{"id":541,"date":"2018-10-26T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/?p=541"},"modified":"2018-10-26T13:36:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T13:36:37","slug":"sweetwater-vanilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/2018\/10\/26\/sweetwater-vanilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweetwater Vanilla"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>3.5&nbsp; \/ 5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my favorite teas to warm up with on those first fall Michigan&nbsp;days. the vanilla really takes over flavor-wise &#8211; but in a good way. It smells a bit like sugar cookies once it&#8217;s brewed. The Ceylon&nbsp;tea is &#8220;High Grown&#8221; which supposedly is the best quality. It&#8217;s hard to tell a difference because the vanilla is so strong. It does have almost no bitterness which is what allows the vanilla to shine so I can see why they chose it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing these reviews that last few weeks I&#8217;m realizing how much I tend to gravitate toward Ceylon tea, I&#8217;ve always known I enjoyed it, but it&#8217;s interesting that so many of my favorites over the past few years use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tea Leaves: Sweet vanilla aroma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Region: Unknown (Likely Sri Lanka)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brewing: 3-5 minutes @ 212\u00ba F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purchased:<a href=\"https:\/\/teaandspice.com\/black-tea\/256-sweetwater-vanilla.html\"> Great Lakes Tea and Spice<\/a> \u2013 $16.95 for 3.5oz*<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3.5&nbsp; \/ 5 One of my favorite teas to warm up with on those first fall Michigan&nbsp;days. the vanilla really takes over flavor-wise &#8211; but in a good way. It smells a bit like sugar cookies once it&#8217;s brewed. The Ceylon&nbsp;tea is &#8220;High Grown&#8221; which supposedly is the best quality. It&#8217;s hard to tell a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-tea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sweetwater_vanilla.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakonf-8J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}