momo Send Message

I’ve always been curious about these tea/coffee blends I see. I drink coffee sometimes; I am most definitely not a coffee or tea person. Obviously, I prefer tea but I won’t turn my nose up at coffee.

I have a friend who works for a coffee roastery and it bothers me when he tries to polarize it because I’m here like give me either as long as they taste good to me!

This one I am not sure about. I want to love this but the caramel flavor is reminding me of coffee out of a rest area vending machine. There is just something weird about the way it smells. Fake fake fake and cheap. I added milk and agave hoping it might make it taste better, but it hardly helped…so I dumped it.

If it wasn’t for that, this would be so good.

Thanks, Will Work For Tea!

I made this sort of like a soda. I steeped a tablespoon of tea in what I guess was 6 oz of water (of course, I came up with this idea after putting my measuring cup in the dishwasher and turning it on), steeped it for 4 1/2 minutes, then poured it over ice. Added agave and seltzer water, and it’s pretty spot on for a root beer float, minus the texture of having ice cream melted in it.

The vanilla and white chocolate definitely give it that float taste, but it’s not super creamy. I guess if you really were looking for that, you could add a little ice cream. I like it the way it is though.

It could use a bit more spices to me for a root beer, because to me the only flat taste to it is that it’s just cinnamon and then some vague flavors that might be root beer. The only root beer I will drink is made by Abita. If you haven’t tried it, you MUST. It’s just so sugary I try not to drink it but hey, at least it’s made of natural sugar that isn’t from corn so that’s a plus.

It’s pretty good, but honestly I’d rather just drink that one. I’ll definitely finish this bag though. If there was less cinnamon and more of the other spices and herbs that go into root beer, it’d be soooo much better.

This is pretty good, a nice tropical flavored oolong. But I think the kombucha powder is making my throat itch. I’ve never had this happen before with anything, and given that’s the only ingredient in here I’ve never had before, it could be it.

Oh well, it’s not that horrible (so far at least, if you don’t hear from me again I was wrong) so I will definitely drink up all I have. I definitely want to try it iced.

I was expecting it to be a bit more tart given what I know about kombucha, but it’s not. Still, it has a nice flavor.

Thank you, Kittenna!

This is so tasty, wow! I am now intrigued about trying it steeped for only half a minute. It’s really good after four though.

It smells exactly as it should, fruity, tart, and like cinnamony baked goods. And then it tastes like this too! The hibiscus makes it a bit too tart for my liking, but I’m also too tired to get up and get myself sugar. And F1 qualifying is about to start and I have to watch it on my laptop. Poor boyfriend’s TV got fried in one of the many storms last week.

As usual with flavored whites from DavidsTea, the tea is hardly detectable underneath all the fruit. As much as I’d love to get more of this in the future, the price is just too much. But ugh it really tastes like a crumble in a cup.

Thanks, Kittenna!

I love iced mint green tea. While this one isn’t a Moroccan mint, the typical one I’d go for, it’s really good. I wouldn’t have thought jasmine and mint would work together.

This is nice and refreshing, really cooling. The mint isn’t overbearing and you can taste the gunpowder. There’s a slightly smoky, green tea behind the mint. The jasmine brings out some floral flavors too. There’s white tea in here also but I don’t taste it at all. The leaves are pretty chopped and it’d be hard to taste them over a gunpowder green anyway.

This makes a nice, quick iced tea. Thanks, TeaEqualsBliss!

yay, received a box of a big swap with Kittenna where we use our amazing US-Canada trading partnership on a smaller scale for small victories..like all this DavidsTea minus an exchange rate. It was hard to choose where to begin.

Since I’ve never had a bamboo tea, and I was really thirsty for a cool drink, I figured I’d start here. This stuff smells interesting!

Lots of fruit chunks lead to an awesome fruity flavor. I definitely get lots of peach with a hint of pineapple, but I did get like 3 peach slices in the t-sac. Then there’s the weird aftertaste of bamboo with its nice cooling effect too. Kind of herbaceous and a little like basil. Makes for something tasty with the fruit.

I’m going to give it another steep too, probably just leave it steeping until it’s cool. Good stuff. Although I don’t really need to cool down today since it’s pretty nice out, this is still delicious.

Thank you so so so much again to Will Work For Tea for this wonderful surprise!

What I really wanted to do this morning was go swimming, but of course it started raining around 7am and not this afternoon as advertised. Even if it wasn’t raining I’m not exactly in a good mood given the whole movie theatre shooting and the dumb things people have to say. (Like seriously you can cool it on worrying you’re going to see a spoiler somewhere on the internet, people.)

So oolong time it is.
On the first steep alone this tea tastes worth its price. And the first steep isn’t even the best one when it comes to milk oolongs. Woooow. Condensed milk candy, that is the only way to describe it. Creamy, buttery, just a slight touch of the green taste of the oolong. Wow. It even leaves that feeling on your tongue that cream generally leaves. Normally I HATE that feeling but with this tea, oooh yes, do like.

Second steep is butter butter butter. Smooth and creamy and buttery.

I oolong’d myself out after the third steep, which had a bit of a spice to it compared to the others. I’d keep going with these leaves but man this tea is so rich and intoxicating, I don’t want to take another 90 minute nap.

This is going on my “if you love me and want to buy me a present” list. It’ll just be this tea on the list. I have enough to steep it again using my gaiwan and I will be holding off on that for another rainy day. This stuff is ridiculous. When I get my first real job next year, I’m buying myself 2 ounces as a self congratulatory gift.

I wanted iced tea, but something low on caffeine. Since I had moved this to the kitchen…it was the winner.

I’m not a big fan of grape flavored things. It’s like cherry, where there’s a fine line between tasting like the fruit and tasting like medicine syrups. This isn’t bad though. Since I have no plans to ever take iced bai mu dan and add just a bit of some fresh concord grape juice to it, this works for me. That’s how I imagine this would be. It’s just enough grape for you to know that’s the flavor, and then you can taste the white tea.

I’d like to see how it fares cold brewed, see if that makes it any more grape tasting.

I wanted to use up some Amazon credit so I got a Takeya iced tea pitcher and a set of 2 Finum filters. I’m wondering how I have been living without these filters, wow. It’s like a serious eye opening experience.

I also realized why I’m usually not a fan of chai. They remind me too much of the smells when I worked at a craft store in high school…sometimes they remind me a lot of those horrible cinnamon brooms that always were left in the vestibule so people walk in one door and they’re just attacked by cinnamon, that’s how I feel with chai.

And that’s what this one feels like. I am drinking the brooms and the seasonal wax melts in a tea. Ugh I want to like chai so much. (shakes fist at craft store)

Once it’s cooled it’s a bit more drinkable for me, but it’s still hard to drink without thinking of the craft store. Shudder. You know what I had to do in July there? Start setting up Christmas merchandise…those horrid picks covered in glitter. I loved getting covered in glitter though, not gonna lie.

On the other hand, I can give the rest to my mom since she does like it. Thank you nonetheless, TeaEqualsBliss!

Took a bottle of this down to the pool. May have added coconut rum to it…not sure if that was “against the rules” there or anything but I thought it only applied to glass sooo I had a most excellent poolside drink.

I’ve lived here for like 11 months and that’s the first time I went to the pool, oops.

I steeped 5 tsp in 12 oz of water and then poured it onto ice cubes (and rum). It was perfect. Now I want more but I kind of wore myself out from swimming and want a nap.