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Backlogging this from this morning…

I was in class, and the professor didn’t offer us a break at the one-hour mark, so I ended up leaving the teabag in for the entire time I was drinking it. One would think that the longer it steeps, the more tea flavor I would have gotten out of it, right? Not so. On some sips I only tasted hot water, and some sips tasted peculiar, but I didn’t get a green tea taste (or any recognizable taste, for that matter) out of them. There were a few sips where I did get the tea and it tasted mostly grassy. I’m not a fan of the grassy-tasting green teas, so this wasn’t my thing.

I was thinking today about how I started my tea journey with Stash’s Wild Raspberry in college. Since expanding my tastes to other tea companies and to actual teas (as opposed to tisanes), I’ve found that I don’t really enjoy Stash’s selections in the same way that I used to. I wonder if I’d still enjoy the Wild Raspberry?

My local grocery store has Stash teas at $1.78 for 20 bags. Perhaps it’s time to revisit Stash and hope that their other teas are better than their chocolate and vanilla ones. Since I know this one is good, I grabbed a box. I’ve been told by a very trustworthy lady that the orange spice is good for sun tea, so I may try that (when there’s light again. Goodness, Washington, why do you have to have so much fog this year?).

This is one where the packaging doesn’t lie — it is indeed a basic green tea that tastes somewhat nutty. This was one of my first loose teas and while it’s nothing special, it was a good introduction.

It’s not bad for a generic green! I didn’t have any problems with the bitterness, but I also tend to use a little more water than suggested (and actually to enjoy pungent aftertastes…). I agree with other reviewers—this is a solid “everyday” tea.

Good for a no frills green tea.

I have to sit on this tea like a mother hen on chicks or else it gets bitter easily. I don’t care for any of the stash teas that I have tried so far. My husband wants to try thier Super Green tea, I hope it’s better than this or thier fusion white and green.

Just fine, I suppose. Gets bitter pretty easily, so be careful. Otherwise, a decent green tea.

Like everyone else this Green Tea is perfect for when you are on the go. I’ve tried steeping it in cooler water for a longer period of time before and I believe that gets the best results from this one, but sometimes it’s just the luck of the bag, as it does get bitter very fast if you are not careful.

I like green tea – this kind is not the best, not the worst.

A good mid-quality green tea. I steeped it for 2.5 minutes in steaming (not hot!) water and it came out well – refreshing without any bitterness.

At first I didn’t like this because it got bitter very easily, but then I started steeping it for just less than two minutes and found it’s a perfectly good, tasty green tea. As long as you steep it carefully it’s fine. Lately this has become my everyday green tea.

Don’t like green tea much, but it suffices in a pinch.

A perfectly fine bag tea served at a restaurant this morning with a pot of tepid tap water. Boo. I’m going to volunteer to be this place’s tea sommelier.

I agree with the above comments: it’s generally a solid green tea, but easily becomes rather bitter with water that is too hot.

Prepared with barely-hot water, these bags make an okay green tea that is slightly sweet and dry on the tongue, but fairly refreshing. However, it’s far too easy to over-brew or use water that is too hot, which results in an incredibly bitter and undrinkable tea. While nowhere near the quality of a good loose-leaf green tea, it’s an okay alternative when loose is not an option.

an average bagged green tea nothing special but it’s not bad