Elf Help

This is such a FUN tea!!!! VERY colorful ingredients and highly scented!

I can taste the green tea, sure, but there is a fruit salad type quality to it that I just can’t shake! It’s VERY tasty! I’m SO THANKFUL there isn’t Hibiscus in this! Thanks DavidsTea!

Check out these ingredients!!!!!

Sencha green tea, orange peel, apple, papaya, raisins, barberries, freeze-dried cranberries, coconut

I can see them all and they are all awesome! The more I drink this the more I am enjoying it! It’s fruity without being TOO fruity on the tongue! This is a GREAT offering from DavidsTea!!!

SIPDOWN! Not sure where my previous notes on this one went but thanks to raritea for letting me having some of this a short while back. This isn’t bad. It’s fruity and light and refreshing.

I’ve been a wee bit absent haven’t I? Its not because I don’t love you all, or (gasp!) fallen out of love with tea, I’ve just been having so many issues with my medical condition. I’ve not been symptomatic for almost 4 weeks and I’m still only just getting back on track. Its been a major pain. Literally – I’ve had more pain medication than is medically recommended, but my doctors have said its better than me being in agony for weeks on end. I won’t bore you all here, but I’ve started writing about it on a proper normal style blog instead of just clogging up this tea blog, so have a read/follow/comment/ignore me at your leisure: http://mymissingfactor.wordpress.com/.

And, in other fun news, I think I mentioned previously I was doing a 60 Day Challenge at my local barre studio – I won the runner up prize! So exciting! I get to go shopping for more tights and other clothes for barre! Weehee! I totally think it was the overconsumption of iced rooibos that gave me the edge.

And to counter my good news, our blender became a casualty in our soup making process last night. I am now sad because medical bills mean I don’t have the spare cash to fork out for my beloved Blentec until tax return time. :(

Anywho, on to Elf Help! My lovely other half has a week off work this week (becuase he doesn’t have an inherited medical condition which has recently seen him drain all of his leave reserves to a blip. No, I’m not bitter about that at all!), so he packed my timolino with this while I was dressing this morning. Oh my he made it well! Perfect selection of green tea, orange and cranberries to give it s lovely zing. I really like this, I might have to order more. And its warming me up on this chilly day.

Yum! This is really good! Thanks to TeaEqualsBliss for sending me some!

This is quite sweet – almost candy-like in sweetness, but my sweet tooth happily approves. It is very fruity, but not so much that it overwhelms the sencha. Very tasty! YUMYUMYUMYUMYUM!

It’s bubblegum. Very fruity, but candy fruity. Orangey candy. I’ve found that I really don’t like the smell of apple pieces in tea. Thankfully, I couldn’t smell the apple in the final product.
I dunnoooo… I don’t really want to drink a tea that reminds me of bubblegum. I think can drink this and enjoy it, but it’s not really for me. I guess this is the point after a second date where you decide you just want to be friends.

Thanks to Sil for sending me this one :)

I’ve been eyeing this one of the David’s website for some time. I have discovered I love tea with cranberries so I wanted to try everything I could with cranberries, but I’m always hesitant to order 50g of something I’ve never actually tried.

This one smells like some sort of candy, though I can’t quite figure out which candy.

It has such a fascinating taste. I’m enjoying it, I think. There’s cranberries in there somewhere, and the orange peel (or perhaps the barberries?) must give it that little kick. I’m not sure what a barberry is, so I can’t comment on that. Overall an interesting tea. I’m so happy I got to try this one out, thanks again Sil!

(DavidsTea 181)

Second tea from the holiday DT sub box. I don’t really remember drinking this previously, although I suspect I have (but can’t check my past notes right now). I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz about it in the DT facebook group, though. I have to say, I believe I was somewhat ambivalent about it hot (it’s kind of a bubblegummy orangey profile?), but cooled, we’re almost getting into liquid creamsicle territory, which is rather interesting.

Despite this being a Christmas tea, I’ve been thinking it would probably make a great iced tea.

It does. This is lovely. Sweet and just a touch tart to keep it nice and fresh-tasting.

Way more sweet than I expected that’s for sure!

Tastes just like Rockets Candies to a T.
So much rocket candy that I don’t think I can drink more than one cup.. but that’s because I once ate way too many rockets. I can’t find my photo proof, but I’m talking… 8 cups of rockets in a one month period. Good ol’ University.

OK my buds are seriously messed!! I quite enjoyed this (for a sencha. I hate sencha) but I tasted MINT! fresh, springy, mint! There is no mint in the ingredients… so how is this possible hmm?? Some of the fruitiness came out as well though I can’t be sure what exactly I was tasting. and there was no nuttiness whatsoever :(
agh. Anyhow, I went for a second steeping and the sencha came out more. I was not a fan.
I can’t remember enjoying a green tea more, except dragonwell. No nausea… I guess the “fruit” masked it for me