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I was drinking this RTD tea today; and honestly, it’s hard to find any tea impressions.
I assume that the amount of black tea is really low — and rest being “fruit” tea (read hibiscus & rosehip brew).

It’s very sweet, water melon candy like, with somehow sticky sweet aftertaste. No heartburn, but I am not impressed of this. Probably just too sweet for me and too fake. But well, water melons are candy-like somehow.

Drank 2 L during 7 hours at work.

A sipdown! (M: 4 Y: 47)
Ah, what a shame.
But I wanted something refreshing in the evening of today. And lemonade-tea sounded so good. Temperature isn’t so high, and I am really sure it is a blast cold, but even hot it is definitely refreshing enough. A tea-pop maybe would make this tea just great. And again, no tartness from hibiscus here. A tea I would consider buying a whole box… if I didn’t had enough of other teas in tea bags. They are somehow much slower in sipdowns than their looseleaf counterparts.

Sipdown prompt: May 4 – Herb Day: drink an herbal tea
But this is first of 20 bags, so definitely not a sipdown. Bought because outer wrappings only.
The translation of this tea is: “Herbal tea”. For ingredients list and their ratios see the description.

Well, this is a herbal tea with herbal qualities. Honestly I don’t see any other notes in this cup, being quite pleasant and good palate cleanser. None of the herbs being too dominant.

I bought 3 boxes of Cold Brew tea blends in local store in Germany, as warm (read hot) days are coming and iced tea will be a good idea how to survive them. After all, we have ups around 25°C which is very uncommon for the April (eh, May already). And we are at the foothills of Erzgebirge.

I digressed from the tea. I prepared it hot, one bag for my 500 ml mug and it seems it is a wrong preparation method for this tea. It was smelling great, but tasting flat. There is cloying stevia sweetness, stronger than peach; some peach notes… and black tea base. There is absolutely no complexity in the cup and more apptly description would be a sweet peach juice diluted with lots of water. So flat and fake tasting.
I will try cold water next time as intended, maybe even putting it in the fridge. That will be, hopefully, a bit better.

Plus points for outer wrappings.

Another finished tea today, and because it was single session sample from Kaylee not counted as a sipdown, though reduced from my cupboards. Thank you!

Although I am not a coffee drinker, I was somehow craving this tea. When I have opened the pouch, I knew it was a proper choice today. And it was rather the hazelnut than the coffee. I steeped it shortly, 3 minutes sounded enough for me; and I got just a lovely hazelnut cup with no bitterness from coffee. Honestly haven’t noticed that at all.
Also not much of the cake notes, it was rather like some hazelnut mousse or something, creamy and mild.

A sipdown! (M: 3 Y: 46)
As I wrote in previous note, this tea has gron on me and I like it more than I did before. Probably the base needed to air out, as well the orange and its flavouring used. Definitely better than first time tried.

Today, I finished my last 5 grams in the morning and it was refreshing but very bold and earthy in the same time, along with high caffeine content.

What all can change in two weeks since I was liast time home? Well, Probably most importantly, that our house is covered with scaffolding and we are without roof tiles. Also all trees have their leaves and flowers are gone. Partially because the freezing temperatures, partially because blooming season is over (at the beginning of May?!) We will see how many fruits we will harvest. And lastly, my ESD shoes and new softshell parka paid by the company arrived, so I had to try those things out or get them exchanged if size being wrong. Luckily, isn’t. To be honest, I wouldn’t return home otherwise.

Well this tea bag wrapper I have is saying it contains Chinese green tea and temperature 85°C.

The bag smelled mostly after cardboard and hay, which wasn’t too promising, but tea itself is luckily just hay. In taste it is like a tea for jasmine green tea; but without the jasmine, grass seed and cut grass, but not hay yet.

Pretty okay-ish, keeping my old rating 69.

April Sipdown Challenge – raise your cup to the tea farmers for Earth Day – bonus points for an earthy tea! another sipdown prompt for same tea. It is allowed?

Anyway, I am raising my cup to tea Georgian tea farmers as they are definitely closest region where tea is grown for me; so minimal carbon footprint for this tea as well. And as I have mentioned many, many times, I just have a soft spot for them. But also, raising a cup for all other tea farmers including the small growers.

I am, however, very furious for reasons I don’t want to share in public (work-related), so a pleasant tea to the help.

Malty and sweet. Yum. Rye bread background.

A sipdown! (M: 2 Y: 45), prompt: A tea that reminds you of a garden

Raspberries are definitely something that belongs to our garden and I’m happy we have those bushes there. Yes, autumn “maintenance” is awful, even we have not thorny variety; but usually it is in time when lots of other work must be done as well.

Anyway to the tea, it’s quite sweet, and quite real to actual raspberries, mixed up with, but not tart, hibiscus. Iced, it can be lovely I assume.

But honestly it is somehow too simple. maybe I just miss some complex flavours… but considering it’s justa atea bag, it’s fine enough.

Whew, today was very tiring day. I am not used to stay 8 hours on my feet, I am more of an office person. But here, nobody asks and when it doesn’t work, you have to fix it (half of the shift) and then in second half you had to catch the work that wasn’t done because the break down.

So, when returning “home”, I bought raspberry flavoured energy drink, because honestly I didn’t had a mood for tea at all. But later on, for dinner I brewed this tea, being decaf, and with prominsing flavour profile. Sadly, the kettle I have here available is not temperature setting one, but I tried my “bubbles method” (first bubbles = approx. 80°C) and it went pretty well I guess.

It was quite floral, base tea of cut grass; and maybe the pear that Kaylee notices is there somehow as well. That said, thank you Kaylee for sharing this tea with me.
Perfectly serviceable tea bag when needed something simple.