Tetley

This is my favorite tea. I brew and chill it. Best drink ever on a hot summer day!

I was expecting chamomile and lemon, but got mostly something sickly sweet. Licorice root maybe? I swear I tasted mint in there. Obviously, I wasn’t paying attention. Still, some nice citrus chamomile. Soothing and herbal.

I had a coupon for this, so I picked it up at the grocery store. It’s actually pretty good. It’s in the vein of Rose Red or PG Tips, but perhaps not quite as bright. Still, it’s a recognizably British flavor and with 80 teabags in the box, I’ll be set for tea at work for some time.

I drink this all the time

Okay for making Southern style sweet iced tea. Outstanding for a sunburn/windburn soothing soak.

The package I have has extremely large bags, making 4 cups worth at a time. Convenient when making iced tea for a group. Or running a lukewarm bath to take the sting off a nasty sunburn.

Not as astringent as some of the other US Supermarket bagged black teas for iced tea.

Another tea the husband picked up when I was sick as a dog. Sorry to say but I’m not the biggest fan of this one (too acidic with the citric acid and rose hips). However, he likes it quite a bit so I will continue to serve him this one.

Thank you to my husband for picking this up when I was super sick with the stomach flu. It helped. Good ol peppermint.

Isn’t this the tea that we all grew up on? To me this tea has memories of great conversations with family, long night conversations and just the perfect cup of tea. Sometime the most simple down to earth teas are the best.

The last sample I got from Tetley. When I read that there was hibiscus in here I was really skeptical, but the peppermint and spearmint overwhelms the cup and that’s all I taste. Nice. The write up on this tea says there is a floral finish and I can kind of see that as well. Mostly mint taste though, which is a good standard.

Another sample (which actually led me to buying a container)

This is actually what I wanted out of Turmeric glow from DAVIDs. Nice warmth and kick from the ginger, turmeric and other spices followed by a herbaceous blend. I wouldnt steep more than 4min lest it be crazy spicy. A good blend.

Received two tea bags as a sample. I’ve been looking at different bagged teas that are easy to bring to work and wanted to try some out so I contacted tetley and they gave me some samples :).

This tea is alright, kinda standard. Main taste is cinnamon followed by licorice root. Would drink it, dunno if I would buy it.

Good blend of different mint herbs! I like the string that squeeze a bunch of the water out of the bag. Good standard blend for work or when I feel lazy.

I’m not loving the amount of licorice in this blend, but wow this tea is effective for helping me get sleepy, and that was what I was after.

I wanted to like this more than I actually do.

The flavours are very present, but I am not sure I like the balance of the three prominent flavours together. The sweet licorice is on the nose and present throughout, but might be the flavour that throws off the balance. It makes the orange blossom taste candy-like and medicinal, and the warming spices taste a little pot pourri like.

It’s not something I will buy again.

This is spectacular iced! I like making a pitcher of it or freezing into a tea popsicle.

It does get too strong if steeped more than a few minutes. The lime zest has a bit of bitterness to it, but whatever the base is, there is no bitterness there. The mint is nice, the citrus lime is nice. The flavours go together really well.

As far as grocery store teas go, greens are the worst bet. They are almost always astringent no matter how you steep them. Not only that, but they are served at resturants using boiling water. BOILING! For a green tea! Madness…what kind of establishment doesn’t know how to put a teabag into water properly. /rant

This is a fairly low end green with a lot of plain (and somewhat unpleasant) flavours. It is a tiny bit fruity, but mostly just grassy in a tropical way. I think it is similar to the flavour of raw green beans. Tends to be astringent and tannic. Can be improved with honey + lemon or by making a soy milk latte. I find soy milk + matcha or green tea makes a better latte than with other types of milk.

I know this sounds improbable, but I was running low on tea at work—there’s the big random tin where I keep odd ducks and scraps and last-bags-in-the-pack, but sometimes you just need Just Plain Tea. Un-goofable Just Plain Tea that’s hardy enough to survive less-than-pristine mugs, an impotent work microwave, and sitting untended during the million petty interruptions that make up a “normal” work day.

This fits the bill. Smooth, didn’t get nasty when I accidentally oversteeped, not too sharp and acidic. Nothing stellar, no singular stand-out flavor, but I think it’ll Do What Needs to Be Done.

Thanksgiving at mom’s continues. Day 2, tea 2, Tetley’s English Blend.

Not really sure what English Blend means. Blend is easy, it’s a blend of teas from different places. Now for the English? Is it an English Breakfast? Just an English? What exactly is an “English” tea? Hmm..

Well, for starters, this is much better than I thought it was going to be. I love the simplicity. Much like the Bigelow teas, this is a solid, simple, straight up tea with no gimicks, no extra flavors, it’ not trying to be something it doesn’t need to be. Unlike the Stash and Tazo teas I’ve had the last couple of days that take the idea of a certain type of tea and then add all kinds of crap and flavor to make it “better”, only in the end they ruin the base of the tea itself.

I really like this Tetley stuff. Simple, old school, no gimicks, just straight up really good English Tea. I would buy this 100 times before teas like Stash and Tazo and any other modern, hip, “new” tea blends.

Wonderful.

A solid black tea and, with milk, my go-to choice every morning. It’s a good balance between flavour and price.

I received two tea bags of this new tea as a free sample. I wasn’t expecting much as I’m not usually a huge fan of regular grocery store teas. Really, it’s just a tea with a fancy name but doesn’t taste all that fancy. Oh, it’s fine and all, just nothing special. I can taste mostly cinnamon and fennel. Even though I have a coupon that came with the sample, I won’t be buying a full box.