Frontier Natural Products Co-op

A perfectly average black tea. Impossible to mess up while steeping though so great for tea newbies. It ices well and easily, tastes good even after people sweeten it to death.

So good, absolutely lovely iced! Be careful not to use water that is too hot though or you can kill the tangerine flavor since its so light.

No matter what I do I cannot make myself like this tea. The chicory is so overpowering and makes everything taste awfully bitter.

I was worried that I’d gotten the wrong tea as I was steeping this — it doesn’t smell a bit like earl grey! Tasting it, I feel much the same way. The base is nice enough (Ceylon, I believe) but the bergamot is only there if you really search for it. Honestly, I don’t mind it that much as I’m not a huge earl grey fan and only picked this up due to the low price, but I wouldn’t really recommend this when you could pick up something more flavorful.

Pleasant. Se Chung is not my favorite Oolong, but, I do enjoy it. It makes a nice accompaniment to a meal because it has a fairly mellow flavor – nothing that will interfere or overpower the food. It also is delicious iced, one of my favorite Oolong teas to serve iced because it goes so well with other things … like a thin slice of lemon or lime, or even some mint. It has a very agreeable, amenable kind of flavor.

This loose leaf tea was another selection that I picked up at the local Earth Fare market. In the store, it was very loose, as it was contained in large clear cannisters from which you could scoop out as much (or as little) as you wanted into clear plastic bags.

Other reviews that I read about this tea said it was a little on the weak side. To minimize this potential characteristic, I steeped it for five minutes at 212 degrees. The golden red beverage that resulted had the conventional breakfast tea scent.

In spite of the heavy steeping, the flavor was not strong, but adequate. The taste was mildly malty with perhaps just a hint of spice. There was no bitterness and the aftertaste was pleasant. Although I wanted to crank up the volume on the flavor, I still found it to be complete and tasty.

Even if you prefer your tea on the mild side, I would recommend that you steep this blend for at least five minutes to obtain the full flavor effect. With this method, you might have a satisfying selection to add to your breakfast tea assortment.

Bought at a tea shop in Malford, Pennsylvania for $1.50 per ounce. This one wasn’t bad, but it left a little bit to be desired. The gunpowder green tea itself was very good, it had that nice mellow smokiness I love in a gunpowder. Where this tea fell short was in the peppermint. The mint leaves were very fine, mostly brown particles and were pretty bland as far as scent and flavor goes. There was a little bit of a mellow mint flavor present but it wasn’t as crisp as I had hoped. Not the greatest gunpowder mint, but for the price it was satisfactory. Definitely a casual everyday cup.

Kinda weak, and it only stands up to one infusion. It’s not as malty as I like in Irish Breakfast.

Picked up a little of this yesterday at the natural foods store. I like it.
There is a fair amount of spice, not too much or too little. I was not sure the spice and green would play well together but they do. I now have another local tea that is decent I can get without an online order, postage, shipping, handling, and the perils of the US Mail.

I feel wholly unqualified to write a review for this since I have no familiarity with oolong beyond whatever kind they serve at Chinese restaurants. Based on that, it seems like this is a basic but solid tea, and from a standpoint of pure enjoyment, I like it quite a bit.

This makes me wonder why I even bother with, you know, teas that consist of flowers alongside other things. Plain rose petals are perfect just as they are.

I adore lavender, so it was only natural that I try drinking it by itself one day. Unbrewed, the familiar lovely scent is fairly strong, so I was surprised that the resulting tea didn’t have a very distinctive scent (or color — I was hoping for purple!). When it first touched my tongue, I was very disappointed by the mild flavor, but I soon found that the true treasure of this as a tea is in the aftertaste. If you could drink an afternoon of rolling around in a sunny field sniffing flowers, this is how it would taste: light, floral, and soothing. Lovely.

And of course, this is also perfect to have around for livening up other tea!

I love Darjeeling. I really love it with great big hearty hearts. I’d marry it if I could. I don’t know how this tea compares to any other Darjeeling. I just felt the need to proclaim my love for all of Steepster to see.