Latest posts tagged with #DSNTeaLab on Bluesky
Had some elderberries set aside in an Oops Bowl and on a whim I threw half of them into my Second Coffee (Peace Coffee's Blue Ox) this morning and...
... as I just took my first sip, walking down the hallway, I cackled, profaned happily and expressed that it had worked, so...
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I've mentioned that I was definitely going to add light roast coffee to the ingredients list...
... in pursuit of that, I am seeking input on what I should add to it.
(Starting from Peace Coffee's Morning Glory.)
Options in thread. A like is a vote.
(reskeets appreciated)
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If you're tried The Light of Pixies is Their Own, this is the foundation tea used to make it.
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Should my DSN test today be a french roast or my first ever taste of a light roast (called morning glory)?
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(...maybe that hashtag should just become #DSNLab ...or something. Having another one of those "not enough caffeine to boot up proper" days.)
Reskeets appreciated.
And. Oops.
#DSNTeaLab #TeaOfTheMonthClub
One of the names in play for the Tea of the Month for December 2025 was "Not Today, Fascism" and... it didn't make the cut because I went another direction with it, but I think this is one of those cases where I have a name that needs a tea.
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A chaotic looking blend of pieces of freezedried strawberry, the blossoms and root of dandelion (including fluff), and bits of clover flower.
This one also starts with Hope Defiant, and then continues with bits of several stubborn plants.
11-556-B, #DSNTeaLab
11-556A.
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Yeah. I can work with that.
In the same general taste range as Calendula, though definitely its own thing. And lends much more sweet - which surprised me a little.
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...I got fixated on a particular tea idea. That required adding something to the toolbox.
So now I have to wait for the new thing to arrive.
*grumble-sighs*
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What do you think stubbornness tastes like?
Or spite?
Or sheer grit?
(reskeets appreciated)
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Hate it when I make a test cup of something and discover that I really would have rather made a pot.
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Loosely tea related:
What are you hoping for from 2026?
What are you expecting from it?
(Reskeets appreciated.)
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...I wanted a green tea chai tonight, and was originally thinking The Smoking Gnu.
...but I didn't have any of that out.
So, I figured I'd chance putting the right spices in with Hope Defiant and...
...now that combination is going to need a name.
#DSNTeaLab #DSNTeaNaming
And now I am confronted with a blender-of-things dilemma.
Do I test the new tool for making coffee, or do I have a cup of the newly batch-sized Tybalt's Trust?
#DSNTeaLab #BlendingDay
I am really tempted to run a test of a Raj tea today.
(I have a tin that was used to make the test Court of Dreaming cats with the backup jin xuan, so it has to be used for a Court tea and...)
I probably shouldn't. But very tempting.
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I really need to get around to testing mustard seed for tea.
(Made some neat flavour combinations on my pancakes right now and a couple of them drove that point home.)
#NotTooWeird #DSNTeaLab
But even without that test right now, I'm fairly certain this is going to work.
Which means it needs a page.
(And yes, this is Daye related, for those of you who might be curious.)
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Cornflower and calendula petals crisscrossed and through leaves of second flush Darjeeling blues and yellows and browns and almost purples, with fragments of pink cranberries to accentuate the chaos.
My prompt for this one:
"Discombobulated, in need of chill"
"Blue and yellow and purple and pink (?) (or not?)"
(Little Alice. Little Cheshire. Whole lot of this month has been a lot.)
(Darjeeling, cranberries, calendula, cornflower)
Almost lavender, but that felt a little Godzilla.
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oops.
*tired*
Looks like I will get two new chais released next week.
Both are takes on smoky and orange.
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10-514 (Earl Grey with Coconut and Vanilla) has finally advanced to the naming poll stage in the Discord server.
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#DSNTeaLab so I can find it later.
(currently looking for something.)
I wonder if I could work up something citrus and coffee to fill a similar spot as Taliesin's for when throat is crunchy and goo and one still needs to speak.
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Are there flavours other than the plethora of mints that taste/evoke cold to you?
#DSNTeaLab #TooMuchDaye
(Reskeets appreciated)
What do you think whispers would taste of?
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(There's now a third court, and I think I may have decided on how their teas will be made, but it leaves me with things to decide on.)
I wonder if I can combine peppermint and rose in a way that would work? Or do I need to test peppermint and spearmint aside and see which one tastes colder?
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I ran some vanilla tests (powder vs chopped up beans) a bit back, and it left me with two tins that must be used for Lapsang and Vanilla (to start, doesn't have to stay with just the two.)
I also have some oops bowl vanilla from last Tea Day.
Which means can/should/want to play.
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I do not have blackberry left. I thought I had just enough to test something for me and the TOTM club.
Sadness.
This frustration has led to testing a cup of into the dark woods (roasted kukicha and lapsang) with blackberry leaf and cacao shells and a little cardamom, as a stopgap.
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