Hoot, Char is out sick. It appears if you are a tea blogger, you need a sense of smell and taste to write about teas. With it now being the first of April, we need to get a tea blog post up. With that said, the Tea Owls will be doing a tea blend and review, hoot!
At the last Tea Owl union meeting, we discussed and voted on our favorite teas, flavors and blend options to create the ultimate tea blend! Our exceptional owl tastes will create the ultimate tea blend and we will rise from being tea cup warmers and tea blogging models to selling teas! With those extra profits, we can eat prime rib every week!
Assemble the tea blending ingredients, hoot!
It’s Oolong Owl, so you need oolong in the special tea owl blend!
We are adding some ripe loose pu’er too. Tea Owls like pu’er. For pu’er, people either love it, want to love it or don’t know what pu’er is. Well now you know, hoot. Drink pu’er!
We decided to add some red rooibos in there. It’ll act as cheap filler plus with all the other tastiness going on no one will notice the yucky wood chip flavor. We also added a dragon black pearl – a signature owl tea that looks like owl pellets!
Now on to the flavoring – fresh strawberry, chocolate chips, coconut and pecan! YUM! Hoot, who didn’t clean the tea table!
Pistachio was another flavor we wanted to add, so in goes some Pistachio matcha!
And our final, secret (not so secret now) ingredient – PRIME RIB RUB! HOOT! Tea Owls love Prime Rib!
The dry leaf looks so pretty, hoot! White coconut adds great contrast to the red berries and dark leaf! Look at the glistening prime rib rub!
Time to introduce the water – 200F here.
Hoot Steep Hoot! 4 minutes!
After 4 minutes the tea is a murky dark color. Do not despair, the cloudy color is from the chocolate chips.
Served up, it lightens to an apple cider shade, with smells of sweet chocolate, fruit, creamy and savory.
Time to taste!
Tasting of the Tea Owl Blend
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…Eww, hoot! The Tea Owl special blend doesn’t work! I think it’s the coconut strawberry as it added a weird watery tart cream flavor over the savory mix of mushroomy pu’er, prime rib and chocolate. We did a good call to steep this over a tea table as you can owl barf it down the grating.
Hmm, maybe the second infusion will be better, wanna try? Hoot? I guess not.
Have a good April 1st! HOOT HOOT!
