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“This is my fight [tea]
Take back my life [tea]
Prove I’m all right [tea]”

The busy-ness of my work these past few weeks has been out of control. Thank goodness for good ol’ earthy, chocolatey, slightly-burnt and energizing Morning Thunder to get me motivated to work through today and tomorrow before my glorious weekend.

Phew… after that nightmarish work week, I got a nice three-day weekend. Back in the saddle tomorrow, although I get to work my regular hours instead of being strong-armed into working overtime and giving up my weekend.

Picked this up because the flavor combo is fairly unique and I haven’t had oolong in a while.

It’s fairly unimpressive. The mango totally overpowers everything else. I may be wrong (both blends say that it’s wuyi oolong) but I still think this oolong leans more toward the green side than the black, so the flavor is much lighter and more subtle than Stash’s Chocolate Mint Oolong blend.

Not bad, not wonderful.

Steeped it with a bag of Higher Living’s Ginger Kick. It transforms this tea from being just meh to being absolutely delish.

This tea is icky plain and hot. I’ve had the best luck either cold-steeping it plain or steeping it with something else hot.

I won’t be restocking when I’m out of it. It was too expensive and too underwhelming. If a bagged tea forces the drinker to get creative in order to make it drinkable, it’s officially not worth its asking price.

Made this English style with milk, and very strong on the leafing. It’s very smoky but also slightly floral in the aftertaste. Has a nice brisk bite of bitterness too. It’s the consummate breakfast tea, really— the kind of tea that you’d drink whilst preparing yourself for a busy or potentially stressful day. It’s reassuring and bracing and no-nonsense.

Making this one at work because I have 8 oz of it and it will never get drunk otherwise.

I recently had a lateral move at work, so I’m in a new location, and of course not even a week into it, I get sick with a nasty cold. I’m in the “recovery” stage now, but I’m still congested and I can’t really taste this as well as I usually can.

I took it black, as usual, and steeped it Western style.

I can still taste the nuttiness of the base tea and the perfume from the calendula, and I can still appreciate the beauty of the CTC leaf pellets opening in the water, though, so that’s something! This is such a lovely blend.

I have this bad habit of letting my milk spoil… It’s a waste of food and money, so it needs to stop. I got this to motivate me to drink my milk.

It has the PERFECT amount of sweetness— I can still taste the black tea base, which is nice and mild. Lots of cinnamon and cloves, not much nutmeg, just a hint of ginger, bit of a perfumey quality in the aftertaste.

Yum yum yum! Problem solved.

I made this one like an English person— brewed Western style, milk in first, no sweetener.

It was HEAVENLY. I have never drunk Earl Grey with milk before, but oh my God, I’m never drinking this one without it again! It gave it like this creamy, fruity, tannic, chocolatey, scrumptious dimension that has been previously untapped by me (I almost always take my tea black).

Bumping up the rating.

I’ve been craving black tea at night lately, for some weird reason…

I’m pretty sensitive to caffeine, so I needed a decaf option. This bagged EG is pretty inoffensive. It has that depressingly flat taste that decaffeinated tea leaves take on, but the bergamot makes it tolerable.

Nothing else to really say about it.

Scooped this up at Shaw’s because I wanted an herbal dessert tea.

This’ll do! It’s packed with flavor. Cinnamon, butterscotch, vanilla, non-cloying sweetness, ginger, chicory… Ooooooo, this is tasty! The hazelnut turns up in the aftertaste as a creamy, nutty note.

Every so often, Yogi gets it right. I think that’s why I keep buying their stuff.

9/10, would recommend.