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drank Gunpowder by The TeaCupany
661 tasting notes

I just got my mail this morning. The postwoman dropped it off so late I didn’t even know there was anything there. Happened to check this morning and there was my monthly package from The TeaCupany! I had mixed feelings about this tea. It’s been years since I’ve had gunpowder tea. It wasn’t my favourite then but back then I never knew how to brew green tea properly either. On top of that when doing a search for basic gunpowder tea on Steepster, there were not very promising reviews from any tea company. I was curious though and wanted to give it a chance. Meant to brew this for 2 min at 185 but it extended to 3 min.

This is a very robust green tea reminding me a bit of black tea (which may have been why I didn’t like it too much then). It’s not grassy , mellow, or vegetal. It’s got a bit of a bite and the unexpected delight was the bit of buttery flavour that comes through. No doubt about it though, this tea is strong. 3 min was a bit too much. I would go for the 2 or even less for the next time I have this. This doesn’t fall into some of the really good green teas but it’s not really bad either.

I left that review before I finished my cup. At the end of the cup, the tea became so bitter I couldn’t drink it. Brewed up a 2nd infusion and steeped only 1 min 30 sec. After steeping I had something to do so left the tea for 5 min. Came back to it and it was bitter. Then I asked myself, why am I spending time with this tea? It just doesn’t agree with me. So I ditched the cup and moved on to something else.
I see on Teavivre’s website they have instructions on how to brew gunpowder tea so next time I will try that. The Teacupany did not put any brewing instructions on the package.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C

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drank Pear White by The TeaCupany
15575 tasting notes

Sipdown (177/183)!

Ok, I’m cheating. I received some of this from the generous Dexter3657 who noticed I like both pear flavoured things and white tea; and today I cold brewed a mason jar of this for about nine hours, but taste wise I’m getting absolutely nothing but water, and the tea doesn’t look like water. Boo.

So, I’m going to send the last little bit off to VariaTEA (despite her protests about receiving more tea) just like she so often does to me! Besides, I’m feeling tea overwhelmed at the moment…

But despite the sort of “failure” of this pear white it got me thinking that Stacy should totally do a white pear tea! I’d be happy with any approach she took with a pear tea, but a caramel pear…

That would leave me weak in the knees.

Also, not rating because I don’t know where to even start: it doesn’t taste bad, it just doesn’t taste like… Anything? Water. How do you rate plain water?

mj

I second the request for a caramel pear tea from Butiki!

VariaTEA

STOP SENDING ME THINGS!! I got 3 packages from you in one week :P

Roswell Strange

Yeah, but they were all SMALL packages: combining the three equals the size of ONE of YOUR normal packages :P

VariaTEA

Hahaha. I don’t send that much :P

Dexter

Wow sorry that didn’t work for you – I’ve only had it hot, ok don’t cold steep this one….

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I was expecting a tart edge from the rhubarb in this tea, but the really weird thing is that this tartness didn’t translate into a fruity taste, but into the sort of “curly” taste I associate with oolongs!

I really can’t describe it – it’s just the way that the flavour hits my tongue, it’s not quite astringent, but it makes my tongue want to curl in a certain way.

Unfortunately, this reminds me of a rather green kind of oolong, and I’m finding that I’m not a fan of greener oolongs. At this point I don’t know if I don’t like oolongs at all, or if I only like more roasted, darker ones.

Anyways, this tea tastes really familiar somehow. I know I’ve got a tea in my cupboard, or that I’ve already sipped down, that this reminds me of, and I just can’t put my finger on it. So frustrating!

At least I got to try it via swap instead of purchasing. Thanks, Ubacat!

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 30 sec 2 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML
Ubacat

I’m sorry you didn’t like it. What’s strange is I also thought that flavour was familiar. Not an oolong but another green tea from a long time ago.

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drank Green Rhubarb by The TeaCupany
661 tasting notes

Took this tea in my Timolino today. It’s got a sweet grassiness with a nippy rhubarb edge to it. I’ve tasted something like this rhubarb flavouring somewhere else but can’t remember. Overall, an enjoyable tea. I liked it even better than my first cup so maybe this one will grow on me more.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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drank Oolong Grapefruit by The TeaCupany
1040 tasting notes

This came as a sample with one of my Tea Cupany orders. In general I like this company.
This tea is not one that I would have chosen for myself. I’m not a huge citrus fan, and grapefruit is probably my least favorite of them.
Having said all that, this isn’t as bad as I was expecting. This is oolong and it’s grapefruit – exactly as the name promises. Not generic citrus, but this is grapefruit. It’s not overly tart, and yet not too sweet. I think it’s well balanced. The oolong is oxidized enough for my tastes (I don’t do well with really green floral oolongs). This is probably about a medium oxidized oolong. All in all, if you are looking for grapefruit oolong, I would give this one a try.

