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Shock! I’m not a huge fan of Earls, occasionally I like a cuppa, but overall I can take ‘em or leave ’em. This surprised me this morning. It’s one of my wife’s favorites, so I had her make the pot this morning. It was light and delicate and very refreshing! I was very, very happy with this.

I don’t know if it’s mind over matter or what, but so far I’ve come across two teas in the advent calendar I didn’t really like (Creme de Menthe and this one) and the days they were in the calendar, I enjoyed them! So huzzah! I look forward to the rest of these beauties.

My wife was very pleased to see this one and ended up making 3 pots, of which I only had 1 cup XD

I’ve found Cream of Earl Grey to be extremely temperamental. Don’t follow the brewing instructions, this tea needs to be lightly steeped for just 2 minutes and 30 seconds, and it’s completely divine even without milk and sugar. I need to set a timer with this guy, and as soon as that 2 1/2 minutes are up, I take it out regardless of how I’m feeling it might taste, and it always comes out great. It’s become my morning routine to brew this tea and do a 2 minute clean up while it steeps (I always think of Loonette and her Ten Second Tidy on the Big Comfy Couch).
I’ve been drinking it straight, just because I feel that adding sugar or milk to tea can quickly turn a good habit into a bad one. But this morning I had it with milk and some agave, and it was just blissful. Sometimes, you need to indulge yourself!
Yes, I had a very bad first impression of this tea, but God only knows how long I had steeped it for. With a little TLC, this tea can go a long way :-)

What’s wrong with me? Why don’t I like this? I’ll have to try it again, but I expected this to be so much better than it was. Instead of being creamy, smooth and fruit loopy, it was bitter, harsh and hard to drink. Maybe next time!

I love the spices in this tea. I accidentally left it and steeped it for about 40 minutes, but when I came back it was ready to be guzzled down. It tasted a bit like a watery mocha (but a good one!). And of course, I’m full of energy. For some reason it reminded me of toothpaste (it didn’t taste like it, it just made me think of toothpaste when I was drinking it). Weird.

I was really skeptical to try this tea, as I’m not a fan of coconut. But it was truly very good! The coconut really takes a backseat and the vanilla steps in to make it very smooth. I don’t know what buttered rum is supposed to taste like, but it’s a nice warming dessert tea.

If you like wintergreen gum, you’ll love this! It’s the lightest colour tea I’ve ever seen – It barely even changes the colour of the water. It tastes just like those white, wintergreen lifesavers.

This tea definitely smelled like Forever Nuts and Kanpe combined. When steeped, it turns a bright berry colour (unlike Forever Nuts where it is a nice cute pink!). Drinking this I was expecting the tea to be a bit tart—but no! I am really surprised. I definitely taste the apples, pineapple, and papaya, but those are fairly weak compared to a carrot-y taste that I can taste throughout.

Overall, it’s not a terrible tea nor it is the best tea that I have tried. I need to try this iced!

Day 3 on my Advent calendar.

Glad i got this i’ve been wanting to try it!

the dry leaves are pretty much what you would expect they smell minty.

steeped i kinda get a gingerbread smell, weird…maybe it’s just me i did build a gingerbread house last night maybe the smell got stuck in my nose..

the liqueur is very dark

time to taste: mmmm this is lovely, mint, cinnamon, and the vanilla there at the end.

now this is a tea that belongs in a christmas calendar! Lovin’ it!

I can’t think of anything to say about this tea other than I want to marry it and move to Vermont with it, or the Canadian equivalent.

Creamy amaretto coconut sweet spicy SOOOO GOOOD. Even the BF swoons for this. I caught him with his nose in the tin like a love-sick puppy. If this isn’t made part of DT’s permanent collection I might cry.

3 words: OM NOM NOM. The sample I received lasted all of a day. Must buy all available amounts of this rooibos after xmas!

The secret to this tea is in the preparation. It is best when made on the stove top in a pot. OH me oh my. It is like drinking an Indian food dish, drenched in the most fabulous hot sauce. The spiciness of the peppercorn is positively mind blowing, and adds such a robust, lingering flavour to this tea. Such a great wake up tea. I love watching the leaves roll as they boil. Normally I like chai with a bit of milk and sugar – but both ruin this one. Maybe I just like my tea hot n’ spicy. Anyway, it’s great, and if you haven’t made it on the stove top yet, please do!

