Hello tea frens! So I recently made myself a tea cupboard spreadsheet (hooray!). Now that I can easily sort my teas by age and see which ones I have and haven’t tried, I decided to try every tea that I haven’t yet, oldest first. And this would be the oldest untried tea that I have! I’m not sure why this one never got tried, I think I missed it somehow. No matter, I will try it now! The leaves are huge and puffy, and they look more similar to a black tea than a white one. The color is half dark grey/brown and half golden. They smell of hay and malt with a touch of honey.
The steeped tea smells remarkably similar to a pure bud Yunnan tea. There are notes of bread and honey, and also that subtle savoriness that I associate with Yunnan teas. Wow, this tea… Another reason to be sad that Butiki is going out of business. It actually reminds me of a Darjeeling, but much lighter. It has that muscatel quality about it, plus a surprisingly milk chocolate note along with bread and honey. There’s a super sweet aftertaste, almost as if there was licorice root in here. What a unique and lovely tea! :)
Flavors: Bread, Chocolate, Creamy, Floral, Hay, Honey, Muscatel
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I recently made a tea spreadsheet, and it’s so helpful. It’s like I’m rediscovering my cupboard!
Nice job on the spreadsheet! I made one earlier this year but keep abandoning it haha.
I’m the type of person who really likes to organize random things, so I had fun doing it. :D
Wow that sounds like a huge job.
Actually it didn’t take too terribly long Marz, but that’s because my Steepster cupboard is always kept infallibly accurate. The part that look the longest was looking up the prices and converting them to the same format (price per 25g).
I should make a spread sheet. I also love organizing random things, and my Steepster cupboard is unreliable, as teas keep randomly disappearing from it :|
Yes! Tea spreadsheets are awesome. :) I like the idea of including price. Hmm. I might have to add a column.
Price definitely factors into my decision of whether to (re)purchase or not, so I figured it needed to be there! Even if it is a pain to look it up… :P
I recently made a tea spreadsheet, and it’s so helpful. It’s like I’m rediscovering my cupboard!
Nice job on the spreadsheet! I made one earlier this year but keep abandoning it haha.
I’m the type of person who really likes to organize random things, so I had fun doing it. :D
Wow that sounds like a huge job.
Actually it didn’t take too terribly long Marz, but that’s because my Steepster cupboard is always kept infallibly accurate. The part that look the longest was looking up the prices and converting them to the same format (price per 25g).
I should make a spread sheet. I also love organizing random things, and my Steepster cupboard is unreliable, as teas keep randomly disappearing from it :|
Yes! Tea spreadsheets are awesome. :) I like the idea of including price. Hmm. I might have to add a column.
Price definitely factors into my decision of whether to (re)purchase or not, so I figured it needed to be there! Even if it is a pain to look it up… :P