Lipton

My 100th Tea Post.

Just finishing up my tumbler of cold brewed tea. I’ve been calling it my own “flavored water” because it truly does taste like water with spice flavors. It does wake you up and give you more energy which must come from the ginger in the tea. Very nice. This will probably be my branch into discovering teas with just ginger in them.

I have been sipping on a tumbler full of this that I have cold brewed all day. It is interesting. It really feels like you are sipping on water and then the spices hit you in the back of the throat. At first, I didn’t like it. I thought it was far too weak even though I brewed it with two bags and for a good 18 hours or so. But it grew on me when I was studying. It gave me a little more energy with the spices and rejuvenated me. It was a better version of a flavored water.

I don’t know if I would ever have this cold brewed again. I might try it brewed hot and then iced and see how that tastes. It was an interesting experiment. Better yet, I still like this tea and will be drinking it hot throughout the semester.

This has been sitting in our tea cabinet for some time now and I finally got curious and tried it. The only herbal tea I have been drinking is peppermint and I found out I like it with honey, so I put some honey in this cup. I also steeped it for a good 10 minutes or so. I put the teabag in before I took a quick shower.

First sip: Wow! Ginger spice cookies! Obviously this isn’t just ginger root. It has some spices in it. Because I put some honey in it, the cup does taste like the ginger spice cookies I make for my boyfriend each Christmas that his grandmother used to make for him. Slightly less intense though. I think if nobody else in this house drinks it, then I will have to steal it and drink the rest of the box.

I normally avoid Lipton teas as much as possible, but sometimes you’re out of anything in the house and it’s too much trouble to drive anywhere that you can pick up better… so I’ve been stuck with a box of this for a while. It’s fairly bland and watery and the chai spices are rather hard to taste — well, everything is hard to taste. I discovered a way to make it palatable, though: throwing a bag of Lipton Spiced Chai and a bag of Lipton French Vanilla into the same mug in an attempt to use them up produced a concoction that was actually pretty worth drinking.

Whatever you do, though, don’t oversteep this; it will go straight from “watery” to “disgustingly bitter” with very little room in between.

Well balanced, not too spicy, smooth taste.

I enjoy this tea.

Tastes a little spicy, otherwise pretty neutral taste. First tea to leave my mouth somewhat uncomfortably dry.

This is my everyday Tea (I only drink green teas)

May say it tastes boring and familiar, but it’s a good tea that you get used to

Bit too strong for me.

This tea is weird. If I stew it in a water that was heated in the microwave, it tastes very good. Kind of like green tea with some sort of candy. Very nice.

But then, stewing it in a water heated by other methods, even if I’d try to do it exactly as I did the last time when I got a good cup… it fails, and it tastes horrible.

I’ll give the points for the taste that it has when it turns out well.

Yucky.

Blech! You call this tea?! This is a sad impression of what could be. (The rhyme was unintentional, sorry).

Forget Lipton and go with Twinings. How could a British tea company get this so wrong? Lipton’s weak, bland flavor just can’t compete with high quality teas. But if you’re in a bind and it’s the only choice so you can get your tea fix, it’ll do.

I mean, come on! It doesn’t even have a name! Hot tea?! That’s not a name! That could be anything!

Its OK, Not Great, Not Bad. I get some after tastes that are not bad. I would really like more caramel flavor.. The TEA flavoring is not there much. So what i get is a hodge podge of flavors that is ok but not good as tea. sounds silly

Bought in my intro to tea days, when I still bought everything at the grocery store, and decided I pretty much hated it within a couple of cups.

As grocery store teas go, it’s one of my favourites.

S’ok!

This is a light black tea that is great for an everyday tea. To reviewers who say it’s bland and they prefer something stronger, I would say they’re absolutely correct, they probably prefer something stronger. however, compared to other tea’s in it’s class it holds up about as you’d expect, maybe better.

One of my favourite teas. I got it as loose tea from friends in France. It is the brightest organge flavoured black tea. I don’t know why every other tea blender tends to add spices like cinnamon when they add orange to their tea- it then becomes a ‘winter’ tea. With just orange as Liptons do it – its a lovely all year tea.

This can be had for about $4 per 100 bags at the local CVS on occasion, so I typically make Southern-style sweet iced tea from it. I’d never dream of drinking it hot – it’s not particularly bad, but it is exceedingly bland.
-Cash

Tastes mostly like rosehips and hibiscus. This tea has no noticeable orange flavor. Lacks the subtlety and flavor of great orange herbal teas, such as Hain Celestial Group’s Mandarin Orange Spice.

The product I bought was probably the same, but the packaging was a little different. The large white letters on the front of the box say “Melon Citrus Mint,” not “Melon Citrus Mint Infusion.” There was no French caption following the English words.

Overall, a fairly good herbal tea, fairly well balanced. The mint is subtly noticeable, definitely not overpowering. Unlike many fruit teas, it is not sour.

I think Lipton has done something wrong in marketing this tea, though. The ingredients list is long, but one of the most present ingredients is chamomile. Lipton does not clearly indicate that the tea has chamomile in the name of the tea or on the packaging. Chamomile really is a soporific, and Lipton should do more to make consumers aware that the tea has chamomile, so that no one takes chamomile without wanting to.

meh… took this one to work too and left it…

Reasonable, but not notable. Despite loving peach and mango this tea is just not all that. I might try it again one day, but again another box of tea that has been taken to work.