The Spice & Tea Exchange

An Ode to Tea challenge #2– P

Sipdown! I liked this back in the day but it’s a bit faded now. Not the tea’s fault! I liked the mix of great pear and caramel. Tried to find it, but it looks like it’s gone now. I threw out the packaging which I could have googled the ingredient list to find the tea again, but I don’t see it on Spice and Tea Exchange anymore. I’m surprised at the low rating.
2021 sipdown: 100

Here’s Hoping Teabox! How did I manage to pick two ceylons in one day? I swear I probably haven’t even had two ceylons in the past year. Anyway, the caramel here is condensed milk and it certainly tastes like a condensed milk — not caramel. Not really any pear flavor. And not actual caramel pieces that I can see. But the condensed milk is comforting and the black tea base is perfect for it. The flavor just lingers… like I actually added milk. It’s a condensed milk tea – not caramel pear! But I like it. My rating might be a bit high, even if isn’t pear or caramel. But condensed milk teas always seemed unappetizing to me – not so!

ETA: The second steep tastes exactly the same!

Had this for my morning tea. It’s good but bland. No strong flavor, it’s really mild. I only steeped it for 3 minutes, next time I will probably leave it in a little longer.

This is my last backlog from ysterday – which means i officially ended my evening with 250 teas. What i love most about our little contest is that we’re both going to be rewarded with smaller cupboards at the end of it haha

This tea was a pretty big disappointment (sent to me via terri). No pear, very little caramel, nice base? i guess. sigh

Chocolate is way too overpowering… And for the price, much better tea is available

From the HHTTB
(Shrudging shoulders) meh
I really had hope for this one

Polished this off at work today, and it didn’t make an impression.
I’m glad this one is out of the cupboard! Sipdown.

This is the latest blend I’ve brought to work, and I’ve been brewing up large mugs of the stuff, as I shuffle paperwork.
I think that this is too old. The flavors have faded to nearly nothing, so its a vaguely minty cup of hot water. Not an unpleasant vaguely minty cup of hot water, but still. Not quite tea.
Oh well, it will be finished soon!
I’m gonna leave my rating alone, though. Its not the tea’s fault that I let it get too old.

When was the last time I had this? Too long ago, I’m afraid.
And I’m afraid its not aged particularly well. I mean, it doesn’t taste bad, or anything like that, but its certainly not a minty fresh cup of joy.
Still, battling this sore throat, that’s what I went for last night. And the inclusion of some lavender honey helped everything.
This goes high on the list of things to sip down.

My tea of last night. Why did I take such a long break from it? Its quite good, fresh, minty, without feeling at all like mouthwash. And it was a lovely tea to drink on a nice evening like yesterday was.

Another evening of mint tea, but my more sophisticated version. Mint, fresh and clean. Very nice for an evening with cold winds, and being exsausted from a frantic evening of fencing. Hello tea, I’ve missed you all day long.

Peppermint! That was the first thing that struck me when I opened up my packet of this. Very clearly peppermint.
This is a very low key mint tea (pardon any rhymes). Not an in your face mint flavor, the gunpowder green really helps to temper any agressiveness that the mint flavor might be inclined twards. This will be a good mint tea to have around, for those days when a nice cup of peppermint tea is just what the doctor ordered.

Dry leaves have an alluring chocolate-covered-berries aroma. They’re a roughly cut mix of leaves and some stems averaging out to tobacco-brown, but with a range of colors from black to green.

I wasn’t sure what to expect of Spice and Tea Exchange, but this brews up a quality cup of tea. It has a coffee-like richness with a fruit/sweet quality, finishing with a touch of spice. It’s pleasantly smooth on the palate. This is a versatile tea that would be great on its own, with milk, or iced.

oh man this is yummy!
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… i started this note at 9am this morning, and now it’s 5p and the tab is still open
it’s been a busy day
i’ll write something more later and delete this then
Thanks CHAroma for takin me to yum city!

I had this for breakfast this morning. I do not know why but I love rose teas. Maybe its because when I was little I loved these mints that literally tasted like a rose scent and then had a little rose seed in the middle and I have yet to find them anywhere anymore. "/ I would love to have those again. Anyways.. back to this tea. I am determined to get at least 4 teas sipped and logged today from Stephanie ’s swap.
This is my tea from her cute little package, and this is the one I was most excited about. Unfortunately this steep, all I tasted was green tea and rose. I was confused though because on the package it says white tea but in here says green tea ha ha. It did steep like a white tea and the color of the liquor was that of a white tea so i say it is a white tea ha ha. I will have to steep again and see if I can find the lavender, mint and jasmine. :) thank you Stephanie for this full package, and I cannot wait to see what different types of things I can do with tea. I love rose and floral teas cold steeped:)

Wow, this is good! Lots of mango flavor. The base tea is hard to pick out when the tea hot because the mango is so strong, but it’s such a delicious fresh fruit taste that I don’t mind. Plus, this tea is decaffeinated, so it’s perfect for night’s like this when I should be sleeping but am browsing Steepster instead.

Ugh. I so want to be rid of this tea. Whatever flavouring they used makes the brew kinda thick tasting. Today I didn’t mind because well, I just needed to hydrate, but my sense of taste is dampened. The meds I’m on give me drymouth, and I have a head cold. So it went down easy enough! Probably one more serving left. Maybe two.

threw this over ice along with some strawberry slices. Delicious.
It really covers the overly thick juice factor that it build up over time. Yum!

I don’t know why I made this. It was good… but so not what I was feeling. I guess I wanted to experiment. Somehow fruity teas in the winter are starting to fall off my radar, and the black ones are creeping back in. Interesting.

Last time Mum went to Florida, she brought this back for me. She fell in love with it. Funny how that works!
We each had a cuppa. I really enjoyed it, but prefer mine at 1-2min, whereas she liked it much better at 4min! This is really odd, cuz she typically doesn’t like anything except for the standard OP, you know the tetley or red rose type… AND then she likes it dunked for maybe 3 seconds. I kid you not. So for her to like a tea, much less one that I like better at a lesser steeping time? It’s the twilight zone folks. Seriously.
Here’s my theory… she doesn’t care for the taste of white tea, just the flavouring that’s added to it.
Bah! so the actual tea? It’s supposed to have pineapple as the dominant note (asides from the delicous, crisp white peony, that’s all I really have to say about that) but somehow, both Mum and I got… pear?! there’s no pear in the ingredients. Err you’ll just have to trust me on that, as this appears to have been a limited run, and it’s no longer on the site so I can’t pull a description or pic for ya! Hrm.
Of course, it is a very tasty pear taste. Luscious and fragrant. Smoother than politician’s speech.
Juicy. And I hate the word “juicy”, no idea why, I just do, so for me to say that about a tea? Yeah, I have to really mean it!
Sooooo since this review is on behalf myself and Mum, I’ll throw in her rating as well. She would say, about 92 I think, while I’d go more around 88.

Blech. I made a jug of this iced. I’m getting mostly rose from it. Very little tea or any other flavors. It is a nice, natural rose scent/flavor, but I guess I’m just not into rose tea. I love roses though…one of my fave flowers :) anway, I’ll probably swap the rest of this in a week or two when my schedule is less hectic, so if you’d like to try it leave me a note!