Peppermint Cheer

Date: 20 January 2026

It is 1F outside today, so I’m trying to keep warm with multiple cups of tea. My office heater is trying to keep up, poor little thing, but the tea and layers are helping. This was a random teabag offered to me during the holidays, and it was sitting on the top of my sip down pile. The mix of peppermint and vanilla almost reminds of peppermint bark – creamy and minty – however, the tea lacks the intensity of the peppermint, which still manages to work out for this tea. I’m sure it’d manage to be more rounded had I two bags in my mug. All in all, it’s quite pleasant.

Trying a couple of the Twinings Christmas blends today. This one smells so delicious even through the wrapper, minty and creamy as the description promises. Once brewed, however, I find this to be mostly peppermint with just a hint of vanilla. Barely there, really. I was hoping this one would be at least similar to, if not better than, Buttermint but unfortunately it’s not. Nice enough, but not quite what I was hoping.

So this mostly just tastes like peppermint to me. I was hoping for a lot more vanilla, I only get a tiny hint of creaminess which is disappointing. At least the mint flavoring gives it a more fresh peppermint flavor, rather than just the herbaceous peppermint leaf.

It’s fine I guess, but why bother adding the vanilla at all…? :(

Holiday grocery store teas tried: 16/19

Thanks for the sample, tea-and-cats! I’ve been drinking a lot of mint teas lately, and I’ll be honest, not much sets them apart from each other. I taste peppermint and a little creaminess. It’s pleasant, but not super special. I’m enjoying it cold, and I’d drink it again, but there’s no reason to choose it over any other similar blends. It’s similar to the buttermint flavor.

Several of you have been posting pepperminty things … this one deserves a mention, too. Creamy and minty and was especially soothing on an overindulged tummy last night. (No, I didn’t need that Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cake. I’ll be good in January.)

Went out for dinner in a private room at a restaurant. felt a migraine coming on. so I left early to try to beat the nausea home. Oh, god, if it weren’t for the pain the shimmery circular rainbows around all the light would be pretty. I mean all the lights. Street lights. Stop lights. Tail lights. Once I was safely home with meds taken and a cold wash cloth plastered over my eye, I decided a mild tea might be good. I chose this one for its convenience and anti-nausea properties.

Ugh. Awful. It is peppermint, but with a gross sick flavor at the end of the sip. By sick I mean vomit-like. I didn’t throw up so it’s not from me. Poured it out and am now making some ginger tea.

This one sounds like it should be so good, but it’s just not. maybe it’s just me though.