Brand: Lupicia
Type: Black
Brew Time & Temperature: 2 minutes, boiling
Leaf Appearance: Small, broken up brown and black leaves (BOP)
Color: Dark reddish-brown, clear
Smell: Chocolate, earthy, honey-like, for some reason also little soap-like
Recommended with/as: As is, milk, sweetener
Rating: 9/10
Tasting notes and thoughts:
This is actually a pretty enjoyable black tea. It's strong, has a very nice aroma, and a robust taste to boot. It starts off mainly earthy and malty, with dark chocolate or coffee-like undertones (which add a tiny bit of natural sweetness), and ends with a bit of a savory, brothy aftertaste. The malty and chocolate taste lingers long after drinking. There is some astringency and it makes the throat and mouth a little bit dry, but not so much that the tea is completely unenjoyable- I think it actually helps with the strong taste, a bit. Overall, a pretty good black tea- it's great with milk and honey too! I actually think this is the first tea I've had in a long time that I've tried with milk, and I enjoyed it both ways. Make sure you drink this one hot though, because for some reason when this tea is cold, it tastes like metal.
Other notes:
Nothing much, really. AP bio essay went decently (note to self: practice writing free responses), and every other class wasn't very notable. The FISH/Christian club had a speaker talk about gay marriage and apparently there's a shitstorm at my school now, since the GSA is crying oppression and threatening to go to the administration (even though the speaker was talking about equality in general). Pretty much my stance on it is that the GSA is overreacting- the FISH club simply wanted to state their views (and are in every right to do so), and the GSA's response is that the FISH club can't have these views. People weren't forced to go and it was all optional, but I'm pretty sure a ton of people went just to create drama. The thing is that there are bigger things to worry about right now- especially Nepal and Baltimore, and judging by response is that no one really cares. There will always be homophobic Christians (or really just people) who refuse to see any other way, and there will always be LGBT rights activists who refuse to accept that people can have different views than their own. There are people out there in Nepal who are in dire need of help and dying (there is literally 1 person who is holding a fundraiser to raise money), and people at my school just want to cause drama. Man, I don't get why people can't understand that everyone has a right to their own opinion and that their actions can have consequences.
Next on the 100 Days of Tea: Framboise
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