Four O'Clock Organic
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The thing that I really like about this tea is how pronounced the turmeric flavour is. I was expecting that the cinnamon might over-power the turmeric but in reality, turmeric is the star of the show with a little hit of cinnamon as the supporting player. It’s nice and mild with just a pinch of pepper. It brews up to be a beautiful shade of golden yellow.
My mug was super-comforting and I savoured every drop.
Flavors: Cinnamon, Pepper, Turmeric
Made this one today and it was smooth and inoffensive. I did find it a little bit light at first, but thankfully I took my first sips before tossing the sachet so I ended up just popping it back in the mug and leaving it there the whole time I drank it. The tea was more flavourful that way. Citrusy though not distinctly lime with a fresh and mildly spicy combo of crisp mint and earthy ginger. Semi mojito or moscow mule type vibes which I did enjoy. Would have personally liked a little more mint, and a bit more acidity.
As anyone who has seen my reviews knows… I find most rooibos teas weak for me. This one have more flavor and smell than most i have tried, however not enough to become a permanent tea on my wall. i can definitely taste the chai and maple, however there isn’t even a hint of pecan.
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I find this to be a very, very pleasant cup for a grocery store pyramid sachet. However, I do think the name and packaging are pretty misleading. Unless you look closely at the ingredients list, I bet most people would imagine to to be a very simple and classic jasmine green tea – maybe a little bit more floral because of the lotus. It’s actually a pretty busy blend though and, most importantly, it’s very fruity!!
I love the fruit notes that are present, though! It’s more light to medium bodied and pretty lush and round on the palate with sweet notes of ripe orchard fruits. Jasmine, too. That’s the secondary flavour, and the clean floral note is a very nice way to close out the sip. Gentle, sophisticated and not overly perfumed. Personally, I would take this over a boring bagged grocery store jasmine any day of the week. However, if you want mostly jasmine I think this will leave you a little disappointed…
Someone brought this to the officer earlier in the week and I was in a rush so I took advantage of the convenience of having a teabag accessible. I’m not 100% sure this is the right tea though because I could have sworn what they brought in was a black tea and the image here says herbal!? Regardless, I actually was a bit taken aback by how much I liked it. Y’all know I don’t like ginger so gingerbread can be VERY hit or miss with me. When it is a hit, it’s generally because of a strong molasses note and that’s absolutely what I picked up here than won me over.
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I wish I had one more teabag of this because, in hindsight, I think it would have been interesting to taste directly against DT’s Pomegranate Echinacea. I will say though that I enjoyed this one much more than I thought I would! I’ve had three other blends from Four O’Clock in the last couple months (maybe just a month?) and they were all sorta fine but when you’re drinking tea you definitely want more than just fine. This is the only one of this recent tasting batch that I would probably drink again enthusiastically!
It was actually a pretty flavourful pomegranate forward cup in a way that I found pretty natural tasting with just a hint of sweetness and a pleasant crisp tartness. What I think I enjoyed the most was the very soft spicy and earthy ginger undertones and how it was overall not overly medicinal. There’s no unpleasant notes of echinacea here!
Y’know some days you get home at 9PM and you’re just EXHAUSTED so you just settle for the first teabag you dig out of the big mixed box of them you have closest to the kettle. That was the mindset when I made this tea. Honestly fine, but nothing special. Fruity in a kind of lychee and kind of just generically “juicy” way with the faintest bit of ginger. No off tastes just, and a hot cup of something is better than a hot cup of nothing.
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This was okay but I feel like it had the potential to easily be much better too. The white tea itself used in the blend was fine; soft and a little floral with notes of hay. Not an exceptional quality but also just genuinely not half bad for a teabag. I smelled the lychee aroma coming off the steeped tea much, much more than I tasted it which was disappointing. A lychee white tea sounds like such a boss combination, especially if it’s a floral leaning lychee, and I wanted that so much. The ginger was delicate and restrained, which I appreciated because if it had been strong it would have swallowed up the notes of the white tea.
