Earth Teaze

From Samurai TTB
Ugh. There is no cinnamon in this tea bag labeled Cinnamon Chai. All I taste is cardamom and clove and if I wasn’t expecting at least a little cinnamon here I might find this drinkable. But no, just no.

I’ve had this sample for a while, and finally got around to trying it tonight. This tea is very ginger heavy. That’s the first thing I noticed upon tasting it. After it cooled down a bit I could taste more of the peach. I’d definitely drink it again if I had more. Pretty good!

Drinkable, but not as good as the DT version.

Lots of sweet toasted coconut, rooibos, cream, and some faded spices.

I really enjoy the aroma and flavor of this gingery and subtly peachy tea. The peach is mostly present in fragrance alone. but the good quality black tea and ginger pack a full punch of flavor. These sachets do not make as good a pitcher of iced tea as Republic of Tea’s Ginger Peach. However, as a hot tea, I even enjoy leaving this in my cup for the entire sipping duration (sometimes hours), savoring the strength of the ginger and the faint waft of peach.

Hmmm, I dunno. Very lemony. Not much if any honey. Potent!! and rather tart.
Reminds me of a lemon cough drop or syrup. It would be great when I’m sick. I wonder how it would fare iced. Oh and mum hated it.
This was given to me as a gift by my neighbour. Atleast it came with a tin that I can reuse. Might end up being one of those teas I crave randomly, to fill my lemonade-ish needs.

Today, I’ve got a nasty tension headache. It seems to be the season as everyone I know is getting them. Or maybe it’s contagious and I’m the common thread. ha. Tylenol isn’t helping at all. But the weather network tells me it isn’t related as it is “beneficial” or neutral weather for headaches. Ugh. They lie.

Overboard TTB #11

Woah what a busy day! Unfortunately mission ‘drink all the teas’ got a little sidetracked today due to some unexpected things that came up at work… Which means I either need to drink myself into a caffeine coma this evening or try and drink through the rest that really interest me before the post office closes tomorrow…. Decisions, decisions…

This tea sounded pretty interesting and since there was just under a serving left in the packet I decided to give it a go because technically it would only brew up about a half a cup which would leave me free for the next cup!

Brewed up its a little boozy tasting but I’m not specifically getting rum and adding milk definitely adds to the ‘buttered’ flavor… Not bad but probably not something I’d rush out to stock

Overboard TTB #12

I must admit, I’ve never actually tasted buttered rum. But I have tried the Buttered Rum blend from David’s Tea and I was expecting this one to taste similar. But it’s completely different! This one has a vaguely fruity flavor (strawberry, maybe?), a bit of creaminess, and a strong, malty black base. It certainly wasn’t a bad tea, but it wasn’t at all what I was expecting.

Overboard TTB

I need to preface this by saying I have never had buttered rum. The closest I’ve ever had is the buttered rum Life Savers, so I really have nothing to compare this tea to. So I need to ask… does buttered rum taste fruity? This tea is really fruity. Lots of strawberry and pear flavor. It’s actually a very tasty tea, but I can’t help but wonder how this compares to a real alcohol filled butter rum. I’m guessing they taste very, very different.

At any rate, this is a nice, tasty, fruity tea.

Another buy from Homesense. It was on sale for 3.00. Really… 50g of chai for 3.00.. I pay more for a Starbucks. So good buy first off.

This morning was my first morning of my health kick, so I was up nice and early. I decided to reward my dedication with my new tea.
When I first smell this tea, I get ginger right away. I can see pieces of clove, a few cardamom pods and maybe cinnamon bark. It doesn’t smell particularly spicy. I’m was worried when I saw that there was mate in it because I find the taste of mate unappealing. The tea leaves are rolled quite long.

When I taste it, it’s pretty… for lack of better word… bland? No spice to it at all. I had it with a coconut milk creamer because I am off dairy for 3 weeks. It’s still worth the 3.00 I paid, however it’s definitely an uninspiring blend. I haven’t put any sugar in it because this is also something I am eliminating for 3 weeks, so maybe sweetness would perk it up? For now it’s a middle of the pack tea.

I hate to give this tea such a terrible rating, but to date, this is simply the most horrid tea I’ve ever had. I absolutely love both green and mint teas in general, so when my friend gave me this blend for Christmas, I was thrilled to try it. Despite multiple attempts at brewing it, it was just horrid. It tasted like burnt, bitter grass. It was so unpalatable that I wound up throwing it away after letting several friends try it to see if they may like it more than I did. They all hated it too, so out it went. I can not recommend this blend to anyone.

