Steam Tea House

Sipdown! (OH NOES! Now I need to go get more, and Steam is closed tomorrow!)

Anyways, I didn’t have enough for my travel cup so I added some Irish Breakfast. It worked! Yay! So good.

(Oh, and my tutor is impressed with how far I’ve come, and I should manage to pass the course, might even get a B if I don’t get tripped up with the simple things. Like algebra. Freaking algebra.)

I think I’ve had this tea every single morning for the past week, so this is definitely one of my go-to morning teas. I don’t like mornings so much, and I find the peach flavour soothing, while the ginger calms my tummy. Adding in the usual soy creamer and honey makes it even more delicious.

Yay! I used this one up, then got more. I really really like this tea.

It wasn’t quite enough to make up for having to go to calculus class this morning, though. I don’t know what would be. Maybe I’ll try a matcha latte on Friday.

As for my neck, I have a protruding disc that is pressing against a nerve bundle. The pain comes and goes, and all I can really take for it is naproxen or advil. Whee. I started physio today, and will use up all my massage/chiro/physio/acupuncture moneys for this, as I’ll be doing physio twice a week for 6 weeks (or more). :/ (In BC we get 12 combined visits at a reduced rate if we’re poor, and I have an extended plan with my university that covers an extra $300 per year. That’s an extra 3-4 appointments.) There goes all my tea money!

I love this tea. So much so, that when my honey fell out of my cupboard and knocked my mug to the floor (breaking it and spilling tea everywhere) I wasn’t really upset as now my apartment smells delicious. Also, the falling was probably my fault as I can be a tremendous klutz in the mornings.

This is what I need from a strawberry tea. It tastes lovely up to 5 minutes of steeping (my max, really), is good with and without milky stuff and honey, and reminds me of summer. Just perfect.

I made myself a fresh cup after wiping up the floor, and noticed that I’m already starting to run low. Maybe I should get 100g this time!

I can smell!

Definitely gingery, but not in a POW or burning way. It’s delicate and earthy.

Drinking this today with just a splash of almond milk. This tea doesn’t actually need sweetener, YAY!

I’m starting to feel better, and I can (mostly) smell again! This is exactly what I was looking for in a peach-ginger tea. Juicy peaches (yes, kind of like the jelly candy) that hint towards being spiked with some sort of alcohol. The ginger isn’t as strong as I was expecting, but it is there, and it imparts a warming feel. I oversteeped this time and it hasn’t become bitter, which means that the base is something I should investigate. I love me some strong black teas that don’t get bitter (it is somewhat astringent)!

I drink this in a soup bowl with 1/2-to-1 tsp of honey and a splash of soy creamer.

Still sick, unfortunately, so again I’m waiting to rate the tea until I can actually smell.

Dry, the leaves smell strongly of fresh peach (dare I say Fuzzy Peach candies?) and black tea, with a little ginger. Brewed for 3 minutes, the tea is a lovely reddish colour, and still smells of peach.

I tasted it without sweetener, but it was a little bitter/astringent (honestly I can’t tell the difference right now) for me. I’ll have to try it cold brewed without sweetener in the summer, as that might be tastier than iced. After adding a little honey and soy creamer, this is exactly the tea I was after when I purchased it. A little warmth from the ginger, more of a smell of peach than a taste (possibly due to my cold), and a nice black tea that holds up well to my favoured additives. Yay!