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So, I can definitely see why this would appeal to come people but I was personally pretty turned off by this cup. It does taste pretty distinctly and strongly of a more roasty black coffee and, while I appreciated the roast note for the most part, I didn’t love how bitter and distinctly coffee like it was. I mean, I guess I knew it would taste of coffee but I suppose I was hoping for something a little sweeter. The downside to the roast was that it was accompanied by the sort of sour and sharp top note that I associate so heavily with chicory and I do not enjoy that taste. The spice mix itself was nice enough; cinnamon heavy with clove. However, it actually left my mouth feeling numb afterwards which was an incredibly weird sensation.
Overall… this is just kind of a ‘nope’ for me.
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I’m not sure why exactly but I really thought this was going to be a lot more of a coconut blend with some ginger versus what it actually tasted like: a strong earthy and spicy ginger that really tickled at the back of my throat with the faintest hint of coconut. Quite unsweet and more spice forward than I truly wanted but I think, with an adjustment in expectations, I would likely find it alright/tolerable in future instances.
For now, it’s probably best this is a sipdown.
#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #149 overall / Tea #20 for April
An Ode to Tea, C is for Cherry Green Tea from Four-O-Clock (gifted by Tori aka @siply_tealicious)
Wednesday 04/14 — This was a green tea with as hint of artificial cherry flavor done as 2 cold-brew pitchers (about 5 DT PS each).. one pitcher at a time. Got the job done. Thanks to Tori for sharing.
#tiffanydrinkstea #tiffanys2021 #tiffanysfaves #tiffanyinthe614 #tiffanysteasipdown #sipdownchallenge
Another old; as from huge bags section.
As I am trying to drink caffeine-free teas today (I want to have nice rest while sleeping in night), I took this one, decaffeinated tea. I was sceptical, as caffeine-free teas are usually quite tasteless. ButI have oped, as this is with spices, it won’t be that bad.
It is not so bad, but base tea is almost non-present and spices are just “something in aftertaste”. It is not spicy at all, I noticed cinnamon and bit of ginger; tea was just hay-like or grass seed-like. It was very weak in all means of flavours.
It is such a shame, but yeah – it is decaffeinated tea, so… maybe it is feature. (It’s not a bug, it is a feature).
Currently, I don’t want to try it again, but if it is fresh? Maybe I would gladly to try again
Flavors: Cinnamon, Ginger, Grass Seed, Hay
Preparation
Decaf teas really are weak in flavor, especially if they aren’t fresh. It’s always disappointing when you expect a nice, strong cup and end up with hot water that tastes vaguely of tea.
Yep, I hoped the spices would do the trick for me today. But even them were weak.
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Finished this sample as an oat milk latte. Ultimately it tasted fine, but also pretty soft/weak. A hint of cherry, but just really lacking flavour/body/oomph. Could be that the milk was too dominant a note, or maybe I should have steeped the tea longer for a more concentrated infusion – but I feel like it was just that the tea wasn’t super strong in the first place.
I think this was a VariaTEA share – so thank you for sharing!
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Currently finishing off the last third of this cold brew and it’s… fine.
Definitely smooth in mouthfeel but the taste is a little brassy/coppery and too bergamot and black tea forward without enough cream/vanilla to fulfill the concept of being a “Cream of Earl Grey". That was a pretty consistent criticism of this blend I had throughout this sample, so I’m not surprised to see it here.
Ultimately just happy to get another EG out of my stash…
Hot cuppa from this afternoon/lunch with a splash of milk.
Definitely a very flat tasting EG blend without a lot of cream – I think that’s partly age and just partly it not being an exceptional tasting EG in the first place. Oh well; just working towards a sipdown really…
Went out painting Friday night at the Ceramic Cafe again – I think I’m going to make a biweekly thing of it. The only problem is going to be storing all the teacups and saucers that I’m bound to end up painting…
Anyway; I got a London Fog to sip on while I painted – and it turned out to be made from this tea which, ironically, I actually own. So that was kind of funny. It didn’t taste bad, but it was definitely a pretty mediocre latte. Not exactly amazing quality food/beverage from this cafe. Then again, you don’t go there for the food – you go to paint. So it’s whatever.
I still had a REALLY good time painting.
Hot with honey.