You can smell the chai when you open the bag, but you can’t really… see it. After shaking it around I found two cardamom pods and some ginger, I think. It’s whole-leaf tea, assam I believe; brewed there’s no chai smell. Taste—malty assam, maybe some ceylon, I think a touch of cardamom.

Been seeing these around Winners and finally decided, two bucks an ounce? What the hell.

When I opened the bag, I saw… Giant white chips. Not flakes, but centimetre-squared chips. What the hell is this? Turns out it’s giant-ass chunks of coconut (not pictured, btw). But once I got over that (I stuck a spoon in there and mixed it all in—large chunks, low density, it’s inevitable that they all just rose to the top; happens with davidstea blends), brewed it up… Woodsyness from the rooibos, with a touch of spice. Not strong, but definitely makes me think ‘watery chai’. Could probably try stovetop (really, I find most chais are pretty watery just brewed…). Not really getting any ‘fruityness’ that others are describing—well, nothing beyond the kind you get from rooibos. Don’t taste the coconut. Which by the way ‘coco chai’? Tricky and misleading. I should have realized there was a reason they dropped that ‘A’.

But still, not bad. Something to drink at night. I should try stovetop, though. And almond milk. A nice goodnight cup.

Question, Teaze: What’s the point of selling this looseleaf in a resealable pouch if, within the resealable pouch is another, non-resealable pouch you have to cut open. I don’t… extra extra freshness…? Maybe? Buy one of those machines that seals these pouches for you and apply it directly above the ziplock. Win!

Getting a bit more taste as I reach the bottom. Think that’s where all the flavour settled. More rooibos, maybe more… cardamom? Just a touch. Still pretty damn watery.

Thanks TheTeaFairy for sending this sample to me.

I didn’t like it. Just weird spiced orange. Big miss.

Hmmmm – ok, nope not an Earth Teaze fan. This does not smell like cherry, it doesn’t taste like cherry, and I’m not a fan of the white base. I thought this was just a bitter white tea.
This was a good learning experience. I got to cross a potential company off my list. Thanks yyz for letting me experience these teas.

Last time I had this I thought fruity vanilla black. TheTeaFairy sent this to me – thank you very much – she wrote on the package – strawberry cream. This time I thought it was a little bitter – or maybe that’s just me being cranky today. Not sure – but any way you look at it, I don’t get Buttered Rum.

Hmmm,I don’t think I’m a fan of this. I don’t think it’s “Buttered Rum”.
I’m getting more fruit (berry) and vanilla. Normally fruit and vanilla wouldn’t bother me, but this is just strange. Can’t quite put my finger on what’s wrong with it, but not at all what I was expecting.
Thank you yyz for the opportunity to try this, but it’s a miss for me. :((

I found this at 3.99$ CAD at my local Winners. I had to try it. But once I opened the sealed bag, I was not in love with the smell. I tried it plain and hot and it was okay. But not something that I will buy again. The name is very misleading. To me, it doesn’t taste like a Chaï. It taste more like a fruity and lightly spiced Rooibos. But I was not ready to give up so fast on this tea. So, the second time, I used 3 times the amount of tea, put 2 cinnamon sticks inside the mug (16 ounces) and added some hot unsweetened almond milk. It was definitely better that way. Still not my favorite. But I enjoyed it as a Cinnamon Latte.

Thank you MissB for sending me this sample.
I’m not sure what I think. Weird, I think this is fruity spicy. Ingredients don’t suggest that, but that’s what I’m getting. No “coco”, some rooibos, a bit of spice, and some fruit. That’s what I think.
This really doesn’t taste that bad, I’ve drank what MissB sent to me – don’t think I would buy more – but not bad other than it doesn’t agree with the name.
Thanks MissB.

Okay. It’s cooled down now to room temperature, and there’s a bit more bite to it in this second mug. I added sweetener in the hopes of remedying this sip, and… well I guess it’s okay. I taste orange for some reason now, and still the dry bite at the back of my throat. I’m okay with that dry bite, just as long as there’s a flavor in there, and it’s only a whiff of cardamom. It easily could be in my dream-like sicko phlegmy state.

