Date: 2008-11-02 11:52:02 Created: null
This isn't a complete list of all the teas I've had, but at least it mentions a bunch I've drank recently and remembered what they taste like. Names noted are the ones they had in the shop of purchase, in some cases slightly translated. As usual, there is no particular order.
It doesn't seem possible to go wrong with this. Citrus additions, green tea-based ones, blue fruits, cream, you name it.
Mmm, sweet and spicy indian tea. Serve with plenty of milk. Always works. There are probably plenty of well-defined variants and categories of chai, but I'll just go ahead and bluntly blanket-like them all.
I don't drink fruity teas very often, but this ranks highly with me. Nice creamy taste which naturally goes well with pleny of milk and tastes good at any temperature.
A recent entry in the venerable line of good teas first experienced at Henrik's place. Very smoky tea, the most smoky I've ever tried and liked, and feels very much like an evening and studying tea. That, of course, has nothing to do with the fact that we've been drinking it mostly on late evenings and/or while studying. And not with the fact that the lady in the tea store said she'd drank it a lot when she was studying either. No no.
This one's acted a bit strange on the ranking scale. I got a small can of it from mom when I moved, but it took a long time for me to use it up. My main memory from that can was that I thought the smell of that tea was quite awful. And I didn't particularly fancy the taste either. I'm not sure why though, because I've had it more recently and found nothing at all wrong with it. Perhaps I put in the wrong amount of tea to the amount of water or something, we'll never know for sure.
When I found this in the list I knew I'd had to try it. I mean, mint and chocolate and tea, what a great combination it is! The smell is just perfect too, it really smells like After Eight or some other chocolate mint candy. The taste couldn't live up to the hype though, it really doesn't taste much at all. Not bad, just no real taste.
30/6 2003
Finished the last of my chocolate mint tea today. Interestingly, I found the two last pots a lot more tasty than all the other ones. I don't know what I did, perhaps I never left the leaves in long enough before. In any case, the tea can be a lot nicer than I thought before. Still not that special though.
After chocolate mint the turn came to this one, and this time the experiment was a hit. The lady in the store said it was a good tea if you wanted something sweet and I agree. Tastes a bit like some toffee candy and is very round and filling in taste (Note: I don't know a thing about describing tea tastes and feelings, so I just made that up from words that work on wines (which I don't know much (if anything) about either)). Yummy!
7/9 2003
If you're really in the mood for something sweet and well rounded, Irish cream works wonderfully with a nice helping of milk or cream in it.
Oranges, cinnamon and stuff. All those smells that remind you of Christmas. I liked it, Bonnie didn't, so it's a solid zero on average ... This tea has a big plus in not going bitter or otherwise more unpleasant as it cools down, it remains just as easy to drink as the temperature drops. This, in combination with Henrik agreeing with me, should bring the score into the positive again.
Henrik thought this tasted apple pie, and perhaps so. That's certainly not a bad thing, I really like the taste of this one, and the bits of apple are great too.