TeaFrog

4th Infusion…Lighter in color than the last 2…sweeter and not much Jasmine this time which I am okay with. The sweetness is nice! One could probably try a 5th infusion but it would be really weak. Regardless I am very pleased with this!

3rd infusion…can taste the Jasmine more. It says 2 to 3 infusions…I’m going to try for 4th…

2nd infusion…

more flavorful than the first only infused about a minute longer. Darker as well and VERY tasty.

YUM.

I never do flowering teas at work. So…I had some time tonight to sit and appreciate and enjoy this cup. The bloom is HUGE and opens PERFECTLY and completely. The Red Floral Center’s color is so vibrant it looks like a strawberry from across the room. The liquid’s scent is sweet and wine-like. The color is a pale but pretty yellowish-white. My first sip was still very hot but I could instantly find the peachy tones – or should I say – they found me?

It’s sweet and peachy and floral-Jasmine towards the end of the sip. This is FAB. One of the better flowering teas I have EVER had! This is VERY flavorful especially for a flowering tea. I am going to see how many infusions I can get out of this one!

Very, very nice!

Orange Creamsicle. It totally smells like that today! It ‘brewed’ very deep reddish brown.

YUMMY.

It’s the ROOIBOS of the DAY, folks!!!!

Smells like Orange Juice and Rooibos! Tastes like it too! I must say this is delightful! YUP! I’m having my daily Rooibos…this was my Rooibos Pick O The Day! Glad I had the opportunity to try it!!! I will certainly be drinking this again!

It has a real rich brown/reddish color to it and even tho I am currently drinking this hot I am sure it’s just as good cold!!! WOW!

This is a highly flavored Rooibos! Way to go TeaFrog!

Backlogging and now swappin’ ammo (while listening to the Humpty Dance) LOL

I had some of this over the weekend…I think it was Friday! Really like this! YUM!

Had some of this with a midday snack…

Cashew Cheese and Rosemary Spelt Flatbread. YUM.

HOLY LEMON!!!!!!!!!

No, really…HOLY LEMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But you know what!? I Liiiiiike it!!!

With the LEMON and a bit of mint it seems to make it non-puckery and a nice full bold LEMON flavor!

If you like LEMON try it. If you don’t or aren’t sure…stay clear…because it sure is LEMON-EEEEEE!

Chocolate and Cream…indeed! A Sweet Treat…YAY! :) See my previous review on this…

Just got this in the mail from Mike! Woot! :)

Now here’s the sweetest tasting chocolate flavored tea I have tried so far. Some others have been dark chocolate or fake chocolate or cocoa chips or carob or semi sweet but this is SWEET. I like it! It’s lighter in color than I thought it would be but that’s ok with me. The creaminess does seem to make it sweeter and BRIGHT tasting. This is good and different than I was expecting. I would certainly drinking this again!

After a busy Monday, I wanted a nice green tea with its lower caffeine and its characteristic buttery taste. Knowing that Dragon Well (Lung Ching) has a reputation for being the champagne of Chinese green teas and that it’s known as being a fairly light tea, I thought that this was the ideal time for me to try this tea.

The dry leaf is long and pretty and fairly flat. It’s green but not the neon green of some Japanese greens. It smells a but nutty with hints at complexity that will arise with steeping. Brewed at approximately 175 degrees, the results are very pleasing. The brew is mid-yellow in color and the aroma is both vegetal and nutty. It is not particularly sweet on its own but I will use some sugar crystals when I’m half way done.

The tea is a great drink unfolding layers of nuttiness and some vegetation—not so much that you can call it a “spinach” or an “artichoke” tea but enough so that the vegetal taste plays a strong second fiddle to the primary taste of roasted or toasted nuts—I’d like to say roasted walnuts more than other kinds of nuts. It’s very satisfying and would make a great accompaniment to a meal or as an after-dinner tea. It would also be a great afternoon tea.

SECOND infusion: This Dragon Well has not lost anything but has gained perhaps more of a nutty focus. I added a few sugar crystals and the added sweetness was nice. There were not enough crystals to take away from the tea’s essential flavor. I would serve this to myself without the sugar but would offer some sugar to guests.

The rich toasty nuttiness and the deep flavor make this tea well-worth trying. I think it will become a staple at my house.

CAIT

sent me this and I think I’m getting along with it better than she is. While she got menstrual blood, I got fig newtons. I’m not sure that the flavor of “love” can be distilled into a rooibos blend. The envelop that TeaFrog uses calls it “Love Flavored Rooibos”. The ingredients include rose and orange, but I am not picking up on them (at least not so far). The dry leaves smelled like root beer, which was delightful but the brewed tea is a bit of an anticlimax. Is the TeaFrog presenting us with some sort of a Zen Koan about the flavor of Love? And more powerful than the tea itself, the name has me regressing into a Burt Bacharach kind of mood and I hear Dionne Warwick warbling “The Look of Love”. “I can hardly wait to hold you, feel my arms around you”—I think that was before she was a psychic friend.

