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FINALLY I found what I did with this tea. I got enough for about 3 cups as a sample when I went to TeaGschwendner, and I stowed it away in my laptop bag, not to see it for 2 months.

This is really good, easy to just sip away. The apricot and pineapple go together really well, it doesn’t really take me to Hawaii but it’s nice and fruity. I think I will use the rest to make some iced tea, because I think it might even be better cold.

Thank you to Melanie for some of this tea, I don’t have much strawberry flavored teas and I’m on a strawberry kick right now (I didn’t get to buy any in Florida, so ashamed).

I think I may have oversteeped it a bit but it’s still good. It’s not an intensely flavored tea, which is nice. The strawberry is definitely in the aftertaste, but it tastes like a sweet, juicy strawberry.

It’s very easy to drink quickly. Of course, I probably dehydrated myself mainly over the past 2 days so everything tastes wonderful going down.

1600 miles, 2 hockey games, a sunburn, and a little over 4 days later, I am finally home, and I returned to a bunch of tea that I will get started drinking shortly!

..except I just saw lightning out my window so I may just hide in bed. Cool story: the arena in Tampa has tesla coils and that was WAY awesome. I am sick of lightning right now though because of it, hahaha.

So because I am dead tired I wanted a quick iced tea, with what little ice popped out of my icemaker when I remembered to turn it back on. Never has pizza delivery been so wonderful than after you just drove 8 hours alone.

It’s hitting the spot, since I never had enough time to make myself any tea on my trip. I have missed drinking it so much, especially when I had to pay freakin’ $5 for a bottle of soda yesterday.

I can officially say now that this is a lot better as an iced tea to me.

Thank you silvermage2000 for giving me so much of this tea!

I cold steeped some for my trip and had it while I drove down to Fort Lauderdale yesterday morning. I was so tired and it really helped perk me up.

I really haven’t ever paid attention to apricots. I like how they smell, but I don’t think I have ever willfully eaten one. I mean, I live in Georgia, I would think I was eating a weird peach if I ever had one! And actually I know zero about apricots, I just learned they are very Mediterranean. No idea where I thought they were mostly grown.

But I do like apricot flavored things, and I enjoyed this a lot. I’ll give it a try hot at home!

I haven’t even been awake 12 hours, but I am about to pass out. I didn’t think driving was going to be that tiring! I was having a lot of fun.

I made a bunch of cold steeped iced teas for my journey, and after of course having Rainbow Sherbet, I pulled this one out of my cooler. I think this is the first time I cold steeped it and just left it as is, and it works out well. I think club soda would be even better for steeping but it works just fine.

It does still have just this fizzy feeling to it, not quite full cola, but it’s there. It’s weird! Now I am just going to fall asleep with my laptop on my stomach, hahaha and to think I still have 268 miles tomorrow AND a hockey game to go to…eeesh.

So one of my favorite cocktails ever is a French 75 – gin, lemon juice, simple syrup, and champagne. I always thought it would make an awesome flavored tea, so when I saw Ovation had free shipping I knew I had to make my own.

I thought maybe honeybush would be good to get the sweetness down but I decided that wasn’t important and went with green tea for a base. So it’s green tea, juniper berries, lemon verbena, lemon and orange peel, and champagne flavoring.

It of course doesn’t smell a thing like the drink because obviously I had to pick and choose parts of gin to have, and the lemon and orange peel come off strongly. Maybe I would leave out orange peel in the future but I didn’t feel like just juniper berries was enough for conveying “gin.”

It doesn’t quite taste like the drink, of course, but I love the idea of these flavor components working together in another way. The juniper berries give it a bite, but the citrus flavors reign it back in. It’s probably far too early to really get a good taste of the champagne flavoring working with everything else, but I think with a bit of time to meld, this is going to be really good. I just couldn’t help myself and had to give it a try now.

I really, really need to buy a whole bag of this sometime soon because I love it a lot. I’m glad it’s permanent so that I have time.

