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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

52Teas Loose Leaf Black Tea 'Heath® Bar Chocolate Toffee'

Tea Information:
Tea: Heath® Bar Chocolate Toffee
Type: Black Tea
Packaging: Loose Leaf
Company: 52Teas
Purchase: Here
Description: Chocolate Toffee Tea! What could be better?

…Chocolate Toffee Tea with real bits of Heath® bars in it! Oh and some organic cacao nibs to make it even more chocolatey!

Not much more to say about this one, but mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Ingredients: Premium black teas, heath candy bar bits, organic cacao nibs, natural flavors

Steep Information:
Amount: 1 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 1 zarafina cup filtered water
Tool: Zarafina black-loose-medium
Served: Hot

Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: toffee, chocolate, tea
Steeped Tea Smell: not much, put my nose in it i get sweet black tea
Flavor: weak, black tea
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: sweet, toffee
Liquor: translucent orange-brown

Perhaps I should have done strong instead of medium?

Post-Steep Additives: none, should have added some sweetener but this was sip taste, CHUG and run to work

Resteep: Zarafina black-loose-strong
weak, bitter, astringent black tea, chugged it luckily

Hopefully it's better next time

Rating: 1/4 leaves


Leaf system:
1=Bleh! not again if it were free
2=Acceptable, if it were free or there were limited other tea options
3=I might purchase this tea from time to time, or select it while out
4=A staple in our cupboard from now on, I will purchase and keep purchasing





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