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“Day 5 of the Inoki Bathhouse advent calendar. This might be my least favorite tea so far of this advent. I don’t know if it’s me or the tea, but I feel like this is just ok. I liked it best as an...” Read full tasting note
“Adventageddon Day 5 Two days of back to back straight green teas is not super fun for me personally, but I did enjoy this one a lot more than yesterday’s bancha. I didn’t time to make it gongfu, so...” Read full tasting note
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Day 5 of the Inoki Bathhouse advent calendar. This might be my least favorite tea so far of this advent. I don’t know if it’s me or the tea, but I feel like this is just ok. I liked it best as an iced tea – somehow the general hay/vegetal flavor was more enjoyable cold. Maybe because it’s not a flavor profile I typically think of for iced tea, so it was a pleasant surprise. Hot, it’s just… a bit nutty, a bit hayish, and a bit green-vegetable. But not really enough of any of those things. And a stronger steep just made it drier rather than teasing out the flavors better.
Adventageddon Day 5
Two days of back to back straight green teas is not super fun for me personally, but I did enjoy this one a lot more than yesterday’s bancha. I didn’t time to make it gongfu, so it was a larger Western style mug for the day. Definitely more medium bodied and quite smooth with strong notes of chestnut, edamame, and both corn silk and grilled corn. Not something I’d typically reach for, but all the other teas today were kind of decadent and sweet in one way or the other so it actually was a nice break up from that.
(As an aside, I’m not sure what makes this particular dragonwell “ceremonial”. It didn’t seem like an especially high quality/grade to me.)
Today’s Advent Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDNnFftS3pU/?img_index=1
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULk3-fmFScI&ab_channel=TommyNewport
