Mint Medley

This was a pleasant surprise. I don’t normally love teas with spearmint. I find it too strong on the menthol and unable to taste anything else, but in this case, this tea seems to have layers. The spearmint, the peppermint, and I think lemon, all work well together. At this point it’s quite a few years old, but it still tastes lovely.

Very straightforward mint tea. Spearmint on the body and peppermint on the finish.

Good, but nothing special.

Still love this and I don’t know why. Might be because of how fresh and minty it stays in that foil pouch, or the balanced blend of finely chopped peppermint and spearmint that almost instantly infuses into the water without leaving any dust in the bottom of the cup. It’s my go-to relaxation tea and I will shamelessly take a mug of it into the shower with me after a long day of work. (If some shampoo gets into it while it sits on the shower ledge, eh, it’s 10 cents a bag. Not out that much.)

Bigelow teas are a brand that I’m not a big fan of, but I was able to sample this tea from a local office during a visit. Out of the bag it smells great as it does brewing. I was excited to give this tea a try as my stomach was upset and the mint scent comes through amazingly.

Brewed for 3 1/2 minutes and this tea requires no sweetener, though I did add some as mint teas are not my favorite. This is one I’d go back to whenever I need a mint tea to ease my belly.

A friend gave me a bunch of teabags since he knows I like to make big pitchers with them. This is the first one I made. Probably put too much sugar in, but it’s really nice! I notice this kind gets less bitter than other mint teas I’ve had. I like the other things the mint is blended with. I think that makes this tea fun.

Not a bad mint mix but not the best. More on the spearmint side than peppermint with some tartness from the rose hips, lemon peel and hibiscus but those don’t add any flavor imo. Leaves my throat a little dry, making for a labored swallow which is always an awkward sensation. Can get stewy with the recommended 4-minute steep time.

My roommate was begin to get sick (sniffles and all) and was having a sneezing episode, the dreaded nonstop sneezing back to back. I know that mint tea always makes me feel 10 times better when I’m sick so I decided to make her some. I wanted her to get the full effect of the mint and spearmint’s healing properties so I made her half a cup so that the tea would be concentrated. While I was in the tea-making mood, I made myself and my sister some has well. I wanted to give our immune systems a boost, especially bc a common cold can keep me out of commission for a week! When I came home from work and school the next day, I found my roommate up and bouncing around the house on a cleaning binge. She was brand new and cleaning everything so that the germs weren’t lingering about the house. I’ve reviewed this tea before praising its deliciousness. Yet again, I am reviewing this tea because it’s just THAT good

I figured that I haven’t revisited one of my old bagged teas in a while, and I used to drink Mint Medley for migraine nausea before I switched to loose leaf and got a nausea blend with whole leaf peppermint, ginger, orange peel, and cinnamon in it. I always remember it worked well and I liked the taste well enough. I decided to make a batch of it iced for this revisit, by doing a warm steep and then chilling in the fridge overnight.

Now, I certainly don’t remember this tea being red before… and all the mint loose leaf teas I drink now are always caramelly color, which immediately turned me off from the tea. It smells like mint, but… red? Really? Then I saw the ingredients… rosehips and hibiscus in mint tea? Now, I am a big fan of rosehips and hibiscus (from reading the reviews on this site, I may just be the only one!), and I’ve certainly seen some very effective mint/hibiscus blends. But those are usually advertised as such. When a tea is called “Mint Medley,” I kind of expect to be getting a mint tea, not a mint tea with a bunch of odd additives. Why would I want my mint tea to be red?

The tea does have a very minty flavor, but it just has this sort of off-putting aftertaste. It’s a little hard to describe. It starts off with a very brisk, minty flavor, but then sort of ends with this odd, flat, kind of metallic stale taste that lingers on my tongue (and I checked my box; this tea should be fine until May 2019 according to the packaging, so it certainly shouldn’t be stale). Is it the extras in the blend? I don’t know, because it doesn’t even have the tart/tangy sort of flavor that rosehips/hibiscus/lemon peel should leave behind (if it was a tart finish, I’d actually find that quite pleasant, as that is a flavor profile I personally quite enjoy). It’s just this weird sort of taste that I don’t get when I drink mint in loose leaf blends. If I get my hands on any other bagged mint teas I’ll have to compare to see if I get that same weird taste to see if it is indeed from the rosehips, hibiscus, and lemon peel added to this particular tea, or if I’ve just lost my taste for bagged mint tea in general now.

Had a bit of a bitter aftertaste, but other than that is was OK
I like just plain spearmint tea, not with peppermint as well.

This was my second pot of tea on game night and while we did finish it, I did enjoy two cups.