788 Tasting Notes
Steep Information:
Amount: 2 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 6 ounces filtered boiling
Tool: Mesh basket strainer in cup
Steep Time: a little over 7 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: lemon, floral
Steeped Tea Smell: ginger, mint
Flavor: lemon, mint
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: spicy ginger burn
Liquor: dark cloudy brown
Steepster Traveling Teabox Tea
Weird. Really that is the best I can say. Starts off woody rooibos, shifts to minty, then ginger burn. It’s not unpleasant. It’s just odd.
Post-Steep Additives: none
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/tealuxe-loose-leaf-rooibos-tea-thayer.html
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 6 ounces filtered boiling
Tool: Mesh basket strainer in cup
Steep Time: a little over 4 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: chocolate
Steeped Tea Smell: black tea
Flavor: smooth black tea, astringent but not bitter
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: black tea, astringent
Liquor: dark reddish-brown
Steepster Traveling Teabox Tea
Nice black tea, but not finding the coconut or chocolate. It is especially nice that it’s smooth, astringent, but not bitter.
Post-Steep Additives: 1 tsp German rock sugar, a bit sweeter but that’s all.
Preparation
Resteep: not a true resteep, per Steepster notes I saw the suggestion for double strength. I added 1 fresh tsp on top of the 1 tsp already steeped and let it go 4 min.
Smells like coconut, tastes like tea, roommate detects slight coconut aftertaste. I didn’t.
Dumped in 1 tsp sweetened coconut milk. Now I have coconut but no chocolate.
I generally thought that this tea did not meet Premium Steap’s typical high standards; I liked it but I also used double strength, which I should have mentioned in my tasting note.
I haven’t tried too many of their teas yet but i loved their almond tea, so i kind of was expecting a bit more from this one…oh well
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 6 ounces boiling
Tool: Mesh basket strainer in cup
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: leafy, muddy
Steep Time: a little over 30 seconds
Steeped Tea Smell: leaves
Flavor: muddy
Body: Medium
Liquor: translucent orange brown
Tossed, I guess this counts as the rinse
Steep Time: a little over 30 seconds
Steeped Tea Smell: sweet, leaves
Flavor: muddy, sweet, silky
Body: Medium
Liquor: translucent orange brown
Steep Time: a little over 45 seconds
Steeped Tea Smell: sweet, leaves
Flavor: muddy, sweet, silky
Body: Medium
Liquor: translucent brown with an orange hint
Steep Time: a little over 45 seconds
Steeped Tea Smell: sweet, leaves
Flavor: muddy, sweet, silky, bitter
Body: Medium
Liquor: translucent light orange-brown
Since it got bitter I stopped.
I think next time I may try 2 tsp / 6 ounces. Perhaps this will raise the rating?
I am very new to pu-erh so I’m finding may way through. I may end up not liking it. So I am not sure if I do or do not like pu-erh in general, or even if I prepared these leaves correctly.
Images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/chicago-tea-garden-loose-leaf-pu-erh.html
Preparation
For someone who was new to pu-erhs, you chose one that wasn’t for beginners. I respectfully disagree with the rating you gave this tea. This tea isn’t for everybody and requires a very refined palette or some experience with the gamut of ripe and raw pu-erhs. Peace.
Steep Information:
Amount: 3 tsp
Additives: none
Water: filtered, boiling, 1 cast iron teapot full
Tool: Cast Iron Teapot with Mesh basket strainer
Steep Time: a little over 4 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: generic spices, chocolate, berries, vanilla?
Steeped Tea Smell: black tea, berries, sweet, spices, chocolate, complex kaleidoscope
Flavor: black tea, berry, sweet, slightly astringent
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: spicy, short slight bitter, slightly astringent
Liquor: translucent dark orange or maybe reddish-brown
I believe I ordered this because it was featured on Steepster select and everyone was raving about it.
The flavors are slight but definitely there, only they keep shifting and I can’t get a good handle on what they are. This is a very smooth black tea.
Post-Steep Additives: 1 tsp German rock sugar, not an improvement I actually think it did something unpleasant to the flavor
The next cup tried almond milk, chugged that to get rid of it, BLEH
Resteep: 4 minutes – brown water
+2 min – slightly vanilla brown water
+2 min very light tea and vanilla if I were in a better mood I would have appreciated it as a light cup of tea with hints of flavor but I tossed it.
