Jillian

Ewww, steeping this with a strainer instead of a teaball means that there’s a thick layer of muddy-looking ‘debris’ at the bottom of my mug.

I tried steeping it for 3 min and it came out rather weak-tasting. I give up, this tea just isn’t working for me. Hmph.

I steeped this for less time than before (4 min) and now I can taste the green tea a little better.

looks at the ingredients list Apparently there’s also supposed to be lemongrass in here somewhere, although I can’t taste it.

Drank this with milk this morning.

This is nice and refreshing for when I’m studying in the evening without giving me a huge caffein jolt.

Specifically Tea had to order this in from their supplier, The Tea Center, because they don’t keep it in stock.

This tea smells and tastes and lot smokier than I was expecting given that it’s a blended tea. It wasn’t bad but it smelled like it would be almost on par with some straight Lapsang Souchongs I’ve seen. The addition of skim milk dampened down the BBQ flavour somewhat, so it still made an enjoyable morning cuppa.

The flavoured rooibos wasn’t too tart like I find certain blends are, and there was the distinct but not over-powering sweet-almond taste of marzipan present. It makes a great evening cuppa.

No bad, though the green tea is rather hard to taste. The ginger isn’t as overpowering as I feared it would be and the lemongrass adds a nice accent to it.

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Forgot to log this tea last night.

Urgh, tastes like watery Five Alive – isn’t there supposed to be tea in this somewhere??? Unfortunately it was a choice between this and Pepsi so I took the lesser of two evils.

I re-steeped the leaves from this morning (5.5 minutes, no milk). This cup came out a bit weaker than the first, but considering the strength of the flavours in this tea, that wasn’t really detrimental.

I tried it with milk this morning and I don’t think it added anything to to the tea, if anything it looses much of it’s subtleties. Still not tasting any pepper.

:)

Stepped 3.5 minutes. This is rather on the robust side for a white tea but I think that’s mostly because of the leaf grade used. I still enjoyed it.

I’ve come to the sad conclusion that this tea, while decent on its own, doesn’t compare to Adagio’s Thai Chai.

Wow, just adding about a teaspoon (or less, I didn’t exactly measure) of wildflower honey really brings out the natural sweet, honey flavour of this tea.

Still awesome! ;)

Drank this at Zack’s Coffee Shop. Nicely balanced spices and not too sweet.

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Steeped for 4 min in boiling water. Not minding the baked flavour as much but this still isn’t my favorite formosa oolong.

This ‘whole leaf’ tea isn’t very whole – the leaves look pretty torn up. The flavour is…interesting. Light for a black tea but the muscatel flavour may be a bit too much to take without milk and it makes the tea quite….sharp (for lack of a better word).

All in all I’m pretty ambivalent towards this tea, I’ll have to try it with milk and see if that improves things.

It smelled lovely but the taste left a lot to be desired. It was quite bitter for a Ceylon so I had to add milk to make it drinkable. It’s flavoured with something that sort of vaguely tastes like maple syrup, but is more strangely synthetic than anything else.

This Canadian is not impressed.

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