1501 Tasting Notes
Thick like coffee (well, chicory in this case) I get mostly chicory and ginger, with the feel of cinnamon (as if you took a bunch dry in your mouth?) and that’s about it, although there is cardamom in here I’m sure… it reminds me of the coffee my son’s grandparents make, where they grind cardamom with their coffee before brewing it. Hearty. The darkest brown of any tea I’ve encountered so far (including that mondo tucha I cut up earlier today).
Flavors: Cardamom, Cinnamon, Coffee, Ginger, Thick
Preparation
Trying to remember this tasting review that somehow got lost. Needed sweetener to get anything to pop, and then the mango came shining through. Almost, not quite cloyingly sweet, and okay… nothing to write home about. I’ll have to try this again.
Flavors: Mango
This is one of those messed up (yet always wonderful) purchases that I made in a Brussels-based Asian grocery store called Tinie’s (tiny’s). I wanted an instant ginger tea/drink but without all the extra crud, and found this. Only ingredient? Ginger. Yes! Tricky to discover though, I had to really scour the packaging (it’s all in Thai) and then the ONLY native part of the packaging in English, other htan “Ginger Extract 100%” and a blurb I’ll share on the tea page, was the URL gingen.com. Excellent!
Anyway, to the tea/drink. It’s spicy, it comes in those cute little individual packages, it’s solid, it’s dependable. Is it amazing? No… but it’s instant ginger granules, and I always want some of those on hand in cold weather.
Flavors: Ginger, Spicy
Preparation
I am definitely a fan of ginger. I love the taste (although I usually go for Ginger Lemon tea), and it usually really helps if I’m I’m feeling sick to my stomach. I don’t think I’ve seen instant ginger tea, though. Sounds kind of strange.
In my experience, instant ginger tea is only (usually) found in Asian grocery stores. It’s basically powdered ginger with some added something or other so that it doesn’t clump into a gooey mess. There’s a ginger lemon version of this (with extra sugar added) and a ginger matcha latte version (which I tried the other day, amazing)… usually really cheap and great to add to things where you want some extra ginger kick, even in your cooking.
Interesting. I use a lot of Ginger in cooking (I love Gingerbread and Stir Fry with Ginger), and drink a fair amount of Ginger tea (Jammin’ Lemon Ginger is my current fave), so I’ll have to keep an eye out for this.
I was buying ginger and lemongrass at the grocery store when the cashier told me someone had told to make a tea out of the two. She said it helped her get over her cold really quick. I did try it and it wasn’t bad but I only did an infusion like regular tea. I think it’s meant to be boiled and simmered for an hour on the stove. If you google it there’s many different ideas on how to prepare it.
I have a sweet ginger granule from my local Asian place – makes a wicked good hot drink for colds, especially with lemon juice.
I like the ginger-and-honey ones. :) Perfect for camping and hiking.
This tea reads like a litany of my favorite herbs and flavors: basil, turmeric, lime, spearmint, chili, ginger, lemon, cardamom. I read it initially (in French) and was all… Huh? Did I read that correctly? Okay, I’m trying it.
So glad I did! It’s a hard one to describe, other than it’s spicy (but not hot at all), granular from all the spices (and because I let it steep forever), smooth, full, almost chai-like, but then there’s all that citrus-y mint stuff going on, and the basil… I could drink this all day, every day.
Flavors: Cardamom, Citrus, Ginger, Mint
Preparation
Sounds good. Wonder what it would be like iced on a hot summer day?
Wow. Very interesting!
I’m a bit scared to try it iced… although it would be a challenge to do so in -2 Belgian weather in an AirBnB at the moment. A challenge for me, that is. I’m also scared because I’d want it like a chai with some milk, and all that citrus (there’s orange in here too, I discovered) would make things curdle. If I can keep enough of this on hand for when I return to Canada, I may try it iced? I dunno, I’d hate to waste the leaf, it’s just so darn interesting and tasty.
Uh, so…. this packs a whallop of caffeine. Like, more than any matcha I’ve had (and I used to drink it constantly, it helped me to focus). It’s like the junk food of matcha – comes pre-packaged, has a ton of ingredients that shouldn’t be in there including glucose (twice) and hydrogenated oils, you name it. Yet the ginger zing really, really came out in this – almost like a ginger latte more than a ginger matcha latte. Guilty pleasure, just maybe not so late (2pm) in the day, because it’s 9pm now, and I feel very weird. Not good. Definitely the matcha.
Flavors: Ginger, Sugar, Sweet
I love Gold Kili’s Ginger Latte and Ginger Drink but I’ve never seen any of their products with matcha in them for sale near me. It sounds really tasty.
I could probably just make my own, with a packet of ginger drink (which has very few ingredients) a spoon of matcha and some cream.
I would say that would be a healthier option? Lol. Found this in an Asian grocery store in ixelles, Belgium.
It sounds like the ‘instant ramen’ version of ramen! (Which means, I’d be totally down with it, in an ’I’m just going to inhale this food and not pay attention to the ingredient label, because, gosh darn it, I want this right now!’, sort of way. lol )
Oh man I bet this would be divine with a splash of honey! Unless it’s already almost too sweet
That’s exactly it DeleriumsFrogs! Indigobloom, would you believe it has honey in it already? It’s very, very sweet. Still tasty!
This is actually in French and another language (not sure which?), but I translated the additional info not already in the database from French. Surprisingly tasty, and just what I need after drinking a cup of amazingly strong ginger matcha earlier today.
Flavors: Artichoke
Preparation
How could I not grab a tea in Belgium, where the name is actually Sil? Sure, the tea is meant as a herbal remedy (edema and weight loss), but what the hell, I love my herbals. Plus, the ingredient list reminded me of the best chai I’ve ever had (but can’t buy other than in-store) at a cafe in Edmonton, so I thought… if this will give me an approximation? I’m happy.
I think I let it steep too long, because I’m getting weird hay notes and a drying feeling to it. Sigh. Bad MissB. It’s still okay, smooth I guess, but the hay stuffola overbears everything else right now.
Flavors: Hay, Smooth
Preparation
As the Frenchman said to me as I made this for him, “Hm, this is really good!” It is. Yes, it’s most likely Dammann Frères blend. Thick, rich, fruity, and honeyed – again, without any sweetener whatsoever. Resteeped really well, too.
Flavors: Stonefruit, Thick
Preparation
Grabbed this one for Sil, as it’s likely a Dammann Frères blend, and stole a tiny bit to try for myself. It’s good, really good! Even unsweetened it’s thick and syrupy, full bodied and luscious. I may need to find more of this at some point, if I get through the rest of the teas I’ve been hoarding … carrying 50+ different kinds of tea on while traveling indefinitely must point to some form of addiction.
Flavors: Caramel, Thick
Preparation
oh YAAAAY!!!!! this just made my day a whole lot better… because i’m working today….on my day off…
Oh boo got working on your days off. Yep, you have a whack if this on its way to you!
Gah, another one goes on the wishlist. Now that I’ve found a great vanilla tea, I’m on a quest for a great caramel one.
totally going to not share much of this one with the others… i’m calling it my payment for divying up things and sending it all out lol
Nightshifter, I’d say Sil is the Queen of caramel teas. Sil, that was the whole point! :)
i know MissB..just declaring it for the world to see!
Hee! Hoarding teas while travelling?! Do they have their own section in your bag now? :_
Whoops. :)
Ok I need to tour Europe. This clinches it. (all for the tea. well, and the sightseeing/culture as an added bonus haha)
My laptop bag is, well, my laptop, passport, and tea. It’s a great way to travel, tea exploring! Heh.