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drank Apricot green by The TeaCupany
661 tasting notes

I don’t know why it is but I am at a loss of words to describe this tea. I have been enjoying some unflavoured green teas lately and when I taste the flavoured it comes across as not natural to me. I still think the tea is good. It’s got a decent green base, a bit astringent. The apricot flavouring is okay and could be adding to the astringent taste. Nothing bad about this tea but nothing seems to really make me love it either. Holding off on any rating until I’ve had a few cups of this. It might grow more on me later.

Flavors: Apricot

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C

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drank Apricot green by The TeaCupany
661 tasting notes

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drank Sweet Red Mango by The TeaCupany
2291 tasting notes

Because I had read all the notes on this ‘sweet’ tea as they popped up on my dash, I knew it wasn’t going to be sweet at all. And so I cold steeped it. And it’s still quite tart.

Very refreshing, it has a nice flavour although what I’m getting is mostly hibiscus and apple with a bit of mango juice at the end. Not sure I’d get it again, but I am glad I got a chance to try it.

From MissB who got it from Dexter3657. Thank you for sharing!

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drank Cucumber White by The TeaCupany
1040 tasting notes

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I can’t believe it took me this long to try this tea! I was worried about this hibiscus and the rosehips really detracting from the strawberry flavour, but I was pleasantly surprised. The flavour is sweet, fresh, and totally strawberry! This is going to be a nice iced tea, but it is also pretty fantastic hot! I didn’t add any sweetener and I found the tea to be perfectly fine without it. This was a pleasant surprise and I look forward to enjoying it more often!

Flavors: Berries

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drank Green Mandarin Orange by The TeaCupany
15019 tasting notes

GCTTB I figure i need to try the last few teas from the tea box that i really wanted to try and get the rest on the move. I wanted to try this one even though it was a green because i enjoyed the other teas that dexter had shared with me from the tea cupany. I just haven’t had a chance to actually place an order myself….yet.

I really like this one. What’s funny though, is that i could love it even more as a puerh. The flavouring in this one reminds me a LOT of the puerhs that are put into the orange rinds. It’s for sure a mandarin flavour though, not strictly orange and that is whats makes me happy with it i think. Another win from the tea cuppany!

Dexter

Happy you liked this one.
Why am I not drinking/sampling more of my TeaCupanny teas?

Sil

because you have 23408234098 teas…

Dexter

Really? Is that the problem? I need to work on that… :))

Sil

HAHAHA

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Great Canadian Travelling Tea Box

Dex to the rescue!

It’s not bad. Green tea is one of the few types that I can easily drink unsweetened (prepared correctly that is), but with that being said, none of the flavors really pop when I do that. I faintly taste lemon and maybe a little orange, but it’s an afterthought, not the main event. I bet I would taste more fruit if I sweetened it, but given that this is one of the few types of teas I can do without, I’ll sip the rest of the cup as is.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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drank Peach White by The TeaCupany
437 tasting notes

The dry tea is what appears to be a dark shou mei, with pieces of apricot and marigold petals scattered throughout the tea.the scent is pretty lovely like a soft peach mousse as the dry tea has a hint of cream scent to it.

After 2.5min the tea is a pale amber tinted gold. The shou mei. and the marigold are present in the scent and the taste adding herbal and mineral and citric notes to the peach flavouring. The peach is sweet and tastes like a cross between Tim Horton’s peach drink and warm peaches and cream. The flavouring is pleasant but subtle. The tea is silky and creamy on the tongue. It re-steeps pretty well, with the peach actually intensifying a little.

A pleasant introduction to a new company. Thanks Dexter3657!

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drank Pumkin Pie by The TeaCupany
4170 tasting notes

Sipdown! This was still tasty even years later. :D It maintained the flavor! I liked the creaminess of this one. Thanks again to Dexter for those lovely teas a couple Christmases ago!

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drank Pumkin Pie by The TeaCupany
4170 tasting notes

One from Dexter3657! Thanks so much! This one sounds interesting — the dry leaves certainly smell very sweet. It seems the black tea is actually infused with the flavor. I saw ONE clove in the infuser… that’s a bit odd. haha. I wouldn’t have minded more spices! After a three minute steep, this is nice but not something I’d call pumpkin pie. I agree with Dexter – kind of cakey. It’s like a banana coffee cake almost… or a cake that would have hints of spices in it. Almost like a carrot cake but with banana instead of carrot. Even the description says cake so I don’t know why it’s called pie. The black tea is medium bodied. Not bad but not pumpkin pie!

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drank Candy Cane by The TeaCupany
513 tasting notes

Wow! This was good, like really really good! It smells exactly like a candy cane! I tried it unsweetened (I am sitting here enjoying it while listening to Fairytale of New York, I love alternative carols). Drunk this way, the mint is prominent and sharp. I think a touch of sugar would help highlight the candy aspect. That being said, the mint is not unpleasant and the base tea has no bitterness to it (though I did give it a super short tea). I didn’t think anything could replace my love for Santa’s Secret, but this is a strong contender!! Well done, TeaCupany!

