Lipton

tastes like hot peach jello…

I’ve had many bad experiences with Cinnamon Apple Herbals from most companies. I usually find them way to sweet or tart or fake/cheap cinnamon tasting and end up dumping the contents down the drain. I bought a cheap sample package of Lipton Herbals last night and this was one of the samples inside the box. Before, during, and after steeping the cent was wonderful. It reminded me much of Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal. The taste wasn’t bad but it wasn’t awesome either. Moreso I think I am grateful for it NOT being too flavorful for once. It was a mild blend of Cinnamon, apple, and tea. Honestly I would have loved it even more if it was a flavored black tea but this was a good attempt. Overall I was fairly surprised and glad I open my mind and tried this. I won’t be pouring it down the drain.

This is a very basic, blah french vanilla blend. I much prefer any of the Bigelow vanilla teas over this. Lowering the rating since last time I drank it, I was ill and apparently it’s not as good as I remembered!

I haven’t had this in a long time (and I’m still sick, so my sense of taste is way off), but I enjoy this for a basic vanilla black tea. I think in general, Lipton gets a bad rap, but I’ve never had a problem with their teas.

I’ve almost finished off the box of this, and I will definitely buy more (although I’ll try to hold off seeing as my cabinets are overflowing right now!).

I decided to try this tea at work (because I won’t pay for it) after seeing the “Modern Marvels” episode about tea. Surely if they think highly enough of lipton to dedicate 75% of an episode to it, it must be good right? Wrong! This tea has a decidedly old taste. In fact if you really think about it, it tastes dusty. It is quite obviously over oxidized, which makes sense. Lipton produces millions of pounds of tea a year. Which means they have to get their tea from about as many places. Goodbye terroir, hello heavy oxidation. If you have a load of tea from several different sources, the only way to make it all taste the same and maintain product continuity is to oxidize the hell out of it. It’s like what would happen if you took an apple, a pear, and a carrot and put them in the oven for the clean cycle. At the end of the cycle, they’d all taste the same. Drinking lipton is so unnecessary. Even in places where it’s the only thing available. With the expansion of tea sales on the internet, (case in point: steepster) no one of discerning taste need resort to this unholy liquor. Of course Lipton does do us a big favor. They keep our favorite teas cogent by keeping their market share down, and their batches small.

Stereotypical Lipton. Stereotypical Peppermint Bagged Tag. However, this specific one sure brings back memories of my childhood when my Grandmother first got me into TEA at the age of 3…so for that reason alone I will be scoring it higher than I normally would…teehee…or should I say TEAHEE

This smells awesome…then again I’m a fan of mango and peach. The peach scent might come thru a tad more than the mango but not by much. It’s a true white tea color. It’s also flavorful for a white tea…moreso than most I have tried esp bagged. The longer it steeps the more you can smell the mango. It’s weird but it a good way that within the same sip you can taste the peach to start and by the end of the sip you get the mango. You can taste both main fruit flavors but can still tell it’s supposed to be a white tea. It’s one of those teas that make you think but you can still enjoy it. I would try this again.

Again, bought this because it was on sale…but am so far excited about this attempt. I was a little afraid because it had the potential to be overly sweet and tart and fruity but I really think the red tea base helped that cause. You can taste both the Strawberry and the Passion Fruit…almost equally, it seems. It’s sweet but not too sweet. Tart but not too tart. Fruity but not too fruity. And Refreshing. Because I don’t like over the top fruity blends this seems to be ‘just right’ for me.

Decided to revisit this today…I think I actually like it better iced…

Yeah…it’s caramelly

I was going for quantity here and saw this and other Liptons on sale today so I jumped on the op. This isn’t something I would normally choose for myself, however, I wanted to broaden my horizons :) I must say I was pleasantly surprised. After steeping this smelled like those Werthers Candies or something. Again, not something I would normally go for. I thought it would be too sweet and caramelly (Oh! I made a new word!) but it wasn’t bad at all. It was actually a bit smooth. The coloring is that of a paler brown/black tea or brownish with reddish tint.

Just had a great cup of green tea. Great flavour.

I don’t think you can go wrong with a peppermint tea. Nothing amazing about this one though.

Good tea.

Surprisingly good. Black tea with definate vanilla undertones.

Second worst tea I’ve ever tasted — hot or iced. It tastes like liquid St. Joseph’s aspirin. Had to throw out the box. Lipton should be ashamed of themselves (if they are capable of shame).

Only recommended if you’ve been stranded on a desert island for six months, get rescued and the rescuers offer you a cup.

Gah.

I’ve had two cups with milk for studying tonight, since I’m between finals (both of which are horrible and terrible and all sorts of other superlatives). I’ll have at least two more before I finish studying. Tomorrow, I’ll take a cup to my molecular biology final to ease my terror of homologous replication.

I made a pot of this — personally, I like the black tea that comes from the US rather than India, despite the fact that the import tea releases faster. I added milk and a splash of raspberry sugar free Torani syrup. I added a bit too much syrup, but diluted it down with milk and tea as I went along. A little syrup goes a long way….

Lipton is for every day, colds, coffee-drinking guests, Desi guests and family, and people who don’t fuss over froofy beverages. I personally like it with honey, milk, cardamom and cloves, especially when I have headaches and fatigue. It is the taste of home.

Had some in the late evening while listening to Chopin. A nice relaxing tea, with the chamomile not too overpowering. The mint and citrus complement it nicely.

I don’t know why I even tried this, seeing as I hate citrus flavored pretty much anything.