Green Tea

This must be a really forgiving tea. After the first surgery (yeh, I didn’t know they did it in two stages and thought I was all through) I went back to the waiting room to await lab results. I got distracted and forgot to take the bag out of the cup. Oh my goodness, that was one DARK cup of green tea. I sipped it apprehensively. Not bad! Again, this isn’t a tea with nuance, but it was very serviceable and I enjoyed it.

Turns out they made a nickel sized hole in my face, and they had to do a graft to cover it. I still made it to Pottery Barn and Teavana afterward, though! And made a new tea friend in Teavana and invited him to join steepster! So it was a nice day after all and now I have a chocolate shake, made for me by youngest.

It can’t always be tea, right? :)

I asked for un-rusted tea tins for Christmas from the “grannies;” my Mema thoughtfully filled a small one up with a couple of assortment packs of Bigelow bagged greens and herbals. Good for work.

This is just the good solid canned peas cupboard staple of bagged green teas. Vegetal, not real sweet, not real finicky on water temperature.

Backlogging from this afternoon. Basic green bagged tea pretty much thrown into water of an unknown amount (but probably around 8oz) from an unknown source heated at an unknown temperature. Had this @ ihop with my… New York cheese cake pancakes!!! I almost flipped when I saw them on the menu. Last time I went they were only a special promotion. I hope 52teas comes out w/ more cheesecake flavored teas to celebrate the WONDERFUL decision to make them a permanent item. But in the mean time, any suggestions on what kind of tea to pair w/ these? Because I’m definitely going back soon:) If they come out w/ a cheesecake flavored matcha, I just might have to take my matcha bowl w/ me;)

Part of the sampler from Bigelow that I’m still working my way through. I left two bags at home to use in Chloe, and brought one to work. I’ll wait to rate until I’ve had it brewed at the proper temperature, but with the water from the HotShot, it’s pretty good. Better than I was expecting, since I’m not a huge fan of unflavored green teas. Grassy and buttery are the descriptions that come to mind for this.

Very meh hot but it works really well for sun tea. I use 3 bags plus one of whatever lemon or jasmine green tea that is on hand. 4 hours is plenty in the hot Louisiana summer sun.

Visited my parents yesterday for the 4th of July. After dinner I was craving a cuppa something, so I looked in their very small ‘tea basket’. I found the same three boxes of bagged tea that are always in there that nobody drinks except me (that I don’t even like that much) and then I found this one lone bag of Bigelow green. Someone must have picked it up at some luncheon somewhere and brought it home for the next time I visited? Nobody was able to identify the origin of this lone tea bag.

Anyway, not knowing the best steep time, I brewed it up in a clear mug and went by color. It looked about right after about 1.5 minutes. It was okay. Nothing mind-blowing. It wasn’t bitter and it satisfied my craving. I even went for a second steep and it tasted all right! It was slightly drying to the palate, a little flat, but it was a good, simple after dinner tea. I might even drop the $1.50 for a box of this at the grocery store so I can put it in my parents’ tea basket for when I come over.

Like a lot of people who have posted notes about this tea, I’m having this at work because loose leaf isn’t really an option and I need a little pick-me-up. I quite like it. No, it doesn’t have a complex flavor profile or a lot of depth, but it’s a nice basic vegetal green tea. I oversteep a bit so the bitterness adds a little oomph. This is serviceable.

Okay, this isn’t the best green tea in the world, but it’s far from being the worst.
Green teas have an Earthy taste. Get over it or move on. This tea is mild compared to most. Lightly sweeten it & you should enjoy it.
Easy for a quick cuppa green when you can’t brew the loose leaf stuff.

My backup bags. I drink it when I have no money, have no shame, and/or have no time.

It’s drinkable, actually kind of pleasant. It’s a really boring tea, but it’s readily available wherever I go, and all you need to do is microwave a cup of water and plop it in.

The tea is quite a brown color, and it doesn’t taste very green so to say, it tastes a bit on the black side. If I had to compare it to something, maybe like a hojicha. It’s nice after a big meal, if you’re too lazy to make anything fancy.

Tastes like how dried grass smells but less refreshing and sweet. There’s barely flavor. I see why green tea isn’t more popular if this is the stuff people drink and think is green tea. blech. I think that if this was my first green tea, I wouldn’t be the tea drinker I am today.

Like a lot of other reviewers have mentioned I found this tea to be quite bland. It’s not the best green tea yet it is not the worst. I am not a huge green tea fan but unlike some others I was able to down 2 or so cups of this. Very basic but it is not something that I would personally grab if there were other options.

Just your standard run-of-the-mill green tea in a tea bag, really! It does the trick if you’re wanting some green tea on the go or whatever.

When I forget to bring tea from home, sometimes I find myself perusing the tea bags available to drink at my workplace. This is the one option for green tea. A lot of people say that they just don’t like green tea, and since this one is on the better end of the spectrum for the cheap bagged green teas widely available in grocery stores, I can understand why.

It’s a serviceable tea, not actively unpleasant. I drink it mindlessly if I’m desperate for a green tea fix, but sometimes I think I’d be better off drinking water. The flavor is a run of the mill vegetal green tea, but flat, dull. A dried grass sort of flavor, with little nuance, but none of the offensively fishy flavors that I get out of lesser bagged green teas. As long as I keep the steeping time short (the bag recommends 2-3 minutes, but I pull it out just shy of 2) I can avoid the dirty/stale/bitter flavor that comes out when it’s oversteeped.

Very mediocre. I couldn’t get my regular sencha today, so this had to do, but it’s really unspectacular.

This is nothing more then a a simple cup of green tea. I drink this too at work. I am not pleased of it , but it is better then the other teas we have as a selection at work. The liquor has a nice color as the taste is a little bit bland.

Fairly dreadful. If you want to have green tea that tastes like a cardboard box, start here.

This is a good bagged green tea for work. I haven’t had it get bitter on me, but I only steep it for a minute, so it hasn’t had the chance. Light vegetal flavor, but not much else.

I like this tea I mean it is not the best green tea that I have but it is a pretty good inexpensive alternative for my favorite Green tea when I find myself low on cash. An you can find it any where so very convienant. The thing is it just doesn’t have that great of a flavor I mean yeah it is okay but I can’t quite place my finger on it but the best was I can say it is that its flavor is on the bland side. Just to clarify green tea is one of my favorite teas and I love drinking it so it isn’t like this is coming out of thin air I just don’t really like the teas compared to other green teas I have tasted it isn’t as crisp a tea I suppose

I oversteep this tea or use two bags in order to get a decent flavour out of it. It’s pleasant and very smooth. If I feel frisky, I’ll grab a bag of Oolong and steep them together for five minutes in an 8-ounce cup and add a drop or two of clover honey. I believe that honey and tea are God’s two greatest edible gifts and I rarely have one without the other.

I had low expectations, but this set the bar even lower than previously believed possible. The tea was extremely vegetative to the exclusion of all other possible flavors. Multiple infusions did nothing for it either.