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 40: Steeped Tea's Earl Grey De La Creme.

 This is my last tea from Steeped Tea, at least for now. They do carry a lot of great products so in the future, I would love to order from them. Also horray! 40 days since I started. :)

Earl Grey De La Creme. Its a black tea as you can tell.  Earl grey tea is a special kind of tea that is always a black tea with oil of bergamot as a flavoring. A bergamot is a type of citrus fruit, similar to an orange.

It looks quite pretty. You can clearly see the black tea leaves, and the wonderful cornflowers.

Its pretty dark.

It has a really deep scent. At first it carries a flowery scent, which comes from the corn flowers, but as that slowly fades away you collect a hint of citrus. Its nice, delicate yet complex. It isn't too prefumey either.

It doesn't taste as roasted as I would have expected. Though it does carry some interesting depth. Its not very flowery, but does carry a tiny hint of it. It actually tastes mildly creamy, though, it isn't thick. It also has a very delicate citrusy flavor, much like an orange and lemon mixture. I'm just glad that it isn't remotely as flower as that trash I had before.

This is finally something really good from Steeped Tea. It carried depth, and also quite delicate. It speaks with high class, but my one complaint is "natural flavors". I'd like to know whats in it. Keep in mind that I do review loose leaf teas at a higher standard then I review tea bags.

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365 Days of Tea - Day 39: Tea At Sea's Mountain Organic Indonesian Black Tea.

Graze saw my review of there box and they're sending me another free box, so that's pretty great news, and very nice of them. I look forward to review more of there snacks. I do have some more tea coming in the mail as well. Lots of exciting things going on!

Sadly though, this is my last tea from Tea At Sea. Perhaps I'll get more samples in the future? I guess we'll see. My experience with there tea has been really great, and I have high hopes for that company as well.

This is a black tea, so as we can tell: the leaves are very dark. The dark coloration is probably from them being rolled, and roasted.

Its brewing away. I like how my tea brewer, which is made for a glass mug, pretty much fits into any other mug, too. I don't always like glass mugs.

Its a pretty dark green, but my horrible photography does it no justice.

Teat At Sea usually offers very interesting aromas and flavors, and this is no different. It smells like a roasted mountain-side with a slight hint of sea breeze. Its carries a lot of depth, and complexity as well. The roasted flavor comes off very nutty, with an earthy under tone, and sea breeze finish.

It comes off as very dark and roasted flavor at first, but it's followed by a bit of earthiness. It almost tastes mildly salted, but that is from where it was grown. Tea At Seas's teas itself, may not be ground breaking, but where they are grown makes a huge differences. You can taste the care and love in every cup and it makes you smile.

I generally think that I had a great experience with Tea At Sea and would really hope to sample their products again in the future. I would highly recommend that anyone who is into tea, or curious about tea try out any of there products.

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365 Days of Tea - Day 30: Stash's Salted Caramel Mate Herbal & Black Tea.

I am still planning to do something special because its been 30 days since I started this product, I just didn't have the time to do so today, but it's coming, just at a later date. I'm still waiting for some tea in the mail, and I've contacted some healthy food companies for review products as well so, we'll see where that leads if, anywhere.

Salted Caramel Mate Herbal & Black Tea, I suspect this is probably pretty sweet, and doesn't carry much tea flavor.

I can't really tell whats going on in here, but I would guess there is some artificial and natural flavorings, too. I am a bit sad that, even though tea is such a raw, flavorful thing that a lot of companies still load it with crap.

its a pretty dark-ish red color.

It smells pretty fantastic. Very caramel-y. That roasted sugar-like scent. Its strange to think, but it smells sweet. If you took the sweet away it'd probably smell similar to coffee. Though, I have a feeling that most of this scent is artificial. That doesn't make it smell any less awesome, however.

Although, the aroma tricks you into thinking it's sweet, but it actually isn't. Which is what I prefer, I like to be able to control my sweetness levels. Its very coffee-like actually, the caramel flavor reminds of it.  The black tea barely makes an appearance at all, but I think that with how strong the caramel flavor is that, that is okay.

Now besides the fact that I am disappointed in the artificial-ness in the tea, I think that its a very good desert tea. I am surprised but I really enjoyed this. It isn't sweet like you'd expect, but you could easily add sugar, or honey to this to add good flavor.

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365 Days of Tea - Day 27: Stash's White Chocolate Mocha Black Tea.

So The Tea Spot decided they wanted to start something called "Customer Spotlight", and they've picked me as one of their customer's to spotlight. That's pretty exciting. I'm going to try to reach out to healthy snack companies, too. Although this blog is mainly about tea, its most important factor is health.

Yep, this is a teabag. I know they have a pretty ugly rep in the tea business, but I actually have high hopes for this one. Stash tea, believe it or not, was my first experience with tea, including loose leaf.It contains: Cocoa shells, Black tea, cinnamon, tiramisu flavor, coffee flavor, chocolate flavor and white chocolate flavor. I think my one turn off is all the flavorings, instead of raw ingredients.

The minute I opened the package, the smell whooooshed right in my face. It was great. There isn't much to say about the details of the tea, since I can't really see through the tea bag.

There she blows!

3-5 minutes later. Its a dark orangey-yellow.

Smell - Its smells pretty amazing. Its very coffee-like in scent, that roasty, bean like smell. It also carries a slightly chocolate under tone as well. Its quite a strong scent, too, it was rather surprising.You can't smell really any of the black tea, but I did notice a small hint of cinnamon. Its quite nice.

Taste - It doesn't nearly taste as strong as it smells, but that's okay. It carries a very light black tea flavor, with some nice coffee-like undertones. Chocolate and coffee mix so well, so it can be hard to tell the differences in flavor. In this case though, the chocolate itself brings a little sweetness to the flavor profile. 

Overall - I really did enjoy this tea, I think its a very good dessert tea. Its sorta like drinking a chocolate covered black tea leaf/coffee bean. I think this tea would actually be a good transition for coffee lovers who either, hate tea, or are curious about tea. 

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