A tea that gives me a Proustian moment cannot be all bad; but the previous tea I sipped led me to Florence Italy in my mind, which might be a better place to be than my old bedroom when I thought that Dionne Warwick was the epitome of sophistication and that Burt Bacharach was the bard of love!

I chose a sample of this when I placed an order with TeaFrog, and to be honest it’s a little out of my normal “comfort zone”. I thought I’d try something different than my usual types of tea, and that said I’m not a big chocolate fan at all. I didn’t think the chocolate flavour was overwhelming, by any means, but overall with the cocoa bits and chocolate chips, it was perhaps a bit much for me. The chocolate notes worked well with the black tea blend, and even though I probably over-steeped it a bit, it wasn’t bitter and still had a nice flavour. I have maybe another 2 cups left in my sample and I’ll definitely try it again/use it up but it isn’t something I would order more of.

I got a sample of this with my Steepster Select order a while ago and kind of forgot about it. I am not a huge chocolate-lover, and I usually don’t want real chocolate bits in my tea, but it sounded fantastic. It also smells fantastic—all the teas I’ve stored near it in the cabinet took on a bit of the smell.

I didn’t see if the spoonful of tea I used to brew my cup today actually had any chocolate chips in it, but the taste of chocolate was (thankfully) quite subtle. I didn’t really get much of a “cream” flavour at all, but I drank this while I was working and didn’t have the time to sit and really analyze it so I might’ve just missed it.

I wasn’t blown away by this tea from the one cup I’ve had, but it was pleasant and I am anxious to try it again and get a better feel for it

Huh. This is, indeed, deliciously blueberry, especially in the smell as it steeps but also in the flavor. However—

Did I do something wrong to the white tea underneath it? I haven’t had much white tea, but the one word that everyone uses over and over for it is “delicate”. This tea doesn’t taste delicate, so I can only conclude that it is delicate: I have been too rough, and the tea is giving as good (or bad) as it got.

I was much more happy with this tea than other fruit mushes because it isn’t as tart tasting. There is something a little more mellow and smoother about this than x-random american fruit in a cup.
And they didn’t use hibiscus which make me way happy!

I made a weaker pot of it this time, to share, and the pepper was definitely not as sharp. Still exciting, though!

Okay, I’m not ashamed to say that I was deeply intimidated by this tea. When my TeaFrog box arrived, the only thing I smelled when I opened it was chocolate and spice — and it was all coming from this one sample bag. I wrapped the sample bag (unopened) in a second bag and put that in a cannister, and still that entire corner of my kitchen was overwhelmed by chocolate and spices. I made myself a cup tonight because it seemed like a good night for it, but also in a bit of self-defense!

I was surprised, then, to find that the steeping tea smelled hardly of chocolate at all. The predominant spice when dry had been ginger; brewing, the peppercorns met up with the ginger and began taking over. I was too impatient to steep it for very long, and began sipping it from a spoon right away. The tea itself is a reddish-brown, not dark but rather murky in a way that matches the spicy scent.

Hot, it tastes almost entirely of peppercorns, but it’s very smooth underneath (is this where the chocolate comes in?). There’s a peppery tingle on the tongue and a gingery tingle at the back of the mouth — this is not a tea that’s sitting still to be drunk! And I was quite right to wait until I had an evening to savor it, because this is a tea that demands my full attention while drinking. As it’s cooling, there’s a little more chocolate flavor coming through, almost like the peppercorns, having made their point, have decided to graciously back off a step and let the other ingredients have their say.

ETA: A second steeping, at five and a half minutes, brings out rather more chocolate; I would still call this a pepper tea with chocolate and ginger flavors, but it’s an interesting change. It’s also distinctly darker from the longer steeping.

And now the quandary: I want more of this tea, but I’m not sure I dare acquire an entire tin of it lest my entire kitchen wind up smelling as though my spice rack and my cocoa powder just staggered in together after a wild night on the town.

Oh, this is exactly what I wanted tonight! It’s a very light, gentle fruit tea, neither sweet nor sour but perfect for sipping at the end of a long day.

My enjoyment of this tea started from the moment its aroma hit my nose. It has a somewhat earthy quality to it that you think will lead to a heavy flavor. However, the earthiness plays well and leads to the complexity of this tea. I was not expecting light and fruity flavors, and I am still discovering new flavors with each glass. Quickly becoming one of my favorites.

With the exception of Earl Grey, I am not a fan of most flavored teas. However, in this tea the jasmine flowers add flavor without overpowering the delicious green tea. I will say the only mistake I made was making this in 16 oz for the first cup. I corrected that one the next cup.