Friday Afternoon Tea
Frog Friend
Frog Friend
This blend is inspired by Stardew Valley. Check out the entire delicious collection here!
"Oh hey, do you like walking in the rain at night too? That's cool. I come out here to smoke and look into the night, you know? There's something about the darkness and the damp that really speaks to my soul. I can tell you get it. At least someone understands me."
-Sebastian
Ingredients: Green yaupon holly, blue pea flower, black tea, ginkgo, clove, pine smoke
Approximately 75mg of caffeine per cup
Steep at 195° F or 90.5°C for 3-5 min
Blend by Narah
This blend is available 12/1-3/3 in our Winter fandom rotation!
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The first thing that struck me was the color of this tea, the most perfect shade of blue-green because of the blue pea flower. The second was the smell, it smells like a campfire and my wife said it smells like a really good BBQ joint and I was a bit worried the tea would taste like accidentally inhaling smoke from a campfire but nope, it's absent in the taste entirely - either not there at all or drowned out by other flavors. Between the color and the taste, it's a perfect rendition of the character in tea form and I love it!
This tea is the most beautiful shade of purple-blue (I guess I am trying to say indigo, lol). It has a really nice flavor and is easy sipping. I even let it go cold on accident, it was still good cold!
Right from the start, as everything floats up in the infuser, there's a watery vibe as I poke things down and it's all soft and water-weedy. The pea-flower purple is deep and rich. First time trying a Yaupon blend, so I'm not sure which note is the holly. The clove stands out at first (mostly because I love clove). But everything else is very well blended into a slightly mineral, faintly smokey cup that leaves the edge of my tongue tingling with clove. Kept me going all afternoon halfway through this dragging, time-change week.