Tag: seasonal tea

Today’s tea: Dollar Tea Club’s Green Meadows!

A new thing to try! If I was a millionaire, I’d be trying every tea club in the world because my biggest problem with tea is figuring out which one to drink. Tea clubs narrow that way the heck down and make the morning much easier!

This one sounds like a merge of irish cream and earl grey, which I couldn’t really picture (or whatever the taste version of picturing is) when I read it, but it smells like some sort of fancy lemony cupcake when you open it!

(my editing app is deciding to not work today so here’s the messy background I usually crop out!)

It’s a pretty nice looking tea, green and curly and decent sized leaves. There’s actually little shamrock sprinkles in there so I’m guessing this is a St Pat’s blend.

In the cup, it keeps that dessert sort of a smell really well. I’m not getting coffee at all, and chocolate mostly in the smell rather than the taste and only barely, but the creaminess really comes through and blends really well with the lemmony-bergamoty scent. The first whiff maybe smells a little like a fancy shampoo, but thankfully it doesn’t taste like that at all!

Being a green tea, it’s a light brew but it does darken a little as it sits. It tastes really nice, that base of green tea with a decent citrus, but not bitter or sour at all. It doesn’t taste sweet, since there’s nothing to really sweeten it but a very few sprinkles, but it’s still got that sweet cupcake smell and half of tasting is smelling, so it sort of tricks your tongue?

I would buy a candle that smells like this in a second.

It makes for a really interesting, complex, engaging drink that you want to keep sipping and paying attention to! Yay!

It doesn’t look like you can order their teas separate from the club, but you can sign up for the club here!

Adagio Irish Stout

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??