415 Tasting Notes

85

Really enjoy this blend. Nice punch of vanilla, mint-chamomile blend is neither too strong or weak. Another winner from Celestial Seasonings.

Flavors: Vanilla

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more

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69

Not at good as the gunpowder green tea from iHOT. More astringency, smaller pieces.

Flavors: Astringent

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 2 min, 0 sec
MrQuackers

Not sure if you mean broken pieces or smaller gun powder tea, which is a sign of quality tea. I have 3 empty tins of this in my cupboard. (I think Walmart ran out of it)

Kristal

I would say broken pieces more so, and the tea from iHOT had more “pellets” where tuning’ tea looks more unraveled.

Either way, it’s not a bad tea: I just personally prefer the stuff from iHOT more.

Kristal

*twining’s tea looks more unraveled

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80

Re-review of this tea.

I’m going to be switching to mate teas on weekdays. I’m going to get Invisalign braces very soon and won’t be able to drink as much tea because you have to remove the trays every time you want to eat or drink (other than water), so I figured getting a stronger tea is a good idea so I can have 1 cup and be satisfied.

I really enjoyed this one. Reminds me of the lemon green rooibos they have: nice and lemony and brews up well with no bitterness. A stronger cup than a lot of the green teas I’ve been having lately. This may be my go-to-tea for a while.

Flavors: Herbaceous, Lemon

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 5 min, 0 sec
Sil

i just wish that you could buy smaller quantities than 100g here

Evol Ving Ness

Sorry about your upcoming tea fast. Kristal. Hope it goes well.

Kristal

Sil- looks like on the website you can buy 50g at a time? They also have sampler packs too https://www.internationalhouseoftea.com/collections/yerba-mate/products/yerba-mate-sampler

Evol Ving ness- Lol no worries! 4 cups a day is still decent. and I like water too so that’s fine.

Kristal

I say 4 cups because with Invisalign you have to wear them for 22h/day. So my plan is 4 eating breaks, 30min each, a cup at each meal break.

Evol Ving Ness

Ok then, reasonable, only slight amount of suffering.

Kristal

Haha. What I’m more bummed about is on the weekends I like to slowly sip wine (a small glass will take me an hour to drink down!). I will have to now chug down my glass instead. Oh well. I’m looking forward to getting my teeth fixed up anyways!

Sil

must be thinking of another tea company then haha

Evol Ving Ness

Yes, after that, you can drink all the tea and wine you want. Very slowly even.

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70

Largely tastes like cinnamon and a bit of anise. Not bad, but I’ve been having a lot of spice blends lately and I’m getting a little tired of them lol.

Flavors: Anise, Cinnamon

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72

Bought this because I forgot tea one day at work and I work next to a wal-mart which sold this. Overall it’s alright. I can really taste the cinnamon and a bit of turmeric. Not too spicy when steeped for a long time. Overall I wish this has a rooibos base for some depth. I’ll finish up the box though no prob.

Flavors: Cinnamon, Spicy

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more

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70

I appreciated the fact that the cinnamon wasn’t overpowering (for some reason I expected that since it was meant for apple cider? Hmm…). Not sure if I can detect coriander, but baking spices are there. Overall it’s alright. I will have to see what spice blend is my favorite from the sampler pack ;)

Flavors: Cinnamon

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more 10 OZ / 295 ML

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75

One of the spice blends from the sampler pack. I steeped about 1.5-2.0 tsp in 10oz of 200F water for 5 min. Result is a mild taste of baking spices and vanilla/anise (not cloyingly sweet or anything though). I’m curious on how it would handle 10min- I don’t think it would be overbearing or anything though. Would consider blending this with early grey cream rooibos. Mmmm.

Flavors: Anise, Cinnamon, Vanilla

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 5 min, 0 sec 10 OZ / 295 ML

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71

Freebee for the month of March!

Chocolate teas aren’t usually my thing, but figured I’d give this a go. Luckily, the chocolate is quite light as is the sweetness of this tea (I’m used to DAVIDS chocolate teas that are packed full of sugar). I like the very mild spice to this tea- that adds an interesting concept. Overall I’m glad to try it but there are other honeybush or rooibos blends I like better from iHOT.

Preparation
Boiling

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90

Decided to mock up Steeped tea’s lemon ginger tea-tox (lemongrass, rose petals and ginger pieces). Steeped Tea is selling this blend at $9/50g (or $15/100g which translates to $7.50/50g). iHOT mocked up the blend and charged me $4.50/50g.

I’ve missed having a lemongrass blend. Love this light floral blend with a hint of ginger. I did a ratio of 2 parts lemongrass to 1 part rose petals and light on the ginger. Really nice.

Flavors: Floral, Ginger

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 5 min, 0 sec 10 OZ / 295 ML

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69
drank Care Lemon Ginger by Tetley
415 tasting notes

Another tea the husband picked up when I was sick as a dog. Sorry to say but I’m not the biggest fan of this one (too acidic with the citric acid and rose hips). However, he likes it quite a bit so I will continue to serve him this one.

Flavors: Ginger, Lemon

Evol Ving Ness

Hope you are feeling better, Kristal.

Kristal

Thanks! I am. 2 really rough days and just recovering after that. One day off of work isn’t bad.

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I used to drink coffee, but it started to hurt my stomach so I switched to tea. A friend of mine introduced me to DAVID’s TEA and I couldn’t stop after that! I’ve now been expanding my scope beyond DAVIDs away from “candy-like teas” into more natural teas or flavourings. Current favourite stores include International House of Tea (iHOT) and Verdant Tea.

When it comes to tea ratings, I usually only ever rate them once. I know a lot of people on steepster do many tasting notes for the same teas depending on their mood, but I prefer to rate once and if my opinion changes, I will delete the old note and rate again. How I rate teas goes as following:

1-49: Teas I won’t buy again. Either the taste is disgusting to me, or it’s too bland, etc. I’m most likely not even going to finish the tin/bag.

50-59: Teas I wouldn’t buy again; I have to force myself to drink the whole cup to not waste it.

60-69: I’ll finish the cup and even the bag/tin, but I wouldn’t buy these teas again. Teas of this rating are “lacking something”.

70-79:Teas that are pretty good and ones I might buy again. Usually these teas are ones I have to be “in the mood for” and drink occasionally.

80-89: Great teas! Ones I will drink several times a week and often have in my stash :).

90-100: Favourite must-have teas!

My favourite types of tea are green tea and different types of “natural” herbal tea (different herbs, natural flavourings, etc). I cannot drink black or oolong teas due a sensitive stomach. I don’t really go for white tea due to its cost and the fact that it has just a little caffeine (if I want caffeine I’ll just go for a green tea and if I don’t I’ll go for a herbal-no sense on just having a little caffeine). I also like to do iced teas in the summer time, and then I’ll gravitate towards herbal fruit blends that are bagged to cut costs and convenience (it’s easier to throw out bags than clean a filter). Flavours I don’t care for include anything too tart, bitter, artificial, overly spicy or overly sweet.
Also, when I have time (usually when I’m not working much) I like to make tea lattes out of different rooibos blends.

My everyday green tea is Gunpowder since it is strong and not sensitive to temperatures or steeping time which is something I cannot be bothered with when I’m getting ready for work. Other greens I enjoy are dragonwell, sencha, and different Chinese greens. I’m not the biggest fan of yunnan greens since they are so finicky (although I do like gyokuro)

On a day to day basis I usually have 2-3 cups of green tea and several more cups of different herbal blends.

Besides tea I also work at a couple libraries (I am finishing my library tech diploma),am in my early 20s and got married in Oct 2014.

Location

Northwestern Ontario

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