Red Leaf Tea

Breakfast is getting so much easier now that my 13 month old daughter has been adamant about feeding herself messily with a spoon! I can enjoy a cup of tea every morning while she eats her yogurt.

I had opened this up last night and enjoyed it so much that I had it again this morning. I made this with just milk! I heated the milk and added 1.5 heaping teaspoons of caramel matcha and 1 teaspoon of sugar. MmmMmmMmmmmm! The light green frothy brew was delicious. The caramel and orange come through in a gentle manner. The creaminess and sweetness add to this delicious breakfast. Again… dessert for breakfast? I can’t argue with that! I love this tea. I have to make this matcha with just plain hot water next time. I am sure it tastes equally good!

I love most jasmines but this one doesn’t quite work for me. After trying a short brew which was too floral and a long brew which was too harsh I tired a medium brew but it seems to me the green tea is a harsh tea at war with a heaping dose of floral notes in this particular jasmine. It looks nice but just the dry leaves smell more like perfume than tea. I finally poured it over ice which tames some of the harshness. If I use a cooler water I get perfume, hotter harsh and acidic tea. Drat, I suppose I’ll keep trying or perhaps a cold brew is the way to go.

Amaretto Matcha is my second favorite flavored matcha (over Caramel Matcha), and it tastes excellent! It has a strong and dominant almond and cherry taste exactly like Amaretto if you get it with at least the “Robust” flavor option, which I highly recommend, because you will not taste it nearly as well with the lighter flavor options. It makes a great dessert drink as well. Amaretto Matcha is also addicting, but do not worry, it will not get you drunk since it has no alcohol in it! Furthermore, it is much better made with lots of sugar than with Sweet ’N Low, and I prefer it iced. If you make it iced, make it by the pitcher to make it last longer, and use 1 tablespoon of matcha per pitcher. When buying this matcha, you have a choice between three grades of matcha: Starter (lowest), Royal, and Imperial (highest choice), but it tastes great with Starter matcha; the other two enhance the taste, but raise the price. I rarely drink it hot, but if you do, put 1 cup of water on the stove, but just wait until you see small bubbles in the pot, and use 1 teaspoon per cup of hot Amaretto matcha. Use 1 teaspoon per big glass of iced matcha too. I highly recommend Amaretto Matcha, and you can buy it at http://www.redleaftea.com/matcha-tea/amaretto-matcha.html#.U6pjSrWTiSo.

Update:

it tastes a tad bit better with sugar :) sugar sticks that red leaf tea sells works too (no need to measure sugar) —→http://www.redleaftea.com/sugar/sugar-stiks-box.html#.U6X9L0A0-Vo

5 points added (up from 50)

An ok tea :) i expected better. tastes kind of bland and a bit like oranges :P

T&C TTB Tea # 12 – Backlog May 25

(My last TTB backlogged review for now.)

I really need to try this again because I may not have paid careful enough attention to the flavour. It didn’t taste boozy to me. I love Bailey’s Irish Cream… when I was a teenager I’d always buy it and mix it with milk. Or just with ice cubes. Because that’s what people who don’t love the taste of booze do, drink sweet ones that taste like dessert and contain 5999 calories.

It was desserty….eh. I definitely need a round two of this at some point.

No rating for now.

I’m going to watch Sons of Anarchy now! At this rate I should be done S1 in no time!

Red Leaf Tea’s Caramel Matcha Tea (available at their website http://www.redleaftea.com/matcha-tea/caramel-matcha.html) is the best flavored matcha that the company has created. It has a wonderful flavor that is sweet and extremely enjoyable to sip in the early morning. It’s not overly sweet, so sugar and milk could be added to make this an after dinner treat to melt the worries of the day away. This is the tastiest and most versatile of their teas being appropriate to drink at almost any time of day. Red Leaf Tea provides a high quality and delicious matcha tea that comes in assorted flavors. The flavored teas provide an interesting experience for the taste buds by keeping me from getting bored while still getting a daily dose of antioxidants to keep my body healthy. I make my tea each morning by mixing the matcha with boiling water from my teapot in a thermos I bring to work and enjoy throughout the morning. Perhaps it is a limitation of how I make the tea, but by the end of the thermos, the last cup from the bottom is very dense with tea despite mixing between refills. I often mix this with some additional water to make the right consistency for my last cup.

