Yogi Tea

We visited friends yesterday and it was absolutely freezing, so when they offered tea, I jumped at it. I’ve been put off somewhat from Yogi teas in the past, but this one was really good!

I added a touch of skim milk and let the tea bag steep away for longer than I would with pretty much every other tea, but it managed to be a bit sweet on its own. I’m not sure I’d stock in my cupboard as the taste wasn’t really hazelnut, more of a chai, but I wouldn’t refuse another cup.

And I wouldn’t deny picking up a box if I were to find it on sale.

This came in my super awesome box from my new bes-tea, Tea Pet! Overall, I like this. It’s spicy and creamy. I get the hazelnut and it’s intensified by the piece of hazelnut chocolate I consumed with it.

Dry Tea Bags：First Touch fruity, (even lychee)
but after next is so chinese herbal……
After Steel：chinese “little box” tea & lavender taste.

I have been using this tea for some time as a relaxant in the evenings while reading. I generally steep it for 15 minutes, but last night it steeped for about 25 minutes as a result of my being on the telephone with my dad! No harm, it wasn’t bitter and the spicier ingredients were stronger (which was good). I always add 1/4 to 1/2 organic lemon (small and sweeter than conventionally grown) which I think really brightens up the flavors. By itself, it’s a little bit dull but the cinnamon is pleasant.

Ingredients from teabag envelope: Carob Pod, Indian Sarsaparilla Root, Organic Cinnamon Bark, Organic Ginger Root, Organic Barley Malt, Kava Root Extract, Cardamom Seed, Natural Hazlenut Flavor, Stevia Leaf, Natural Licorice Flavor, Natural Cinnamon Bark Oil.

I really appreciate the fact that Yogi Tea uses organic ingredients.

Dry Tea Bags ：Cardadom, Cinnamon

After Steel：
Just Taste it very cardadom and haven’t others flavoring.
Why Called “Peach” Detox?

In the hopes of expunging all insalubrious humors from my body, I prepared a cup of Yogi DeTox tea. It tasted fine. Now it’s time for a bath, along with a follow-up cup!

I opted for Yogi Detox again tonight because—well, why not? It tastes pretty good and perhaps does what it says. (On ne sait jamais…)

I took up this tea tonight with some trepidation, as my memory was that I did not like it at all. Somehow Detox seems a lot better than my memory of it. The golden brewed liquor smacks unmistakably of ginger, black pepper, and licorice root. As for the rest of the list of ingredients, I cannot say that I would ever have guessed most of them. Perhaps sarsaparilla, since there is a vague waft of root beer quality.

Like most of the functional health benefit teas, this one tastes better the longer it is brewed, and that’s of course how best to extract the maximum health-conferring properties as well.

Apparently the two key detox ingredients in this blend are dandelion and burdock. I have no idea what either one tastes like in a straight brew, but there’s probably a reason why they have been buttressed with hard-hitters such as ginger, black pepper, and licorice root! Yogi loves black pepper, by the way. Just a caveat for those who do not. I find that it adds quite a zing to their blends, including this one!

Smelling @ Dry Tea Bags：Cardamon / Nutmeg
98’c 3 Minutes

Taste：
Herbal But Not Too Chinese Herb Tea.
Can’t Feel Any Caramel Even The Vanilla Flavor.
Spices: Some Cinnamon & Can Taste Little Bit Chamomile.

Tea of the evening here. I was out with my sweetie for a hike today and the exercise made me sooo sleepy I had to take a nap! I should go back to sleep soon but I thought a cup of herbal something would be nice.

This stuff is all spices and no real tea, as such it is fairly potent. I am getting lots of black pepper, cardamom and ginger. It’s like a chai tea without tea! When you add soymilk to it, it becomes a lot better. I’ll have to try this with some rooibos or tea someday. I find the spiciness to be a little too strong for me, but it is nice on occasion.

Tea of the afternoon here, I’m not sure why I haven’t written a note for this but I’m doing it now. :)

When I was on vacation I wasn’t drinking any caffeine after noon and I’m trying to institute that policy back at home, I think I will sleep better as a result.

This is another tea I drank years ago and picked up again recently. It works well as an herbal chai if you add soymilk and a touch of sugar to it. It’s fairly strong on the clove, cinnamon and ginger. For some reason this just tastes like wet paper to me today (yes, it’s in a teabag). I will finish off the box but not sure if it’s worth stocking permanently.

I really enjoy this tea! I notice a lot more cinnamon and spiced flavoring than the actual peach. As for the detoxing, I do tend to have to pee way more drinking this tea than regular teas. It seems to have a water pill effect.

Not what I expected. One time I visited a Indian yoga/spa place, and they served me a cup of tea that taste just like Chai without the tea leaves. Ever since then I fell in love and I tried to come up with a recipe that emulates it. I discovered this tea in the meanwhile, thinking it would taste just like that after reading the ingredient list. I would say this is not bad, but definitely not what I expected of it nor do I find the taste to be pleasant. It tastes sweeter than I prefer my tea to be, and has a very strong nutty flavor which I wasn’t looking forward to. It didn’t have that palate cleansing deep aromatic spiciness that I was looking for. To each his own. I think this tea may have some health benefits, but I don’t know what to do about all the rest of the tea bags.