I do like this tea. I enjoy it most with a MAXIMUM three minute steep and water just short of boiling, because I find it becomes very bitter. Today, however, I decided to boil it on the stove top as I like to do with my Saigon Chai. Save yourself the trouble, don’t do it. It turned out as dark as coffee, and was so bitter I couldn’t drink it. Not the bitterness of green tea, it was more of a.. resounding bitterness that rendered this cup undrinkable. I ended up dousing it in agave and milk, to make it just okay. It just doesn’t change my life the way that I wish it would – This is one that I truly wish tasted the way that it smelled. Not only that, I feel like as a chai, this tea should be able to handle heavy steeping for those who like to bring out the spiciness (or in this case, pumpkin-ness). Also, AS A CHAI, I feel like this tea is way way too sweet. This tea should be called Pumpkin Muffin or some crap, because I’m just not getting any resounding chai out of it.
Sorry for being as bitter as my tea.

As for all rooibos, they are not my favouite. From the bag, the tea smelled great—I really love the smell and taste of maple, so I thought this was one of the ones that I would like. When steeped, I could smell the maple. Unfortunately when really hot you can’t taste the maple flavour, but once it cooled down you could really tell.

I think so far this is one of the rooibos that I found easy to handle, normally I found that it doesn’t agree with my stomach because it makes my tummy do something funny. This is the best rooibos I have tried so far :)

This lazy sunday afternoon, trying to decide on which tea to have (my mom may be right, I seem to have quite a few to choose from – she thinks too many). Decided that I would give one of the 3 samplers from my last online order a go, and this is the one that one out. The aroma sorta reminded me of the Chocolate Rocket tea… but maybe berrier? If that makes sense.

Made it into a tea latte (god I’m on a roll with them) and find that the taste is really amazing in the latte. But I want to hold off on a true taste decision till I’ve had some plain (right now its about a 75?). I definitely get a light berry flavor that is enjoyable, and not much of the chocolate…

Edit: Did a resteep of this tea and drank it plain. Actually found the taste to be quite subtle, and I did enjoy it though I’m not sure it’s one I would add to my tin collection – I do have a slightly digger sample (from the “Sweet Indulgence” sampler) that i will try another day.

Honestly, I found this smelled and tasted like apples and cinnimon oatmeal. I certianly could find the cinnamon in the tea, though the mint from which it acquired its name appeared more lost, with only hints appearing. I would like this to take a more prominent place to suit the name.

When I smelled it, I thought of Five Alive and tropical punches.

The taste certainly backed this up, however I found it to be a little… hollow in taste. It seemed to me like something was missing in the flavour profile that was stopping it from being amazing. Still, it was a good drink.

4/24
i love the look of this tea dry – the cocoa nibs and almonds look appetizing!
definitely smells sweet with a hint of chocolate. (ahh, that’d be the raspberries, forgot they were in there)
the raspberry flavour is definitely stronger than the chocolate. the mate taste is hidden, i guess the chocolate is just more in the flavour.
nice for a raspberry tea though! not tart at all

To start off—I don’t like rooibos. I was recommended this tea from a friend. From the bag, it smells really amazing because of the berry smells. Unfortunately I can’t get over the taste—I’m not a big fan of it. I really hate to say this, but the taste reminds me a bit of soap. I really wanted to like this one, but unfortunately it won’t happen :(

Had this tea on the way to orchestra today to kill my sweet craving! I did enjoy it, however it wasn’t what I expected. I expected more of a buttered rum toffee taste for some reason. So it wasn’t as sweet as I would have liked, even with the sweetener in it. But it did have a hint of the rum and butter taste that I was craving and did in fact take away my sweet craving. The smell however is amazing,

Gosh this tea sure is pretty. And I quite like it. I had it with a bit of soy and some agave (cause that’s my favorite way to have earl grey – I find it brings out the richness of the flavors). I don’t think it’s anything extraordinary, but I love love love earl grey, and it compares to all my other favorite greys, so that’s a good sign!

And as a note, I brewed less than I needed to. I find earl greys are really strong… so I always brew either a little less of it, or I let it steep for shorter periods of time.

This is my day #15 of the David’s Tea “24 Days of Tea” advent calendar.