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Ahh everything loads just fine until I want to write a note today…figures.

I’ve been sipping on this all day after coldsteeping it for just about 24 hours. I still am kind of unsure how I feel about iced rooibos, but this is a step in the right direction. Definitely tastes like I’m sipping on a much lighter mango lassi!

My problem with iced rooibos is that it just gets too medicinal I think, I’m not sure if I’m right or completely confused by thinking that with this long of a steep it seemed less in-my-face than other ones. But, it might also just be how good this tea is. I can taste rooibos, but it mixes into the spicy tones of the cardamom. I didn’t add sugar because I wasn’t happy about having to leave before 8am this morning, but I still have half my bottle left and I’m curious to see how it tastes that way too, since it does seem like a little sweetener might bring out different flavors (of course obviously I read Stacy’s note on here too which is why I must try it).

Is anyone watching the transit of Venus? So cool! I wish I knew sooner than yesterday morning so I could have gotten some of those eclipse glasses, but at least I can see it online. NASA oddly enough has on someone from my university right now! I didn’t know there was even an astronomy program, although it looks like it might be graduate studies only and that’s why I had no idea.

I got a new bottle for taking tea along with me to summer classes, 28oz and it’s supposed to stay cold with this cold pack inside of it…didn’t really work yesterday and it wasn’t even hot outside.

So I filled it up with this yesterday, but I didn’t finish it so I’ve been working on it today too. I made it a bit weaker than last time, but it’s still really good. I almost want to try a different Darjeeling cold brewed since this one works so well, but for the price this seriously cannot be beat, even if it’s a blend.

If you’re looking for a good, cheap black tea for iced tea, this is definitely something to consider…one note though, you might never want to touch unsweet tea not made at home ever again. I may have gotten some earlier today while out and immediately tossed it because it just tasted gross after having this lovely tea.

Oh is this tea even serious right now.

6 oz iced Tropicalia + a splash of coconut milk creamer, topped off with coconut rum. Stir. Go to tea heaven.

So I thought this was going to cover the pineapple, but it tastes more like it was brought out even more. I don’t even know what else to say because this is just marvelous. The sip I had without any additions was good, but this is a whole different animal.

Here’s to me not drinking the entire pitcher today!

Made hot, poured over ice.

I am trying to get used to honeybush or rooibos teas iced. There’s just something weird about them for me. This seemed like a good first thing to try.

I think I’m going to have to either let this cool fully or cold steep it, because the honeybush really dominated here. I got a little sweet watermelon, but no blackberry. I’ve been letting it sit a bit longer just to see if that helps it, since I had forgotten to turn my ice maker back on yesterday, and all I’m really getting still is more watermelon.

I have no fear that the blackberry is hiding in there somewhere, and I will find it! These are two of my favorite fruits and I’ve never though to combine them before so with a little work I think I will really enjoy this.

As for honeybush iced, since this is the first time I’ve tried a cold honeybush, I think I can stand it a lot more than rooibos (which is weird, because I love hot rooibos).

I’m going to have to try this cold steeped soon. For a quick drink, I brewed it hot then poured over ice. It just didn’t seem to want to steep inside a t-sac. It’s turned out fine, but I was worried with how long it was taking it was going to get bitter.

Still a very awesome iced tea. Since I have so much of it, I will have to make plenty this summer. The fruit flavors seem to pop when it’s cold.

I wanted to try this, so I asked for a sample. I didn’t see the reviews beforehand, but figured I’d cold brew it only. I wanted to try it out solely for iced tea anyway. I was going with the quick iced tea room temp brewing method here since the leaves are so chopped up I figured it wouldn’t take too long. Instead, I took a 2 1/2 hour nap, so it turned out very well.

To me, it tastes like something I expect to get out of a soda machine, like in a can. The lemon is just a bit strong so it seems like that Lipton stuff. That’s not really a bad thing, because it’s not sweetened to death so it’s actually enjoyable. But I’d think if you don’t like lemon, this is not a tea for you…well, clearly.

