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73

Revisiting thanks to FrenchVanilla! :)

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73

Blueberry Flavored Teas make me happy…
This smells pretty nice.

It’s a light yellowish-green-brown color.

It’s certainly more green tea taste than blueberry flavoring. It’s not bad but I would love more blueberry…more cowbell…it’s ok tho.

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drank Pomegranate Green by Bentley's
557 tasting notes

Backlogging:

I made some of my own lazy tea eggs for my brother and me to have for a late lunch. I didn’t add any other spices and I only let it soak for about an hour. They were pretty good. You could taste the tea but it wasn’t overpowering. You could taste it more near the tips of the eggs too. This didn’t surprise me since I used a green tea instead of a black tea. I was expecting the tea taste to be weaker.

Lazy Tea Egg Recipe Link: http://justbento.com/handbook/johbisai/lazy-easy-tea-eggs

Preparation
6 min, 30 sec
Rabs

Thank you for the recipe! :)

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52
drank Pomegranate Green by Bentley's
557 tasting notes

There was enough water in the kettle after dinner for me to make another cup of tea. This time I grabbed my green tea. It was so much better than the multiple cups I have had before of it. The kettle had at least five minutes to cool off from the boiling point. It was probably closer to 180 than anything but I’m not sure about that. I wish I did because it would be easier to replicate the results.

The first sip from the steep was so sweet on the tip of my tongue. It makes me smile just to think of the taste. It was light and crisp and reminded me of dewdrops on grass. I settled down with it an Brisinger by Paolini and just enjoyed myself.

As it cooled I was able to taste the ending tartness that the pomegranate always provides. This is when I’m glad I have eaten a lot of pom seeds. I know what it tastes like. This time I didn’t even have to put any sweetener into my tea at all like I normally have to or else it would be a little bitter. This time every drop, even the ending sips of my glass, went down cool and sweet.

I think I am figuring out that different types of teas do have slightly different methods of brewing to get their unique flavor out. This means that I will be enjoying my cups of pomegranate tea much more than I was.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 4 min, 0 sec

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drank Pomegranate Green by Bentley's
557 tasting notes

I got this tea for Christmas a few years ago from my boyfriend’s mother. I love pomegranate and green tea so she got this for me. I like it hot and cold. I find it interesting to prepare because I always have the tart pom taste at the back of my throat when I get done.

This time I wanted to prepare it differently since it is cooler here but I didn’t want to drink another hot tea. I made a larger cup and steeped the tea with four tea bags. Then I filled up my blender with ice, squirted some agave into it, poured the tea over it, then blended it all together. It was pretty good like that. I still got that pom tang at the end but something tasted a little off.

So, when I finished I added a little bit of milk, some white sugar (I like my cold teas sweet), and a splash of vanilla extract. I blended that for a few seconds and that made all the difference. The milk brought more of a body to the blend so it wasn’t just iced tea with crushed up ice. The vanilla also smoothed out the tart punch at the end and added a little bit of flavor. And the sugar made it sweet enough for me.

I wouldn’t make this mixture very often but it tasted pretty good. It was almost like a smoothie for me. It made about 3 big mugs/glasses of drink and was cool. It would be good on a very hot day.

Preparation
190 °F / 87 °C 6 min, 15 sec

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74

If you aren’t crazy about green teas but want the healthy spectrum it offers, try this. The white tea reminds me of a mild oolong, nice. The blueberry in these tea bags is bigger in the nose than the taste. But the taste is there. Good light tea, I recommend this.

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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75

Good for a tea bag. Peach comes through but doesn’t over power the tea. Ginger is faint.

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80

The orange flavor predominates over the cranberry. Yet the rooibos stands out over both added flavors. Nice, enjoyable cup to unwind with.

Preparation
7 min, 0 sec

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82

A favorite rooibos for me. The vanilla expands the natural flavor of rooibos. Good!

