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Friday Afternoon : Chocolate Earl Grey

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 So the first tea of 2025 is an Earl Grey.

This should surprise no one.

 

I will be honest, after my experience with the Spice and Tea Exchange’s Chocolate Black Tea, I was not that hopeful about the taste of another chocolate tea.

That being said, I’m glad that I was proven wrong about this one. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will be adding this one to my list of ones I need to have on hand year round.

If you would like to try it for yourself, it can be purchased here.

As always, I do not get paid for these reviews. i do them simply because I want to.

Lavender Earl Grey Tea

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Today’s tea is a subtle earl grey from Friday Afternoon Teas.

This is part of their Signature House Collection.

I promise I have other brands of tea, I’m just on a fixation at the moment. Also, I am not getting paid for any of these endorsements.

I’ve made no secret about the fact that i am, absolutely, an Earl Grey Tea kind of girl. I’m also not a big fan of lavender in tea, as most of the time I find is very overwhelming.

This time however, I was pleasantly surprised. The lavender is there, but it is very, very subtle. I enjoyed this tea, alot. So much so that I forgot that I should be writing down my thoughts on this as I was drinking it and ended up making a 2nd cup.

I do plan on getting the largest bag of it that they have available.

Friday Afternoon Tea : Northwest Rainforest

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I do have a large amount of Friday Afternoon Teas in my collection…but I promise that other brands will be viewed soon.

 

Today’s tea is called Northwest Rainforest.  I have never been in the Northwest long enough to experience their version of a rainforest, so I honestly can’t tell you what I think it should taste like. Friday Afternoon Tea is based in Seattle, so they have a lot more experience with that region of the world that I do.

Unlike the last one, this particular blend is available year round and is part of their Signature House Blend Collection.

 

This particular blend is slightly more citrusy than I expected..atleast until I actually looked at the ingredient list. It only has 3 ingredients, Yerba Mate, Honey Granules, and Hibiscus. Hibiscus is one of those planets that gives off a very citrus-like taste and smell. This is a hibiscus tea. If you are not a fan of hibiscus tea, this is not the tea for you.

I spent my formative years in South Florida, we had a hibiscus tree in the front yard, and an orange tree in the backyard.

The taste does mellow out some as the tea cools, but it’s not unpleasant. I will say it is a good tea for an early fall day here in Virginia.

I will also add, that because this is a loose leaf tea with honey granules, I strong recommend using a tea bag over a tea strainer, unless you’re ok with tea particles in you tea as you drink it.

Friday Afternoon Tea : Derpy Hooves

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Back with another Friday Afternoon Tea.

If you haven’t tried them yet, I highly recommend you do so. If you need the link, here’s the one for their home page.

 

This particular tea is part of their My Little Pony collection. It is only available during the summer months, so at the time on this being published, it is not available.

 

Ingredient wise, it has the usual black tea and bergamot oil, but it also has white tea and marigold. I will be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this tea.

I find it to be a very, very subtle earl gray in taste. The taste also doesn’t diminish as it gets cold, which I appreciate.

This one is definitely going on my “Need to Order More” list.

 

I will be adding some fall/winter teas to the blog soon.

 

Tea: Slut 4 Orange.

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Drinking tea at work today.

The fact that Orange is among my top 5 favorite flavors has nothing to do with this completely unbiased review.

If you want an orange flavored tea that has just a hint of black tea, I highly recommend this one. I do plan on getting this one again in a bigger quantity than a sample size.

It almost reminds me of pekoe tea, but with a much richer flavor profile. That said, the orange flavor is not overpowering at all but rather on the tasteful side of subtle.

The gold luster in the tea is an awesome touch. My co-workers (all guys today), weren’t sure how to react to the sparkles in the tea. I found their reactions to it quite funny.

As for the name of the tea, Friday Afternoon Tea, has an entire line of Slut 4 line. It’s all different fruits, some of which I’m not a fan of, but then I’ve never had them in liquid form, so this should be interesting.

White Silk Earl Grey

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Here’s another tea from Friday Afternoon Tea.

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect with this one. It only has 3 ingredients.

The description says it’s a smooth and delicate Earl Grey. I found it to be tangy, though not unpleasant.

Would I buy this again? Probably not, but I would recommend to others that I know would prefer this flavor profile.

This is made with a white tea so it does not have the bite of a typical Earl Gray tea.

Per usual, I did not add anything to the tea.

Today’s Tea : Happy Place

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Today’s tea is also from Friday Afternoon Tea. It is part of their Spring and Summer collection.

I wanted something other than an Earl Grey for today’s tea. This particular blend is fruity and uses white tea as is base, rather than a black or green tea as is more common. It does contain 30mg of caffeine per cup.

It has a creamy taste, which I expect with a white tea. The fruit choices in this tea give a nice subtle taste to the tea. I was honestly expecting the pineapple to be overpowering, but the other fruit choices balance it out nicely.

I did actually manage to finish this tea before it got cold, which doesn’t happen very often.

 

As is standard, all my tea opinions are based on the tea with just water. I do not add sugar or milk to tea before I drink it the first time.

 

 

Double Cream Earl Grey

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This Double Cream Earl Grey tea is a Friday Afternoon Tea, and they also have a brick and mortar location in Seattle, Washington.

I bought 4  of their sample boxes so that I could try a few of their new teas, as the ones before this in my collection are a couple of years old.

This tea, the Double Cream Earl Grey, comes from their Earls Grey collection. I have 8 samples from this collection.

I went with this one today because I wanted tea, but I didn’t want a breakfast-strength (deep flavor) tea.

This tea, definitely fit the bill for what I was looking for.

It is very mellow, and not strong on the bergamot flavoring that most Earl Grey teas have. The blue cornflower and cream flavorings are much more enjoyable that I anticipated them being.

I will admit that I let it get cold, but even then, the taste didn’t disappoint.

This one is definitely going on my list to order more of.