The Tea Haus

Well this was certainly a pick-me-up! much better than the last time I had it. With just a bit of agave, I could really taste the mango without hiding the mate this time. Very nice.
Next time, I’ll sweeten it a tad more. We are running low on agave so I’ve been rationing it.
Thing is, with this one… it’s one of those what you see is what you get scenarios. Yerba, and honey-sweet mango. Not juicy though, which would have been awesome. That’s pretty much it!
The dry leaves are super aromatic. I didn’t even need to put my nose up to the tin to inhale the mango-y aroma. Mmmmm!

I think I underleafed this!! It was so light, and didn’t really wake me up… the mango was def there. Now I regret adding that tiny swirl of agave because it seems to have entirely covered up the yerba flavour. I’ll rate it next time!!
Mucho thanks Tina S for hooking me up with this batch :)

Chocolate mint was one of my first teas from the Tea Haus, and is one of my favourite flavours to have in tea. I haven’t had this one in two years, though, and my chocolate mint cravings have been met for the last while with Read My Lips from David’s Tea. Lately I’ve been curious about how this one would compare to RML, and so when we roadtripped up recently to the store I got a small package to re-try.

Sipped black, the mint definitely dominates in this tea. I got only a slight chocolate note, but it was still nice. I knew that I used to drink this one with milk and sugar, so I added some sweetener, and curiously it only heightened the mint. I still couldn’t find the richer chocolate notes I remembered. Determined not to give up, I added a little milk.

AHA! There was my chocolate! With milk and sugar, this tea became the most delicious combination of mint and chocolate and finally rivalled my RML. I’m going to have to do a side my side next time to figure out which I like better and will remain a constant in my cupboard.

Made this to cheer myself up after a terrible cuppa from Tim’s. Mmmm. Once again, delicious. I love you, Tea Haus. I love you so hard that my wife should be a little jealous.

This was a really delicious black tea with a full sweet fruity flavour. I love it. The only question that remains is do I restock this one, or instead pick up some of the green version of this blend? Only have a couple weeks before our Tea Party trip to the Tea Haus to decide!

Coldbrew sipdown (379/361)

This is one of those painfully old teas, and yet I remember quite clearly that this is the one that literally made my bestie ill for an entire night :( So based on that alone, this isn’t one I’d ever restock, but since I had no issues with it, it’s no trouble to finish the bag.

This is another example of why we don’t keep teas around forever. I will say that all of my Davids blends have held up to the test of time, at least the ones I’ve tried so far have.

It tastes like peach and burns like ginger, but it’s not at all as juicy as it should be.

Not adjusting the rating because, well, it’s my own fault for hoarding this tea for too long.

Dear Tina, you rock. Thank you so much for showing me the joys of cold brewing. This is beyond delicious and nice and cold and everything lovely. The ginger bite is just enough to keep this from being an overly juicy tea, and the white tea flavor really came through too.

So much love for this tea! Definitely restocking when we return in April.

At second sip (aka mu second cup), I’m not so keen on replacing this. I’d prefer it without the ginger.

I’m trying some of this cold (aka I forgot about half of my cup) and it just pops. The peach flavor I’d been looking for came through just beautifully. Lovely and fruity with just a touch of zing…yum. I am so excited for my first foray to The Tea Haus with some of my favorite girls, the ladies of the Toronto Tea Party! I asked for the day off earlier today, so it should be a go! So excited!

This was lovely hot, but I can’t wait to try it iced. I have some cold steeping right now. But it tasted a bit off. I’m not going to blame the tea though, as I’m feeling under the weather again. Between my mother in law sharing her bronchitis and someone else feeling the need to come to a slumber party with laryngitis, I’m just destined to spend all of my days off curled up in bed, sick.

I would have been happier with more peach flavor, but I’m a peachaholic. I will try this again when I’m feeling better, provided no one else feels the need to share their illness.

