Steeping
I’ve enjoyed several great steeps but here’s one to highlight. Additionally, I finished one book this week. It was a good one so I’ll work on a review to share this weekend. More tea than books but that’s OK, live a little…
For the next five weeks, I’m collaborating with August Uncommon, a tea company with some uncommon blends. Steeping is underway and so far I haven’t been disappointed. Something uncommon in the month of August. Yes please!
From August 3 – September 12, 2020 use the code BYTHECUP for 20% off your tea purchase. I will be featuring teas from their Top Ten Iced Tea Kit using the Iced Tea Brewer. Of course some pours will be #courTEAsy of my tea pots because they get lonely & I miss them.
The Steep: Big Easy is a green tea blend full of surprises. I’ve heard people say SO MANY TIMES that they don’t like green tea because of its bitter taste. More than likely it’s bitter because you used boiling water which is a BIG NO NO! But I digress…
This blend contains pineapple and caramel with lemongrass and german barley malt (say what now) and some other ingredients. I’m trying but can’t come up with better tasting notes than the package
ππ°πππ΄π π»πΈπΊπ΄ : πππππππππ ππππ, πππππππ πππππππ, πππππ πππππ ππππ
π΅π΄π΄π»π π»πΈπΊπ΄ : π πππ£π’ ππππππ πππππππ πππ π΅πππππ πππππππ ππ π½ππ πΎππππππ
I steeped and repeated 2 more times. I’m going to use imagination, but enjoy the #realiTEA of all this goodness in liquid form. Also feels like a book set in New Orleans would be a perfect pairing. I’ve downloaded A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton because it’s set in βyou guess itβNew Orleans!
Book I finished
After reading Clap When You Land I remembered I had Silver Sparrow on my shelf. Silver Sparrow is about two Black girls growing up in Atlanta in the 1980s. Dana, knows her father James, is a bigamist, living with his first familyβwife Laverne and daughter Chaurisse, the same age as Dana. There’s a lot to unpack but let’s just sum it up with this. It was way better (IMO) than An American Marriage which I DNF’ed. I couldn’t put this one down and am looking forward to other books by Jones (I’ll check my library’s electronic catalog).
And that’s a wrap this week! What have you been steeping and reading?
Books By the Cup 
Doesn’t green tea also get quite bitter if you let it steep too long? I believe I’ve had green tea that was good at first and then terrible 30 minutes later when I poured more out of the tea pot.
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Green tea should be prepared at a lower water temperature (around 175F) for about 2-3 minutes. Since this was a flavored tea, the package said 4 minutes and it was just fine.
When you steep the tea take it out after the alloted steep time or else it just keeps steeping.
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