Element Tea

A VERY good Moroccan Mint! gunpowder and mint…lovely!

A wonderful Assam – just what I needed today. It has a remarkable caramel-y sweetness to it. Very smooth, malty and rich. Biscuit-y, toothsome quality. Delicious neat, also nice with milk and honey. The creaminess of the milk really enhances the malty tones quite nicely.

Backlogging from yesterday…hot the spot…only enough for one more cuppa tho…

Smells like green tea, a little floral, and pom! Tastes like a grassier green and pom and various berries. This is pretty good!

backlogging…nice!

grassier green teas with berries and apricot flavors. This is alright…not really my fave but alright…leaves a grassy and floral aftertaste.

2 infusions today…last of my stash…lovin’ this one, too!

Awesome! Nicely done mint flavored white…not too over the top with the mint but very soothing and satisfying! A very good one! Very refreshing, very relaxing! Would enjoy often! :)

Tasty both hot and cold!

SIPDOWN and Back logging – this will be missed…see previous notes…

LOVE :) Backlogging…

2nd infusion…
More of a stronger black tea taste and a bit peppery – still very good! :)

Dry – this had an interesting yet Unidentifiable aroma to it tied in with an lovely assam aroma. It has a gorgeous color to it…a medium brown with an orange tint to it. The post infusion aroma is a slightly chewy assam. The taste is AMAZING! It’s like a sweeter assam but it also has a smidge of bitterness to it but it’s the bitterness one would crave and not one that would be ‘in the way’ or ‘interrupting’ the flavor…it contributes to it. It has a nice even slipperiness to it, too…very nice! I really like this one!

The flavor profile was a little strong on this one. It primarily tastes like banana with a coconut backdrop. The tea base was a bit heavy. Something was a little off here for me, but I think this is a good one for experimentation with a splash of coconut milk or infusing in a couple ounces of coconut water.

Finishing the last of my sample up. This was a very good dessert tea that also made a good breakfast treat instead of coffee.

This was my choice for the Monday morning to-go cup. I’ve reviewed this tea before, and all I can add to my previous thoughts was that this tea is very… buttery. Yes, it tastes like sweet cream butter. And almonds. But in a good way, if that makes sense.

I absolutely love the way these leaves smell. Nutty, sweet, chocolatey, but mostly caramel.

The tea itself is a little different, but not by much. It tastes very faintly of chocolate and caramel, with a strong almond-like flavor over it. I sort of wish those flavors were a little stronger, but the black tea base is nice as well. It gets bitter if brewed past five minutes, otherwise it’s pretty mellow and pleasant. Not harsh at all.

I’m still struggling a little with the tea/water ratios with my triniTea. I’m thinking a teaspoon and a half of tea for every cup?

Yummy! I love caramel, I love creamy caramel! And the flavoring here seems to bring out the nuttiness (and not so much of the woodsy flavor) of the rooibos, making quite a delicious combination of nutty caramel! Delicious!

Wow! This is good! (and I’m really glad this is good since it’s following a tea that was really bad!)

A delicious decaffeinated black tea – the grenadine and vanilla combine deliciously. This does not have that thin taste that I often associate with decaffeinated tea, and perhaps that’s because of the grenadine and vanilla flavorings? I don’t know. What I do know is that I’m quite enjoying this cup!

Steep Information:
Amount: 2+ tsp – entire sample
Water: boiling, 12oz
Tool: kati loose tea system (my Review here.)
Steep Time: a little over 4 minutes (http://steep.it)
Served: Hot

Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: sweet, vanilla, cinnamon
Steeped Tea Smell: black tea, hint of vanilla
Flavor: astringent, bitter, black tea
Body: Full
Aftertaste: astringent, hints of cinnamon
Liquor: opaque dark brown

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bleh, too strong, wish i had not followed directions on the steeping time.

Pictures: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2011/01/element-teas-loose-leaf-black-tea.html

Backlogging from a few nights ago. I tried to make this extra strong, but it didn’t work out for some reason. I added a splash of milk and it made it sort of bland… the milk kills the chocolate flavor instead of making it better. So I was basically stuck drinking milky black tea with a hint of mint. Not as good as it sounds.

It wasn’t the tea’s fault, however, it was my bad preparation. Should have used more leaf.

I think I’m going to like this one. I brewed it with a little more leaf than I thought I needed, plus I gave it a long-ish steep time, hoping to bring out the chocolate flavor. While it is present in the finish, it’s not as strong as I’d like. I agree with what others have said about the mint being stronger. And the black tea itself is pretty mellow. I don’t see it getting bitter anytime soon. I’m going with seven minutes next time to see what happens.

What a delightful tea! It has evoked such wonderful memories about my grandmother – who had the most beautiful lilac bush in her back yard. I miss her so much.

I don’t recall having tasted a “lilac” tea before, but I am sure I probably have! The flavor is wonderful. Lightly floral, sweet, not sharp, and tranquil. Serenity at its finest!

I really like this!

This was my next experiment in making all my teas iced. It’s already basically summer here in Atlanta, so drinking hot tea feels absurd to me. But then again, I was raised on old fashioned sweet tea. The kind you get in a styrofoam cup with lemon floating on top of the ice.

Anyway, like the caramel tea, this tea’s main almond flavor is muted by the temperature. But that’s a good thing. This could get weird, for lack of a better word, if the almond taste was stronger. This really reminds me of amaretto when it’s cold, more so than when I tried it hot.