Lipton

Another tea that I’m almost out of, and one that I’ll be buying again. I’m not usually a Lipton’s fan, but they’ve been coming out with some good teas here lately. This one is great.

There’s peach, a good peach flavor, and another tropical-esque fruit flavor which I’m assuming is the mangosteen. Having never eaten mangosteen before, I’ve no idea how authentic it is. There’s not a strong green tea taste (it’s there, just not prominent), but that’s okay with me.

I wish I had a One-Touch for my office. Because brewing by the cup isn’t fast enough right now.

Last bag I have of this. I probably won’t buy more.

A gift from my work-husband this past May! Well, he’s no longer my work-husband since he moved to northern Ky for another job. But he was a good one. At 5am, he walked into the cafeteria where I was making brownies for 600 people, took one look at my face, and immediately walked back out. He came back in 20 minutes with three different boxes of Lipton tea. I’ll never be able to train someone that well again.

When I first tried it, I didn’t like it at all (which is why this is the only one I have left out of the three). I was expecting sweeter, creamier, a dessert tea. The caramel taste is very dark, almost as though the caramel was cooked for too long. This makes the tea very earthy, and to me, it tastes more like the mushroom truffle than a dessert truffle. It’s still good, so long as you like savory and are expecting it. Avoid using boiling water and overbrewing: this one gets bitter fast.

Today at work I really felt like a having a cup of black tea with milk, and I would have loved a cup of any sort of Irish breakfast tea, but unfortunately my choices were the silver needle and the standard bag of Lipton that we keep at work. I chose the Lipton, it had been ages since I’d had any (I usually bring tea from home), so what the hell, I gave it a try. I usually add lemon to Lipton, so today was a bit different when I added milk. It wasn’t horrible and satiated my craving. As I poured the milk into the cup I was reminded of a coworker who made a cup of tea, and added a creamer to her cup, and upon doing so exclaimed that the creamer was bad! That happens occasionally in the restaurant business, so I told her to just make a new cup of tea. Then she explained that first she added the lemon, and then the creamer. I then explained that when you combine milk and lemon, the milk curdles. Hours later, when making a new cup of tea, I saw her add a creamer to her cup, and then exclaim, “it did it again!”
Me: “did you add lemon?”
Her: “yeah”
Me: “milk plus lemon will curdle every time”

And then I had to walk away.

Ok, so this is not fancy tea. It is not the tea you would want to drink on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Save your good stuff for that. This is the tea you gulp down when it is 100f out side and you were out in the garden half the day. It does have a refreshing zing, not very strong on tea taste to me but for what I use it for it fits the bill. I like it slightly sugared with a touch of lemon.

This tea is nothing special. This was a sample give to me by my son. I feel there too many other teas that Lipton offers that I want to try (I must pass on this one!)

Undrinkable hot – for me, this is what hot tea tasted like for years, and it is nasty. Iced, it is ok. Would never buy it.

Ok, I admit it, I was avoiding steepster. After having spotted chocolate milk tea once and then being subsequently unable to find it again, I fell into a deep depression wherein I cursed myself constantly for not just getting it the first time I saw it. I seriously thought I had missed my chance and it was just SO SAD.

BUT! This morning I found it again at a sort of local convenience store. (Reports that I had been combing every single grocery/convenience store I could find in ever widening circles are COMPLETELY FABRICATED. Who would go that far for a silly bottled tea? (me!)) I was so pleased! At last, I could inflict the undoubtedly too sweet taste of chocolate milk tea on myself! This was going to be SO WORTH IT.

Actually, I noticed while writing this up that this is not in fact “chocolate” milk tea, but “chocolat” milk tea. Apparently they used French chocolate flavoring.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t that bad! I know! I was shocked too! Perhaps I had built it up so much in my head that it was impossible for a single bottle to contain as much sugar as I was expecting. But really I don’t think it was that sweet. Or rather, it was about as sweet as normal chocolate milk is. Which is, incidentally, what it tasted like. Chocolate milk with a very light hint of tea around the edges. In consistency too, it was thicker than I would usually expect from tea, even milk tea – almost pudding like in nature even.