I’m going to have to actually cold brew it overnight to see if that might help pull more of the base tea’s flavor out, if it has any more in it.

When I got the Golden Moon newsletter, I about lost it. I can make iced tea that quickly? Four minutes and ice, no heating water? This is too good to be true. I dropped two of these sachets in a cup, went outside to water my plants, came back in and added ice. I expected slightly tea flavored water, but it’s pretty good. Not as strong as when I cold brew, obviously, but still good enough to drink.

Of course it wasn’t even that hot outside because the humidity is incredibly low. But it still feels good to come back in and have a nice refreshing cup of iced tea. And now, I only have 2 sachets left which means another tea bites the dust soon, yay!

On my way home, I was thirsty so I stopped at a QT gas station for a quart of soda for $.69, horrible. But $.69 for that much fountain Coke Zero, count me in. The cups they have are so nice I can’t imagine throwing them away; it’s a nice sturdy plastic cup and blue lid, so I thought it would be perfect to reuse to make iced tea. I cold steeped 4 teaspoons of this overnight and am now enjoying it with my mall pretzel. I went to return pants for my mom and returned with lipstick, a candle, and a pretzel. Oops.

This is delicious without any additions. I thought I may need to add like a flavoring syrup for a bit of a punch, but no way. Definitely needs no sugar. It’s very refreshing, and I’m glad I got 125g of it because I can see myself going through the quart cup of this a day! I can taste both the Darjeeling and the Ceylon and they really make a great iced tea combined like this. Sometimes you just need an iced tea that isn’t flavored, and I think I found mine without really trying…of course it helped that they label it as an iced tea blend.

Yeah so my day did not get better, one of the professors in the econ department’s toddler was killed in the mall fire in Qatar. http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/child-killed-in-qatar-1449515.html I haven’t taken a class with her yet for longer than a month but she is really sweet and this is so sad to learn happened to her.

Anyway, I am finally home in Atlanta and there was plenty of tea waiting for me. I’ve just been dealing with making sure the plants on my patio look good. The flowers are looking horrible but new flowers would cost $2.50 so I’m not worried if they don’t make it. Now that I feel more settled in, it’s time to try some iced tea!

I brewed half a tablespoon in 4 oz of water and let it steep until I remembered it and strained it over ice. Wow! I was expecting to be disappointed by this, but I really wanted to try it. And I’m amazed at how good this tastes. It tastes purely of melons, both honeydew and watermelon.

It’s too bad it’s so bulky that it takes a lot to make one cup, but it’s soooo good. Now I wish I bought more than 50g already.

I love pineapple but ehhhh, even with a little sweetener, this is still kind of gross. Like someone put something really weird in some pineapple juice. It’s okay, it’s helped me feel like calming down since a shower didn’t do it. I’ll finish it off no problem, I wouldn’t seek this one out again.

I was hoping for something to put me in a better mood. I was supposed to get my new glasses Thursday. Supposedly now they are coming tomorrow, it took two calls for them to be like okay, tomorrow. But nobody told me the lab broke the frames and that has been the delay. I hate that my mom had to call about it too. Then I had to cry to someone at the student advisement center to let me take summer classes without going through all the advisement for summer. It worked, but ugh today has been a nightmare. I just want to go home.

Thanks for the sample, brandy3392!

Enjoying my last cup of this, I finished off the bag finally! I’m going to miss it for sure.

No notes yet.

Finally drinking the cold steep of the sachet from last night. I like it even more this way! It seems sweeter and even creamier now.

The green tea also seems a bit more complex with this, like ScottTeaMan commented on my note from last night, this stuff gets better the longer it steeps! If it wasn’t so horribly hot right now I’d love to give this another try with like a 5 minute steep hot, but I’m burning up at 10pm as is! Also not sure if after a day of steeping the sachet has any life left in it, so it’s probably for the best.

