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I needed a plain milk tea today at lunch to go with my soup and couscous. This filled the slot quite nicely and tasted good. It is nice to actually have enough milk in my milk tea instead of a dribble of milk that happened last time.

I am also finding out that water from the hot water spicket to make tea with is better than no tea at all.

Backlogging: This Morning

I woke up with either bad gas or indigestion, so my sides hurt really badly. It took all I had to get out of bed and get dressed. So, I managed to get hot water out of the spicket in our cafeteria and make this tea with a trickle of milk. (A literal trickle. I would have put more in there if they had more and I wanted real milk instead of soy this morning)

It helped me get through the morning and helped me feel better mentally even if it took until noon to get over my side cramps.

I generally don’t like lemon in my tea, but I don’t have anything against lemon. I like lemon pie and lemon pudding and lemonade. This pushed it. It was horrible. It tastes like lemon concentrate heated up in a cup.

I don’t dump out my teas even when I don’t like them. I sit them out and give them a fair tasting review to the very end.

I took four sips and three big gulps of this.

I dumped it out.

This tea is very different from what I am used to. I steeped this for my normal time for herbals and got to enjoy the strong smell of cinnamon coming from the pot. I love cinnamon so I was looking forward to this. The liquid is a lighter color than the herbals I have been brewing up. Almost a nice caramel toffee color.

The taste is very interesting. It starts out with that bite of cinnamon on the tip of your tongue. By the time you swallow, you get that cool peppermint flavor. I’m getting a hint of orange in the cup. I’m not sure about the rosehip or the ginger root because I’m not sure what those flavors taste like.

It is good and I would definitely drink this with a group of friends. Especially if any of my friends are not sure about herbal teas because this would make them see that herbal teas don’t have to be boring.

This is the only type of tea my school cafeteria has anymore, so I decided to open my mind and give it another try. Don’t do it. The only words to describe it is hot leaf juice. Flavorless hot leaf juice. I’m only giving it a 10 because of nostalgia from when I was around 5-8 years old.

I lied last time. This time I finished off my tumbler of tea. Don’t let this set for three days if you cold brew it. You should really finish it on the second day or else all the flavor from the spices disappear.

The first time I tried a rooibos tea, I didn’t like it. I thought it was tasteless and not strong and it wasn’t very good. That is why I have been putting off trying this tea. But tonight, I finally broke down and made myself a small pot of this with boiling water.

The liquid was a darker brown with a light tan color around the rim of my glass. It looked very pretty. The smell was dark and spicy. It smelled good in my cup. Then I took the plunge and tried it. It was pretty good. I really didn’t taste that much besides cinnamon and another unidentified spice. It was also mellow, which was nice. Overall, it was much better than I expected.

Since it was chai, I wanted to try some of it with a bit of milk. On the half of my second cup, I poured a little Silk Vanilla Soy in my cup. It didn’t bring out any flavors in the tea itself, but it made it smoother. It would have been good if it was boiled with milk at a stronger flavor with just a dash of honey over the stove. If I ever get a chance to try it again, I might try it like that. Or I just might drink it straight since it is very good straight.

My 100th Tea Post.

Just finishing up my tumbler of cold brewed tea. I’ve been calling it my own “flavored water” because it truly does taste like water with spice flavors. It does wake you up and give you more energy which must come from the ginger in the tea. Very nice. This will probably be my branch into discovering teas with just ginger in them.

This is another one of my tea tin finds. I went through it this afternoon and took one of each teabag that I wanted to try. I was craving the Earl today, so here he is.

The liquor is very dark and you can smell the tea very well. The tea itself is tasty. It is a little less smooth than Numi’s Aged Earl Grey. The bergamot isn’t overwhelming. I just like the Aged Earl better than this one. That being said, this is still a tasty cup and lands itself on the light green smiley on my rating.

I haven’t met an Earl I didn’t like yet and Numi rarely disappoints.

My other roommate (not grayfoxgirl) has a box of tea bags that she either bought or got from other friends. I found this one and decided to try it because it is a Numi Teas and I like most of their teas.

I have never really tried a straight chamomile tea before. I have tried it in blends but that was about it, so I was glad to find a plain chamomile tea. I was pleasantly surprised when the tea was a very nice golden yellow color. It tasted very delicate and floral and strong. It was a nice strong. It announced itself without being overbearing. The big surprise was that this tea tasted sweet. Almost like I had added honey in it even though I didn’t. I really liked that sweetness.

I don’t think that there is another bag in the tea box, but I would be willing to go through and try to find another one. If I ran into this tea again, I would gladly drink it.