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Morning Thunder from Celestial Seasonings

Steepster Score 32 Ratings Rate This Tea

68/100

Morning Thunder

Black Tea by Celestial Seasonings

Morning Thunder is an earthy combination of maté—a South American herb—and mountain-grown black tea that gives you the lift you need without the coffee jitters. Maté is traditionally shared at gatherings of friends and family, and is passed around in a hollowed-out gourd and drunk through a silver “straw” called a bombilla. Because both maté and black tea are rich in antioxidants, a cup of this robust brew is a healthful and exhilarating way to start your day.

Ingredients: Roasted maté and black tea.

34 Tasting Notes

Lala
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Lala 2 tasting notes

This was my first exposure to yerba mate tea. On second thought I could have tried a better tasting mate tea. Morning thunger has a smokey, bold flavour to it. I don’t particularly drink it for the taste. If you are tired it does get your thunder rolling in the morning :)

I’m dying.

This is my tea to drink on those days where you have no sleep. It tastes gross but usually gets me moving at least. Not sure how today’s going to go.

Well my day started at 12:30 am with my carbon monoxide detector going off. I thought for the first minute someone had broken into the house and it was the house alarm going, I lay frozen in bed. Once I figured it out, I got up to investigate. The darn alarm was malfunctioning and kept going off like there was a gas leak but it was reading well below normal levels of carbon monoxide. Resetting it only worked for about 2 minutes. I tried removing it from the power source but it didn’t like that and started screaming at me so I had to rip the back of the detector off and remove the battery. After thoroughly inspecting my house, I opened all the windows and went to bed. But then I couldn’t sleep, I was imagining I had nausea and headaches for the rest of the night/morning.

I even drank a red bull at 6am on my commute to work, but it isn’t working. I find this tea tastes gross. Very roasted mate. Super strong and bitter aftertaste. No fancy flavourings to cover up the taste. But I am hoping it does the trick because I have a long day ahead of me. I need some thunder today.

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Joe
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Joe

This cup tastes like cheap coffee wrung out of a moron’s dirty socks. It is the worst-tasting tea in the Celestial Seasonings catalog. They ought to improve this blend. Maybe it’s not possible to mix yerba mate with black tea, but who is to say.

Courtland
88

It’s hearty and earthen, like a campfire in the belly.

Liv Hathaway
64

Definatley a good, easy coffee replacement. The roobios took a little bit of getting used to on my end, but I’ve grown to enjoy it for what it is.

rabbysmom
7

Threw this one away after a few cups over a week or so. Drinkable, “coffeeish” but I’d much rather have Irish Breakfast tea!

brianfuchs
73

This is a nice tea and one of the few Celestial Seasonings teas that works for me. Great as a morning tea for friends who are over early or for myself when I’m out of my other yerba mates.