Sipdown another that was finished prior to entering my cupboard!
Thank you Kat_Maria for the added in teabag.
I have a few friends from my old city who think they’re big time tea drinkers but are more the ‘type’ of tea drinker that basically only owns teabags and kinda does it because it’s ‘trendy’ to be a tea drinker and drink Starbucks tea. Only a few even know what loose leaf is, and I think they’re only aware of DAVIDsTEA. Look at me sounding all ‘Tea Elitist’ ; that’s totally not the intention here. To each his/her own, and you know – move forward at your own pace, right? If teabags do it for you, then right on.
My point, anyway, is/was that the most recent time I talked to one of them I made the mistake of bringing up tea and she got very excited about this tea in particular and asked if I’d ever tried it, to which I responded that I’d heard of it and was familiar with the company/brand, but had never tried it personally. She just went on and on about how great it was. I believe at one point the phrases “Best tea in the world” and “Hibiscus is so great!” were uttered at least once, which I thought some people here on Steepster might find amusing.
So anyway, I received this one unexpectedly from Kat_Maria and finally took the opportunity to try it to see what all the “Tea Drinking Hipster” hype is all about, and I can summarize this in one word which makes practically every Steepster user simultaneously cringe: “Hibiscus”.
How the hell do people love this and drink it on a regular basis!? It was one of, if not the, most sour/tart and way overly sugary teas I’ve ever tried and I was puckered up throughout the entire mug full. Some kind of horrible cross between cloying and painfully sour/tart. It was so bad. Yeah, I’ll pass on this one in the future…
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Ha ha. Totally made me laugh. I love it when someone finds out I am a tea drinker, then goes on and on about how awesome Tetley tea bags are (or something like that). They just get a blank stare when I launch into loose leaf and French teas, etc.
You changed your profile picture! It threw me off momentarily. I was all “Steepster said Lala commented… But that’s not Lala’s image. Oh, wait!”. Cheshire cat is pretty awesome, though.
Sometimes I think the reason non-tea drinks don’t drink tea is that the only ones they try have hibiscus. They look at all the fun fruits and flower and they don’t know about or see the hibiscus until too late. It seems to be in some of those “energy” teas and looks so pretty and then disappoints :(
If only we could warn them all…
Also, I always think back to my Step Aunt. When we were up in her city for Comic Con my Dad told her I was a “big time tea drinker” and she got all excited because she ‘just loves tea’, and then proceeded to pull box after box of bagged Lipton/Tetley teabags out of her cupboard. Her idea of fancy tea was tea with chocolate in it, and she tried telling me about the crazy new store called DAVIDsTEA that her niece loves (she has ‘like ten tins of their tea’). I just went along with it; she in her late 60s and seemed very impressed with herself.
Haha. I have one friend who gets super excited about bagged chais and then got some gunpowder tea as a gift and keeps talking about it as if it is super special and unique. I don’t have the heart to tell her that it is a pretty common type of tea.
One of my coworkers loves this tea! I think the spices are neat, but I could never drink it all the time. It’s just too much. I’ll occasionally get it iced in the summer. :)
The restaurant Tre works at just started making their own Saskatoon Berry Earl Grey (which sounds amazing) and he came home and very excitedly told me they were making it by putting large quantities into a vat of cold water and letting it soak for a long time. He seemed so impressed that he was making tea in a way that was new to me, and I kind of just coldly answered back (because I’m a horrible roommate who doesn’t care about his feelings): “It’s called Cold Brewing, and what the fuck do you think I’m doing everyday with my mason jar? You’re not special.” and he kind of just shut up for the whole night.
Roswell, I just about spit out my tea!
I actually really like this brewed cold during the summer. I really hate the taste of plain water and this hydrates me in a pinch. When it’s really hot, the tartness is actually refreshing (similar to lemonade – but unlike lemonade doesn’t give you horrible stomach aches if you drink too much).
Ha ha. Totally made me laugh. I love it when someone finds out I am a tea drinker, then goes on and on about how awesome Tetley tea bags are (or something like that). They just get a blank stare when I launch into loose leaf and French teas, etc.
You changed your profile picture! It threw me off momentarily. I was all “Steepster said Lala commented… But that’s not Lala’s image. Oh, wait!”. Cheshire cat is pretty awesome, though.
Sometimes I think the reason non-tea drinks don’t drink tea is that the only ones they try have hibiscus. They look at all the fun fruits and flower and they don’t know about or see the hibiscus until too late. It seems to be in some of those “energy” teas and looks so pretty and then disappoints :(
If only we could warn them all…
Also, I always think back to my Step Aunt. When we were up in her city for Comic Con my Dad told her I was a “big time tea drinker” and she got all excited because she ‘just loves tea’, and then proceeded to pull box after box of bagged Lipton/Tetley teabags out of her cupboard. Her idea of fancy tea was tea with chocolate in it, and she tried telling me about the crazy new store called DAVIDsTEA that her niece loves (she has ‘like ten tins of their tea’). I just went along with it; she in her late 60s and seemed very impressed with herself.
Haha. I have one friend who gets super excited about bagged chais and then got some gunpowder tea as a gift and keeps talking about it as if it is super special and unique. I don’t have the heart to tell her that it is a pretty common type of tea.
One of my coworkers loves this tea! I think the spices are neat, but I could never drink it all the time. It’s just too much. I’ll occasionally get it iced in the summer. :)
The restaurant Tre works at just started making their own Saskatoon Berry Earl Grey (which sounds amazing) and he came home and very excitedly told me they were making it by putting large quantities into a vat of cold water and letting it soak for a long time. He seemed so impressed that he was making tea in a way that was new to me, and I kind of just coldly answered back (because I’m a horrible roommate who doesn’t care about his feelings): “It’s called Cold Brewing, and what the fuck do you think I’m doing everyday with my mason jar? You’re not special.” and he kind of just shut up for the whole night.
Roswell, I just about spit out my tea!
I actually really like this brewed cold during the summer. I really hate the taste of plain water and this hydrates me in a pinch. When it’s really hot, the tartness is actually refreshing (similar to lemonade – but unlike lemonade doesn’t give you horrible stomach aches if you drink too much).