I’ve seen this company around A LOT lately, and I asked some coworkers if they had any background on the company since it’s only since moving to Montreal I’ve seen them EVERYWHERE. Prior to now, I think I had only ever experienced the one (mediocre) blend from them that I received from VariaTEA. According to my coworkers, though, this is
pretty popular company sold through grocery stores here in Montreal…
This blend also comes to me via VariaTEA – and honestly I was bored of it after just a few sips. I don’t really get the “cream” note from the flavor that should be present for an EG that is going to market itself that way, and the tea itself and the bergamot used are very run of the mill for me. Just nothing to hook me. The best part, which is sad, is legitimately the honey that I added in myself…
I got these as a gift and none have been all that interesting, either in title or in taste. This makes for a nice enough London Fog but thats mostly because I have it in large enough quantity for that and its hard to make something that is sweetened with honey and vanilla and mixed with milk be bad. I would never seek this out though.
Also, I never noticed it in Montreal tbh. However, it is the supplier of teas to my school so it is what everyone drinks on campus. Everyone but me of course because I have better stuff at home lol.
This is the main supplier of tea at my college as well, unfortunately.
That makes me sad for you both :(
Sample from VariaTEA which sadly i only had a sip of. A friend came over last night and he was looking for a cup of tea. he loves EG so i was glad that i had a couple of samples for him to have. He thoroughly enjoyed this one, as his usual cup is bagged boring teas :) I had a sip, and it wasn’t terrible for an EG. I think i prefer EG creams to EG but neither will ever top my list :) Thanks for the share VariaTEA!
Decadent. sophisticated. elegant. – all words used to describe my hot chocolate infused with this tea.
Check out my full review and the recipe here: http://sororiteasisters.com/2019/04/04/earl-grey-creme-infused-hot-chocolate-four-oclock/
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I tried making a London Fog with this tea and vanilla almond milk and it tastes like cardboard. This sipdown was more of a dump down. I am completely okay seeing this go because I have a different Earl Grey that I can use for my hot chocolates and that’s really what this was good for.
I have discovered the best way to drink Earl Grey. I don’t even really like Earl Grey but Earl Grey hot chocolates are my favorite thing right now. Made with semi-sweet chocolate, it is really amazing! It’s an adult hot chocolate…very yum!
There is really no such thing as being too old for Hot Cocoa. There just comes a time where you graduate from Swiss Miss to actual Cocoa.
Oooo.. what a fun new idea. I just had Lupicia’s chocolate earl grey today, so I should have thought of that already today. haha
I have infused Earl Grey Tea into hot chocolate (as well as other teas and herbs)!
This is not even cocoa. This is earl grey steeped in milk and heavy cream and then semi-sweet chocolate melted into that mixture.
wow so like… $1/gram level of hot chocolate. Nifty.
Ah, I actually crush tea (or herbs) in a spice grinder and mix it into cocoa powder with sugar!
https://www.ohhowcivilized.com/the-very-best-earl-grey-hot-chocolate-recipe/ this is the recipe I used. Definitely recommend if you want to spoil yourself with a delicious treat.
That sounds amazing actually!
So I never heard of Four O’Clock Teas until my friend gave me a gift last year that came with 4 jars of different (though seemingly plain) teas and a glass tea bottle (tumbler? thermos?). I’ve used the bottle many times but have never been enthused about any of the teas. Interestingly enough, Four O’ Clock is the brand they serve at my school.
Anyways, today I realized my milk goes bad soon and I wanted something sweet (aka whipped cream) so that meant a latte was in order. And as an extra dose of yum for my sweet tooth, I turned to my London Fog recipe with honey and vanilla. Since I have a lot of this tea, I figured might as well try it out.
The latte ended up being super good. The tea was flavorful enough that it provided a silky and smooth citrus flavor without being too stark against the vanilla and honey. The whipped cream was an extra bit of deliciousness on what was a sweet and tasty nighttime treat. I couldn’t tell you if the tea is amazing given the other ingredients added that would have impacted the overall flavor but I can say that it was good made this way and thus I know how I’ll be making my way through the rest of the jar of this tea.
