Pure Leaf unsweetened

I have been writing and sending resumes all afternoon. My brain hurts.

My wife brought this one home. Apparently it was on sale. Gmathis is pretty much correct on this one, although I have had worse. I will add it tastes sour. I like plain ol’ Lipton Brisk tea iced. It is a family thing. This one – I’ll ask my wife to pass on the sale up next time. I still have 5 bottles left to drink (shiver). I’ll save the bottles and cold brew something a lot better in them. They are 18.5 ounces – which is a nice size for iced. There Bonnie I found a way to say something nice about this one. I too hate not finding something positive to say. No rating. Not worth sliding the little thingy for it.

It’s vile. Liquid chilled preservatives and citric acid. You could clean floors with it. Unfortunately, my husband likes it.

I’m not a Lipton hater—good old basic black loose tea and their pyramid bag series get my thumbs up—but this venture into bottled wasn’t a good one.

Had this bottled tea on the go, from a random store. It was a happy-sleepy day – not optimal for a work day! My co-worker and I had both been unable to make a morning tea, so we had to resort to a store-bought tea…

And I think, given this, I’d rather have a nice, black coffee. This is “Pure Leaf”, but it has added citric acid, so the sense goes out out the window. The taste and texture does, too – it’s sour with a bittersweet, old black teabag flavor, without any of the charming dusty maturity, and the texture is thin without being smooth at all. No refreshing or mood-lifting qualities either.

Even as far as convenience tea goes, this is pretty bad. I’m very unlikely to purchase this again; if this is the only choice I get, I’d just skip the tea altogether.

I had some of this at work. It might be because I had to work a 6.5 hour day with no break and was able to take a 10 to eat something, so anything would taste good, but I didn’t find this to be too bad. It just kinda taste like Lipton tea with a lemony after taste; thought that is probably the citric acid use to preserve it.

Basically I wouldn’t always reach for it or want it at all. However if you want just a plain brisk unsweetened tea, it’s not bad. At least it wasn’t super astringent.