terms of flavour. It was rather a bit like generic tropical fruits like and not that much of mango itself.

Nevertheless, it was nicely refreshing and not so sweet (even when stevia is added); and I would like to hear opinions of others. Sadly, I have received a single tea bag wrapper and I can’t it put in the TTB. Of course, I can order that from Germany, but I don’t think that will happen.

Another tea that is in my stash thanks to TeaEarleGreyHot and another delish one. Thank you!

My strainer was in a dishwasher, so I took my old method — fillable bags. I filled the bag with four grams of this tea, some being bigger, some were smaller, there was even a stem; but I decided not to care.

It was also a different vessel than usual, instead of glass tall mug; I took porcelain and wide one, nordic style mug.

After rather short steep, I think it was hardly 3 minutes; but I haven’t measuered it to be exact, I received a wonderfully smelling tea, mostly after malt, a little roastiness, but definitelly no smokiness!
Flavours were equally great, mostly noticeable was sweet maltiness, again the roastiness like a roasted oolongs are and honey-sweetness maybe because it’s bugbitten leaves. In background there were red fruit notes, but I wasn’t probably focused enough to pinpoint the exact fruit; however it was so easy and smooth to drink, I was really sad to see the bottom of the mug so fast. Luckily enough, I have enough of this left.

It’s a perfect tea for colder days as today, a cloudy day, temperatures being only around 20° C; perfect weather for a little hike or so.

Dessert pairing: Poppyseed honeycake; a much better than orginal, which is a little too sweet for me.

I have received a pouch of this tea last year when I was in P&T shop in Leipzig as a free sample. Thank you!

Sadly, this is the new version with black currant instead of figs and well, it has lost it’s uniqueness with that. When I have opened the pouch, I was struck with strong fruity note, rather reminding me more a chokeberry or rowanberry than a black currant.
However, after steeped for 3-4 minutes in a pot, I got a nice smooth black tea base, with nice fruity flavour, but sadly somehow nondescript. It wasn’t boom of black currants (they’re in season now!); also the other notes were a little more muted than when I tried as a sachet in their advent calendar.

It’s still very good though, and I would gladly drink it if offered; but as I wrote, the fig flavouring was so unique and I am deeply saddened that it disappeared. The new formula just isn’t so luxurious and “oh wow!”. For those reasons, I lower the rating from 82 to 80.

A sipdown! (M: 1 Y: 79) — prompt: Your oldest green

To be honest, I am recently bad with drinking tea; and even worse in sipdowns. We’re in the second half of July and I have just first sipdown of the month.

But it is a sipdown with a prompt!

I prepared the last of this tea in my tea pot. And turned out great, considering almost 5 years old green. Yep, it was, like I have mentioned in my first note of this tea, a little bit like a gunpowder green; slightly mineral, with notes of dry grass and hay. Very easydrinking and refreshing in (already) warm morning.

It seems to be renamed by now. It’s “Sleep Time” and I made a new listing… and then I found out this one; and their website have Snore & Peace in the address bar, but everything says “Sleep Time”. I like this old name more. Can someone remove the new listing and update name of this one? Cameron B. maybe?

I am tired. Like really tired; I almost fall asleep today afternoon in the office. Slept badly. Again. Tea to the rescue!
Mint combined with chamomile makes a good and nice combination, and combined with other herbs in this baggie it tastes like a liquid honey with a little of bitter finish. Personally, I wouldn’t mind stronger lavender and less of chamomile.

Would it help me to have a proper, nice, uninterrupted, sleep? Hopefully, but I don’t expect miracles.