TeaTaxi

I made this hours ago and then got distracted by life so I’m drinking it cold and it tastes like a caramel marshmallow.

Chocolate Milk Cold Brew Sipdown (322)

When I opened the package yesterday to cold brew this, I was immediately hit with a strong alcohol smell. It was really weird and really pungent. I hoped for the best anyways and dumped the sample in the chocolate milk to sit in the fridge overnight. Alas, that alcohol smell carried through. Though now that I think about it, it maybe was menthol and not alcohol on account of the mint. Anyways, I wasn’t a fan and this mostly got dumped.

Cinnamon clove green tea. Nothing special.

Three words: Generic. Berry. Rooibos.

For more words, check out my full review here: http://sororiteasisters.com/2018/08/31/raspmonade-from-teataxi/

Iced tea/hot tea Sipdown (351)

This sample had 3 perfect teaspoons so I used 2 in my iced tea press and the last in an 8 ounce mug. It’s an interesting tea made up of a bunch of different fruits and a bunch of different herbal ingredients I am not particularly familiar with.

The iced tea has a nice fruity flavor with has no hibby/rosehip tartness. It’s sad though because that fruit flavor is followed by a forest quality/woodiness/not great herbal flavor.

Hot, this is worse. That fruit flavor is mostly gone other than a slight sweetness. The herbs take over. Honestly it’s like someone took a tiny bit of jam and smeared it on a dump branch with leaves.

This travels towards lemon pledge but manages to be reigned in by the oolong base and ginger zip at the end of each sip. It would be a nice tea when you aren’t feeling your best.

Check out my full review here: http://sororiteasisters.com/2018/07/05/citrus-oolong-from-tea-taxi/

I made this iced and hot while sick a little while back. It was minty with a little bit of ginger but it felt good going down so I was happy.

Check out my full review here: http://sororiteasisters.com/2018/06/02/antivirus-from-teataxi/

Around the end of last year I went for High Tea at the Ritz Carlton. If I am being honest, it was a bit of a disappointment but they introduced me to Sloane Tea’s Oolong Creme which I think is the tea that got me interested in oolongs. However, it is also the tea that set a fairly high standard for milk oolongs and though this one wasn’t bad, it just didn’t measure up. Milky and floral but a bit on the thinner side.

Check out my full review here: http://sororiteasisters.com/2018/02/15/milky-oolong-from-tea-taxi/

Sipdown (370)

You’d think a tea called “Some Like it Hot!” would have more of a kick. It’s got cardamom. It’s got licorice from the star anise. It’s got ginger. No burn. No spice. It’s warming but not what I expected. With that said, I don’t hate it which is surprising given the anise.

I don’t always love the flavor of orange teas but the smell always gets me. This tea smelled like orange and that scent transferred into the taste as well. The oolong complimented the flavor as well, adding a bit of floral and cream to round out the citrus.

Check out my full review here: http://sororiteasisters.com/2017/12/29/orange-dream-from-tea-taxi/

Sipdown (374)

This actually had a lot more vanilla flavour than I expected. It’s a bit nutty and a bit rooibosy which makes this for a more robust flavour overall. It’s nice but vanilla rooibos blends are kind of boring and I don’t see myself reaching for this often. It’s very nice if you’re into this sort of thing though.

This makes a very tasty tea latte! I can taste raspberries and popped corn. This combo goes very well together.

Tastes a little fruity with a black tea base. Not too bad as a hot tea latte.

Lemonade/Ice Tea Sipdown (375)

This is supposed to be a rooibos/honeybush blend but when I opened the sample, it looked like black tea. I even sent a photo to Sil who also said it looked like black tea. So that was a confusing start.

Anyways, I actually brewed this a couple days ago but haven’t been able to get to it for a while. Now that I am finally drinking it I still don’t know if it is a black tea or honeybush/rooibos blend because all I am getting is a whole lot of honey and lemon sweetness with a peppermint finish. I can see this being well liked by some but for me it is a bit too sweet. I don’t know if its the tea to blame or the lemonade.

Sipdown (386)

Not gonna lie…this was disappointing. It smelled awesome but why was the little bit of rooibos necessary?! I do get banana and I do get pineapple but then I also get that rooibos and the coconut just makes this a touch too slick. I had high hopes because a flambeed banana tea sounds awesome but this fell short.

You can really taste the lavender in this blend. I always found lavender very confusing in tea as I always think that I am drinking perfume or something.

Smells a lot like Earl Grey. I do not usually like Earl Grey teas, so this should be interesting…but it has cute clover shaped sprinkles. It is surprisingly good. I could imagine that it would be tasty as a latte too.

this just tasted like mostly generic rooibos with a really faint orange flavour to it…but certainly one i have to think about in order to find lol. Not a fan of this one.

Chocolate? Check. Creme-Caramel? Check. Rose? Check. Base tea? No where to be found. Everything I would want there is there but I don’t find myself enthused drinking it. I guess this just isn’t for me.

Man, this is SO not my cup of tea! There’s something gross tasting in this blend. On the positive side, I am finally done all my stash of TeaTaxi samples! Yay! Now on to my CitizenTea samples.

The dry leaf smells yummy like mangoes. Made this iced and it’s yummy. Tastes like ginger and mangoes.

Tastes like marzipan and corn flowers. I am glad that this was a sample.

Tastes like rooibos with spices. Not a big fan of this one-I think it is the cloves ruining it for me.

This is so delicious! Tastes a bit like a blueberry muffin with a rooibos base.