Green Tea with Raspberries from Big-Active
Comparing this to the the other raspberry green I have, I'm not sure which is my favourite now. The other one has a more complex and interesting mix of flavours, but this one has a sweeter base and...
View ArticleEssence Tea - Yunnan with Peach and Apricot from Big-Active
I decided to add some sugar to this time to see if it would make the fruit flavours pop. Interestingly it did just the opposite. It muted the base making it just taste like a malty black tea and it...
View ArticlePear Cream Supreme from Earth Teaze
Pear, it seems, is a hard flavour to replicate in a natural tasting way in teas, at least according to the reviews that I've read on this site. This tea actually doesn't do that bad a job at it. It...
View ArticleYunnan from Posti
Dried leaf mostly dark, twisted and wiry with some lighter brown leaves and a few golden tips, highly aromatic, smell of spice (hints of rosemary), raisin and a hint of smoke and leather. The brewed...
View ArticleLemon Grass (Fever Grass) from Tops
This tea smells completely different from the dried lemon grass I sometimes get at the supermarket. The dry bagged tea smells incredibly fresh, almost green and slightly floral, with a hint of fresh...
View ArticleRandom Steepings from Various Artists
I've been a little under the weather today so I've been experimenting with various versions of Chai. So far I've done one with Bai Mudan, one with a cheap darjeeling and two versions of Kashmiri Chai...
View ArticleStormy Night (organic) from DAVIDsTEA
The dry leaf has big chunks of chocolate and lots of coconut, but not a lot of tea. It smells strongly of cinnamon and chocolate with a touch of coconut. It brews to an aged oak brown. The taste does...
View ArticleRaspberry Green Tea from Sir Roger
This is another green tea from yet another Polish Tea company. It's probably my favourite raspberry green tea so far, as it has a really nice mix of a smokey, nutty flavoured base with a subtle...
View ArticleChai Spice Black Tea from Stash Tea Company
This tea smells heavily of cloves with hints of cardamom, and cinnamon. The base contributes bitter almost coffee like notes to the tea and its flavour is followed by the taste of cloves with a hint of...
View ArticleOrganic Garden Jasmine Tea from Organic Garden
I decided to try this tea to see if I am intersted in exploring Jasmine black teas any further. It is a bagged tea from a company that uses single origin teas handled in an environmentally and socially...
View ArticleMaple Bacon from Man Teas
The dry leaf is sprinkled with red bits of imitation bacon and smells of maple smoked bacon with a hint of something almost alcoholic. It smells of burning leaves with a hint of bacon or perhaps more...
View ArticleEmei-Shan Flower Mao feng (Jasmine) from Sichuan Emei-shan Zhuyeqing Tea Co. Ltd
When dry, this tea is a very fragrant strong jasmine that leans towards a grape like iris smell. It almost smells like a fruity candy. The leaves are small, thin needles that are dark forest green...
View ArticleHarris Assam from Harris Tea
The tea smells of plum, cherry , cocoa and faint lemon tones. It is very smooth with a thin body and tastes very fruity. It taste of having eaten black cherries and dark bitter chocolate with a hint of...
View ArticleGreen Tea with Quince from Big-Active
The scent of this tea has a bright citrusy note of lime mixed with pear. The gunpowder base produces a creamy, sweet, fresh tasting vegetal tea base which is slightly grassy which is overlain with a...
View ArticleButtered Rum from Earth Teaze
trying this again, this is much more fruity this time, strawberry mixed with powdery floral, insence, vanilla and cocoa. Still captures the flavour at times of a raw crude rum.
View ArticleStrawberry Pie Honeybush from 52teas
As noted before this tea is pretty fantastic. I would gladly keep it in my cupboard. The liquor is reddish brown and is scented with stewed strawberry, vanilla, and a faint pastry/sugar cookie scent....
View ArticleAssam Banaspaty from DAVIDsTEA
The tea brews to the colour of a lighter cherry wood and smells of malt, cocoa, and a citrusy fruity note. A lightly bitter malt dominates the taste, along with notes of cocoa, something vegetal and a...
View ArticleEarl Grey from CJay Tea
This is probably my lightest bergamot earl grey, but it is also my most versatile as it is easily drunk on its own but also blends very well with other teas and flavourings. The tea brews to a...
View ArticleBai Mao Hou from Sea Dyke Brand
The dry leaves are a mix of colours ranging from olive to light to charcol brown and smell of fruit, bread and a sweet lily. I brewed this tea at 40, 50, 60 70and 80s. The steeped tea ranged in colour...
View ArticleButtered Rum from Earth Teaze
Unlike the first tea I had from this company this tea actually has a good deal of scent and flavour. The dry leaves actually smell like strawberries coated in vanilla sugar and have obvious fairly...
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