Twinings

Makes a great Iced-Tea..

This is the first non-earl grey tea ive tried and i was pleasantly surprised. It features the balanced flavour Ive grown accustomed to in Twinings. It offers a medium yet full bodied taste. I think this tea is a great morning tea as many here have stated. It would do well on the go with a bagel or a full breakfast as opposed to coffee. But could also be enjoyed in the evening after a long days work.

Sushi and a solid green tea on a Saturday night . Can’t really say more I mean it had a strong more consistant taste than other greens I’ve had before. It didn’t really smell too strong but it did smell good. Can’t go wrong with green tea and sushi , just a stellar combination, these japenese people are so smart.

Twinings special darjeeling.
This tea is a fresh and sweet flavor, a bit of astringency.
It is delicious tea with sufficient balance.

Enjoyed a cup of Earl Grey this afternoon. I like to keep the tea ball in the cup as I drink it so that by the time I get to the bottom of the cup the tea is especially bitter. Brings back memories of 8 AM chemistry lectures.

backlogging from last night.

This tea is unremarkable, and muddy in flavor and texture. I added 2 lumps sugar and a splash of milk, which just muddied it more. It was drinkable, but not one I plan to repeat. It actually made me appreciate the Red & White fusion from Stash that I logged the other day much more – that was clean, brisk, and velvety by comparison. The Twinings cup just made me wish I was drinking the Stash again instead!

(decaf) wanted tea w/ breakfast, didn’t want to think about it. Probably should have had full caff, but I save that for my hubby. My box of decaf is a throwback to when I didn’t drink much regular black tea b/c the caffeine seemed to affect me very strongly. I seem to be over that now.

got this in a swap on http://swap-bot.com/

Very nice – I love that it’s just black tea and pomegranate, without any hibiscus! Most fruit flavoured Twinings blends all come out purple-red and tasting the same. This has the juicy sweet-tart flavor of pomegranate and the expected natural red-brown color. A nice relaxing fruit tea.

I’d never tried Darjeeling tea before, but I’ve wanted to for a while, so when I saw this on the shelf at the grocery, I had to pick it up. I figured that I could count on Twinings for my first Darjeeling experience, as this company has never let me down before. I found it a little bitter with just sweetener, but I really enjoyed it once I’d added a bit of milk. I’m so glad I picked this one up!

This was an impulse buy the other day. I’ve been craving Lapsang for a while now and saw this at the store. Score!
Very much enjoyed this smokey tea :)

Apparently I’ve discovered my love of Irish breakfast tea, and this one isn’t too bad, and gets the job done. Good with just milk, I don’t need to add sweetener.

Nice to find a local Bob Evans that serves a selection of Twinings instead of food-service-grade stuff. This was nice, even though the metal carafe couldn’t keep the water hot as I would have liked. Nice balance between the black and the “juicy fruit filling.”

Earl Grey tea is, without a doubt, my favorite tea. To drink a good cup of Earl Grey is to experience nothing short of full body euphoria as smell, taste and texture combine to create an experience tea drinkers long for. It’s because of this I almost take personal offense at Twinings lumbering attempt at capturing the taste of a great tea.

I’ll go on record as saying I generally despise everything Twinings produces and that I rate their tea products right up there at the lofty heights alongside cask wine, instant coffee and sweaty gym socks.

I’ve given them a 15 due to the fact that they’ve at least shown effort and offer different blends rather than sinking to the lows of Lipton’s nameless blend of swill. However if the site was capable of listing negative scores, this would get a 0 allowing Lipton, Tetley’s and friends to dwell in the negatives.

Good plain black tea. Nothing special, but still good.

The best thing about having to boil water on the stove because I don’t have a working french press is that it gives me an excuse to clean the kitchen while I wait. I didn’t have enough milk to turn this into chai this morning, so it is just a regular cup of tea with some milk. It isn’t as delicious as it was yesterday, but it is still warm, cozy, comforting, and gets me ready for the day.

Sometimes, you just want and need a really good cup of chai. I love making my own since I get to control the spices even if the only spices I have are cinnamon and clove. Using whole milk also makes me feel super decadent since I normally use 2%.

This blend brings in such a nice malty caramel note that I don’t quite understand why I never thought of using this tea as a base for my chai before. Luckily, making a single serving takes about ten minutes or less, so I was able to make and drink this before running off to work.

Last bag of my box! I’m excited to be finishing up teas. I’m not sure if I would buy this again because I found a tea that I like drinking in the morning better. But it is good. I just think I’m tired of it.

Hot with a drop of soy milk.

I haven’t been liking this tea very much lately, so I decided to do something different. I brewed it for three minutes and just put a splash of soy milk in it instead of brewing it for five minutes and trying to drown it with soy milk.

It tasted better. It still woke me up fast, but instead of being a “kick in the face” it was more like a “roughly shake you awake while yelling in your ear”. Much nicer.

I decided to do something different with my Irish Breakfast today. I used two tea-bags and brewed it up strong. Then I added my very vanilla soy milk. What do I get? A milk tea that still tastes like Irish Breakfast with the creamy milky goodness with a hint of vanilla. Good for relaxing in the afternoon before my second work shift.

Edit: Ok, apparently I have a massive sweet tooth today. Drank half of my cup then added a full tablespoon of honey to the other half. I’m spoiling myself today apparently.

I woke up late today, but I didn’t want to give up breakfast. So I managed to brew and drink this tea in less than 10 minutes. I think I brewed it weaker, but I put a bit of coffee creamer in it to both cool it down and make it smoother.

Since I am consistently adding stuff to this tea to make it drinkable to me, I’m going to bump it down a couple of notches. It could just be that I don’t like the taste of assam compared to the gentler ceylon.

Hot with milk. Best way to start the morning: a nice tea that can stand up to unsweetened soy milk and a friend to talk to.

Work was really busy today so I decided to have a pick-up tea for lunch. I really like having this tea around when I need the extra caffeine kick. Hot with a splash of soy milk.

Hot with milk. Still yummy. I had to drink some more tea to get me off of my must-have-more-chocolate-mate withdraw that I was having from my last cup of tea. And it is such a nice way to end a meal.