It took a direct side-by-side comparison with Stash Lemon Ginger for me to realize how much better Yogi Lemon Ginger really is. There are a few ingredient differences. In the Yogi Lemon Ginger, licorice root and black pepper may really improve the blend. My impression is that the black pepper heightens the piquancy of the ginger, making the brew much more invigorating than the Stash, which tastes a bit stale by contrast.

Yogi Lemon Ginger tastes better to me, but I don’t like it as much as Tazo Settle, and the best ginger brew of all is made using freshly grated ginger root. Still, for a quick filter bag ginger fix, this one is pretty good.

Yogi Tea loves black pepper, and they have added some to this lemon ginger blend, along with a touch of licorice root. The overall effect is quite a bit spicier than Stash Lemon Ginger (faint praise), but it also smells and tastes somewhat fresher.

The point of this brew (all Yogi Teas have explicitly stated functional purposes) is to alleviate stomach troubles, but it is a decent lemon and dried ginger infusion in its own right, relative to other filter bag variants on the theme. Quick and easy, and pleasant enough.

I recently had an epiphany about filter bags. Their true destiny, I now see, is to be used for cold brew! I gave away a slew of filter bags when I moved this past spring, but I still seem to have hundreds lingering around, so I’m going to try to use them up this summer for pitchers of iced tea.

Today’s sip-down of sorts was a liter of Yogi Green Tea Super Antioxidant, prepared last night right before bedtime. It makes a decent pre-sweetened iced green tea. I usually do not add sugar to tea, but the licorice root gently sweetens this brew. I drank the entire pitcher in lieu of my usual big tetsubin of mid-day green. It is simply too hot for anything but iced today.

I found several bags of Yogi Green Tea Super Antioxidant tea and after yesterday’s felicitous experience with Tazo Thrive, I decided to try the Yogi iced as well. I brewed this tea hot and reviewed it fairly extensively at my perfume blog (salon de parfum) a while back:

http://salondeparfum-sherapop.blogspot.com/2013/12/quick-sip-and-sniff-yogi-green-tea.html

Today’s batch of iced tea I prepared using the cold brew method, with 6 filter bags in 1 liter water stowed in the refrigerator overnight—many hours. How did it turn out?

The liquor is golden and the flavor is quite strong. It seems that the cold temperature is really augmenting the licorice so that it now is more marked than the jasmine. I was debating whether to use more than 6 bags, but now I recognize that this was perfectly sufficient. The iced tea tastes so sweet that I can definitely recommend these bags prepared via the cold brew method to anyone who prefers sweet tea but is wary of all of the sugar. No sugar here: just lots of licorice sweetness on a refreshing green tea and herbal base!

(Blazing New Rating #80)

I reviewed this tea from Yogi a while back at my perfume blog. Here’s the link:

http://salondeparfum-sherapop.blogspot.com/2013/12/quick-sip-and-sniff-yogi-green-tea.html

Today I brewed up a cup thinking that I’d do a steep-off with Touch Organic Green. That proved to be an ill-conceived scheme since they are completely different kinds of tea! Oh well. The Yogi is heavily scented and packed with non-tea additives, all intended to augment the anti-oxidant and other salubrious benefits of drinking green tea. I find the jasmine scent a bit heavy, but jasmine tea lovers might enjoy this cup.

A little harsh because of the cinnamon oil for me. This tea bag also contains stevia leaf which I found gave it an artificial sweetener taste. There are other herbs including chicory root, cardamom seed, ginger root, clove bud, and black pepper. It does contain cocoa powder but it’s not a main ingredient and doesn’t come thru in the tea. Definitely drink this alone because it will overpower a cookie with it’s cinnamon oil.

I dont like the taste, lots of spices and licorice but it does work. I keep on buying it because i do get really bad gramps and for me it helps. And ill try anything to get rid of pain.

Hubby had already raided the tea bags josiejade sent us and decided to try Tazo’s Passion tea. Not my speed, especially not hot, so I went for something different.

After looking at a couple of reviews here, I decided on this because many describe it as spicy and sweet… much like my favorite teabag from Good Earth teas (Original Sweet & Spicy). This was my first experience, to my knowledge, with licorice in tea. I have been one of few in my family to actually enjoy a black jellybean now and then, so the name didn’t scare me. I have to admit when I opened the bag I was a bit underwhelmed by the fragrance. It was earthy w/no spice. Upon steeping, I felt the same way. I expected a bit of a sweet scent with either licorice or cinnamon coming through.

First sip, mild flavor, not spicy… not like I had hoped or the name suggested. Hard to pick out any distinct flavors even after a few sips. Then I began to notice after I swallowed, a mild bit of spice in my mouth and the sweetness. The sweetness would linger for quite a long time. As it cooled, the flavors didn’t intensify or become distinct, but the sweetness did.

Not really sure how I rate this one yet, but glad to have tried it for the experience of the sweet aftertaste. Luckily there is one more teabag in the box so I can try it again. :)

This tea is interesting. Not something I’d go out of my way for, but if given wouldn’t refuse. I can’t place the smell. I know I’ve smelled it before, but it was probably so long ago the memory is fixed in with all of the other seldom smelled things. I’ll just say it’s alfalfa and move om.

You can taste the lemongrass the most. That’s probably for the best seeings as my last Green Tea tasted pretty unremarkable. I received a sample a while back and the only thing back I can say about the Yogi brand is they try a bit too hard with their health branding.

I want to say I’ll revisits this tea, but probably won’t.