DaisyChubb

We have a home!
An amazing place that is empty but gorgeous, and we’re slowly filling it (very sloooowly).
I am sitting at my cheap cheap dining table, the only seating in the house, and celebrating with this delicious cup of Vanilla Comoro, brewed to perfection with my.. wait for it..

variable temp kettle! eeee!

It’s gooorgeous baby. You can change the temperature by degree, so I brewed the first cup at 175 because I find this tea to be a little finicky in the bitter department sometimes. It was perfect, vanilla, sweet just lovely! Did a second cup at boiling (212) and it was just as good.

So yes! Happiness! Happiness and tea!

I’ve been drinking this for days while we’re on the road. Not by choice mind you. This is the 8th day I’ve had a cough that feels like my throat is being ripped out. Went to the emergency room when we drove through Ottawa and sadly it’s just a virus that I have to ride out. So this abomination of a tea it is!

Please note that I tried to make a tea in the hotel, and it tasted like coffee water due to the water being boiled in a coffee machine of course.

Cherry on top? We’re going to Halifax tomorrow… and the guy who was going to sublet us his apartment had “something come up” so he needs his apartment back. So we’re homeless! Yay!

Not quite, we have 4 days (3 really) until April 1st to try to get a Halifax apt, meanwhile we can sleep on my boyfriend’s sister’s floor. So… it could be worse, right?

Had to come on Steepster and read tea reviews to calm myself down, so far so good. Thanks for being awesome, Steepsteriends.

Finally got to try this one! Very exciting, I know I hate the Hib but everyone seems to love this tea so I had to try it!
I got it made or me in the store and iced with a bit of agave.

mmmm it’s coool. Pink grapefruit for sure! I get the hibiscus flavour but it really works with and for this tea. I would have almost steeped it longer to be honest, it tasted a little watery. So when I buy this tea for the summer months, I will be generous with the leaf and not so generous with the steep time and I think it’ll come out just right.

Yum!

Oooh I am not with everyone on my opinion of this “tea”.
I sipped at 5 minutes, it tasted like I had poured hot water on a bag of sweetened coconut. I let it steep for a full 10 minutes and it tasted the exact same.
I ate a mulberry after, ugh, just not good. Not for me. Do not want.

So next time I go to swap, someone gets a very expensive bag of mulberries haha.

This is a great tea, thank you Joe Cook!
Sooo much flavour, I get the peppery note. I made 2 cups straight and resteeped 2 tablespoons for milk and sugar. It holds up very well to additions, and I would have it either way. I’m not sure which way I prefer.

Anyways, this is a bold but very smooth tea (no astringency that I can find), I think I would stick to having it in the morning, as there is something about it that reminds me of a breakfast tea. The cocoa note is almost smoky. Very delicious. Thank you!

Love Tea #7 double steeped low fat vanilla soy latte GO!
mmmm it’s goood.

Man this tea is so perfectly blended. I had to bump up the rating. The chocolate is sweet and delicious, the strawberry comes out mostly in the scent (except when coldbrewed) and the rose is just right.

Perfection!

This tea is hitting the high mark today.

I’m out of it, but my (almost) mother in law stocked up the other day so I get to indulge. I am having such a stressful time here! I hate loathe dislike and despise phoning strangers. Of course, I have to phone a lot of strangers in Halifax today to try to get an apartment. So far it’s proved fruitless, but adding more phone numbers to my list doesn’t give me hope, it stresses me out.

Anyways, thank you Read My Lips, for always being an awesome cup of tea no matter what I do to you.

Here goes nothing!

4:10 am. Can’t sleep!
Would nearly kill for some of this.

Ohh maaaan youguys!
So I’m visiting my mom, and I used up the rest of this for a pot for us to share. Well she went to work (she works 3 jobs) at it was 9 pm… and I drank the rest of the pot. It was SO FREAKING GOOD. I haven’t made a pot of tea this good in a long long time!

And of course, I was up until 4 am.

She described it as a “tea OD”. At 3:30 am, soo tired but so pumped, I would have to agree. Beware the tea overdose! Daggg I am addicted.

