Honest Tea

Soooo….I may have just bought two hockey tickets to two games in Florida. TEA BUYING CEASES NOW. It needs to be reversed now…tea selling. I am going by myself and I just really need to get away, my favorite team happens to be playing there at the start of my spring break, so can you say PERFECT?

So yeah, my boyfriend bought me this because I just was picking things freely out at the store and that’s how that always goes. I realized I had never had mate and so I might as well try it. Yeah, it’s a little sweet. But I really like it with lime, it’s like this sweet, citrusy, earthy, spicy mix and really refreshing considering it was like 70 at some point today.

And I’m going to Florida yet complaining about that. Ha.

Would I get it again? Maybe. But now I’d say I’d like to have mate that I make but not for the time being, clearly.

This is not as sweet as other bottled teas, but still sweeter than I would like. I like it because it tastes like tea. The powdery, light white tea flavor is there, and the peach is there, and neither one is overpowering the other. The sugar does overtake everything. There is a sweet aftertaste (from the tea, I think, after the sugar sweetness is gone).

This is one of my FAVORITE on-the-run go to tea’s. I can always find it at Whole Foods and even a couple of local deli’s carry it. Pearfect White Tea is cool and crisp and light, with, as they say on the bottle “a tad” of sweetness. For me, it’s just enough as I don’t like my tea too sweet.

Just over the US/Canadian Border into New York, we stopped to use the washroom at a Tops. On our way out of the store, we spotted these and had to try them. I got this one (tea and a penguin? I’m sold). It was tasty. I would have preferred some Long Life Oolong, and the oolong bit was a bit stronger than I like it. Still, I enjoyed the list of natural ingredients, the explanation of what oolong is, and the use of Fair Trade teas. If I still lived in Lockport, NY, this is a tea I can see myself enjoy often as something quick to go.

I really wanted to like this, because: I like Honest Tea, I like peach, and I looooooove Oolong.

I don’t know why, though, this just didn’t impress me. It was very “meh”. Honest Tea’s “Organic White Peach” blend is much better if you’re looking for a slightly sweet peach iced tea. This one isn’t a BAD tea, specifically; I just don’t think it’s as balanced. Just enough tea taste to make it taste funny with the peach, but not enough to just be plain tea. Eh.

I love bottled iced tea. I don’t know why, exactly, but I LOVE cold, sweetened tea…when it’s out of a bottle.

And this…this is the best. So many RTD iced teas are absurdly sweet; they taste good, but not like tea. I like that Honest Tea doesn’t overload, and even has teas that are entirely unsweetened. This blend in particular is well-balanced. It tastes like white tea, and peach, and just a hint of sweet, as it should be. All the flavors come together and none overpower.

In my opinion this could have used a more of a slap of honey. When I see honey as one of the words in the name I really expect it to be sweet. I didn’t even taste the “tad sweet” that was supposed to be there. Don’t get me wrong the tea isn’t horrible. Just not what I was expecting with the name.

I really can taste the green tea in this and there is a bit of a honey aftertaste. But that’s it just the green tea which as others have mentioned is giving this a veggie taste. Which oddly enough isn’t bad with the salad I got for lunch. I don’t think I will be trying this again. Anyone recommend any of their other teas?

This is the official drink of Me.

I bought this the other day because the price was right and I haven’t yet tried teas from Honest Tea (or at least, none that I can recall). This is a pretty decent RTD tea although it is bordering on being a little too sweet for my palate, however, it is not so sweet that it just tastes like sugar. I can taste the delicate white tea flavor and the peach notes.

Overall, a very pleasant tea that goes along nicely with dinner.

I had an amazing session of SC2 last night. Won 10 games in a row, in Gold league too! Most of them were pretty close (with 1 of the games the other player even getting a higher overall score than me). One was a platinum player, so maybe Battle.net is thinking I could be right for a promotion……..? :-D