Tag: spring tea

Today’s tea is White Strawberry Basil by Adagio!

This tea is so good?? The first one so far that is buy in a bigger dose!

In the bag, it smells phenomenal. So fruity, so sweet, like strawberry jam or fruit leather or some other very fruity thing made of real fruit.

I’m not sure how much actual tea is in here, but it’s pretty in the hand!

The packet says 3m but my tea timer app said 4 for white tea, so I split the difference at three and a half (ish), and it was light colored and light flavored as I’d expect from a white tea. The strawberry smell held up super well to the hot water, and it smelled So Good. Like, I’d wear that as a body spray.

Even too hot to drink, it was yummy: light, fruity, definitely strawberry ish. Worth burning my tongue to test.

I was at work, so not leaving it wasn’t really an option. I’m pleased to say it holds up very well to being left until it gets cold! It would probably make an excellent iced tea, to be honest. It didn’t get bitter at all, and I think most of the darkening was probably from the fruit. I was a little worried that the herbal or rosehips flavors would take over, but they really didn’t. This is a Very Balanced Tea, and it got stronger in the harmony it had already.

I’m sad I forgot to finish it or rebrew a new cup before I left!

You can get your own 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??