I love me some adagio. They’ve been one of my favorite tea companies for, what, like close to a decade now??*
Right now they’re doing A Thing where if you spend over $45, they include a bag of their seasonal Irish Stout tea! I used a gift certificate and apparently that counts as spending, so I got a bag!
When you open the bag it smells like Baileys. Like straight irish creme. Not stout at all–no hippiness, no bitterness, no malted hints, nothing that would make it smell like a beer, so it makes the name weird. BUT it’s a delicious smell. Super yummy.
There’s cocoa nibs and little shamrock sprinkles in it, and it brews up a nice medium-dark brown. Smells more like chocolate as it brews, less like irish creme, but still smells yummy.
The taste is mostly tea, but a little sort of tootsie-roll chocolatey, and a vague hint of smooth creaminess. Still nothing to justify the name, even after I forgot to remove the teabag and it got over-brewed. And it was still very drinkable even that dark!
This would go excellent with sugar and cream, british style, and if you brew it real strong, would probably make an excellent japanese-style milk tea!
*how is everything ten years ago now??
Another Cup Of Tea 