Twinings

What an odd flavour combination. It really works though. Thank you for the sample, VariaTEA!

1 teabag, 650 mL very hot water (just under boiling)r, 6 minutes or so.

I am really digging the peppermint + buttery creaminess. I like that the caramel is highlighted with vanilla and is very smooth. It is unique, but I love it. If I ever see a box in the store, it shall come home with me.

Sipdown! Pretty good chai with lots of spicy cardamom, clove, and cinnamon. The base is decent (as is usual with Twinings tea), but not amazing. No malt, nothing creamy. If you want to take it up a notch, try coldbrewing this really strong and adding vanilla soy milk and a shot of espresso.

This was a standard chai with a bit of nuttiness and marzipan sweetness. The black base is quite fine inside the teabags, so it gets a bit tannic and bitter if you oversteep. Beside the spices were flavours of minerals and vanilla. Unlike most chais, I would advise against adding milk or you might not make out the almond or some spices.

I probably wouldn’t try it again, but it wasn’t bad.

As a few other members said, this tea tastes more grassy than anything. It may have a few flowery notes, but I can’t really taste them. Whenever I have a sip, I get an overwhelming flavour of straw – the stuff you would feed to horses and cattle.

I bought it because I wanted something easy to drink at night while I was studying and I guess it serves that purpose, but I will definitely not be getting it again. It’s barely drinkable with a generous spoonful of honey in my mug, and impossible to drink otherwise. It also leaves quite a dry feeling in my mouth.

It’s taken me a long time to get around to this but perhaps in that time I’ve gotten more ruthless, because… the rest of this tin is going in the bin.

I think this might be y favorite of the Twinings chais. I really like the chai spices mixed with the nutty and rich hazelnut. It also adds some thickness, sweetness, and body to the cup. I find the vanilla is creamier and has more vanilla than the vanilla chai.

Sipdown of a tea I bought a few bags of from minimus.biz travel store.

This is a solid chai, the hazelnut is really sweet and nutty. It is the same hazelnut flavour you find in hazelnut coffee syrup-creamy, sweet, vanilla, lots of hazelnut. This would have been really good with a bit of vanilla soy milk and steeped in a pot on the stove. All those spices plus the warm milk would be perfect. Even drinking this straight made for a good breakfast tea on a morning when I was craving an almond croissant.

The aroma is rather faint, sweety, with only traces of blackcurrant and some hints of vanilla.
The taste is watery, slightly sweet, not a lot of blackcurrant.
Certainly drinkable, but that’s it.

Not at good as the gunpowder green tea from iHOT. More astringency, smaller pieces.

Quite liked this one! Drank it black. The lavender and bergamot play well together and give it a flowery/ perfumey flavor, although not cloyingly so. A little bit of vanilla would have made this just about perfect. The base is a typical Twinings smooth, non-astringent, non-aggressive Chinese black tea. They make such good stuff.

I miss being able to find Stash’s Breakfast in Paris at the grocery store, but this is a perfectly acceptable substitute. Simultaneously relaxing and bracing.

Licorice gives to much of a sugary sweetness in the back of the throat. A bit too tart.

Quick Review

I was trying to brew this gongfu style, but i feel that I messed it up. It could be that the water was too hot (170 F) or that it’d be much better off Western styled. I’ll have to play around with this while I still have some. Perhaps I’ll brew it Western style at work and add a second review…

Notes: Bitter & astringent

Rating for the session: 60/100

Big bold black tea.
Is nice, but prefer the English Breakfast Tea. Nice change from my fave Lipton

Was simply wonderful if you like Earl Grey but want some with less Bergamot bite.
Though I don’t like Earl Grey to begin with so I tried this instead, has a nice Lemony flavor to it, but still tastes a great deal like Earl Grey just lighter.

if you want a lighter cup of tea brew it for 2 min, if stronger, 3 mins, good to be consumed with or without a splesh of milk added.

I’m celebrating ninety days of not drinking beverages other than tea. What better way than to reward myself with a cup of some high quality, custom blended…but what’s this? A stray bag of POW in the cupboard? I can’t recall ever drinking this before (I likely did without taking notice) so I buzz up the kettle.

As the bag steeped, I read some Armenian poetry (in English) and reflected on my life of loss and love. Damn, I’ve forgotten my tea! Although it was brewed a bit too long it was still an enjoyable cup. To my palate it is sweet, like candy. I wouldn’t enjoy it so much without tea biscuits or other food. It’s actually quite smooth (considering I drowned that bag for way too long) and had a slight dusty aftertaste, not to be unexpected with bagged tea.

I liked it and could see buying it to take on camping trips to enjoy with s’mores.