Juniper Ridge

This has an extreme pine needle and mint aroma before, during, and after infusion. It’s an orangish-gray-brown color.

The taste is pretty good…mostly mint…a little bit of something else…so I am thinking that’s sage but it’s not the prominent flavor…the mint is. I like it!

Not only did I want to try this one because of the SEASON but because I’m divvying my stash and paying some forward and will send the rest of this to Azzrian

I cold brewed this and it’s not too shabby cold, but I do like it even more hot!

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This smells great! It’s like a combo of pine and orange or some kind of citrusy type aroma. Very springy and fresh! Post infusion aroma is pine/citrus/leafy/springy!

This is very nice! It’s fairly bold but smooth. There is a fresh-soap-like hint to it…not saying it tastes like soap…but it’s different/unique but refreshing and tasty. I like that much more than I thought I would. Mostly because it’s not as herbally-tasting as I thought it would be and more-so for the overall aroma…perhaps Aromatherapy! Ahhhh!

Thank you to Jaime for sending me some of this tea in my Secret Santa package!

This tisane smells like outside! Here in the Pacific Northwest we are surrounded by Douglas Fir trees, so I wasn’t surprised to read learn the Douglas Fir Tips in this were harvested from the Pacific Northwest (as well as Northern California).

I don’t think I’ve ever tasted a tisane made from pine trees before… this is a first for me. It is surprisingly good! It has a lemony taste to it. It also has a mint-like taste to it that isn’t quite mint. Like someone was trying to recreate the taste of peppermint and almost got there. It has a very crisp, clean and invigorating taste to it that tastes the way the air feels when we go for a hike in the forests of the gorge.

I like this a lot more than I thought I would! Thanks again, Jaime!

Thank you so much for turning me onto this tea! I grew up in oregon too, but i never would have guessed douglas fir would taste light and lemony like this. The box says there’s nothing in here but real doug fir needles – so earthy, lemony and my favorite part? when i brew it up I let it steep in the tea pot, and my whole house smells like a forest!

De-cupboarding the last of this that I got from Jaime. This seemed like the best time to do it. We – my brother and I – just put up the Christmas tree (well, actually, it was all him), but I did the brewing of this. However, I hogged the Santa Claus mug. Its just as foresty, minty, and Christmas-like as I remembered the first time. Perfect time o’ year for this.

I thought it a good time to taste some Douglas Fir tea. Being from Oregon, we’re nowhere near short of Douglas Firs… but I haven’t tried it in tea form. Thanks to Jaime – a fellow Steepster pal – I was able to finally try some.

And it tastes like Oregon. And Christmas. I guess I would have a different opinion if this weren’t the verge of the holiday season. But…it’s late, and it’s Winter. And…well…I loved this pine-tasting shtuff. There ya go.

I found this “tea” at a health foods store in Louisville, Ky. I was looking for something different, and can you get much different than drinking a tea made from fir trees?

There are no brewing suggestions on the box, nor on the company’s website. So I tried it out for 5 minutes with boiling water.

Have you ever had a real, live Christmas tree in your home? This tea smells just like a Christmas tree, but with a little lemony edge.

The taste is very earthy, deeper and thicker than a nutty green tea; you can definitely taste the tree. There’s also a taste similar to lemon verbena.

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised at how good this tea is. I don’t know if it will become one of my staples, but it won’t be sitting in the cabinet forever, either.