365 Days of Tea - Day 42: Stash's Maple Apple Cider. (Herbal tea)

Zing tea was suppose to be here yesterday, so I'm a bit worried that it was a lost in the mail, but I wont bother too much about it until the end of next week. I'm also expecting tea from else where but I haven't received any conformation that it's been sent. Sooooo we'll see!

I might have higher expectations then I should for this, because it sounds like it would be amazing. Its unsweetened so it might be the first tea that requires sugar to be yummy.

Its typical tea colored, nothing special here.

Hot tea! (Actually cold room.)

Its carries a very sweet maple scent, with a hint of apple. It smells like it would be very sweet, but considering its maple flavored; it probably doesn't contain actual maple. So that being said it probably isn't very sweet at all.

Surprisingly there isn't a lot of flavor here. The maple is very subtle, and you mostly just taste a very light appley flavor. It tastes less like tea and more like flavored hot-water. It has a lot to be desired flavor-wise. It was kind of a disappointment to be honest.

Even after I overbrewed it, hoping it would draw out more flavor, it really didn't. It wasn't bad, It's not nearly as bad as others. It just wasn't really all that amazing either.

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365 Days of Tea - Day 41: Good Earth's Sweetly Twisted.

This is posted late because: blogspot. Also I didn't do an infusion Friday this time around because I am feeling very under the weather and didn't want to risk consuming something disgusting. So I did some Good Earth tea, since I already drink it, but haven't review it yet.

Its a black tea mixed with rosehips and other things to give an interested twist on flavor.

Its actually really green colored, which I thought was a little strange. I found out it contains lemon peel and lemon oil, so that's good. Might have an interesting flavor.

Steaming hot! Just how I like it. (Actually it wasn't really all that hot, it was only steaming because its cold in this room. AC is blasting.)

Its.. very lemony but with a hint of berry. I think my problem with this is though, it smells very medicine-y. Like night time cold medicine. That doesn't mean its going to reflect in flavor, but its rather disappointing in aroma. It also smells mildly sweet, with a very tiny tingling of rosehip.

It's one of those teas that has a lot of potential to be extremely tart, but it also contains some sweeteners, so it actually balances that out. Its really tangy, I think the blueberry and lemon flavor blend really well to create this. Its also kind of sweet, which I sorta wish it wasn't. I tend to like non-sweetened teas.

I think its a pretty decent tea, I could find myself drinking it on a day off of work when I want something sweet. It isn't as complex as something normally is when it contains black tea, as the black tea itself is rather lost.

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365 Days of Tea - Day 37: Stash's Organic Very Berry Herbal Tea.

 So Its Sunday night and we were suppose to have a big storm but it barely rained at all. On another note, I'm trying to find a graphics designer to illustrate a childern's book I wrote last year, and I'd like to publish it on amazon. We'll see what happens with that.

Yes, yes I know, its another tea bag. There are not always so bad, and Stash is actually making some pretty decent ones. When you're in a rust, a tea bag is a pretty good deal, too. Its organic, too.

Although you can't see it all that well, the tea bag is actually stained a light purple. Probably from the raspberries. I thought at first that it might contain blue berries but it actually doesn't.

Dark red-ish purple color.  Should be good!

It smells just like a berry popsickle. Strange I know, but its a very berry-like scent. A perfect mix of raspberries, cranberries, strawberries, and rosehips. There isn't a lot of depth to the aroma, but its still pretty good.

You know when you've eaten a fresh raspberry and its a tiny bit tart, and a little bit sweet? Its almost exactly like that flavor. Although, it does contain other ingredients but I think most of that flavor is lost. That doesn't mean that you don't get the health benefits from the other berries though. It tastes very unprocessed (even though the aroma kind of tells you otherwise) and fresh.

Although it is a tea bag as opposed to a loose leaf tea, I still think it stands on it's own. Its pretty decent, and I can only wish I had more. It would make fantastic iced tea, with a little honey.

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365 Days of Tea - Day 32: Celestial Seasonings's Sleepytime® Herbal Tea K-Cup.

Blog spot, yet again failed, and wouldn't let me post at all. Good Earth gave me a tracking number, and it should be here Thursday! So thats good! (This might be kind of short because I have to rewrite it because I'm derp)

(Yep, its a stock image, sorry I messed up here bad.)

Its a herbal mix, containing; Chamomile flowers, spearmint leaves, lemon grass, tilia flowers, blackberry leaves, orange blossoms, hawthorn berries, and rosebuds. It kind of surprised me that it didn't contain any flavorings, or extracts. 

It smells very herbally, and fresh. Which isn't what I'd typically suspect from something that might appear to be really processed like similar k-cup products. The scent mostly comes from the mint, with a very faint chamomile under tone that lightly tickles your nose.

Its mostly a spearmint taste which is to be expected. At least from my experience most things with tea in the carry that as a base flavor, whether they meant to or not. It isn't bad though. The chamomile does come through, but it isn't very strong. It does add a second layer of depth though. The other flavors are kind of muted by the mint however.

Now I an't find any actual details on what size you're suppose to brew at with the k-cups, but I tried all 3 that my machine produces, and  I would only recommend the smallest one your machine can handle. Anything larger than that, and it gets watered out. Its a pretty decent overall tea, especially since its from a k-cup.

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365 Days of Tea - Day 19: Organic Whole Plant Blue Berry tea.

So I reached out to a local blue berry farm, Highland Organics because I noticed on there website they carry "Blue berry tea" and I found that to be quite interesting since it was made from real blue berries instead of artificial flavoring.

The Package. (Yes my address is actually just a black square. Makes shipping things easier)

The literature, which is very well printed and informative. I'll probably keep it forever.

 The actual tea. This is also the nicest tea sample packaging I've gotten so far. Its very solid, and reusable. Reusability is the HUGE thing, ALL companies should use reusable containers to avoid waste. If I had a big ol' BEST CONTAINER AWARD, I'd put it here.

This tea is really pretty. Its made up of whole dried blue berries and stems and leaves. Its very blue-ish purple. Its flakey and powdery, so it got all over my desk and the world. What's really interesting though, is that because of the way this tea is processed, it actually contains nearly double the antioxidants than blue berries. Keep in mind that blue berries have second highest count of antioxidants, ever. So this tea is basically super tea. Its extremely good for you.

Its a deep purple color, which is to be expected since its made from blue berries. Please ignore my desk, its full of tea, dust, and tea dust.

Smell - The smell is very subtle, but its there. It carries a very faint blue berry scent with a slight leafy overtone. There isn't much else to say about it's smell. Its good.

Taste - The taste is unremarkable. Its extremely refined, but delicate. Very smooth, I could drink it all day. It carries a pleasant blue berry favor, but it isn't sweet. It tastes very raw, and unprocessed. Highland organics really lets the blueberries speak for themselves, and they speak volumes. Although, the favor itself is as strong as something like a black tea, it still carries very well. It is not bitter in anyway and the leaves and stems carry a very faint earth-y-ness to the table.

Overall - This is really what local farms are all about. Their quality is untouchable. Their attention to details, not only because its their livelihood, but because they actually love and care about what they do. To them these blue berries are life, to me, they are heaven. We talked about possibly taking a tour in the fall of their farm, and I will definitely blog about that. I would also really love to taste their Organic Blueberry Barque.

(5 out of 5 gold tea leaves, which is something I'd only give if I felt it deserved more than 5.)

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p.s. this makes amazing ice tea, but I didn't review that here.