Mountain Rose Herbs

Baby has been taking about 75% of his milk by bottle the past couple Lee of days which is a real improvement! He also has the last surgery he will need for some months scheduled, so this needs are going well with him!

As someone who enjoys dark chocolate, this tea is a real treat. It has a smooth dark chocolate flavor. It wasn’t bitter, but did have a tiny bit of sourness in the second half of the cup.

I had a baby while the site was down! Unfortunately he needed surgery (twice!) so he has been at the hospital instead of home. He will be moving to a rehab center on Monday though he will need to go back for one more surgery in a month or so and then another when he is around a year old. So I have been spending a lot of time at the hospital and/or pumping breast milk which is not as nice as nursing so we will see how long I can keep up with it.

In part to encourage me to keep it up and to help me drink plenty of fluids, I put in an order of breastfeeding friendly herbs from Mountain Rose Herbs. I decided to try the Nettle leaf first because although I ordered 4 oz of each herb, this must be the least dense because it is definitely the largest volume.

The dry leaf is a nice rich green that leads me to believe it is quite fresh. The flavor of the breed leaf reminds me of baby spinach. Definitely vegetal and spinachy, but not at all bitter. There is a hint of spice in the aftertaste. It is quite pleasant. I would be interested in trying it blended with my dried carrot pieces as well as using it as a base for a green chai with coconut, ginger, and black pepper. But it is also very drinkable on is own.

TTB tea! This definitely tastes like Ceylon. Not bad! There’s a pleasant amount of strength/body. Good at room temperature with milk and sugar, though not special enough to seek out.

This came from the tea box, and the brand name isn’t on the package, but it looks like it’s sold by a lot of different tea shops, so I picked one to post this review under. The flavor is mostly sage, so it’s quite savory. It has a lot of health ingredients, but they don’t really show up in the flavor. It’s almost like steeping straight sage.

A super cute tea shop opened downtown so for my birthday I went with a friend. I figured out right away that they source their teas from Mountain Rose Herbs aside from a few hand-blended apothecary blends. This is the tea I went with and I almost want to say the water to tea ratio was wrong. As it was a bit watery but they steeped it at the proper temperature. I also think that I just prefer the Kukicha from Jasmine Pearl. They offered different cup sizes and I opted for the 16oz perhaps the trick is to go for the 8 or 12oz next time to get a stronger brew. It’s crazy to think our suburb town went from 0 tea shops to 2 during Covid. I still need to try the one that opened in the local mall.

April Sipdown Alphabet Challenge: “Q” Tea
So I added a little too much milk to this one but it’s just a minty chamomile herbal tea. I like that there are some good herbs in this one like raspberry leaf and skullcap though. This was my only Q tea and it’s actually a family member’s herbal tea technically that they had forgotten about. I would assume based on the name that it’s a sleepytime type tea.

Making sure this wasn’t still in my cupboard(sipdown), I realized I hadn’t written a note yet. I don’t trust my flavor notes on this tea anyway, since it was from an ANCIENT teabox and in a flimsy sandwich bag. Just wanted to finish it, while also utilizing some vanilla creamer in the fridge. It’s good with creamer! Though probably not fresh enough to comment on anything else. i’m sure it was a good houjicha when it was fresh though!
2020 Sipdowns: 88

The leaves have a baked, nutty and woody smell that comes through into the brewed cup. It’s fairly tannic, with a bittersweet chocolate and muscatel finish and moderate level of astringency. This doesn’t taste like first flush Darjeeling.

Not sure what I think of it. It’s quite different from the kind of Darjeeling I’d pick out when reading tasting notes and smelling dry leaves before buying.

It’s been a while since anybody has left a review for this tisane! Seems like Mountain Rose Herbs has updated the game with some fair trade, kosher and organic certifications. Added some elderflowers to the mix, too.

Picked this up from the local co-op. I rarely drink rooibos but I do get a hankering a few times per year. 1 tsp to 8oz with boiling water is perfect for one glass. This tisane is pretty good, not too rooibos-y. Soft on the vanilla and smells and tastes like a cross between vanilla pipe tobacco and apple hookah tobacco. Thirst-quenching. Not much more to say. I’ll probably restock a small amount of this once per year.

I drink this mainly for balancing hormones and my Skin. Raspberry Leaf is a really great herb for women. I actually like the taste of this herbal tea quite a bit as well. It’s even better with a little milk and honey. Mountain Rose Herbs buying it in bulk is the cheapest I’ve found it. Occasionally I do also buy the Traditional Medicinal boxed tea bags of it though.

I tried this before w/ 2 1/2 heaping tsp and found it bland. This time I used 4 heaping tsp and think it’s much better. I added milk and honey. I mostly taste the chai spice and not the rooibos. I think the ginger dominates.

First time trying this tea, and it turned out pretty bitter. Second steep was better – 175 for 3 min. Try lower temp 175 and 4 g next time.

The flavor of the tea is similar to a soup broth that tastes of seaweed and popcorn. The rice adds a hot breakfast cereal flavor to the tea that adds depth to its body. It has a vegetal flavor but it’s very light and feels clean.

So this is definitely the best tasting of the medicine teas, which explains why I ended up drinking it the most. I can’t tell that it’s had much effect on my cold, but it’s not really marketed as cold tea, more like just a general immune boost when you’re feeling run down. At least it’s been an easy way to get down hot fluids.

So I wouldn’t say this tastes good, but it doesn’t taste bad. For a medicinal / health tea, it’s not hard to get down, and supposedly it’s great as an overall immune system boost. I just wouldn’t drink it recreationally.

Since I’m not sick at the moment, though, and just drank it to try the flavor, I can’t really tell whether it’s health benefits are as amazing as claimed.