Stash Tea Company

Very nice blend of spices.

Woah, this tea has some serious pucker power – it basically tastes like slightly diluted lemon juice at first and then you get a viscous kick from the ginger that leaves a burning sensation in my throat. No subtleties in this blend!

Unless I was eating something sickly sweet this isn’t a tea that I’d actively seek out.

The lemon sort of takes a backseat to the ginger, but it’s still a good cuppa. It went very well with a sweet dessert.

I also avoided this one for a wile because I mistakenly thought it would be sour.

I always brew this very strong, and have it with milk and a bit of honey instead of sugar. One of my favourite chais.

Very tasty. Perhaps a bit more clove-y than I like, but good as long as I don’t brew it too long.

This may or may not be the last bag of this tea – I’ll have to check the tea cupboard tomorrow. Anyways if anyone wants to know my thoughts about this tea please read my previous steeping notes about it. :)

You know, with a bit less steeping some of the fruit flavour does come out a bit more, and if I concentrate it actually is sort of mango-y. Still a pretty ‘Meh’ tea with too much hibiscus in it.

Backlogging from last night. If only this tea tastes like it smells; the scent is probably the most mango-y part of the tea.

Fruity but not really what I’d called mango or passionfruit though, sadly. I want to love this tea but it’s just not doing that much for me.

I like this tea now that I’ve steeped it longer. The fruitiness comes out more and the tart bitterness of the safflower and hibiscus isn’t nearly so pronounced.

I couldn’t really taste any mango or passion fruit distinctly – mostly all I could taste was the safflower (which isn’t unpleasent mind you). I might just need to steep it longer so I’ll reserve judgement until then.

Here in Texas, we’ve had more than 50 days over 100 degrees F already this summer, and it’s that hot right now. But I love this double spice chai so much that I cranked up the air conditioner and enjoyed it hot, or at least warm. It just doesn’t taste as full, creamy and spicy when I ice it down!

As a child of the 80s, I would like to note that these tea bags smell exactly like Purplesaurus Rex Kool-Aid. Accordingly, I sweetened it with sugar and served it over ice, and it is quite tasty.

So light and fragrant and fruity and sweet and delicious. Definitely a good, inexpensive, summertime tea.

Love this. Nom nom.

Yum! I don’t like most green tea. I like this.

I did not like earl grey till I drank this. Now I really want to try other labels. This tea has a strong bergamot aroma to it. It carries over in the final tea but no too much.

A perfectly fine bag tea served at a restaurant this morning with a pot of tepid tap water. Boo. I’m going to volunteer to be this place’s tea sommelier.