Stash Tea Company

This was part of a package sent by a friend. It sounded so good! Didn’t enjoy it much. It smelled okay. I could smell the maple and the apple, and I thought it would be a nice after supper tea to enjoy while I knitted. But the flavor was flat. There just wasn’t anything super appealing about it. Maybe it was old. it is not one I will go out of my way to have again.

A great blend of all the pumpkin spice flavors without being too much – and it’s decaf, which is good for afternoon tea time.

This is one of my go-to cold night, keep-the-chill-off teas. It has everything you want in a good respiratory health tea. A little bit of honey (not too much cause the licorice already adds some sweetness) and you have a perfect caffeine free clarity drink too! I tend to steep it strong to get all the goodness out of it too!

I first tasted Ruby Mist tea in the early 90s while living in the Pacific Northwest. I was new to tea then and really loved the flavor. I moved away from the region and never forgot Ruby Mist. Living in Denver, Colorado I came across Stash Tea in a store and was SUPERBLY bummed to see they didn’t carry Ruby Mist in tea bags (they did in the Northwest when I first came across it). Every time I’d be in the Northwest I’d try to remember to stop into a store and buy some to take home with me. Flash forward to now and they don’t carry it in bag form at all! Anywhere! After a long hiatus from drinking tea I finally got back into it and remembered Ruby Mist. I ordered a 100g of it online in bulk tea. It’s just as delicious as I remember it. I’ve made it for visiting friends and it never fails to impress. My mother-in-law fell in love with it too but has a hard time with making pots of tea due to her bad arthritis. So I’ve had to make tea bags of the stuff for her. This is a really delightfully satisfying tea. The hibiscus gives it some nice tartness and a beautiful red gemlike color. Well balanced and relaxing. I’ve never tried it iced but I assume it would work equally well there too.

A bag from ashmanra, THANK YOU again.
Finally, tried all the teas from her. And only 3 months till Christmas. First snow to appear on “mountains” here this weekend.

White tea, peppermint and ginger sounds like an interesting combo and well it was delivered. It was nice and mellow, peppermint was quite smooth and certainly not overpowering, the base was probably very nice as well. I haven’t noticed much of ginger honestly, but it was noticeable it wasn’t just white and peppermint. It maybe reminded me bit of wintergreen; it was nice and smooth.

Missing the spiciness a bit, what I would expected for winter teas, but it was nice. Thank you for new tea bag into collection as well.

This tea is very calming and great for the reduction of anxiety.

I bought this while grocery shopping, and it was on an endcap. I had never seen lavender tea before, and was nervous to try it, not sure if it sounded good or gross – I ended up buying another box once I tried it – it ended up being one of mine and my roommates favorite tea to wind down with on the couch and watch girly television. Christmas in Paris opened up a whole new window of trying lavender teas and getting excited when I see them!

I wish this tea was not discontinued – I bought this tea because I saw it contained wintergreen, which I have never seen in any teas I have ever read the ingredients on. I really liked it over the Christmas season, I am disappointed I only have two bags left, since I cannot find wintergreen tea anywhere else out there.

A little too earthy for me. I tried this because I was doing research and green tea is supposed to be good for you and I trust the Stash brand but this one does not taste good.

This is my go-to tea to wake up in the morning and opens up to a productive day. I always have two cups, and the flavor is only bitter if you let it get cold. Love this tea.

It is ridiculously hot and humid, though I confess this is one of the coolest summers I can remember so far. I think this week is our first where the highs are in the 90’s every day. For breakfast, I have opted to drink this peach tea so I can tell myself the peaches mean summertime even though my tea is hot. I am making a full pot and icing half with a bit of sugar to serve as my lunchtime tea. Morning tea is taken plain.

I think I prefer my peach tea without ginger. That leaves this and Charleston Tea Plantation (owned by Bigelow) in competition as the two I have tried, but this one just seems more accessible somehow. My middle daughter bought this for my birthday and I am really enjoying it.

