The Republic of Tea

This is a fairly nice herbal that actually does taste sort of like pumpkin pie. It has a mellow, creamy element to it along with the warming spices. I don’t think it’s 100% spot-on, maybe closer to something like a pumpkin roll cake, but it’s tasty. Has a bit of an eggnog vibe to it as well, because of the nutmeg.

Generally I don’t think much of The Republic of Tea, but I’m finding I do actually quite enjoy a lot of their herbals, especially the fall and winter seasonal ones. They do tend to be on the weak side, so next time I’ll use two bags for 12 ounces instead of 16. But enjoyable, and cute tins. The caramel apple one is yummy too! I like how a lot of them are dandelion and/or carob based instead of everything being rooibos.

I brought this back to the states with me. I was making iced tea with it just about every other day…and still had over half but it busted in my suitcase and I lost a good chunk of it. Bummer. I think this is the same tea- it’s called the açaí super fruit. Similar to the pomegranate- but I think I prefer the pomegranate over this one. It’s still pretty good but it has a stronger hibiscus flavor to it that isn’t my absolutely favorite. I am a little sad I wasted so much- but at the end of the day I would still buy the pomegranate over this. I also wish the tins were a bit more sturdy as the other tin I used actually held up and transported the tea perfectly. I would have bought this in the bag if it had been available though. Overall…not bad

True to the name- I can drink this all day. Never gets bitter- just a smooth drink. I like it with milk n sugar.

Amazing in that it smells EXACTLY like a lemon creme cookie. Creates confusion because I start looking for the cookies and craving them. Tbh I don’t even like those cookies that much. Its not bad though. It does taste like advertised but not my favorite. I drank the last cup I had of this today and it had some licorice type flavors which was odd. Its not bad though.. and worth a try.

I was at Central Market, a TX Whole Foods cousin run by HEB, and found myself in the bulk tea aisle. I’ll be heading north to cooler climes next week so I might want to take some of the TX available tea with me? I got a healthy sized scoop of Rishi Vanilla Mint and picked out a few more to try. The vanilla in this tastes a bit fake on first sip, but the harshness fades a bit as it cools, and the second steep is pleasant. Good enough for a tea note to not buy this again. Will this stop me from future impulse buys, probably not.

Did anyone else get a free sample of this one in the spring 2026 catalog? I appreciate the sample, but … I don’t like it.

Dry Aroma: Smells like fake strawberry. Fruit snacks.
I can feel the matcha through the bag.
The taste is… okay. Not the worst green tea I’ve had, but kind of weird. Low-grade bancha or sencha. Metallic.

Sipdown. Enjoying the very last of this tea today and kind of bummed about it. If it makes a return appearance next season, I’ll surely be buying another tin. In classic pumpkin spice style, this tea is very reminiscent of cool weather and all things fall (so of course it’s most appropriate for me to be drinking it at the end of March). I am getting all of my favorite cozy flavors: cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and a slight touch of clove. There’s a pleasant sweetness in the aftertaste that doesn’t taste artificial. It does seem to have a good amount of caffeine as well.

Ick. This doesn’t have monk fruit or stevia listed, but that’s all I’m tasting. Usually licorice root doesn’t impact a blend this intensely for me, but it must be the flavor I’m tasting.

The Republic of Tea must be doing pretty well if they are able to mail out samples of tea.

Dry smell: sweet like candy
Flavor: Artificial. Floral. A bit tannic. I get what they were going for, but this is not a good representation of tea for people who love the show and want to drink what the characters were drinking.
Wet Aroma: Cotton candy? Hmm, not quite.. Ah! Those hard candies you can find at German markets. That’s what the smell reminds me of. With a bit of cherry cough drop added…

Still making beverage choices for medicinal purposes; grabbed this one after noticing black pepper in the ingredient lineup.

My tastebuds are not calibrated properly due to the cruds I’m toting around in my head and throat, but it’s not coming through as very peppery. Just a decent, predictable chai; acceptable with a little honey and no milk.

Plain it was a bit bland (too much water?). But a bit of sugar later and it was lovely.

The perfect bagged black tea. Perfect with milk and sugar. A blend of Assam and Ceylon. Wish this one was available year round.

Good apple teas are hard to find. This is one, although the apple flavor leans a little more toward candy than toward a genuine Granny Smith. The caramel doesn’t overwhelm the fruit element, which is a huge plus for me.

Lovely on an afternoon when the heat is out in our 100+ year old building!

This is another of my coworker’s abandoned teas… I took pretty much all the hibiscus ones she had left in the breakroom, since nobody likes it but me. (I’m pretty much just a hibiscus rehoming sanctuary at this point…)

This came as quart-sized cold brew packets, so that is how I prepared it. It is very unseasonal, I admit, but I was starting to get tired of my mugicha coldbrew and welcomed a change-up. This is very tangy, which I of course enjoy. The hibiscus provides a nice full texture with a strong tart, fruity background, and the orange is quite zesty. The orange flavor is also very nice, rather than that weird artificial note it sometimes can have. I find it quite gulpable cold and plain, but I don’t know if I could recommend it to anyone else… if you a) like hibiscus b) like orange c) like things on the tangy/sour side, then you’ll probably enjoy this like me. But if you can’t check all three boxes, this isn’t going to be for you.

Just a sample that I wanted to try while the season is upon us. Glad it was just a sample. Granted, it was an office cuppa, so that means inattentively steeped, but the pumpkin came out bitter. Honey improved it a little, but I didn’t make it all the way through the cup.

Lots on my mind to distract me this evening, so when I grabbed the sample pouch that came from the natural health store, I had no inkling it was intended to be iced. I just popped the single-size bag into a cup and let it steep 5 minutes (that I did read off the bag).

Inattentiveness wins in this case! An odd-duck mix of everything from apple to aloe to sea buckthorn is sweet (but not too), pink (but not hibby-heavy), and … I’m getting buttery!

The actual for-sale tins evidently contain pitcher-sized pouches, and I can see that this would be really tasty iced, but thanks to my sloppy serendipity, I wouldn’t mind seeing it in single-serve bags.

I love this tea has an intense toffee flavor. I love the unique fall Republic of Tea flavors they have at World Market. I was looking for the Pumpkin Caramel Stroopwafal Tea from Republic of Tea but it was sold out. There were so many options glad a choose this one. Glad it’s herbal with a red rooibos base. I will have to try this as a tea latte too.

Love this one! It has some fruity hits and although not listed I feel like I get hints of vanilla. Great iced cold and it is Superfruit! I am not a big fan of green tea usually but this one is great!

Sipdown

This may have been Ashman’s favorite of the Earl Grey All Day line from RoT that we tried. The flavouring is pretty strong, which meant he could easily resteep and combine so that he had tea for breakfast plus enough for a travel mug to take to work.

The strawberry and rhubarb were pretty balanced so the rhubarb toned down “candy” tendencies in the strawberry. It was a brightly flavoured green and the base wasn’t sharp.

I barely picked up bergamot in these, and I don’t think I noticed it all in this one.