I may consider getting more of this in the future, if the future ever includes having way less tea. Yesterday my boyfriend told me I was going to live forever because of my tea drinking and I’ll probably need forever to get through everything.

I saw my parents had a K-cup of this stuff, so I made it. I’ve been trying to find a good way to get myself to fall asleep and stay asleep. I’ve been using Benadryl and it makes me groggy in the morning. I know they’re not gonna drink this so I made it. I fell asleep within 20 minutes of finishing it and stayed asleep until 9.

I can’t even remember the last time I didn’t repeatedly wake up during the night before this.

Needless to say I immediately got a box of the teabags this morning.

I’m not really fond of how it smells, but it’s very soothing, and relaxing, and actually helped me fall asleep. And I felt awesome this morning. In the future I’ll probably blend something up myself since I am growing a ton of mint, but for the time being, this stuff isn’t bad and does everything I hoped.

Also a bear “picks” the herbs so that won me over too.

Oh this is good. I cold steeped it overnight and I couldn’t wait for later in the day to try it out.

I love the new black tea base, I taste it first and foremost and I really like it. I’ll have to give it a try hot too. But I can taste the Darjeeling in there, and it does have a nice depth that the old base lacked.

And then after you’re like, this is really is a good blend of black teas…boom, your taste buds are hit with cotton candy flavors. And there’s really no other way to describe it. It’s like you just put some fluffy pink cotton candy in your mouth.

I’m going to wait a week or two more before I have it again, because if it’s this good now I can’t wait to taste it when the flavors have had a bit more time together first.

Thank you for sending me this sachet, Ian!

I’m having it hot first, and the sachet is now cold steeping in the fridge. I am trying that whole cool off with hot tea thing since I’ve not felt comfortable since running around playing with a neighbor’s dog. My dog did NOT like that but he doesn’t play at all anymore, unlike this puppy!

The smell reminds me of coconut lemongrass soup, sort of like Exotica did, but a bit creamier.

First I was kind of iffy about it, but as it’s cooled, I’m liking it a lot more. Lemongrass and ginger can be pretty overpowering, but the vanilla and coconut aren’t lost. It’s very refreshing, and I think it’ll be even better tomorrow iced!

Decided to have this iced with lunch. I didn’t think I would like it too much but I absolutely love it. I definitely would not drink it hot because of the tartness, but there’s so much going on that it doesn’t bother me.

I can actually even taste the mate. There’s an herbal taste to it that’s not all spearmint. And it’s very sweet and fruity all on its own. I taste blueberry, pineapple, raspberry, apple…I just wonder…if it’s called ACAI matetini, where on earth’s the acai?

But that would figure from Teavana, wouldn’t it.

My parents are in Tortola today on a cruise, and I asked them to bring me back coconut rum from somewhere if it’s super cheap. But even without any rum in this drink, I feel like I am on an island in the Caribbean too. Just wish I had the food of the cruise but that’s just because I’m lazy.

Thanks for sending me this in a swap, Tegan Fyretyde!

I’ve been wanting to try this for a bit but having so much tea doesn’t make that easy. So finally, I have a cup, yay.

This is okay, I’d rather have a second flush Darjeeling. This tastes a bit like one, but a bit more nuanced in flavors. It seems more fruity than the other ones I’ve sampled from Upton, but at the same time it doesn’t have the same bolder flavors I like in those.

It seems like the main difference is the astringency is very muted, at least in the first steep. I don’t like it enough to steep it again, I think. My mouth just hurts because I went to the dentist and got prodded all over the gums. Did you know it is possible to have a very strong lower lip muscle? Apparently I don’t suck at brushing my lower front teeth, it’s my lip being a jerk and pushing the toothbrush up.

And now hopefully this posts since when I look at Steepster and don’t want to post a note, it works just fine. When I want to post this, it’s taken forever.

Thanks for the sample of this, Krystaleyn!