Red Leaf Tea’s Caramel Matcha Tea is the best flavored matcha that the company has created. It has a wonderful flavor that is sweet and extremely enjoyable to sip in the early morning. It’s not overly sweet, so sugar and milk could be added to make this an after dinner treat to melt the worries of the day away. This is the tastiest and most versatile of their teas being appropriate to drink at almost any time of day. Red Leaf Tea provides a high quality and delicious matcha tea that comes in assorted flavors. The flavored teas provide an interesting experience for the taste buds by keeping me from getting bored while still getting a daily dose of antioxidants to keep my body healthy. I make my tea each morning by mixing the matcha with boiling water from my teapot in a thermos I bring to work and enjoy throughout the morning. Perhaps it is a limitation of how I make the tea, but by the end of the thermos, the last cup from the bottom is very dense with tea despite mixing between refills. I often mix this with some additional water to make the right consistency for my last cup.

I’m really not sure what to think of this tea to be honest – it’s not outright unpleasant, but I don’t precisely love it either. The bergamot and peach flavours merge together in way that’s a bit like mango – but not quite – though mango is the closest analogy to what I’m actually tasting that I can think of. It’s distinctly tangy, especially when the tea is hot and gradually more sweetness creeps in as the temperature of liquid falls. It’s an interesting blend and I can honestly say I haven’t really tried a tea like this before. I may have to play around with it a bit before I can give a verdict.

Oh Em Gee. I MUST HAVE MORE OF THIS NOW!
Seriously, I have Read Leaf Teas open and am setting up an order because damn, this stuff is good!
I have never had matcha before and I LOVE IT. I wonder what the base matcha really tastes like since the caramel in this is AMAZING and powerful and the smell omg…

So yeah. I ADORE this tea. Cheri thank you so much for sending this sample.
The only problem is I drank like 16 ounces of it this evening and now I feel WIRED.
Uugh… I avoid caffeine before bed and I totally didn’t think of this as a caffeine thing but I definitely feel it haha. Now that I know, I will try to only drink it earlier in the day.

The flavor is a rich caramel flavor and something else I can’t describe that I imagine is just how Matcha tastes. I made it according to the included instructions for a hot latte. I made it with warm milk and added a tiny bit of sugar. It didn’t need much. It’s sweet as it is. I looooved it so much. :)

So! Yes. Will be buying more. Will be careful not to drink it before bed haha :D

TTBC Rd2

I’m not sure what I was expecting from this matcha, but it certainly wasn’t the pure, cloying artificial bubblegum flavour that came through. That isn’t a complaint, mind you – the flavour is completely in line with the name, but I was just surprised by the intensity.

It’s a very artificial flavour, also, so if that’s not your thing you may not enjoy this one. It was fun as a novelty, but I’m not going to be doing this one again any time soon…

The first Sil matcha I tried. Didn’t quite get the proportions right, so it was a little thin, but made a mental note for the amaretto matcha I had today and it was much better. I didn’t really catch much Irish Cream in this like I did with the amaretto, but it may be because I made it too thin.

One of the matchas from Sil! I was sorta ok with the Irish Cream I tried yesterday (not logged yet), but then decided to try things a little differently today with the Amaretto.

I used the whole packet, a small amount of boiling water, a little sugar and a little milk. I found I needed to add more milk, but other than that, it was very tasty! I do love me some amaretto.

