Worst tea you've ever had?

Just about every flavored Adagio tea I’ve tried triggered a gag reflex.

Had a Vietnamese green tea once that tasted like fish broth. Most recently I tried honeysuckle tea and couldn’t take more than a couple of sips. It tased like boiled okra juice.

Lapsan Souchong – I don’t recall from whom i purchased the tea, but it was like licking the bricks of a barbecue pit after the fire was put out!

I know some people love this tea, and there may be some good ones out there, but I’m just not up to risking it again

It was horrible!

I do like a nice, balanced smoked lapsang souchong but an artificially flavored version was up there among the worst I’ve ever tried. I threw it away (really my fault for not at least smelling it while buying it).

I got some roasted oolong in a trade once that was too nasty to drink, on the musty and sour side, right on the borderline between tea you’d chuck in the bin immediately or give away to someone who might appreciate awful tea. I did give it away but felt bad about doing it.

I had some ‘monkey picked’ oolong from This Is Tea (or something like that!). Goodness know what they’d done to it but it literally was a waste of hot water. It went straight in the bin and since then I’ve been much more choosy about my suppliers!

When I was living in Louisville, there used to be a little grocery store across the street from my apartment and they seriously carried some of the worst teas I have ever had. I loaded up on bottled teas they put on sale once. I think it was like three for a dollar or something and I still shudder when I think about them. One was a lapsang souchong that literally smelled and tasted like cigarette ashes. There was also an oolong that reminded me of damp grass and margarine. I have no clue what the brand was, but they made The Republic of Tea’s bottled teas look high end, just saying. Of the teas I have reviewed on Steepster, the Quangzhou Milk Oolong from Tealyra would have to take the cake. Everyone else seemed to like it, but I thought there was something unforgivably off about it.

https://steepster.com/Dexter/posts/331069

That’s the tasting not in which I wrote “worst tea ever”….

Tazo’s “Sweet” Wild Orange – it’s hibiscus on steroids. DX
Lipton also made a nasty hibiscus knockoff called Country Cranberry that was just as hideous
White Tropics (I may have had a spoiled batch but it tasted like it had gone moldy)
DT’s Black Cherry (mmmm, cherry cough syrup)
Tea Forte’s Kiwi Lime Ginger (mmmm, Buckley’s cough syrup, even better)

White matcha. (white tea ground into powder). So bitter, dry, and disappointing.

Da Hong Pao was not my favorite tea. It was very bitter. It’s a tea that you can only brew for a few seconds because if you don’t it’ll get very bitter very quickly.

turmeric tea (actually not a true tea, a tisane) by numi.
it tasted like twigs and dirt…
the only numi teas i have liked were the jasmine green tea and white rose tea. the others either tasted bad or were unremarkable.