Teavana

Decided on EB for breakfast this morning. This Teavana blend is nice, but not as strong as River Shannon which I prefer. I can taste the assam in this blend and it will wake you up.

Nice tea for early afternoon, keeps me awake and alert. Its a nice blend of teas and I can smell the assam. Its really a mild EB tea.

This is a nice tea to wake up to in the morning. Its brisk and robust and goes well with a little splenda. Not my favorite, but is not bad.

A very nice english breakfast. Wakes me up in the morning.

Very nice breakfast tea, I really like it a lot.

This is a brisk tasty tea. I steeped longer to bring out the assam and it surely did. This is a more robust tea than my normal Keemun and I like it much better. I add 1/4 tsp of splenda to breakfast blends. It has a brown amber color to it and you can smell the assam. This tea has a kick to it when steeped longer than 3 min. No bitterness or astringency and I like it.

I don’t usually backlog, but I’ve been watching basketball most of the day. This assam is starting to grow on me a little. I started using a little more leaf and it started tasting better. Much more brisk and robust. It even has that assam taste. Nice.

Only assam in the cupboard right now, waiting for an order due Monday. This is an ok assam, nothing great but it does the job. I don’t get enough assam tea taste from this one.
This is a very pretty tea but taste is what makes the grade.

This is a nice assam but not spectacular. I used 1 and 1/2 tsp for 12 oz of boiling water. I never pay any attention to teavana’s directions as they never work for me. I guess my taste is different than theirs. I like my assam strong, and while their assam is pretty, its not a hearty assam for my tastes. There is not enough maltiness for me. I do like it but its not at the top of my list.

This is a very nice assam. While its not the best I have had, its still very good and tasty. There is no bitterness and it still has a malty taste. I tried the directions from Teavana, 205 for 3 minutes. Its just not strong enough for an assam. It tasted like tea water. I have to steep from 4 to 5 minutes with boiling water to get the effect that I like.

This is the first Teavana tea that I have liked so far. I was prepared when I went in with what I wanted as I really don’t like the pushy clerks they have there. But I do like Assam tea and this is a very nice Assam. Its amber in color and has that distinctive assam smell and taste. The malty taste was there also. It wasn’t bitter at all and had just a little bit of astringency. I have had much better assam teas, but this one was nice.

You have to like Jasmine tea to like this one. It’s a nice oolong with a mild Jasmine scent. The smell before brewed is much stronger and I always have to convince myself to brew this one, but once I do, I’m not disappointed.

I had just enough of this for one last cup! A friend of mine may give me the rest of hers, but that will depend upon her remembering. :P

Logging this from Monday, ’cuz I was laaaaaazy.

Tried this iced at work again. Steeped two huge scoops in 16 oz of water for about 15 mins. (I wanted it to get stronger than last time, but I left the lid off to cool, so I added a few mins onto the time to account for the water not being so hot the whole time.) I let it cool a bit more, and then I poured it over ice (in a 24 oz cup), mixed it a bit so it was cold, added about 5 pumps of vanilla syrup, and then about an inch of soy milk on top. (Yeah, an inch really isn’t a proper measurement, haha, but that’s how much room I left for it in the cup.)

It got perfect! :D I will definitely be making it that way every Monday when I work in the cafe. :P

And I’m upping my rating, because I really do like this tea quite a bit! :)

Okay, so first of all, the steeper mug from Golden Moon is NOT good with rooibos/mate/other small-leaf things. Ewwww. Unfortunately, I don’t have any paper filters with me, so I will have to deal.

And my verdict is that this is tasty warm as well (though I could have brewed it stronger than I did). :) It’s got chocolate (though not very pronounced) and spiciness and nuttiness. Mmm. Not something I would want to have everyday, but it’s enjoyable! Muuuuuuuch more so than MateVana on its own, which was blech.

Logging this from yesterday.

I got Rooibos Chai to blend with the MateVana I couldn’t stand drinking on its own. I was considering trying the Rooibos Chai on its own, but it smells a lot like Haute Chocolate, so I was like, “:shrug: I’ll just dump it in with the rest of my MateVana.” After combining it, the combo did smell quite good, I gotta say. (On its own, the MateVana smelled good, but I just couldn’t drink it alone. It fell flat, or something. I don’t even know. But I didn’t like it.)

So I tried this combo for the first time yesterday. Usually, I like drinking my teas hot with no additives, but I was working at the cafe yesterday, which gets pretty warm, so I prefer drinking iced. So I brewed this up reeeeally strong in hot water for 10 mins, then added some vanilla syrup and soy milk and poured it over ice. I probably should’ve let it cool off a bit before doing that, because I think it would have been a stronger base for adding soy milk, but it turned out pretty all right!

I like the spice and the depth that the chai adds to the MateVana. I think it’s that depth that the MateVana is missing, imo.

It would probably taste better with milk rather than soy, but milk and I aren’t very good friends. But next time, I’ll let the tea cool before pouring it over ice, and see how that works out. Even though I made it strong, I want to see how it works when it keeps that strength.

I also want to try it hot, which I think I will do right now… so I apologize in advance for the double log. :P