The peach flavor tastes fresh and natural instead of artificial and cloying. (Peach yogurt utterly gags me.) It even resteeps well, which means I can make it by the pitcher without it costing a fortune. The black tea is plenty strong without being harsh or bitter. Even though I sweeten MOST of my ice tea including this one, it would be really enjoyable without sugar cold, too.

I am having trouble with my messages on here, so White Antlers – I did reply to your message which blessed me so much, but I don’t know if you can retrieve it! Thank you so much for your kind words!

I have diabetes, so tea is my secret vice now. When I heard of a chocolate hazelnut tea with no sugar, I jumped at the chance. Decaf just means I can drink it any time of the day.
Long story short, when taken hot and freshly brewed, the chocolate taste is more of a smell than a punch. Don’t expect the taste to be anything like a choco hazelnut spread or something similar.
If you have had cocao nib tea before, you would find this very familiar. The taste is rich on the back of the tongue when hot or warm, but if left to cool, tends to taste a little oily, which borders on unpleasant if taken cold without sugar.

It smelt too suspiciously like an apple pie when I first opened the foil packs, so I was suspicious. But after brewing in a pot, I was not disappointed at all.
The apple and possibly hibiscus brings a tart and fruity flavour to the back of the tongue, while the cinnamon brings a very reminiscent scent and taste of apple pie or cinnamon pastries onto the palate. Since I brewed it in a pot, I have had it hot, lukewarm and cold. I dare say these is one of those teas that stands up to tasting across all three types of temperatures.
Faint floral notes linger behind to round off this very good tea.

A simple, plain tea in the best possible sense. It tastes pure, basic and honest, just what one wants.

This was one of three free samples included with an order, but the first two I have tried are a dud.

I was really hopeful for this one as it contains mostly green tea plus a touch of matcha. But….HIBBY. WHHHHYYYYYYYYY? sob

When the hot water hit the bag, it didn’t instantly turn red, which gave me hope temporarily.
But then the pinkening began.

Ah well. This was at least muted hibby and smelled like strawberry candy more than anything else. I didn’t add sugar and I did manage to drink it as a hot beverage, and I did not violently hate it, but I don’t think I would buy any unless I wanted to make really sweet iced tea with it. It is pretty tart, but not too much so.

Would buy again in small quantities. Definitely hit the feeling I get from drinking Moroccan Mint at my local boba shop. Just needs some boba pearls to really hit that nostalgia. Very easy to drink with and without sugar.

Let me tell you a story about a furniture store. It was, back in its day, the business with the biggest square footage in town, occupying the entirety of an unmissable building near the city center. A deep gulf separated it from the sidewalk; a covered walkway provided access. When I was small that made the building even larger in my eyes as it brought to mind moats and castles.
I was on-again off-again a member of my school drama club in high school. At the time, I was on, and we were canvassing local businesses, trying to sell ad space in playbills. In we went to the furniture store. The only sound was our footsteps, hushed and muffled by dense carpet. It was otherwise silent as a grave. Row upon row of beige lamps and beige sofas kept rank in the cavernous space with no customers gazing upon them. It was like a mausoleum in there, and it was, indeed, in its dying days. There’s no furniture store in town anymore.

This teabag smells precisely like that place.

Steeped, however, it actually smells like chocolate. Honest to goodness milk chocolate.

Unfortunately, it tastes like waxy, chalky product instead of the decent stuff it proclaims in steam, with the aftertaste of cheap, stale coffee. I don’t detect anything I would call hazelnut, just a generic sweetness. It’s not the worst thing Stash makes, and it’s fine to drink if you don’t think about it too much, much in the same way bottom of the barrel chocolate and crappy burnt coffee can be as well. As above, so below.

Just make a cup of hot cocoa if you want drinkable chocolate.

A note; I had the decaf version of this bag. However, look that one up, and you’ll see its entry is disturbingly broken.

My absolutely wonderful coworker brought me a box of this along with some delicious pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. I feel so lucky! I’d say this is one of my less favorite Stash flavors. The black tea is quite light, and it tastes a little artificial. Basically it tastes similar to many weak bagged teas. The spices are quite muted. Not that bagged teas are always bad, but maybe you know the flavor feeling I’m talking about.