There’s just something awesome about how coconut and honeybush work together. I was getting cinnamon the first time I had this, which I figured was the honeybush, and this time around it’s just all around sweet.

Oh cheesecake teas, I love you.

I cannot stand right now. I’m leaving Saturday on a road trip and I have felt sick since Sunday, and so I took today to get some things done and ugh. Not helping when one thing you bought to give someone cost FIVE times more than you expected and now you really need to go return it today. I finally got myself to eat oatmeal thanks to the 52teas flavor of the week though, lol. My throat just hurts and I don’t get it. And oddly enough I learned that Finnish salmiakki, really helps…although it has a horrible aftertaste. Apparently the fact I even like the stuff is weird.

So yes…this tea. I wanted something easy right now so a sachet of this sounded perfect. I steeped it for just two minutes but it seems extra dark today. It’s still good, but I rarely ever have it hot now because it just tastes so good iced. But it has mint and lemon, which is what I was looking for right now. Since I have to go back out I will probably find myself something more soothing.

Thank you so much for some of this, SimplyJenW!

I gave up finishing the Hot Toboggan and moved on to something new. I really love this. Unlike the other fruit flavored oolong I got recently, this actually tastes like real pomegranate with oolong. It’s tart and sweet, and I can taste the tea base. I can’t wait to give it a second infusion later.

Finishing my sample up of this, hooray. My notices page is not working and it is driving me crazy. I know I get mad at the red notification for friend activity on Yelp so not being able to get rid of it on here is bothering me way more than you really think it should. I don’t know why red dots with numbers in them bother me so much since it’s pretty typical on the internet but argh!

I don’t like this much at all. It just doesn’t taste like tea. It doesn’t even taste like a tisane. At least for a cider, it’s not powder? Bright side I guess.

Nice to try but meh.

Revisiting this, definitely don’t care for it at all anymore…meh. I really want cake and this is not doing the trick.

Adagio’s base black tea for flavored teas and I do not get along. Once I pour milk and sugar in it, it’s more like cake but it’s a LOT more than I really ever want to add.

Finishing up the sample bag I bought. It was never in my cupboard on here but it’s the second thing I have removed from my spreadsheet in the past week! Progress!

I would definitely get this again, though. Still gets me that it tastes like white chocolate but there isn’t any present in the tea.

I figure I am drinking this…I got it a little over a year ago at a local tea shop, and it looks JUST like the picture, sounds JUST like the description, and I wouldn’t think a pink champagne tea is too common. The shop doesn’t carry this anymore, and I do like it a lot. The only thing that throws me off is like the massive difference in price, since I’m pretty sure I got this really cheap.

Champagne flavoring in tea is always a bit weird. The color of the brew even sort of looks like champagne. There’s a hint of raspberry, which adds to the floral white tea. I really don’t care for flavored white tea, but I still remember when I smelled this, I had to have it (so then I could obviously forget about it).

Thank you SimplyJenW for some of this tea! I figured it was the same as your honeybush so I just used that description on here.

I actually just ordered a custom blend from Ovation that is shipping out tomorrow so I am really excited. This tastes really good!

I love the sweetness that the caramel adds. It gives the aftertaste this supersweet chocolate taste. The pecan adds just the right amount of nuttiness.

This is something I would totally give to someone who hasn’t had much success before with rooibos. It’s the perfect base for this, it doesn’t take away from the flavor and adds a nice, subtle woody flavor to offset the sweetness.

This is still easily my favorite iced tea. It was also the first tea from 52teas I ever had.

I love how it tastes when cold steeped. First you think it’s just some straight black tea, but then, the sherbet hits. There’s a bit of a creamy vanilla flavor, and then usually I get raspberry lime, with an orange lime aftertaste. The lime is always there, and that’s totally okay with me.

The thing I love most about this tea is I hate actual sherbet, and this tea is infinitely better than the real stuff for me.

