Tazo

I own the full leaf version of this tea. I never drink it hot, I always use it for the Tazo Passion Shaken Lemonade Iced Tea. If made correctly it tastes exactly like the one from Starbucks. I steep for about an hour.

This tea is great, One of the first teas I bought when I gave up pop. Tazo tea has never failed to impress me. I own many. Tea is great served hot, and even better served cold with cranberry juice to give it an extra bite.

One of my favorite brands of teas. Tazo never disapoints me. This tea makes a great compliment to a lunch, great hot or cold. I usually drink this one with very little sugar, and a bit of milk.

Wow! Bam! Pow* That was intense! Not sure I liked it. NOTE : Try with sugar next time.

Steep this tea, and it gets some nice spicy flavor to it. This is the only Starbucks tea I really enjoy. It’s quite literally a ‘’sweet and spicy’’ tea. The hibiscus is also an extremely dominant flavor. Not for the faint heart, but for people who like an excellent cup of hot or cold tea won’t want to miss this. Sweeten at your discretion, but I normally would drink this straight to taste everything.

It’s alright.. Definitely not as good as Tealish’s Spicy Chai
and tastes much like any other chai teas….

But then again, I admit that when it comes to Chai virtually all taste the same to me.

Anyone know a chai tea that ACTUALLY tastes different from all the rest? something special about it? recommendations please :) ?

Be careful not to overheat this tea or steep for too long. Before I really got super into tea I would just boil water like usual and drop this bag in a teacup for 5 or so minutes. Blech. That will result in some pretty overtly strong tea and those gross tannins that come out when you overcook Green Tea.

Now that I have a real tea kettle (thank you Cuisinart!) with temperature controls and am more careful not to leave the tea bag in too long, this is great. It is a bit minty which isn’t a huge thing for me but the lemongrass addition is really nice. It’s a great green tea and quite tasty and enjoyable, just don’t put it in boiling water like I’ve been doing for years!

Spicy, kicky chai. Not bad for a bagged chai; I think this is one of the better Tazo teas because the spices allow it to be delicious in many circumstances. Had this tonight, at work, with a splash of milk and a packet of Splenda. Can’t complain. I like the pepper in this blend, quite a bit.

Made with my Keurig brewer, this is probably one of the best teas I’ve ever tasted. Hard to say what I would think of it brewed normally, but super strong I LOVED IT!

Delicious! I ran out of earl grey and decided to try this instead. Good choice! mmmm a nice strong black tea. yum!

The flavor is one of my favorite green teas to date

This tea gives me heartburn when I drink it without milk or honey/sugar — and for good reason. I’m a desi tea purist, and desi teas need at least milk.

I actually made this on the stove in a saucepan with two Rituals Orange Pekoe and Pekoe Cut Black teabags for a few absolutely wonderful ladies who are also stuck in the hospital here in Anchorage. I intentionally watered it down a bit with milk and let them sweeten it themselves, and it was amazing, especially with our homemade naan and curries. I like how versatile this tea is — and I want to make tea cupcakes with it. Once I get out of Alaska, that’s going to be my first baking project.

I found a bag of this at my house…honestly I have no idea where it came from! I think I can say that this was the worst cup of tea that has ever touched my lips. I was thinking, pretty orange package, wild sweet orange..how bad can it be? Well…pretty bad. I didn’t even find the hibiscus that bad, it was the overwhelming licorice-y taste that it left behind. Holy grossness. It might be the last ingredient listed, but it was pretty much all I could taste. Forget the “fresh picked orange taste”. So disappointing. Needless to say, this ended up down the drain.

My aunt was staying at a pretty fancy hotel in Chicago, and while I was passing through, she graciously invited me to spend a few hours with her eating all the free food that we could find.

So I sipped on a few bags of this for a few hours with some apples and biscuits. Smells very heavily of bergamot (but I could be wrong, like I would know what a Bergamot is), but very weak tasting. Don’t get me wrong, I was content with it. It’s completely tolerable and provides you with a nice tea/caffeine fix while going well with a nice meal. But I wouldn’t pay for it.

This isn’t half bad — something that really surprised me considering that it smells vaguley of sweat (although that may have been the fault of how it was stored by the person I got it from). The taste is mostly darjeeling and oolong, somewhat spicy and more astringent than I would like. Still, for all that it has going on in terms of ingredients, I feel like this is a fairly boring tea.

Pretty much the best chai (in a bag) out there.

Cacao and Orange are dominant both dry and steeped, with herbaceous notes from the Mate and a full, round flavor that lingers without being bitter. Do not confuse cacao for “chocolate” – the smell is like 90% cacao dark chocolate, not Swiss Miss! My new favorite afternoon tea while plugging away at work, but probably too much going on for breakfast-time.

Backlogging for the conference I attended last week. They had a sampler box of most of the Tazo teas, and I tried a few of them. I remember when I first started drinking tea, I liked this one. This time it tastes a bit bland, almost like the tea was a bit old. It wasn’t awful, but I think loose leaf tea from places that keep their stock fresh has ruined me for most conventional bagged teas.

Backlogging for the conference I attended last week. They had a sampler box of most of the Tazo teas, and I tried a few of them. This is a decent bagged chai. It was a nice pick-me-up in the afternoon.