788 Tasting Notes
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 teabag, 2.6g
Additives: none
Water: 8 ounces hot spigot water
Steep Time: a little over 3 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: roasty leaf
Steeped Tea Smell: black tea
Flavor: black tea, astringent, bitter
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: grassy green tea, bitter
Liquor: translucent dark brown
Steepster Traveling Teabox Tea
I can see having this tea again if it were free and I could drown it in sugar and milk. This tea might have been better if I went to less steep time, but as I only have the one and am at work there is not much room to experiment and play.
Post-Steep Additives:
+1 packet white sugar=slightly sweeter, still a very bitter finish
+1(2) packet white sugar=palatable, wish i had a bit of cream to toss in
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/tazo-teabag-black-tea-joy.html
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 teabag 2.6g
Additives: none
Water: hot spigot water, 1 mug (12 oz?)
Steep Time: a little over 5 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: chai-like, spicy
Steeped Tea Smell: chocolate, nutmeg, vanilla
Flavor: chocolate, nutmeg, rooibos, earthy
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: nutmeg, cinnamon, warm spicy
Liquor: dark cloudy reddish-brown
Steepster Traveling Teabox Tea
It doesn’t have quite enough kick to be a chai. With all the rave reviews I was expecting something a bit more amazing. It is a nice spicy chocolate tea, but not something I am going to go out of my way to try. I am very glad I got the opportunity to give it a try via the teabox as I am not sure I would have been pleased to end up with an entire box of this tea. There are so many teas out there I want to try that i don’t want to be stuck with good tea, I want to only stock up on amazing tea.
Post-Steep Additives: none
Preparation
I drink it w/ half as much water… maybe that would help? No, it is definitely not a chai, it’s not supposed to be. I wish it would just be chocolate + pu erh.
Hmmm and I have this as one of my next purchases. I’m glad you tried it before as we seem to have a very similar taste in tea.
I like this one too, which surprised me a lot because normally I don’t care for pu-erh.
LiberTEAS, I agree- I am not a cooked pu erh fan (but LOVE raw pu erh), but I’m completely in love w/ this one so I can’t wait to try other flavored cooked pu erhs.
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 teabag, 2.9 g
Additives: none
Water: hot spigot water, 12 ounces? in mug
Steep Time: a little over 4 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: orange, bergamont, floral
Steeped Tea Smell: vanilla, black tea
Flavor: smooth black tea
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: floral
Liquor: translucent dark brown
I purchased a sampler and this was included.
The smell was amazing, the tea was a quality black tea but what happened to the orange and vanilla flavor?
Post-Steep Additives: +1 packet white sugar – not much change, a slightly artificial aftertaste
+1 (=2) packet white sugar – very artificial aftertaste bleh!
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/mighty-leaf-tea-teabag-black-tea-orange.html
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 teabag, 2.9g
Additives: none
Water: hot spigot water, 160° 1 mug (12 oz?)
Steep Time: a little over 2 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: peachy, floral
Steeped Tea Smell: barely there, floral, sweet
Flavor: slick, it’s made my mouth smooth, and there is a flavor a light flavor i can’t place b/c it’s barely there
Body: Light
Aftertaste: fruity and floral
Liquor: translucent honey yellow-brown
Steepster Traveling Teabox Tea
Well I am going to finish this mug but I don’t like it.
Note: I am not a white tea fan, it’s too delicate and subtle for me.
Post-Steep Additives: none
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/mighty-leaf-tea-teabag-white-tea-white.html
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 1 zarafina cup filtered
Tool: Zarafina oolong-loose-medium
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: I forgot to sniff I was too excited!
Steeped Tea Smell: buttered vegetables
Flavor: SILK, silky smooth vegetal, sweet
Body: Light
Aftertaste: fuzzy, it makes my tongue fuzzy
Liquor: translucent green-yellow
SoccorMom was kind enough to send me some of this, one of her favorites.
I think this is the first oolong I’ve blogged, at least my labels didn’t have oolong in there yet.
Wow! the leave started out squished little things and they unfurled and became HUGE.
Although I am really enjoying the silken texture, I don’t see myself craving this daily. I can see buying this from time to time for a nice smooth sweet tea with no bitterness.