Bought this ages ago to do some mixing and matching and never ended up getting there. So we’ve been graaaadually cold steeping this to sipdown. It’s a pretty decent cherry tea, a little tart from the hibiscus. Generally tastes like really water cherry koolaid. Mixes well with either vanilla liquor or ginger ale (I haven’t tried all three together but could also be tasty).

Backlog
Thanks Ost for sending me some more of this!
I have some apple that have lost their crispness, so I decided to make a caramel about shake for breakfast yesterday. 1 apple, 1/2 banana, 1 cup milk, 4 ice cubes, and a little over 1/2 tsp of this matcha.
Even with the added fruits, the caramel still came through. Definitely a keeper!

Taking MissB advice, I tried this shaken (in a small Tupperware haha), and phenomenal! Blends with the cold water much better this way! And gets super frothy. Super yummy and easily downed.

Uhm, ok yes! This is everything I dreamt it would be! I love the matcha at Starbucks and I love caramel, so I knew this would be good! And it sure was!
I used 1/2 tsp with 1/2 cup cold milk, and the only negative thing I can say is that there were a few clumps. I’m going to try actually shaking it next time and seeing if that helps. The directions say to use a sifter and use hot water, but I don’t have a sifter, and its just so gosh darn good with cold milk!
This stuff is so so good, and I love MissB for sending some my way! I’m already planning an order for more!

I’ve had this for quite a while, but just haven’t been bothering with matcha at all. Um, how long does matcha stay good?

So I don’t actually know exactly how lattes are made, but I did my best this morning. I combined 3/4 hot milk with 1/4 boiling water and 1.5 tsp of this matcha, and then used my little frother device to get it all mixed up. That’s probably completely wrong, but hey it tasted good and isn’t that what truly matters?

So this definitely has a sweetness, that with the milk is almost too much for me, but I don’t like my drinks to be overly sweet. There is also a bit of a buttery flavor that makes me think of popcorn. This isn’t bad, but isn’t my favorite. However, I don’t know enough about matcha to really say much about the quality

Backlog: This is my first flavored matcha! Unfortunately I don’t really have blender access. So I put some of this and some milk in a seal able cup and shook it up! I feel like I put in much more than the required amount, but it tasted like milk up until I added a bunch in. I’m not sure how accurate of a representation this is since I probably committed some horrible taboo by doing all that. Anyway, this was reeeeally sweet. I don’t know if I would say that I got caramel exactly, but definitely lots of sweetness, almost to the point of too sweet. I would like to compare other flavors, and try different methods, to see how well I did with this one.

I am loving matcha more and more…
The health benefits can NOT be beat…
however, the flavors alone are enough to win me over…
If you are a caramel lover~ here is your chance to try match…
http://www.redleaftea.com/matcha-tea/caramel-matcha.html
Creamy, yummy caramel…getting ready to order more.

I finally picked up some almond milk this morning so I could try my first Caramel Matcha Latte! Thank you to MissB for sending me this so I could give matcha a try.
I prepared 1/2 tsp of Matcha with 2oz of hot water and whisked it with my aerolatte frother. It worked great! Then I added warm almond milk and a little bit of Just Organic Tea’s sugar. I think this is my new addiction. IT IS SO GOOD. Perfect amount of caramel to matcha flavoring. It goes well with my Star Wars marathon. May the 4th be with you!

Mastress Alita’s January sipdown challenge Tea #10: A latte

Wanted to get this LAST prompt in before it turned February! I finished all ten prompts for January and 9/10 were actual sipdowns. Nice. I finished one package of this matcha in a latte, which… wasn’t that great. Very clumpy.. too much matcha, too little milk, entirely my fault, not the fault of the matcha.
2022 sipdowns: 13 (this + Souvia – peppermint)

Additional notes: heck yeah, cantaloupe matcha smoothie with vanilla yogurt and vanilla creamer (ran out of milk and had too much creamer about anyway…also, poured some of the cantaloupe juice in there.) I don’t think I’ve had a cantaloupe smoothie before, but it was very very good.