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Thanks to memily for sending me an unopened box of this!
My first experience with this tea was not as good as I had hoped. This tea tasted almost exactly like grape expectations, but without the horrible bitterness. I didn’t get any strawberry or champagne. It also tasted kind of dusty or stale. I think next time I will give it a shorter steep and also try it iced at some point.

I bought this just before I started getting into loose leaf. I drank it quite often when I first bought it but haven’t had it in a year or so. It is still quite pleasant. The vanilla really comes through with milk and sweetener and the spices are just an afterthought, which I really like. I only have a few bags left so I think I will restock this.

I love black tea in the morning, but I can’t have caffeine right after breakfast (diet rules), so I’ve been looking for good decaf blacks. After trying all of H&S’s offerings and not being impressed, it’s nice to find one that is cheap and easy to pick up at the grocery store.

Thanks to memily for this tea!

This smells divine! It smells like fresh raspberries. I might have oversteeped this one, I found the taste a little bitter, which I usually don’t get when I oversteep oolongs. I’ll have to watch the time next time I guess. Otherwise it is pleasant enough. I found the flavour of the oolong a little weak, as well as the berry flavour. I could definitely tell it was raspberry flavoured, but it was drowned out by the bitterness. Despite all of that, it was still a pleasant enough cup, I just wish the taste was more in keeping with the scent.

The wonderful memily sent me this tea along with quite a few other T2 blends to try. This is the first of many. It’s 11pm so I needed a caffeine free treat before bed.

I think it’s quite difficult to find a good rooibos. We used to have a local tea house in my city that had afternoon tea with scones and cucumber sandwiches. I had my first rooibos there and I was in love. Their vanilla and caramel flavours were so good! And the base was delicious, it was sweet, not medicinal and just had this really unique flavour. Me and my mom bought a loose leaf tea pot and drank those teas for a year or so, but then stopped. Last year when I got back into loose leaf, I heard they were closing down and went there on the last day of the clearance sale to pick up some teas. They didn’t have those flavours which sucked, it would have been neat to see if I still felt the same way about them. I did pick up a few rooibos blends, and while the base is good, the flavours aren’t as good as the other ones.

This base in this tea is very similar to that. I am not getting any medicinal taste and it is just a light, sweet rooibos. I think I made this a touch too weak because I can’t detect a lot of fruit flavour, but I am picking up some peach notes. Next time I will add extra tea.

Another tea from CharlotteZero! Thanks for the large portion of this tea!

This smells very strongly of pumpkin, like canned pumpkin. It also tastes mostly like pumpkin and it’s quite creamy. The taste at first was a little artificial, kind of chemically. But half way through the cup it started tasting more natural. I got little notes of pumpkin pie spices here and there, but nothing too noticeable. I kind of liked it like that, made it interesting.

Again, I had this with sweetener and skim milk, so maybe the articifial/chemical taste is from the sweetener, that would make sense I guess. I really want to try this with agave and regular milk this weekend and see how that goes.

I tried the original pumpkin milkshake and I remember it being a lot different. Sweeter maybe, and not so heavy on the pumpkin. I like both of them though.

I received this one from CharlotteZero in our recent swap.
I’m not sure why I wanted to try this, I don’t like chai, and for the most part, I don’t like lemon in my tea. I also don’t like Frank’s spicey teas as I find they have a bit of a medicinal taste to them. It must have been the merinque that intrigued me, as I do like creamy lemon.
This isn’t half bad. It’s a little creamy, and the lemon is more apparent than the chai which I like. I can detect that medicinal taste but only faintly. It also holds up well with stevia and skim milk, so I will be finishing off the bag of this while I power through this diet.
Thanks CharlotteZero!

Had the chance to try this today thanks to Charlottezero!

This has been on my wish list since I joined Steepster a year ago! It was the mention of the honey notes that got me. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any honey :( All I could pick out of this one was hay, but not too strongly. Thankfully, the hay disappeared after the second steep. I normally enjoy black tea with milk and sugar or agave, but since I am on a diet, I used skim milk and stevia instead and it does not do the tea justice. I snuck a couple drops of agave and milk in the bottom of one of my cups and it made a huge difference. I can’t wait til I am off this diet! I miss my black tea! But it has forced me to start enjoying other teas without sweetener and I find I really enjoy greens and oolongs without additions.

I found this enjoyable enough that I made a Verdant order and ordered this along with a few others I’ve been wanting to try.

Had the last of a small bag of this today. I remember it being fruitier than what it tasted like today, it might have lost some flavour over time. I found I could only taste the Guayusa, which is fine. It’s such a unique flavour, very herb like, I think I taste something similar to basil. I also find that it has an effervescent quality to it, in the smell and the taste. I am really looking forward to trying some Butiki guayusas.

I received this as a birthday present yesterday from my sister in law as part of their huge sampler box with eight 40g tins, one of each type of tea. This is their green tea offering. And though I think it was a good choice for this box, I wish it was something else. I’ve had this before and didn’t like it so I gave the rest of my bag to my friend at work who I dump all my unwanted teas on. I think we have opposite tastes so she usually likes everything I dislike. It works out perfectly, I don’t think she’s had to buy tea in months. This tin will probably go to her as well unless I can swap it out.

I still don’t like this tea. I am not a fan of mint or chai spices so this tea didn’t have a good chance with me. I don’t like this tea purely because I don’t like what’s in it, so if you like mint and chai spices then you will probably like this tea. I hate giving bad ratings to teas that I know I don’t like because of me, and not because of the tea. This tea is well done. In those cases I try to add 10 or so points to what I would rate it otherwise.

Birthday Tea! Well kind of. My birthday was yesterday but I went out snowboarding and I was so tired and sore when I got back I couldn’t think of putting in the effort to make any tea. It was only my third time snowboarding and I did a huge face plant just when I thought that I was getting better. I guess I got a little too confident. So today my neck is unbelievably sore. You just can’t take those falls at 31 as you can when you’re 23 (that was the first time I went). 31, ouch!. It’s really the same as 30 though. That was a hard birthday. This one I feel the same. I’m still in my early 30’s!

Anyway, onto the tea. Thanks Schmiracles for sending this to me! I kind of forgot what I had asked for from you and this was a pleasant surprise. I really like almond, but it’s something that can also go horribly wrong if the flavour is too strong. But this is perfect! This is everything I have wanted in other amaretto teas. The flavour is there, and it’s natural, but not over done. It tastes like almond extract, almost cherry like. I also like the black base with it. If it was more affordable to make an order I would definitely order this.

One day.