Love Letter 2.0

Notes on the Adaptation:

Let's be honest. There are way better teas now that TFA sweet tea. Enter SSA Black Tea. It's a recent addition to my stash and I wanted to update this recipe immediately after I single flavor tested it. It's a good dry black tea with a nice creamy mouth feel. So right away I knew I could replace the Sweet Tea with it and and 4% the FLV cream is no longer needed. I did supplement it a touch with FLV Black Tea just because it's really basey and I wanted the little bit of top note you get from FLV.

Lastly (and you can leave this part out if you wish) I added a touch of sandalwood with FLV Wood Spice. The nuance of complexity that flavor provides is top notch and leaves very little to desired.

FLV Chai Spice is reeeeally fucking good. It's my favorite of the new flavors.

So Chai Spice Latte's are something that's really special to me. Kitty and my first Christmas together we tried Samurai Chai tea from teavana and we absolutely loved it. So it's become a tradition in our 15 years together to get Samurai Chai every holiday season and enjoy it together. Sadly teavana is no more.

Luckily there's FLV Chai Spice, cardamom, cinnamon, glove and ginger oh yeah this stuff is amazing. It takes the center stage here at 3% you get a really nice spice note for the TPA Sweet Tea. Sweet Tea is so good but it's really weak, I'd recommend picking up at least a 30 ML because it goes fast. Now the thing that make's Samurai what it is is the little bits of orange peel, when the Samurai steeps that orange blooms, it bitter and floral and the perfect compliment to the Chai. I used FA Bergamot here for the sour orange flavor and it's perfect. It sits right in behind the Chai giving it that nice little bit of tart Orange.

Lastly, because this is a latter we need some creamy mouth feel. FLV Cream is nice and thick with a little bit of that spice, pairs up really nicely with the Chai and 2% VT Coffee Milk froth for that foamy buttery goodness on top.

This recipe is really great and I hope you get a chance to try it out!

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