I’ve upped my rating a bit, because it is a bit better than before. Next time I try this, it’ll have to be with a longer steep.

I soooo wanted to love this, even though the whole tin was only $4.99, and that this company is almost non-existent on Steepster. A coco chai that will kick my butt as well as the viral bacterial into oblivion. Yep, a tall order.

Unfortunately, the smell of this out of the pouch (it was vacuum sealed in a pouch, inside the tin), was just meh. Some chai-like spices, but mostly rooibos. There were huge pieces of almonds and peppercorns though, so I had hope still. Steeped, just rooibos with a hint of cardamom.

My first sip, I was taken aback. Am I drinking a chai? This tastes like just plain rooibos. Still did for a few minutes, and now half the mug finished, it’s only now getting a bit of a spicey, peppery-like quality. Very drying, and a bit tickling to the throat.

The instructions were a bit odd; boiling water, 3-4 minutes, which seemed low for a rooibos, so maybe I’ll try a longer steep next time to see if perhaps things change.

I bought this tea and two others frankly because they came in nice tins and I need tins and they were on sale so I can’t complain. However, this is supposed to be a Cherry flavoured white tea and frankly I can’t really detect any distinct flavouring or scent on the tea at all. Because the tea didn’t really have any fragrance outside of the pleasant smell of white tea, I decided to let it steep a little bit longer than I normally brew whites just to see if it did draw anything out, but really it seems to be a pleasant heavier bodied white with a few rose petals and a very few chunks of white dried fruit in it.

The base tea is from Sri Lanka and appears to be a mix of a variety of styles of white tea ranging from a silver needle style, and forest green crushed variety of white tea ( not really like a Bai Mudan as the leaves appeared to be folded) The scent off it is like a slightly sweet version of a lighter second cut hay. The flavouring adds very little fragrance but maybe it contributes to the sweetness. The brewed tea smells of a nutty hay, and peaches and cream corn with butter. It taste, almost like a mao feng white tea. It is nutty, heavier bodied, and tastes of butter, with fruity accents which taste almost like a cross between grenadilla and banana and pineapple, with maybe a faint hint of sweetness coming from the coconut. The fruitiness of the tea does not taste outside of the bounds of what is found naturally in some teas but may be due to the flavouring. I can’t say that there is anything in it that screams to me of cherry, but I do know that white cherries tend to have a softer taste. The dried fruit pieces did taste like banana it is possible that part of the fruity flavouring is from any added flavour and the fruit pieces, if so it is done very subtly. I can’t say I detect any rose. Underneath the nutty fruit tones there is a pleasant bitterness, a light astrigency, and a faint hay type flavour in the aftertaste.

Future steeps retained the pleasant fruity nuttiness, but became more astringent.

Overall this is a pleasant tasting tea however it fails to deliver on the flavour promised. As a plain white it has a very pleasant full and rich flavour but it does become astrigent, with more of a caffeine kick than my silver needles.

Pear, it seems, is a hard flavour to replicate in a natural tasting way in teas, at least according to the reviews that I’ve read on this site. This tea actually doesn’t do that bad a job at it. It does it by combining apple and fennel which actually works to create a taste that is somewhere between baked pear and a bosc pear when the flavourings are well blended together. However I don’t really get a feeling or taste of cream in this tea. This is a gunpowder green tea crossed with silver needle style white, and I suppose that this base could produce a creamy feel if steeped properly. However the green tea used here is quite aggressive and bitter even when steeped at short intervals. The white tea looks quite nice though with lots of silver hairs. Both teas were sourced in Sri Lanka.

The tea brews to a nice light saffron yellow. There is a nice balance between the tea and the flavouring with both remaining present. The tea base is lightly astringent, providing a bit of a tang like you would get when eating fresh fruit, it has a faintly bitter vegetative quality to it. The fruit flavour ranges betwween apple with fennel and pear. When the fennel mixes with the apple flavour it really does
taste like pear, The tea is pleasant but I think that the suggested brew time of two minutes would make this tea overly bitter. The tea still remains slightly bitter even with shorter 40s steep times but then the fennel becomes more dominant over the fruit. At the second steep the green tea softens, becomes silkier, and slightly sweeter. The Flavouring remains consistant. Not a bad effort, I might like it better if I add sugar to tone down the bitterness, but It would have been nicer if the tea had been made with a sweeter base tea.