Stash Tea

Left the bag in the entire time I’ve been drinking, and it never gets bitter, just sweeter and sweeter. And with more matcha taste!

Oh, you know. Awesome blah blah blah.

Still in love.

I love this tea so gosh darn much. I don’t drink it for months and then as soon as that first sip hits my lips, I am reminded of how amazingly wonderful it is – that taste of juicy ripe pear, the sweetness of the matcha, and the very mild touch of green tea. Stash sells this online-only as a loose tea – I’m thinking of purchasing to see if there’s any difference between it and the bagged.

I just realized that I probably love this so much because it tastes like Juicy Pear Jelly Bellys, one of my favorite flavors of anything of all time. The gulp of matcha doesn’t hurt, either.

From last night..

I’m a little bit addicted to this right now. Wondering how much a difference there is between the bagged and loose versions.

Smells so good.

Pretty good for a bagged tea. Perfect balance of green tea and sweet fruit flavor. And you can taste the matcha at the end!

This tea is becoming a standard for me. Milk and sweetener work well with the ginger, but it still makes its presence known through piquant flavor and lasting warmth.

5 min in boiling water gives a medium amber liquid which is slightly hazy. Smells great. Added sweetener and milk, still plenty of tea and ginger flavor. The ginger is strong enough but does not bite. I find that ginger settles the tummy.

The tartness slightly parallels my level of annoyance of having to work most of Sunday.

I’m getting really boring, you can tell I only have 4 teas in my apartment.

Good to kick me into bed after a 13-hour work day…

tart enough for heart (break)

Perfect for a Saturday morning marking a sneak preview of summer!

I’m VERY turned off by the smell of this tea. At first, before steeping, it’s like a grass smell, which isn’t the best, but it gets worse after that…then, once steeped…it’s smells kind of like a skunk….ewww! The coloring is a typical green tea color but with a some cloudiness. The taste isn’t THAT bad but I certainly have had better. For once, I really can’t get past the smell…sorry

2nd time on this tea bag. Didn’t get bitter — just weak and flat. Oh well.

The first time I drank this, i over-steeped it and hated it. This time i did better, with cooler water and 2 min steep, and squeezed the tea bag GENTLY. Added some sweet. This time i like it. It cant compare with Stash’s mangosteen green with matcha, but i do love diversity.

A very soothing green tea. Be careful with the temperature or it will go bitter on you.

2nd steep on a teabag, and it’s good in strength and taste — nothing added. That pu-erh is powerful stuff! My gardener son, grinning, calls it “compost tea.” The chrysanthemum does add just a bit of sweetness, without being overtly floral.

Maybe it’s just that the pu-erh in this tea bag is extra mellow, but perhaps the chrysanthemum petals have the effect of banishing the barnyard aspects of the pu-erh. However it happens, this is a light amber liquid with nice earthiness and a subtle floral aroma. Boiling water, scant 3 min steep. I like this. Nice change of pace. Got it in a sampler — might buy it sometime.

Nice and smooth drinking. Boiling water, 5 min steep, milk and sweet’ning. I bought a bunch of assortments on clearance and shared them with a sort of tea sisterhood, including my sister, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. We fancy ourselves having daily tea parties across the miles. And I feel a bit of the same camaraderie with my fellow Steepster-ites. Well then, to tea!