This was a very unique tea! Thank you MadelineAlyce, you totally catered to my love of the tropical and for that, you are awesome!

I was expecting a stronger hit from the assam in the blend, (and in the name), but it was fairly mellow. The liquor was light gold and very fruity. I’m a lemongrass fan so I tasted that more than the assam – crazy! Oh, I should mention that I’m grateful for that. Assam can punch me in the face sometimes, and with the nature of this blend I think it’s appropriately blended!

I enjoyed it, but there’s just something about Teavana teas and their smell. Maybe I’m crazy, and I don’t know what it is, but all the ones I’ve tried have this strange.. off putting smell to them. It doesn’t taste like the smell though, so I’m down with that.

Grateful to try the sample, thanks MA!

And now… to cold brew. Surprised? haha :3

wow this post was surprisingly good natured, seeing as I had a stressful awful day applying for apartments across the Country. _

Thanks again to MadelineAlyce for swapping with me!

Wow this one is brisk. I’ve been using that work a lot lately, but I keep picking strong morning teas I guess haha. I made this this morning on my LASTDAYOFWORK, ahhh. It was an awesome way to get through the day!

The mate bits are a lot smaller than I expected! So after a messy time with my strainer thing, I just used a tea-sac for the rest of it. Problem solved. :)

It brew up a little murky, but it was just the mate getting naughty with the water. Delicious chocolate flavour, and the SMELL – ahh I would choose this over coffee any day, but to be honest even the taste reminded me of a flavoured coffee! Not a bad thing at all.

The chicory proved a little too strong for me to try this one again, but I greatly enjoyed the 3 cups+resteeps I had with this tea. Thanks!!

I like it!
Thank you Mad Alyce (may I call you Mad Alyce? I thought it was fitting for our tea party :D )

thankyouthankyou! I just recieved swap package #2 and was too intrigued with this tea. It totally tastes like potato. I get an aftertaste of sweet potato fries :D

I added some thick cream and a little sugar to sweeten it up, and the marshmallow came out. Delightful.

It’s quite brisk for a ceylon (?) – I probably shouldn’t have drank it this late at night. Eep. Oh well, only 2 more days of work left and then I’m FREEEEEeeeee

THANK YOU Joe Cook!!
This is my all time FAVORITE RoT team, and my very first loose leaf from the company! This one was an amazing choice, right up my alley, and I am loving it.

The ginger is much spicier in the loose leaf and the peach is lip smacking good. I only have enough for one more cup, and I’ll be saving it for a very special occasion. ee! Thanks!

Alright folks, I’m back! For a small amount of time. But enough time to enjoy my swap package from Joe Cook!! Thank you so much Joe for all the generous samples!

I chose Golden Monkey to try first because it’s 1:33 pm and this tea is speaking to me yo.

Piping hot, it’s very malty and has a “sundried” taste to it, that’s how I would describe it! A little bit of honey goodness, plus bold, full flavour. As it cools down, I get this kind of tomato-y taste that I’m not really digging, but it passes right away and slips into malty goodness.
So I’m not quite sure what the “tomato” part is – I had the same experience with Utopia Tea’s Cocoa Mate, so maybe it’s a cocoa sort of flavour that my tastebuds are misinterpreting!

Either way, this is a great morning/mid afternoon/any time tea when I need a kick in the butt with some sweet flavour notes too! Thank you Joe!

(Man it was hard to write this review; my boyfriend’s band is in the adjacent room rehearsing for their very last show tonight ; 3; )

Getting sick of being sick.
And sick of this tea.
BECAUSE : I’m drinking 10 cups a day.

But it’s worth it.

Okay I swears on the precious that I rated this one already…

The first cup I had of it – pure awesome. Vanilla, orange, the currant mmm it was just like the picture on the website – unicorns and rainbows!

BUTTHEN – I had a second cup. Bwaaa all I can taste is bubblegum. Sad face. It’s still a tasty tea, but I won’t be stocking up.

Did a very short steep after reading the reviews – I didn’t taste the bad stuff yay!
It certianly wasn’t my favorite though. Almost a c… cardboardy quality to it, but it was still enjoyable and I didn’t have to dump it!

