The Republic of Tea

Another one of the teas I usually have on hand. I don’t usually like berry flavored teas, because they tend to taste too artificial to me, like koolaid or something. This one, however, is very nice. It’s delicious hot and cold.

This is a pretty good tea, my mom’s favorite really. Not exactly my thing, though.

A bit sweet for a hot tea, but perfect a tea to ice for summertime – actually it’s extremely good for that. I highly recommend that.

As with most bagged green tea, this leaves me unimpressed. However, I admit that this might be because I only drink this tea when I’m not at home (such as at work), meaning I have very little control over brewing temperature (it’s usually at boiling). It’s not a bad tea, however.

Pretty good with some goat cheese artichoke flat bread & a flank steak sandwich :9 A little too perfumey though…

Love this tea, really flavorful and warm notes, good on a cool brrr day. And it’s good for you wheeee.

springy, very basic green tea. Prepared in a pot early in the morning.

Er, I may have hit up a mall in a major city and gone to both DAVIDsTea and Lupicia, and come away with some tea. Oops.
Well, time to work on my sipdowns. This has one more pot left in it, which I may kill off tonight, if I’m feeling ambitious. This was a decent enough starter tea, but I’ve grown past it, and I am done. I wont get it again.
Edit- Sipdown!

My dratted sinuses are acting up again. Time for a hot cup of unexceptional tea to sooth them.

I have not been logging this as often as I have been drinking it. Still, all the ROT cans seem to be Mary Poppins things, with hitherto unsuspected depths of tea in them.
Well, sip sip sip!

Double bagged and long steep. Thats par for the course with this. My nightly cup of meh.

Two tea bags help up the richness factor of this tea. Still getting more tea than chocolate, which is a bit disapointing, in this case. I will keep trying!

Its chocolate tea day here, apparently!
Now, red velvet is not my favorite way to get my chocolate in, but I do like it, so when this tea lept into my basket at the store, well I decided it could just come along home with me.
You really do get the rooibos out of this, but it does blend with its beet-y chocolate flavor. So, good on the blending, Republic of Tea.
Its not as rich as some other chocolate teas (probably due to rooibos and not black bases), but I’ll happily drink my can up.

Sipdown! And thank you to Terri for this one. My other half wanted coffee this morning but we’re out so I made a pot of this in case he wanted some. It’s not a bad tea…sort of an average everyday kinda tea. There are other bagged teas I’d have before this one though, so I’m not sure if that’s saying much. Still though, another one to cross off my list! Woot!

I’m somewhat of a novice when it comes to tasting notes and I’m not yet familiar with all the common terms used to describe taste, but here it goes:

I really like this tea, but there is room for improvement. It’s not too green tasting and not very dry at all which is a good thing for me. I like my teas straight up and unflavored for the most part so I find it strange that I wish it tasted a little more like the unbrewed tea leaves smelled. I have no desire to add milk to any tea I’ve tasted as of yet, but somehow I want more of the creamy milkiness to come through. I will definitely be enjoying this until it’s gone and in the mean time will be on the look out for a different brand or something that has a little more of the milk taste.

had a little cup of this on my lunch break. i really like oolongs. and one of the other reviewers mentioned this was kinda ‘flat’ tasting. which i agree. not the most interesting or poetic oolong i’ve had. but i’m not complaining about it. naw. it’s nice. toasty and subtle.
thanks to Shelley_Lorraine for this cute and thoughtful sample.

I’ve been drinking this as I’ve been working for the last few weeks, and its proven to be doing a great job as a work tea. Its bagged, its easy, its pleasant without being beloved, and I’ve been burning through it.
Which brings me to this last sachet.
Its a nostalgic tea for me, one of two tins of Republic of Tea blends that I got when I was newly moved into my current home. Its flavor always reminds me of that time, living in boxes, organizing my furniture, and dreaming. New houses are dreamy sort of places.
But, though it has a lot of nostalgia, I’ve outgrown this flavor (which was never my very favorite to begin with), and I bid this tin a fond, but probably permanent, farewell.
I’d never turn down a cup, but I won’t be bringing this back. Let it stay in those memories.
Sipdown!

Conversation with the Significant Other today, from whom I have probably caught this scratchy throat.
Me- “I’ve been drinking tea all day.”
Him- “Why am I not surprised?”
Me- "But this time its for the throat! It does help. It feels better as I’m drinking.
Him- “Now that I think of it, I should have been doing that when I had this.”
Me-“Ha!”
Oh the power of hot liquid. Tea to the rescue!

I am not going to log this every time I drink it today, because I’ve already had it twice. This is the third cup.
I brought the tin of it with me as its a perfect work tea. Its neutral enough, its bagged, and I have plenty of it. As I’m combatting the sore throat of failure, I must guzzle tea, and its probably a bad idea to guzzle black tea all day. Rooibos it is, then!
I keep saying it, but its true. This tea is more nostalgia than it is love. I like its flavors well enough, but it lives more favorably in memory than in practice. I think, when I’m done with this tin, that I will not get another.

So I heard from the doctor. Early signs seem to indicate that this hasn’t gotten all the way bad. It seems, first go through, that this is the bad that can be bucked with a short round of antibiotics, which I’ll be getting tonight.
In three weeks I’ll have to go in for bloodwork and retesting, to make sure nothing else has been missed. I am a bit worried about that, but theres nothing to do but take the meds and wait.
I’m relieved, mostly, but when I go in I’ll have a long series of questions for the doctor, and I’ll have to monitor my health a little more closely. I’ve always been fairly healthy, so this is a bit of a loop for me.
Thank you, Steepsterites, for your kindness. It meant a lot to me this morning.
I don’t think, barring the worse, that I’ll keep away from this place, its just too happy for me.
In other news, I still like this tea.