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This is a winner for me.

Dry, the tea has a nutty smell. I don’t really catch the licorice, or any other ingredients in the small.

Once brewed, it still smells nutty. Drinking it, I taste a lot of almond, which thank goodness doesn’t taste like marzipan. Just a nice, true nut taste. I taste a bit of the white tea base, but honestly still don’t detect the licorice, and I know gogi berries don’t have much taste in tea. It doesn’t matter, this kind of tastes like cookie dough to me, so I’m happy.

I’m not sure what to think of this one. The smell, both dry and steeped, is …weird. I get a whiff of fennel, and then peppermint, and then what I think can only be the catnip. My brain is having a hard time processing what my nose smells.

It tastes a bit better than it smells, but it’s still strange. With the exception of the catnip, I know that I really like all of the other ingredients separately and in most teas, but I don’t think they blend well together.

Digestion-wise, I can’t really say anything. My digestion tends to be pretty good. If I ever have an upset stomach I’ll have to try it again then.

This is better than I expected it to be. Dry, it has a distinct buttery smell, which I found stayed with it as it steeped.

I don’t find it to taste like popcorn (but that could be because I load up my popcorn with coconut oil and an Italian spice blend), but I do get a definite buttery taste and creamy mouthfeel, which sounds gross, but is really quite good.

As it cools down a bit, I’m getting a bit more of an apple flavour, and less butter.

It’s not a light tea, as all the apple pieces weigh it down. I think I see 2 partial green tea leaves in my small packet of this. It took at least 5g to make a cup. Buy it for the flavour, not for the green tea.

O.K. I just tried this one again at a lower temp and shorter steep time. It definitely smells better – I’m getting a hint of pear.

Taste-wise, it’s not as bitter as before, so that was obviously operator-error, but I still don’t taste any pear, or much at all for that matter. I’ll wait and see what it tastes like after it’s cooled down a bit.

Cool, it’s a bit better, but I’m still not a fan.

I mainly bought this one because the flavours sounded so good. I’ve had amazing pear teas before, and hoped this would be another (it helped that it was on sale for $1.99). I should have saved my money. While not the worst thing I’ve tasted, it did turn quite bitter, and the only pear that I taste is an aftertaste a few minutes later.

I’ll give this one more try at a lower temp and shorter steep, and see if it’s any better, but I may be trying to give this away to a friend (or maybe enemy) in the near future.

I think the best term to describe this tea is mellow. You get a definite scent of coconut while smelling the dry leaves. Once steeped, there’s more of a vegetal than coconut smell.

I’m not a huge green tea fan (although I prefer it over black any day), but I really enjoyed this one. The coconut gives it a nice creaminess and mouth feel, and the flavours blended really well. I don’t have a lot of this left, but I’ll enjoy what I have.

Right off the bat I liked the dry smell. It has a light, refreshing scent to it, but with a hint of a creamy undertone. Steeped, it still smells refreshingly of lemon, but I don’t really catch the creaminess.

It’s a nice, smooth, comforting tea. I taste the lemongrass, but it’s not astringent, and a hint of the pepper is there, but just enough to balance the rest of the ingredients. I like this one.

I’ve tried this both straight and as a chai, and enjoyed it both ways. The chai was the best, though. 1 tbs tea to 1.5 C water and 1 C vanilla almond milk and 1 tsp cane sugar. Amazing. I love the cinnamon smell and smooth taste.

I originally got this because I was getting tired of using my bodum where the smallest amount I could brew at one time was 2 cups and bits of tea were escaping through the filter into my cup.
The Steepster fixed all of this. I can make as much or as little as I like, and nothing escapes the filter. I love how easy it is to use and clean up. I also like the fact that I’m less likely to break it than a glass teapot, but I can still see the tea brewing.

There’s a woody taste underlying every sip of this tea (the rooibos I’m sure), and its marzipan flavouring is very heavy. I’m afraid I don’t taste the coconut at all, which is unfortunate. I’ve tried this hot and cold, and find it better cold.

I think I’ll have to do a bit of experimenting mixing this with other teas to try to make it more drinkable and balance out the artificial almond taste.