I’m begging people, unless you absolutely have to go out to work or such, stay home and get better instead of going out and getting others sick who maybe can’t afford to stay home and nurse an illness. I’m lucky I have three days off because I can’t call in to work right now.

This was good! Not amazing, and I think I prefer my Irish breakfast from Red Leaf Tea, but it will be no great hardship to work my way through this sample! It has a natural hint of sweentness to it, but I found the same issue as with the other black teas from Tea Haus, it was a touch too astringent for my tastes.

Drank this yesterday and forgot to log it. When they say sweet, they mean sweet! God, this is a tasty tea. None of the black tea is lost in the flavour, which is a bold and flavourful sweetly orange taste. Orange. Orange orange orange and then some more orange.

I’ve tried this both sweetened and unsweetened, and I think I agree with Tina that the flavour really shines with a bit of sweetener – which, unfortunately, makes it too sweet for me. Oh the ironies.

Anyway. This is a very delicious black tea nonetheless, and without any sugar or milk it has a mellow flavour with a bit of an orange and citrus taste.

This was yummy. Toasty and smooth. A little nutty to. I bought it for making Morrocan Mint, but wanted to try it solo first. So glad I did!!! :)
Unfortunately it did make me a little nauseous. Hopefully the mint will cut that!

I am an admitted Earl Grey snob and this is truly the best one I have found! (and I’ve tried all of them). The blending is done just right, the bergamot is very present but in a nice smooth way. I like to understeep this one a bit since it can get tannic quickly but the nice folks at The Tea Haus told me this when I bought it. The perfect Earl Grey…..no really!!

Wow, this green is just . . . there are absolutely no words. It looks and smells like a white, and taste wise? There’s green notes and white notes and hints of mango and just . . . this is practically heaven in a tea cup. Hawaiian tea may be a rare thing, in fact I’d never heard of it before this week, but wow is it amazing. This is the first speciality tea that I can actually see myself paying the premium costs for.

Extra kudos to The Tea Haus for selling such a rare amazing tea, and even more so for selling it at such a fair price. (And for letting us try it before it hits their store!)

I love quality greens, and this is definitely one of them. I steeped it loose in the cup and just kept adding water as needed. The cup lasted me for hours, with the tea only getting better and better.

Okay! So I kicked the temperature of the tea down a couple of notches and cautiously let this steep for two minutes….and it is a beautiful, creamy delight! All the delicious, none of the bitter! Perfect. So happy! I love this tea! . Bumping the rating waaaaaay up.

I prefer this to their Cream tea, it reminds me of, well, french vanilla ice cream or french vanilla frosting. Yum.

…and then the black base steps in. It makes me sad. I’ve tried three of their teas in three different steeping parameters all with the same result. Next I’m going to try adding rice or soy milk, but I hate having to go to that. I just wish I could handle astringency in tea better. This is totally just a matter of personal taste, I like my teas weak.

I had this yesterday and I had the same experience as I had with the blueberry tea. This is really good…until the black base steps in. Sad. It’s really good quality tea, and it is certainly creamy, but it’s just a touch too astringent for me. I’m going to give it another go, but if it doesn’t wow me, it’ll be up for swap.

This is a nice blueberry tea, tasty enough, but it just doesn’t compare to Blueberry Jam from DavidsTea. So I used the last of this for a cold brew and I just won’t be replacing it. But it wasn’t hard to drink this down.

I took a travel mug of this to work with me yesterday, brewed at a lower temperature, and YAY it was no longer bitter and horrible! It was odd, though. For the first set of sips, it was delicious, reminding me of Tealish’s Blueberry Lagoon. But as the day wore on, I just didn’t want to drink it. It took me an entire 9 hour shift to drink it all. Part of it was because it was hot, I recognize that, but part was because I was getting sips that weren’t impressive at all. I need to cold steep this one.

I’m on the fence about this one. At first, it’s like “OMGYES BLUEBERRY” but then the black tea steps in and it’s a bit bitter for my tastes. Maybe a drop or two of milk will help. I dunno. Sadness.