I decided to cold steep this so I’d actually be okay with the tartness of it. I steeped it for well over a day because I completely forgot I hadn’t taken the T-sac out of there. No harm done! This is a nice combination of tart, sweet, and fruit flavors. I like what the lemon adds. It’s also in the tart territory, but because it’s citrus, it’s not as bad to me as hibiscus. I think this would be awesome mixed with lemonade because of the lemon.

Maybe it doesn’t even need lemonade.

I’m going to try the rest of it hot. In the future maybe I will get it to cold steep again, but it’s not a high priority right now, besides the fact I just ordered from DavidsTea and it shipped out today.

I decided to give this a try cold steeped first. It worked better than I expected!

I really love the combination of what really tastes like fermented grapes and black tea. It’s a lot easier to drink than red wine can be…actually I’m not a big fan of Merlot but I really love this.

I’ll give it a shot hot sometime, but I really like how it tastes iced. It might suit my tastes better iced because hot grape flavors and I aren’t too friendly.

I’ve been holding on to this sample to cold steep it. It’s perfect for cold steeping! It tastes and smells like pineapple at first, followed by a nice, smooth black base, and finishes off with apricot. I really like apricot in iced tea. There’s also just a bit of a flowery flavor in there too.

It’s sweet and tropical, and it is perfect to have to drink with spicy stir-fry. Still could taste all the fruit flavors, and cool my mouth off!

I actually didn’t realize I even had this hot before. Clearly it’s much better as iced tea since it was good, but apparently not very memorable.

My mom bought this, and she told me I was free to drink any tea here soooo I opened up her package of it. I’m not the biggest butterscotch fan, but I figured I’d give it a try since it’s apparently just going to sit around.

It’s pretty good, but not something I regret not ordering. Butterscotch just isn’t my favorite, which is weird, since it’s pretty much just caramel specifically made with brown sugar. I used to like it as a kid but now it’s not anything I’d probably ever pick.

It was worth a try though! I may give it another shot before the week is up, but I brought a ton of my own tea to drink too. I am so proud right now, I’ve got the dog eating dinner BOTH nights so far. Apparently when he was just here with my brother while my parents were gone for a couple days, he wouldn’t eat! Last night he didn’t eat until 12:50am but I am definitely hearing him chowing down now. So pleased.

Yesterday when I was driving up to my parents’ house, I passed a pick-up truck with a trailer. There was a sign on the back of the trailer that said “You’d be REAL STUPID to tailgate me! HONEYBEES” and I could not stop laughing for a good half mile.

I need something like mate this morning. My parents were leaving for a shuttle to the airport in Atlanta at 4am (they live 2 hours north of me, so it just seems funny I came up here and now they’re going down there) and it woke me up, and some bug was in my room and as I was trying to fall back asleep it like flew right at my ear.

And I have to take care of the dog and I’m sure he wants to go outside before a time I normally want to wake up, so now I’ve just stayed up.

This smells a lot like honey but it kind of weirds me out that there’s not actually any in here? Once it’s steeped it just seems very apparent that it’s just flavoring because it just doesn’t have the real complexities of honey. I didn’t like it while it was still pretty hot, as it’s cooled it’s gotten better.

I want to add honey but I feel that might make it taste too sweet for me. There’s just something slightly weird about how it tastes, but I’ll probably finish what I have and just consider it something I tried.

Feels so good to not return an empty bag into my cabinet! I used up the remainder of the bag to make iced tea. I’m finding it really doesn’t take that much overnight to get a good flavor for some things…I definitely only had enough for 5 cups but I filled my pitcher for 8. Flavor is as good as always.

It really does taste like a cold coconut macaroon. This time around I taste more of the raspberry and I’m not really liking how it combines with the coconut, oddly. I guess because you don’t really see coconut raspberry macaroons.

But, glad to have room now for some of those new summer teas from Davids…it’s driving me crazy I can’t order them for at least another week!