I don’t think I’ll purchase it, it is a quality tea, and a nice black tea, but very complex tea, and just not my cup of tea.
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/harney-and-sons-loose-leaf-black-tea_22.html
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: 2 tsp, entire sample
Additives: none
Water: 12 ounces filtered boiling
Tool: Mesh basket strainer in cup
Steep Time: a little over 7 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: orange and something else I can’t identify
Steeped Tea Smell: woody honey orange
Flavor: sweet orange
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: citric tang
Liquor: translucent orange-red
This is part of the samples I got from the jade teapot. Although this tea isn’t a WOW tea, I will buy some in conjunction with other teas when purchasing there.
Post-Steep Additives: none
Resteep: weak and watery, threw out
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/jade-teapot-loose-leaf-rooibos-tea_21.html
Preparation
Steep Information:
Prepared hot in store, 16 ounces with perfect steeper.
Tasting Notes:
Steeped Tea Smell: Strawberry rhubarb pie
Flavor: black tea, frozen strawberry (not a juicy fresh flavor) as a end of sip taste
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: fuzzy is the only way to describe it
Liquor: dark brown
Bobbie got this one prepared for her at Teavana when we went to go pick up more my morning mate (our staple, we always have some around). I tried some and we both agree it was OK but not something we’ll get again.
Post-Steep Additives: none
I love this one! Sorry you didn’t love it!
meh, you win some you lose some, that’s why i love getting them prepared tp drink and try as we wander. bibbie also hates sugar and cream-i think with a bit of both the weird fuzzy would have gone away
gah bobbie, trying to type and eat breakfast
Steep Information:
Prepared hot in store, 16 ounces with perfect steeper and German rock sugar.
Tasting Notes:
Steeped Tea Smell: strawberry kiwi gum
Flavor: sweet strong strawberry with a hint of kiwi
Body: Full
Aftertaste: generic berry
Liquor: deep red
Delicious, Bobbie even finished mine she liked tasting it so much.
My only fear is that it won’t taste as delicious when I make it at home.
Post-Steep Additives: none
Steep Information:
Amount: 2 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 12 ounces
Steep Time: no idea
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: grassy
Steeped Tea Smell: grassy
Flavor: sweet, watery, vegetal, but smooth
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: bitter, vegetal that lingers
Liquor: transparent with a green tint
I got this as part of a sample set from Life in Teacup.
Tried following directions (http://www.lifeinteacup.com/brewing-tea) and waited until most leaves sank. I used boiling water that had sat for a bit.
I really guess I am not too much of a green person :(
Post-Steep Additives: none
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/life-in-teacup-loose-leaf-green-tea-zhu.html
Steep Information:
Amount: 4 tsp
Additives: 1.5 tsp sugar
Water: 1 pot filtered boiling
Tool: Cast Iron Teapot with Mesh basket strainer
Steep Time: a little over 6 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: lemongrass, apple, hint of floral, hint of berry
Steeped Tea Smell: hibiscus, lemon, hint of floral
Flavor: sweet apple, hibiscus, lemon
Body: Full
Aftertaste: tang, probably from the hibiscus
Liquor: cloudy red/blood orange
One of MilitiaJim’s co-workers got this and didn’t like it. So knowing we’re tea addicts he gifted it to us.
It was OK hot, but delicious iced!
Post-Steep Additives: none
Resteep: 7 minutes, weak, watery, light pink
7 more minutes in same water, watery lemon, smells like roses
tossed the resteep
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/teavana-loose-leaf-mate-tea-raspberry.html
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: 2 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 2 zarafina cups filtered water
Tool: Zarafina Black-Loose-Medium (I should have done light)
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: sweet generic spice
Steeped Tea Smell: cinnamon, pumpkin (MilitiaJim could smell it, I got a weird sweet smell)
Flavor: bitter black tea
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: more bitter
Liquor: translucent orange-red-brown
Steepster Traveling Teabox Tea
Where is my pumpkin? Where is the spice?
Post-Steep Additives: 1 tsp German rock sugar, hides the bitter, but your getting very sweet black tea, no spice, no pumpkin
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/adagio-teas-loose-leaf-black-tea.html
