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From the 2025 steepster TTB

This is a very lemongrass and mint blend with not much else going on. I can’t taste the ginger at all. I made sure to get some fireweed leaves but couldn’t make out any flavours from it. The mint really takes over. Without being able to taste the other ingredients, it is tough to rate this blend. I think the idea is creative and interesting but I don’t feel inspired by plain peppermint and lemongrass tea.

Trying this tea again as I work my way through older teas. This is really nice iced but I enjoy it hot as well. The green base is fairly light but it gives a bit of vegetal green flavour. The strawberry and fruity notes come through strongly. This tea isn’t sour at all, but also isn’t very sweet. I would have liked more tropical fruits given the name. Maybe some fruits actually grown in the palace gardens in southern Asia like persimmons, citrons, mandarins, or apricots. That being said, there are some fruity notes that could be pineapple and peach. Both are fairly muted but not unwelcome. There is also a very light floral component, but this helping happened to not have any rose petals so the flavour was much less than most cups of this I brew.

I think mine is from 2021, so this was a welcome but bittersweet sipdown. This is a nice chai blend during the winter months or cold mornings of early spring. Now that I’m into later spring I no longer desire it the same way, but I don’t want to leave it for another year. It was a delight while it lasted!

I wasn’t sure if I would actually like this because I love ginger, but really hated the apple ginger matcha I tried a while back.

I found my cold latte (250 mL cold soy milk and 50 mL hot water with 2 tsp of matcha…don’t judge me) to be a bit grey-blue. I think non-dairy milks might not be the correct pH for this to turn beep blue. It looked a bit chalky, but I also used a lot of matcha because I’m soooo tired this morning. I could fall asleep right now. I’m not sure how much caffeine is in this one because matcha is further down the ingredient list, but I should have gotten at least an espresso shot worth.

This is very fruity (acai and berries) with some acidicty. The ginger comes in the aftertaste for me.

Free sample from my recent B&B order. I really enjoyed this hot. I get lots of lavender, rose, and chamomile. The blend has some hibiscus, which gives some sourness but it is not overwhelming. It was pretty weak on the second cup, but I enjoyed it enough to give it a 78. The main fault is that it could use more citrus flavour from verbena.

The humble grocery store peppermint can pleasantly surprise you if you give it a chance. I’ve been drinking this quite a bit because there are old teas at work up for grabs and I love peppermint. I don’t know how old it is but I like the freshness and the potency. Lots of menthol and a touch of sweetness. It isn’t super remarkable, but it is better than many peppermints I have tried.

Proper review coming soon. I made this with barista oat creamer and I want to try it with just plain soy milk first before I speak to how creamy the base brew actually is.

It’s good, though. Very tasty.