So not a favorite, but a very enjoyable mug of morning tea (boo morning!) so SoccorMom won’t have to fight me for the supply ;)
Post-Steep Additives: none
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/te-house-of-tea-loose-leaf-oolong-tea.html
Resteep: just like the first, except a I caught the cream!
glad i got to try this, it reminds me of coconut pouchong but less vegetal
I prefer 2nd steep too!
what’s the most steeps your wrangled from the leaves, because i mean the second looked JUST like the first, impressive really
Well I usually go three after the third the leaves started to turn brownish. The first time I had it I thought hmmm this is okay and the more I drank the more I liked it. Save you last steep for after dinner (that’s when I enjoy it most).
Steep Information:
Amount: 5 tsp
Additives: none
Water: filtered, boiling, 1 cast iron teapot full
Tool: Cast Iron Teapot with Mesh basket strainer
Steep Time: a little over 6 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell:
MilitiaJim: It smells kinda like Jaegermeister. Very medicinal.
AmazonV: Peppers, cardamon, cinnamon.
Steeped Tea Smell:
MilitiaJim: It still smells medicinal.
AmazonV: Peppers, cardamon, cinnamon.
Flavor:
MilitiaJim: vaguely spicy
AmazonV: Sweet, orange, clove, cinnamon
Body: Full
Aftertaste: spicy
Liquor: cloudy orange-green-yellow
The taste reminded me of the holidays. We drank it as tea and did not make it as proper chai.
Post-Steep Additives: MilitiaJim added 1 tsp German rock sugar -“better now, sweet and spicy.”
Resteep: 7 min – weak, watery, cinnamon clove water with a hint of citrus – dumping it.
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/teavana-loose-leaf-mate-tea-samurai.html
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: ?
Additives: ? tsp German Rock Sugar
Water: 16 ounces hot spigot water
Tool: Teavana perfect steeper
Steep Time: a little over 3 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: fruity, floral
Steeped Tea Smell: floral, fruity
Flavor: slightly vegetal, generic fruity flavor, floral, no bitterness!
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: none that I recall
Liquor: cloudy but translucent orange-green-yellow
Prepared in store by staff while I was purchasing other teas. I drank it while walking around the mall. I had asked for ‘Green Tea Heaven’ but apparently it’s been discontinued. This was their replacement recommendation.
Post-Steep Additives: none
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/teavana-loose-leaf-green-tea-fruta.html
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: 1.t tsp
Additives: none
Water: 1 zarafina cup
Tool: Zarafina black-loose-mild
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: chocolaty, nutty
Steeped Tea Smell: sweet
Flavor: sweet, mild black tea
Body: Light
Aftertaste: not much, a little astringent
Liquor: light translucent brown
Steepster Traveling Teabox Tea
I think that I should have set the Zarafina to Medium.
The leaves were a pretty mix of back and gold.
It was a pretty smooth and sweet (no additives) tea, but unremarkable (if compared to other quality teas, including other Harney and Sons).
Post-Steep Additives: none
Resteep: Zarafina Black-loose-strong
Again i should have done medium! When will I learn?
It was a bit bitter, but a smooth, strong black tea with honey notes still.
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/harney-and-sons-loose-leaf-black-tea_24.html
Steep Information:
Amount: 4 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 2 zarafina cups
Tool: Zarafina herbal – loose – strong
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell:
Steeped Tea Smell: strawberry, citrus, fruity, floral
Flavor: strawberry, hibiscus
Body: Full
Aftertaste: zesty (MilitiaJim), papaya
Liquor: translucent blood orange or dark pink
Sample I found out about on Steepster. I placed my sample order on 3/16 and paid through PayPal. It ended up costing $2.80. 3/21 I received notice it was being shipped. It arrived today, 3/23, and was promptly had for dessert after dinner. It came with a nice pamphlet about their specialty tea blends and a hand written note on the bottom of my receipt.
Post-Steep Additives: 1 tsp German rock sugar, sweeter, softens the hibiscus but not much else.
I think this would taste good as a sweetened iced tea as well.
Resteep: was amazingly just as good as the first go!
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/not-just-tea-loose-leaf-rooibos-tea.html
How do you go about getting samples? Anything that has strawberry and hibiscus is something that I’d like to try.
found in post http://steepster.com/discuss/10-links-to-get-free-samples?page=3
txt: You can get a free sample of Not Just Tea’s Sassy Strawberry herbal here http://www.notjusttea.com/main/page_mailing_list.php
however shipping was 2.80 to me, but it was a 4-6 tsp sample so the same if not more than i’d usually pay 2-3 $ for anyway
