The Boston Tea Company

Its good!! i usually don’t like vanilla but its pretty nice.

I don’t care for this tea at all. It’s very pretty loose leaf tea — full blossoms, dried orange peels — but multiple efforts to steep it at different temperatures and times only leads to the same bland, somewhat bitter taste for me.

Not great – rather bitter and kind of dusty.

I remember liking this a while back and came across some more!! I’m having one last cup and sending the rest to LiberTeas. I still LOVE the way this one smells. I can taste both the blueberries and the kiwi and it taste VERY fresh and fruity! Juicy and summery! Ahhhhh!

Another one that is VERY nice iced!!! Backlogging, sorry.

I finished this up last week and forgot to log my ICED Attempt.

1 hot cup
1 cold cup
BOTH nice
Only have enough for one more cups-worth…sigh…

I’m not digging this one as much today for some reason…not that it’s bad…just not really what I was looking for…and I think I over infused…sigh…keeping the previous rating tho!

Still tasty! :P

This is good hot and cold. It’s light but tasty all around. Can smell and taste the blueberry…hard to taste the kiwi but possible. YUM.

Cold brewed 2 tbsp in 8oz water overnight. Made a strong and refreshing drink for lunch today. This was the last of this tea. Cold brewing seemed to bring out more balanced flavor, and no bitterness from either the tea or the citrus peels.

liking it better today. Yes, the flavor is light, but it’s there. Going to try it iced next, I swear!

The dry tea is chock full of dried blue malva flowers, rose petals and lemon peel – it is a bit hard to get a well-blended scoop. Beautiful tea, but the company’s choice of a clear topped canister is clearly bad for the tea itself, though appealing to the consumer.

Brewed at 175 for 1 min as directed. Brews light to med yellow-gold with a light lemon/floral scent. Very slight bitterness, floral/lemon scent melds into an unidentifiable flavor, not particularly tropical or pineapple. Light grassiness on the finish and aftertaste. Tastes a little bit more like pineapple as it cools down, but it’s certainly not overwhelming. If you weren’t told it’s pineapple, you probably wouldn’t know. I’m getting more lemon. Maybe it’s just my taste buds today. I love tropical flavors but this is just too weak for me.

Maybe it’s better iced? Hot it’s kind of boring. I think I’d rather drink a plain green than a weakly flavored one. As a green this seems mild instead of grassy, which I do like. Ultimately I think I’d also rather look at this tea than brew/drink it. A beautiful tea should deliver in flavor as well as visual appeal (this is why blooming teas always disappoint me too). The fact that this tea is sold in a clear top canister speaks volumes – the company cares more about appearance than quality. I fell for it. Maybe it was weak because the light got in?

I will try it again iced one of these to see if it improves. If it doesn’t, maybe I’ll dump it in a bowl as potpourri…

Made this as iced tea tonight with my Ingenitea maker and my tall glass pitcher.
Yummy!
I have been saving this tea for warmer weather…it was worth the wait. A nice fruity tea without added sugars.

Not what I usually think of for a breakfast tea, but it is good. Nice fruit notes throughout the tea. I can taste the peach and apricot, not the ginger. I am not finding any astringency which is a good thing for me. Not sure I will replace this one, but for now it is nice to have:)

Made this in my 2 Qt. automatic iced tea maker today. 10 scoops. Perfection. You can really taste the peach notes.

OMG, this tea is wonderful. Smooth fruity black tea. Light tea with peach as the dominant flavor. Good for mulitple infusions.
When I first tasted this tea, I was not too impressed…but I am almost out of my other black tea and I thought “why not try this tea again” and I am so glad that I did.

12/25/09 Got this for Christmas from my oldest daughter. This is a light, refreshing black tea. It reminds me of a white tea. You can taste the peach and apricot over the ginger. The black tea takes a back seat to the other flavor profiles.

This tea has white tea blueberries kiwi and blue malva flowers I’t look kind of darkish the leaves and you also mostly see the blueberries and malva flowers. This smells mostly like blueberry. I steeped it up. This tastes kind of heavy for a white tea with a blueberry taste that I’s not extremely tart with a hint of kiwi. This I’s good.

Iced!