Actually, I know this will only be helpful to a select few, but if you are one of the people who LOVE DavidsTea’s Carrot Cake, this tea is for you! Blending them would be a neat experiment… but I’m getting almost an identical flavour profile for the base.

Very very interesting. Anyways, it’s up in my swap now! So if you’re interested, check out the swap thread!

Wow I didn’t even know there was hibiscus in this!

Honestly, it tastes like I’m drinking a cup of hot lemon and honey :D Well, I added the honey. But this is a kick butt cup of herbal bagged tea, especially to soothe a sore throat. Courtesy of my mother-in-law’s tea stash. Yum!

I’m using these cool things called Honey Beads. They dissolve instantly in hot water, they’re pretty much dry honey! Brilliant. I got them for Christmas from some Toronto friends and they are awesome.

I digress! I’m having a swap!
Check out my post in the Swap thread, and if you can get a package out by Monday the 13th, let’s do this babeh.

http://steepster.com/discuss/641-swaps-lets-swap-some-tea?page=15

And with this chilly day, I bid Toasty Almond adieu.
Ah! Too hot. so hopefully I didn’t burn all my tastebuds away, but man it’s cold in the boyfriend’s parents basement!
Not a lot of time, as usual, but just wanted to pop by again!

I’m not too sad to see this tea go, however it does fill a certain niche in my tea cupboard that isn’t filled by anything else. A sweet, nutty, donut-like tisane full of win. Any suggestions?

It’s so hard to search for this tea.
ANYWAYS I miss you guys. I’m sick.
We moved out of our old apartment and into my boyfriend’s parents basement (classy I know) right when they were bedridden with sickness.
So now I’m drinking a huge glass of this, hoping for the best, and dreaming sweet Halifax dreams.

I got my Teavana order in the mail. All of them smell kind of.. not delicious, but whatever, for 1-3 bucks it was worth the try! Maybe they will taste awesome.. but first, the sample!

First of all, it smells delicious! I brewed up 2 teaspoons in a medium sized mug, took the rock sugar out of the strainer and put it in the bottom of my cup – I wanted to get the full sweetness, I was in the mood! Steeped for a short 2 minutes.

It was actually quite tasty! Nothing particularly unique or spectacular, but orangey and sweet. I think this would make an amazing iced tea, but I would never fork out the cash to actually purchase it, so we’ll see how far my sample takes me.

I’m with the masses, not the biggest Teavana fan, but thank you for this sample! It might be the tastiest part of my order!

Holy yum.

This is creamy banana amazing goodness. mmm just sweet enough. I ate one of the dehydrated bananas and it tasted like one of those banana marshmallows, but the tea itself was very real. Like a banana-bread flavour… no. More like a vanilla smoothie with a fresh banana blended in!

srsly.

So the leaf grade is not as high quality as David’s Milk Oolong, it comes out a tiny bit more chopped up, but I still got a quality 3 steeps out of 1 1/4 teaspoons in a 12 ounce cup. The third steep lost most banana flavour, but was still creamy oolong goodness and no bitterness.

Winning!

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting much.

Coconut, raspberry black. Meh. I can imagine.

But wow. The dry smell is POW, a punch, right in the kisser! The tea itself smells just as strong, like this awesome raspberry coconut confection… decadent and .. wow. Took my breath away haha.

Love! Can’t wait to try it iced!

Tastes like the sea.
I’ve been obsessed with trying this tea to get me well, obsessed with my move to Halifax. And it’s working.

Honestly, the dry smell really intrigues me. Fresh, salty, seaweed and fresh cut MINT.

The taste is like a Nori snack. The tea itself is salty. Like a.. well.. splash. of ocean water. in your mouf.
But it’s not unpleasant! It’s strangely refreshing. But.. not light. It’s a heavy tea. Er, not heavy. In the midground. Something is weighing it down so it’s not as light as many minty or green teas can be. Truly a unique experience, and not something I could drink every day, but reminiscent of sittin’ on the dock of bay n_-