415 Tasting Notes

75
drank Green Tea Plus Glow by Tetley
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A Nice, light green tea that my co worker gave me. I like it, although with Tetley I find you gotta make sure not to overstep your tea. 1 minute I find is plenty, and the bag can easily be reused again.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 1 min, 15 sec

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78
drank Read My Lips by DAVIDsTEA
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A slightly sweet black tea that my co worker gave me to try. It’s pretty good! But, I’m not big on chocolate teas in general (even though I like chocolate, weird eh?) so I dunno if I would purchase any.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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70
drank Coconut Oolong by DAVIDsTEA
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My co-worker gave this tea to me and its really nice. I like how it’s only flavored with JUST coconut and not a whole bunch of other ingredients. It’s nice and simple :)

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 15 sec

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200 °F / 93 °C 4 min, 30 sec

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62
drank All The Raj by DAVIDsTEA
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205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 45 sec

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74
drank Chocolate Chili Chai by DAVIDsTEA
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I’m glad that the peppercorns and spicier ingredients are mellow. This is definetely chocolate-y tasting, and while I do like chocolate, I think chocolate teas aren’t my thing. However, for those people who like that sort of thing, I definately reccomend this tea for you.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 30 sec

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72

I can see why some people wouldn’t care for this tea. It is very flowery and that is not for everyone. However, I enjoy this tea and I love the fact that you don;t have to worry about over-steeping it. Also, it looks really pretty brewing up in the infuser.

Preparation
Boiling 6 min, 0 sec

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75
drank Banana Dream Pie by DAVIDsTEA
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Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 4 min, 30 sec

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77
drank Cookie Dough by DAVIDsTEA
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200 °F / 93 °C 4 min, 30 sec

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82
drank Cocomint Cream by DAVIDsTEA
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Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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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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