Not bad! But I doubt I’ll have it again :P

This tea has a nice buttery, syrupy quality to it, which gives it the comforting vibe that it purports to have. To me, the mint is fairly subtle—more of a gentle aftertaste—secondary to what I think is the flavor of chamomile. The flavor is definitely not in-your-face (contrast: Celestial Seasonings Tension Tamer—which, by the way, I love!)

Incidentally, I’ve yawned about twelve times while drinking the tea since beginning to write this review, so maybe it really does work…?

The first thought was, by god this is considered tea?, couldn’t even get through one cup, and through more study found that the leaves actually smell like shreded alfalfa. though that would probably have tasted better.

I forgot that I drank this yesterday morning after waking up with a horrible sore throat. I am not fond of this tea but my throat felt better afterward.

Not that this is a great tea, I know because I’ve had it multiple times…but I am so congested that it actually tastes really good for some reason. I think my taste must be way off, which is sad…I’ll have to hold off on trying all my Jade Teapot samples that just came in until I can smell/taste properly.

First time I tasted Chai tea, and with a little bit of milk, I liked it ! Can’t tell if it’s a good one compared to others…

C’était mon premier essai de thé Chai, et avec un peu de lait, je l’ai bien aimé. Je ne sais pas s’il est meilleur ou moins bon que d’autres par contre.

I love this fruity tea very much ! It smells SO good, and the taste is great. Doesn’t taste a lot black tea leafs, but for tea in a bag, it’s real good !

Très très fruité, il sent vraiment bon et goûte le bon thé, même s’il est en sachet.

Taste is good, but very light. Other teas from Lipton are better !

Le goût est très délicat, quoique bon. Certains autres thés de Lipton sont meilleurs !

You don’t see these in vending machines very often, so I tend to get them when I see them, even though they go against my personal rule of not sweetening my teas. Despite the fact that it is totally too sweet I still drink it because the apple flavor has been blended really well with the black tea. It tastes super appley and delicious, while the black tea is still present and if it wasn’t sweetened it would probably be my favorite tea ever. But alas! It is and I’m afraid that means at LEAST 10 points docked because A. it impinges on it’s effectiveness as a quencher of thirst and B. too sweet! bleh.

Good balance between a quality green and a super fruity berriness. I digged this one, for a bagged tea it was pretty decent. Not much to write about it really, mostly as advertised. The fruity had a sweet berriness that went down smooth and not acidy at all. If your looking for a green and that is all, then dont get this one because the mixed berry over rides the green tea even though you sense the presence all the way through.

I forgot how much I like this one. I always brew it double strength because otherwise it tastes a bit watery. This smells and tastes remarkably like the apple pie from McDonald’s..but this is guilt-free. I’ll have to look for this at the store in a box by itself (currently, I’ve only seen it in the herbal sampler, but I don’t really like the other ones in that box).

Must admit, I am using teabags more and more lately due to convenience in the morning; I am handicap and use teabags in the morning before getting into my wheelchair in the afternoon when I am able to prepare matcha.

With that said, I am surprised at all the negative reviews here regarding Lipton’s Black Pearl Tea! I quite enjoy this tea [have many boxes.] It has a clear crisp taste, not brisk and it has a nice mouth feel, not malty but a little more noticeable than a Darjeeling the longer it steeps. I keep teabags in the whole time I am drinking to reap all the health benefits and yet it never gets bitter! I tend to find there is no aftertaste either; it is just nice and clean.

I do like the pyramid/sachet teabags better because they contain whole leaf teas and the desired room to unfurl. Lipton’s “regular” teabags aren’t so desirable because they contain “tea dust” and the Brisk tea has a murkier taste and characteristic profile.

I would highly recommend Lipton’s Black Pearl Tea…a must buy!

This tea continues to surprise me. I love how rich it is, truly a dessert tea.