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drank Sweet Cherry by The TeaCupany
513 tasting notes

I tossed this in my tea traveler and took it to work a few days ago. Things are insane at work right now, we need break to come like yesterday, so this tea got a looonng steep before I got to it. That being said, I was actually really pleasantly surprised by it. No it is not really “sweet”, but the tart is not bad either. Also, though the apple was definitely present, the cherry taste was also there. I think this is the first time I have had a cherry tea that really tasted like cherries, so I was impressed. I am going to give this a shot cold brewed and see what it does, but thus far I am pretty impressed!

Sil

Glad you’re working you’re a y through these teas…I still need to place and order and I love seeing more than a few reviews heh

mewakeling

I got a whole bunch to try and I have been trying to make some headway before we leave for the holidays! Overall, I have been pretty impressed. The only one I am reserving judgement on right now is their Candied Apple, I am going to try Candy Cane tonight because I think my issue might be less with the flavouring and more with the base tea used. So, I thought trying another black might help me form an opinion. I found that Candied Apple got bitter and chalky really quickly for a black tea, but I am going to try again, because it smells divine!

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I was super excited to try this tea after school today, but alas it was not quite as fantastic as I had hoped it would be. To clarify, it is not a bad tea per se, but the others were so nice that I had super high expectations. This tea has the same nice white base to it, but the blueberry really does not shine through as much as I had hoped it would. I was looking for a real hit of blueberry, as it does tend to be a stronger flavour, but all I got was a mild hint of berry mixed with the vegetal white.

Because I like the white base, I think this tea will get drunk with little problem, but I am more fond of the Grapefruit and Peach Whites!

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drank Peach White by The TeaCupany
513 tasting notes

Tried this again, still a nice white base with fruit hints. Peach is such a strong flavour, that I just wish that there was even more peach to this. Nevertheless, a nice white tea.

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drank Peach White by The TeaCupany
513 tasting notes

Another nice white, vegetal with nice hints of peach. Not quite as much of a juicy peach as I had been hoping, but this is a nice mature subtle peach tea. I am really, really liking these white teas I have been trying! Tomorrow I need to jot down my thoughts on the cherry tisane I tried, which was also good, and I am hoping to try the blueberry white!

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drank Sweet Red Mango by The TeaCupany
1500 tasting notes

Well, I get how to pull the sweetness out of this brew now: oversteep it by ridiculous amounts, and suddenly it’s an apple tea with faint notes of mango. It’s okay, and I should have made a note on it that I wanted to save the rest for cold steeping, as there’s now barely enough for a cup left. Ah well.

Thanks again to Dexter3659 for sharing this with me!

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 8 min or more 2 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML

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drank Sweet Red Mango by The TeaCupany
1500 tasting notes

Thanks to Dexter365 for a taste of this cuppa love!

I remember Dexter saying something about this (or a related) tea, that The TeaCupany was playing tricks on us with naming conventions. With this, I wholeheartedly agree. This is far from sweet, but rather, quite tart due to the high level of hibiscus. Truvia does sweeten things up, but it’s still a bit underwhelming. I want mango, darn it! I get little.

I can see how this would be really great cold steeped, so perhaps I need to use the rest of it for a cold-steep experiment.

Preparation
Boiling 6 min, 30 sec

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I liked this tea! It is definitely a nice, light flavour. The white tea base is the stronger note, but the citrus is also definitely present. This took beautifully to short steep. It was sweet and a little floral with base fruit notes. I thought it was a simple tea, there wasn’t a ton of different additives and flavour notes I was supposed to be searching for, but it was simple done right. I was really, really impressed, this is white I could go for more often!

Dexter

I’ve really enjoyed The TeaCupany teas that I’ve tried. Glad that you are also enjoying them.

mewakeling

I am really impressed, I thought I would give them a shot because their blends sounded interesting. The communication was excellent and the teas are really good. I am looking forward to tasting my way through my order! Good to know you have had a good experience with them too!

Dexter

When there is a relatively new company with out many reviews, I’m never sure if it’s just me, or if the teas are really like that. Nice to hear others say positive things. I have lots yet that I haven’t tried – so many teas so little time – but so far so good. I agree the customer service is really good.

Sil

I really enjoyed the one you sent me dex. Planning an order eventually with them heh but need to get my cupboard down a bit more

mewakeling

I’m in the midst of a bit of a white tea kick, so I have a few more whites from them that I am looking forward to trying. I also have some herbals and a black to work through.

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89

This is such an interesting white tea. Very different from the other white teas, I have. The cucumber is crisp and lends a strong vegetal note to the tea. I don’t reach for it all the time, but it is perfect when I am looking for something a little different!

Dexter

I have some of this too, it is interesting. I agree not an everyday tea, but fun once and awhile. :))

mewakeling

I like it as a bit of a palate cleanser between fruity teas. It is a very different taste, but pleasant nonetheless.

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