Ohhh it’s been so long since I’ve had this, and it made it even more enjoyable. Though now I’m sad I’ve not got too much of it left! I’ve found that steeping this until the chocolate chip(s) melt makes it so creamy. I thought it might get too minty from doing that, but it’s perfect.

I want this tea forever!

I decided to make this after my failed chai and it did not improve my mood (also ladybugs faking death on your nightstand doesn’t help). Opening the bag was like being hit with a raspberry, which is totally acceptable, because it smells amazing.

First steep: I steeped it for 3 minutes and it hardly tastes like oolong. It tastes like it’s trying but it’s just overwhelmingly raspberry, but not a good kind of flavor. Kind of artificial.

Second steep: Upped it to 4 minutes. SO MUCH BETTER. This is how I like a flavored oolong. The oolong is there, and the raspberry fits in much better now. It’s a green oolong, and I get more of a vegetal taste from it, not much in the way of floral notes, although they could just be hiding with the raspberry flavor.

I wish it tasted more like real raspberries, but considering I basically bought this for $2.50 I am not going to complain too much.

Ok I have tried so many times and I just can’t make this in any way that is truly drinkable for me. I don’t know how every time I manage to bring the smoke out more and more. Also, in trying to get honey out to sweeten it this time around, I was attacked by my container of corn syrup, so now I really hate this tea.

If anyone wants some, let me know, because I officially give up. I’d be happy to trade it for other things to try and LIKE. hahaha.

The more of this I drink, the more I love it. I wish I had bought another package of it last time I was at ZenTea. It makes such a good cold steeped tea.

I was trying to use it up so that I could put something new in the jar but I really just want to add to it! This is just so refreshing and it tastes so good. It’s just fruity enough, but the sencha still comes through. If anyone ever asked me for a recommendation from the tons of teas available in their store, I’d probably name this one off first.

No notes yet.

I found the rooibos! It is hardly there…so of course it’s not like it adds anything, typical of every rooibos blend I’ve ever gotten from Teavana except for the beloved Thai Tea Blend. Meh.

Cold steeping sadly did not do this tea justice. The green tea is gets lost, and it just tastes like tropical punch flavored water. I’m sad. I steeped it longer than I normally do so maybe if I cut down the time it won’t happen…it’s still good but it’s just hardly like an iced green tea now.

I am not in a good mood and I am watching a panda cam from China instead of writing up something on France’s healthcare system. Except all the pandas have vacated the area so now I guess I have to do that. It’s funny, when I started this class, I was mad he was going to spend so much time on healthcare and now I’m dead set on taking a straight out health economics class ASAP.

But anyway, what goes better with watching pandas in China than Chinese tea?

I don’t know what I did this time, but this tea tastes really sweet this time. I still get a lot of caramel. It’s how I imagine a black tea creme brûlée might taste if it was strongly infused with a black tea.

This is a nice rich flavor that is really saving my day from being a total bust right now.

I was worried this was going to be very grape, after some of the other reviews. When I poured water onto the leaves, it did have a grape aroma, but it subsided quickly. I kind of had a sniffing version of a double-take.

I added milk and sugar immediately, since milk & cookies really needed it, I figured it’d help here to get that cookie aspect out.

I don’t get much of the raisin, it does just come straight off like grape, maybe slightly raisin. It isn’t offputting though, because it’s soon followed by what does in fact taste like a cookie in liquid form.

It’s okay, but I’m not blown away by it. Then again I would never purposely choose oatmeal raisin cookies over chocolate chip!

I can’t decide if I want to finish this or hold onto it as long as possible, which has been awhile now.

I made this to try to drink while at school, but it stays so hot in my tumbler that only now, over 4 hours later, can I drink it.

It has kind of made it taste better, I think. I’m sure it’s probably from the rooibos escaping through the filter and sitting in there for so long, but it tastes more almondy and bolder than usual. Coconut is still there. And me, I’m still mad this is discontinued, because it’s creating this endless cycle of not wanting to use it, but wanting the jar for other teas now.