This isn’t my first tea of the day, but after just doing a sink full of dishes (no dishwasher), everything looks so shiny and clean, so I decided to search through my (many) boxes of bagged teas. Somehow, this had made it’s way to the back of the shelf.
When I first started trying to find teas that could replace my Coke habit, one of the things that I was searching for was something similar to Sobe Green Tea, without all that sugar. Sobe’s has spearmint I think, so it took a lot of label reading and box buying to find something similar (most mint teas at the grocery are peppermint ones, or so it seemed). This was the last one I tested and ended up being VERY similar, that I started celebrating the victory. Now enter loose-leaf. I’ve tested mint-green teas from Teavana, Adagio, Upton, others from Stash, Republic of Tea (Twinings, Tazo bagged) and should just end the hunt for perfection. Why? Because having this tonight reminds me: I had already found it (at least for my tastes). The only thing left to do is to try this in loose leaf.
Rating this above my beloved Adagio Casablanca Twist, only because I love spearmint more than peppermint, but they both will always be a part of my (new) tea drinking ritual.
p.s. sweetened with one T. honey for yummy sweetness.
LOL! Oh, you are evil! :)
That’s absolutely hysterical. lol
OMG. Did you get the Cola tea? Is it even still available?
Did you get Aloha Puer in there? Because that is spectacularly bad.
I actually enjoy their Lapsang Souchong, though it’s not my favourite.
We ended up getting these ones:
- Lapsang Souchong Star
- Hibiscus Punch
- Queen of Tarts
- Coffee Pu’Erh
- Genmaicha
- Garcinia Goodness
And then he got 50g of Mint To Be for himself since he actually liked it. I helped pick all of them except for Genmaicha; that was the sales associate’s suggestion because he figured since Face Eater has like no clue how to properly brew tea it’ll get gross ‘cause it’ll go bitter super quickly. I think there could have been other green teas that’d do that better, but I guess this one was cost effective…
If Aloha Pu’Erh or the Cherry Cola were still available, I definitely would have picked those ones out too :P
I think I have some Cherry Cola, Roswell. I’ll try to remember to check when I get home. (Also, Face Eater! Ahh! What a hilarious nickname.)
Maybe Davids just shouldn’t try to do pu’erh blends…
It’d probably be a hilarious nickname if he knew about it… Which he doesn’t. But pretty well everyone calls him it; you guys on Steepster, Tre, and coworkers too. Oops.
It looks like I either got rid of it or sent it away. Actually, I think I sent it to someone in the tea group. I don’t remember who, though.