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71
drank Pomegranate by Bentley's
25 tasting notes

nice tea with interesting fruit flavor, maybe its pomegrante but who knows. feels kinda artificial fruit flavor but deffinatly enjoyable. Good iced. The tea is better flavored than most flavored teas and not quite as dominted. Nice dark tea with good caffine boost. For the very low price, worth it

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 15 sec

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drank Earl Grey Green by Bentley's
2891 tasting notes

I’m not much of an Earl Grey fan, so my palate isn’t educated enough to know whether the bergamot flavor is spot-on or not. What I do know is that this tea has a lovely fresh-cut-flower smell and a mild lemony taste that overrides any “green” tones. Nice!

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 30 sec

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drank Minty Mint Green Tea by Bentley's
2891 tasting notes

This tin of “office” teabags has had a hard life, more than 2 years old and a storm survivor to boot. And even with that said, it’s a pretty fair bagged green when you’re light on the temp and time.

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drank Minty Mint Green Tea by Bentley's
2891 tasting notes

..and an amendment/addition to this one…still pretty tasty when you get sidetracked and it goes lukewarm on your desk. A good sign it’ll ice down well.

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drank Minty Mint Green Tea by Bentley's
2891 tasting notes

A reversal of my review of another Bentley’s tea (pomegranate). This one doesn’t smell very impressive—-kind of woody and stemmy, but it’s surprisnig pleasant. Candy cane sort of mint.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 2 min, 30 sec

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drank Pomegranate Green by Bentley's
2891 tasting notes

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drank Pomegranate Green by Bentley's
2891 tasting notes

I think I’ve finally mastered this one: make sure water is nowhere near close to boiling and barely let the bag get wet. No bitterness this time around and the pomegranate is nice and fragrant.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 1 min, 30 sec

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drank Pomegranate Green by Bentley's
2891 tasting notes

Better as an iced sun tea, I believe, than hot. (But boy, am I looking forward to temps that don’t require cold stuff all the time!)

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drank Pomegranate Green by Bentley's
2891 tasting notes

…48 bags to get it right…still came out bitter, but then I’m working with a work microwave and multiple interruptions. Bitter again, but bearable on ice.

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drank Pomegranate Green by Bentley's
2891 tasting notes

Co-worker surprised me with a 3-tin pack of Bentley’s green teas; this was my first test run. Nice fruity aroma, but I think I left the bag in too long; the green went bitter on me. C’est la vie…I have 49 more bags to get it right.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 3 min, 30 sec

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drank Mango by Bentley's
126 tasting notes

From my Christmas sampler pack.
Mangoey, in smell and taste. Kind of like real mango, but also like dried mango. Maybe closer to the dried mango side. Light colored tea, the green tea is not showing through a lot. It’s smooth though, very mellow green. It’s good, kind of like that mango coconut tea from Stash. Sweet enough on it’s own.

Peggie Bennett

Finished this off this weekend, iced. Tastier that way.

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74
drank Raspberry by Bentley's
7 tasting notes

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drank Raspberry by Bentley's
7 tasting notes

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second attempt and half strength!
still bad… it’s no where near as strong… (obviously) but the lighter flavors reveals more of the soapy weird sweet taste I was getting before. So i’m thinking it was better strong because the soapiness couldn’t come out through the overbearing jasmine thickness.
Geeez… Again the warmth of the tea can cover up some of it’s flaws so should you ever NEED to drink this (I think I know what my personal hell would be) drink it hot.
At least hell is hot… that will spare me the cold down after taste ickiness.

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 2 min, 30 sec

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oohhh god… well I’m trying to give this company a shot… but they keep messing it up.
brewed at normal strength it’s way too strong. The mouth feel is excessively heavy and the perfume is waaaaaaaaay too strong. The nose is also oddly sweet… oddly … weirdly… sickeningly sweet.
I’ll try this half strength…
Also this has the same curse as all bentley’s… DO NOT LET THIS GET COLD… IT’S HORRIBLE COLD.
bad.. very very bad cold.
shudder

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 2 min, 30 sec

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