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I drink this tea nightly nowadays. It’s super awesome. And free. And I’m going to take a few with me. It works with anything else you want to put with it. It’s a nice medium-depth black tea. I just want to know where it’s from.

I’ve gotten used to drinking this without milk, but it’s so good with it. I’m running out of tea at the moment due to my travels (I’ll be reunited with one of my tea stashes tomorrow, thankfully), but I have tons of this. Despite the lack of variety, I’m glad I have this tea.

So this tea is actually really good with peanut butter/jam sandwiches on wheat bread. I used my last tea bag today, and that kind of makes me sad. But it was a good cup of tea, so I’m not too unhappy.

St. Elias Specialty Hospital serves this tea alongside Green Mountain coffees in their little Keurig stand. It’s the only tea they have (and they’ve also discontinued serving hot cocoa, which would be wonderful with the 3 ft of snow we already have and the 2+ ft we’re supposed to get). I finally tried it in a clean paper cup, so I’m finally comfortable rating it.

It’s ok. I’m left feeling like I want more, though. I personally think it’s more about the Keurig machine than the leaves, though. The flavor is a bit difficult to put a finger on, and it’s pretty weak for a black breakfast tea. However, I have been a bit under the weather, so maybe it’s more a personal thing than a tea thing.

I’d have this tea again just so I don’t have to have coffee anymore. However, I personally like to bring my own teabag and get hot water from the Keurig machine. If only they also served 2% milk besides half and half….

Providence Alaska Medical Center serves this tea in their cafeteria. I usually don’t like herb tea, since I like my black tea base (and adding milk to tea, which is difficult with some herbals). This really could have done with some black tea, in my opinion. It smells lovely, but the taste is a bit dull and bitter. I could drink this again, but it wouldn’t be my first choice.

I have a feeling that a vegetable platter I took some things from was thoroughly contaminated with all sorts of rhinoviruses, and so I’ve been having some pretty lame cold symptoms today. This tea + touch of milk + 1 hour nap = so nice. Even finishing the tea after the 1 hour nap with the tea bag in there the whole time was good. It’s not full-on in-your-face peppermint, but it’s still super therapeutic. I love spearmint so much.

I got this tea at the local International store in Pullman, Washington. It’s an awesome store with all sorts of random things. Hermetically sealed duck eggs? Sure. Stinky fermented tofu? Yeah. Random teas that are poorly labeled? Always. This is the third on the list — it’s an import from China, and… that’s all I know. The taste is a nice and smooth. It’s a bit brothy, and produces an orange-brown liqour. It’s one of the only oolongs I’ve had so far, and it’s only $2 for 100 packets. Cheap? Probably. But it’s great for everyday.

So there have been a couple studies in the near east/Eurasia suggesting that spearmint, like lavender, may help reduce androgen levels. For some ladies with excess hair growth, especially those with PCOS, that may be super awesome. I’m more or less a side show freak, considering the way my hair grows, and so I decided to consume spearmint tea. This was the only tea I could find originally that had spearmint (because Mint Medley was only in the sampler set). It’s actually the best minty tea I’ve ever had sans the natural grow-your-own-and-put-it-in-hot-water kind. I can’t speak for the homeopathic nature of this tea, but it’s kept me calm and happy and hydrated for the last year or two. I take it with milk and sometimes honey. It has a nice smooth black tea base, and the spearmint is strong yet not skunky. I definitely oversteep it, though — the longer, the better.

I found this super-old-looking teabag at the hostel associated with Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage and thought I’d try it just so I could rate it.

It just tasted like really old paper. I knew that, if I drank the whole cup, I’d either vomit or get heartburn. There really wasn’t even a reddish color to the bag contents. It looked like some kind of yellowish leaf, though, so I don’t know what exactly it consisted of. It just was like paper. Yes, I have eaten my fair share of paper — I also enjoy eating toothpicks. However, I couldn’t stomach this.

It really looked old, though. Like, from the 70’s old. I blame my youth for such a bad experience (but at least I’m not looking at it anymore and wondering).