Lipton

I love this tea, sometimes I can’t sleep without it. I sweeten it with honey, but even without it it tastes great. It has a light mint taste with a great flowery chamomile flavor. It’s just so soothing and sweet tasting.

Not too bad in a pinch. fellow worker gave a bag to me and Ive had it at meetings before where they had tea bags. Decent flavor and smells nice.

The ultimate sick tea!

I spent the weekend babysitting two 5 year old booger factories. I am sure they spent the whole weekend trying to sneeze into my mouth and put their fingers into my food. I thought I had escaped unscathed but I was wrong. Couldn’t sleep last night because my throat felt like it was closing. Then all day today unless I had a Halls in my mouth I couldn’t breath or talk.

So I came home from work a made a cup of to tea with a healthy scoop of creamed honey. Felt really good while I was drinking it but back to razor blades after I was done :(

Well I’m going to have a freezie and off to bed. Hoping this doesn’t last too long.

Bleugh! My first cup of this — I’ll never forget it — was in Miami, at a posh tennis club. I was thirteen, on holiday with my family, and thought I’d act grown up by ordering a pot of tea. The tea came already bagged in the cup; the water was ‘lukehot’; the pot was metal and had one of those godawful lids that leaks all over Creation when you pour. ~ I have to admit: I’ve never had a decent cuppa in the US, unless I made it myself.

This tea is nothing special, but if you like to go through a lot of sweet tea this is a pretty economical way to do so.

The first time I made this tea I brewed it for 5 minutes and found it really bitter, astringent, and just unrefreshing. Even at three minutes it’s a bit more bitter than I feel it should be, but a friend of mine gave me a trick for fixing this in cheap tea : add a pinch of baking powder.

I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone who wants to drink unsweetened iced tea as the flavor is pretty bland and bitter, but if you want to make sweet tea on the cheap and keep some baking powder at hand this tea will do fine.

I recently got a box of this for my birthday and have had a few cups since. It is actually quite tasty I think. I dont know if I would buy it myself, but I am happy I got it. Smells great and has some cinnamon flavor but not overwhelming. I am not sure if I like Black Tea yet….a few more atstings and I may change my rating. Also decent for the price.

Can barely taste the orange :( I want a nice strong orange tea. This wasn’t bad. It was just weak, I even left the bag in the cup the 2nd time I drank it thinking it might get stronger.

It’s pretty good in terms of quality price. Moreover I find this tea dummy proof as the grassy after taste when the tea sits for too long is bearable (even pleasant), so I don’t mind to forget the bag inside the cup.

I hate this tea, it seems that it has sweetener in it.

This is my bed time tea =). I love it strong an with a little of warm milk and honey.

Saw this tea first time so had to buy it. Plus I love orange flavored teas. Color of this one is brownish orange. Smell is light and sweet. They promise non-bitter taste, which is true. Sweet taste, this is nice tea, but not even near good teas.

I remember buying a box of 16 Lipton “the brisk tea” in New Hampshire when I was 11 or 12. It seemed awesome at the time perhaps a gateway to all my adult habits/pleasures. This would have been in the 1980’s. Either their quality has gone way down or I had a box of particularly fresh tea at the time. There’s even a picture of Neil Young inside an album cover from the early 70’s brewing a cuppa Lipton. I drink tea all the time, but whenever I try Lipton “brisk” it is often stale due to being simply packaged in paper. The tea quality is mediocre at best, but likely stored poorly. Lipton is the Number One tea in places (2 star restaurants, diners and delis) where tea is misbrewed, disrespected, and clearly an afterthought for a beverage. The leaves are greyish black rather than a the robust brown/black color that most good everyday black teas have.
I think that my 11 or 12 year old self loved that box of Lipton Brisk, because he was comparing it to Salada black which was the only comparison. Maybe it was the hand pumped well water in New Hampshire that made that “brisk tea” so memorable.
Boiling quality water is essential for any good tea. Lipton is often served with horrible warmish water in most places that serve it.

The July TeaLog Catchup !

Last cup of the day when staying at my parents. Drank while doing emails, playing my turns on CC, and reading tealogs here. This was also the last bag in the box and I have no idea what water temperature I used, but it was not boiling. I now need to stock some more no/lower caffeine options there. I’m thinking about making a Harney bagged teas order. I need to look into that.

The Barb & Bob Backlog continued.

This was my Tuesday last night tea. Much better than the peach of the previous night. Again, five days later I cannot remember my brewing time lol.

Backlogging. 8 days ago. Friday late night.

The February Backlog: From the 1st to today.

Enjoyed while gaming on laptop in bed after a mini bag of buttered popcorn. I don’t know the water temperature – it was barely steaming – and cannot remember the steep time again.

Backlogging. 3 days ago. Late Wednesday night.

This one was my late night cup of tea at my parent’s while studying then doing Conquer Club. They have mostly black teas. This being one of the few less or no caffeine options. Generically green and orange. Nice enough for a hot cup to sip on.

I do not have a thermometer there so I watch the water for barely steaming/bubbling. Nor do I remember my steep time. I think it was about 2-3 minutes though.

I’m rating this one a 55 (nice bagged tea range is 50-60).