Benner Tea

Mrs. Mad Hatter grabbed a box of the Easter Collection from Benner during her visit to Aldi yesterday. I made 6 cups of each sample to find out whether I liked them AND to determine the best of the collection. I’m starting with the best to the worst.

Brewing Method: Single serving cup (6oz). 212 F for 5-minutes.

Tasting Notes: Soap – lemon soap on the nose and taste. I immediately thought about the line from A Christmas Story when Ralphie is comparing tasting notes with Lux and Palmolive soap bars! Lol.

*“Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. My personal preference was for Lux, but I found Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor – heady, but with just a touch of mellow smoothness.”

Mrs. Mad Hatter grabbed a box of the Easter Collection from Benner during her visit to Aldi yesterday. I made 6 cups of each sample to find out whether I liked them AND to determine the best of the collection. I’m starting with the best to the worst.

Brewing Method: Single serving cup (6oz). 212 F for 5-minutes.

Tasting Notes: As the Aldi Reviewer said, “It’s a bit fake and odd.” That’s putting it lightly. Lol. On the nose, you’d think it’ll be bready, at least. Nope! I was at a loss for words for this one except for verbally saying, “I can’t finish this cup.”

Mrs. Mad Hatter grabbed a box of the Easter Collection from Benner during her visit to Aldi yesterday. I made 6 cups of each sample to find out whether I liked them AND to determine the best of the collection. I’m starting with the best to the worst.

Brewing Method: Single serving cup (6oz). 212 F for 5-minutes.

Tasting Notes: I was hoping to like this one! There was a strong strawberry & vanilla heaviness on the nose. This immediately fell away after brewing and the mug only offered a bland, un-ripened artificial strawberry note.

Mrs. Mad Hatter grabbed a box of the Easter Collection from Benner during her visit to Aldi yesterday. I made 6 cups of each sample to find out whether I liked them AND to determine the best of the collection. I’m starting with the best to the worst.

Brewing Method: Single serving cup (6oz). 212 F for 5-minutes.

Tasting Notes: Really tasting an almond sourness + the hibiscus is making it pop. Raspberry is an afterthought, but I can somewhat taste it in the lingering aftertaste.

Mrs. Mad Hatter grabbed a box of the Easter Collection from Benner during her visit to Aldi yesterday. I made 6 cups of each sample to find out whether I liked them AND to determine the best of the collection. I’m starting with the best to the worst.

Brewing Method: Single serving cup (6oz). 212 F for 5-minutes.

Tasting Notes: There were notes of better and a hint of citrus. Adding sugar/sweetener could potentially increase the flavors.

Mrs. Mad Hatter grabbed a box of the Easter Collection from Benner during her visit to Aldi yesterday. I made 6 cups of each sample to find out whether I liked them AND to determine the best of the collection. I’m starting with the best to the worst.

Brewing Method: Single serving cup (6oz). 212 F for 5-minutes.

Tasting Notes: This was bursting with blueberry notes! It had a lot of the artificial blueberry, but it was backed with supporting flavors from the fennel.

I have been drinking earl grey tea for breakfast for 0ver 30 years. I discovered Brenner Earl Grey about a year ago and found it to be quite aromatic and flavorful. Recently , they have stopped packaging the individual tea bags in cellophane and are now using paper. It now has a very weak aroma and significantly reduced flavor. This was a very bad corporate decision.

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This was the first tea offering I sipped at the tea exchange. It was pleasantly cinnamon heavy. It reminded me of Snickerdoodles with the splash of sugary flavors in the cup. I traded a bunch of samples from my stash at home for teas I’ve never tried nor heard of (mostly bags). I figured while I try to avoid any discrimination with tea bags, I make any opportunity to share loose leaf with the world, whenever the opportunity arises.

Choice number two from the tea table at the Bowls for BrainPower event. Cardboard. Plain cereal. Very boring. Astringent. Blah.

Color me surprised. At our Bowls for BrainPower Power event to help feed kids. Instead of a coffee table they have a tea table! It’s just tea bags. Only two types. But it’s tea! So of course. I had to try some. Never heard of this brand. Not impressed with the plastic on the outside of each of the bags. The teabag looks okay. The aroma is decent. The wet leaf is CTC so nothing impressive. I’m assuming it’s not true bergamot oil. The astringency is puckering and not entirely pleasant. Flavor overall is decent. Drinkable but not something I would seek out to buy.

Received one tea bag of this tea from postcrossing, from Chicago.

It is nothing much worth writing about. Cheap green tea with dirty taste, and mostly hay. Lemon, well, there are some sour notes, but it reminds me rather lemongrass only and ginseng? Not at all I guess.

I don’t know how old it is but I hope it is not terribly old, but it is pretty much boring.

This tea is good value for the money. Aldi sells it, it’s very nicely packaged (each bag is contained in its own clear cello packet), and the price for 20 bags is less than $1.30. The green tea is light, as is the lemon flavor. There’s a certain astringent quality to it (the ginseng?), but not too objectionable. I prefer using a bag of this to boost a mix of herbal teas together.

This tea is just “okay” as a generic tea. It costs $2 (in 2014) for a bag of 100 tea bags, so it’s not too bad for people who are not tea aficionados.

This is the other green tea available at Aldi. I like it, and at $1.19 for a box of 20, that’s an achievement. Unlike the regular green tea, this one is a lot more sensitive to steep time. I would not recommend going past 1-2 minutes, the lemon peel tends to get a bit bitter beyond that point. High marks for value. If you’re looking for value, this is a good pick. I drink this at work daily.

I’m giving this tea full marks due to its value. It’s an Aldi tea, $1.19 for a box of 20. I’ve always been a loose tea fan, but I switched to bags for work, as it’s far more convenient. I tried several upscale bags, then picked up a pack of this stuff when I was at Aldi. It tastes just fine to me. I’ve tried other brands of bagged green tea, they all seem to taste the same. For $1.19, I’ll be drinking this for a while. It doesn’t seem to be vulnerable to overbrewing, either. It’s $1.19, if you’re curious, give it a shot.

This tea smells quite fishy. Low level of lemon flavoring. I truly can’t recommend it.

excellent basic tea

I can not find this anymore! I found few bags in my friends house, and we enjoyed it together. It was always the first flavor gone when I went to by it at ALDI. I cannot be alone! I would love for them to find it again! The best, with the second best being Panara’s green tea.

I give this tea on the high end of pretty good, preference definitly as ice tea with a bit of lemon added. It also keeps well on the stomach. I was very sick recently with the flu. I could not eat anything for 10 days, i started drinking the tea hot, it really did help me back up, nothing else would stay down but this tea( i tried others, the name brands, they were either too harsh with flavors, strong, airomatic, this one did it for me).