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This is my absolutely favorite herbal tea, especially with a little homey added to it. I love the combination of flavors – mint with ginger & licorice? Absolute. ly brilliant! I mostly drink black teas, but not at dinner time or after, so this is a perfect after dinner tea when everyone else is drinking coffee. It’s rich enough to be satisfying but light enough to not require some sort of dessert to go with it; it stands on its own. Like I said, it’s my favorite herbal tea. Why is it being so hard to find right now? I am worried that Target may not be carryinf it any more.
Flavors: Ginger, Mint
Preparation
So while I was at Target tonight I went down the tea aisle looking for a plain peppermint tea. The only herbal mint tea they had was Harney and Sons peppermint. That was $5.99 for a good sized tin. Which is a good price for what you get, but I had only $8.00 to my name. So I bought this one. I usually like peppermint tea in the evening after a heavy meal, and this one is specifically called After Dinner.
I think I’m having buyer’s remorse. It not a bad tea, but I wanted peppermint and think I should have held off on buying until I found my stash peppermint or another mint tea. The flavor here seems very busy. Like I can’t quite identify all the flavors. First I think “There’s the mint!” but it immediately changes to black licorice. Or is that the ginger? I am just not sure. It’s all sort of muddy. And the liquor itself is cloudy.
As I said, it’s not undrinkable, but it’;s not peppermint. I think I may bring this box of bagged tea to church. On Wednesday evenings we have casual Bible Study and children’s classes, and there is a coffee pot and a hot water kettle for tea and hot chocolate. someone may appreciate this one a little more than I do.
I’ve concluded that with peppermint and chamomile, generally speaking, the less expensive stuff is about the same as the pricey version. (Unless you start messing with additional flavors.) Otherwise, it’s going to taste like peppermint or it’s going to taste like chamomile.
Rabbit chasing here, but I tried a Simply Balanced brand soup that was awfully tasty recently … roasted red pepper and tomato? carrot? Was well worth the fight I had to put up to get it out of its “juice box” packaging :)
This tea doesn’t play around — every ingredient in it helps with digestion, from fennel to ginger, peppermint, licorice root, and anise. I don’t like the taste much (kind of bitter and heavy), but this tea is a great deal medicinally, especially for less than four bucks at Target.
Flavors: Anise, Ginger
Kak! They’re kidding with this stuff, right? Just NO. NO NO NO. Lord NO.
I recently modified my diet and have significantly cut out a lot of sugars and carbs. I really freaking miss my Oregon Chai Latte Concentrate. Hot with milk, it was seriously like crack to me (not that I would know how crack is, lol)!
The Target in my area has SERIOUSLY stepped up their tea game. A’right Red Ball Store, you go! I was excited to see this sugar free alternative (albeit a different brand) of my long, lost love. But, sad to see the Oregon Chai on massive discount … I am suspiciously thinking they are no longer going to sell this since their cough lame cough “Archer Farms” brand chai lattes have been introduced. This stuff is so new, I couldn’t find anything about it online anywhere – not even on Target’s website.
This stuff tastes so fake. It’s seriously gross. It smells somewhat reminiscent of my former love, but not really.
Maybe, someone else will try it and doctor it up fabulously and it will be delicious!
Flavors: Artificial
I obviously didn’t read the packaging carefully on this impulse buy: it contains red rooibos. My taste buds seem to have changed as I don’t enjoy red rooibos anymore. Unless it is heavily masked. Also the cocoa tastes very fake in this blend. Not tasting much bergamot or berry. Just fake chocolate rooibos :-/
when I first read the name of this tea, I thought… oh… I must try it… but after reading your note… eh… maybe not!
Another Target tea — but so far I have been pleasantly surprised by both of the teas I have purchased there. I brewed this tea for three minutes using very hot water, and am getting nice notes of chocolate and bread from it. It’s not the most complex tea in creation, but it’s a reasonable compromise between cost and tastiness. Also, the Archer Farms people must have a tea snob on their package design team, because the top of the tins are clear, allowing one to see the nice long leaves inside.
I was thrilled to find pyramid tea bags at Target, and me being me I gravitated toward the fruit and floral combo. I don’t think I’ve ever tasted a jasmine I didn’t like!
The first thing I noticed about these bags is that the amount of leaf contained therein is fairly little. That means that it’s easier to adjust the amount in your cup when using multiple bags (smaller increments) but I’d really rather have enough leaf to make a large cup with a single bag. It’s also not particularly pleasing to the eye or nose, with a lot of small pieces and no strong scent.
The flavor of this tea is about what you’d expect from something that costs $3.50 at a grocery store. Distinctly green — the generic green that you usually get with loose leaf labeled just “green tea”. I detect a little bit of what I assume is the jasmine but probably couldn’t guess if I didn’t already know, and a bit more fruit that reminds me most of peach (the ingredients tell me it’s actually apple). However, it takes some effort to pick that out; casual sipping means that everything is blended together into a mix that isn’t very harmonious. It’s the kind of tea that would turn casual drinkers off of tea: a jumbled mess of flavors that should be good together. As someone who rather likes tea, however, I don’t hate it — I just marvel at how poorly the mix was made.
I often oversteep this in hopes that the flavor will change and become stronger, and the jasmine does — but it also becomes unpleasantly bitter.