Higgins & Burke

This is “Green Tea with Lemongrass”. The title on the outside of the box doesn’t say ‘with lemongrass’ but that is what it says on the tea bag labels.

I enjoyed the smooth green tea flavor but I would have enjoyed pure green tea better than this combination.

Tastes great! I’ve never tried a pure chamomile tea that I haven’t liked.

This peppermint tea was excellent!

Happy Halloween!

I was in a rush to work today. I was making butternut squash soup and trying to cut up an uncooked squash is the biggest pain. Not to self: cook it in the oven for a while and just scoop out the insides and then make soup. Much easier.

Anywho, all this to say I didn’t pack any tea and simply grabbed what was in the cupboard. I’m not the biggest fan of fruit flavoured green tea but decided to give this one a try since it’s the only green tea in the cupboard. Boiled water, let it sit for 5 min to cool off, then steeped the bag for like 30 seconds. Slightly bitter with a tartish pear flavour. Altogether drinkable, but not something I would buy.

Had this with my supper out the other night… Love love love Earl Grey, and this was a nice, comforting two c ups on an unusually chilly August evening.

A great cup of tea. I let the bag steep forever to achieve the perfect strength. I’m trying to work more echinacea into my diet and this tea is a lovely way of getting it in. :)

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I don’t think I’m ever going to catch up on tasting notes…

Anyhow, I may have slightly oversweetened this chai today (especially think it may have already had some natural sweetness from a bit of licorice?), but it’s pretty enjoyable. The right sort of “chai” spice, though I think I prefer Tazo’s version if we’re talking bagged teas, just because the latter is a bit more potent (and potent is good for chais when you like to add milk/cream to them). Also not the biggest fan of licorice in chais, and I think this has a bit more of that than I’d like, although once sweetened, it’s difficult to tell.

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Noooope. Not a fan. Not gingery enough, and there’s a licorice sweetness (for all I know, that’s ginseng). Anyways, not really my thing. Hopefully it doesn’t contaminate my Timolino too much… (I hate putting herbals into them because they always cause funky smells… e.g. I had some Apple Custard in a Timolino a while ago, and that particular mug has now been out of commission for a week, because the tea permeated into the rubber and then went funky. Sigh.)

I’m going to start this review by disclosing that I’m not a coffee drinker. I never have been and probably won’t be. I might get the odd ice capp from Tim’s but that’s about it.

So, anyways, my husband and I got a Keurig. I still can’t believe we got one, but we did so that when family comes over that actually do drink coffee, we can finally offer them some.

But while we were at the shop in town that sells the cups individually, we thought we’d get us a few things too, and this is one of the ones that I grabbed as it looked almost like loose leaf in the cup!

So it’s a STRONG tea. Like super strong. I was almost thrown by it. I ended up adding some milk to it to hopefully tone it down, but it didn’t really touch it too much. I did end up drinking most of it, but I think next time I would steep it up and make it into a latte. I would steam up some milk and add it afterwards and see what happens. I bet with the milk it would be amazing.

Anyways, I would get this again and see how well that works before I fully feel about it.

I went out for dinner tonight and this was the tea I received when I asked if they had lemon tea. I wasn’t too impressed with it. Not bad but not great either. I can taste the lemon and the honey flavours but it’s artificial and sharp tasting and not what I would call smooth. This tea would do in a pinch but it wouldn’t be a tea I would ever buy for home use.