250 Tasting Notes
My stomach has been spasming for over 24 hours now, luckily the morphine knocks out the pain, but I can still feel the clenching feeling in the pit of my abdomen. To make matters worse, my doctor is on maternity leave and the one replacing her doesn’t have an opening until July. JULY!! Not to mention that I need to refill me prescription and that involves trucking the whole family on an excursion across town to do so.
I need tea and I need it now.
During my last visit to DT I picked up the 50g bag of this, since it’s caffeine-free and fruity I figured I could give it to my toddler daughter if I don’t like it. Sadly, she won’t be tasting much of this since I happen to looooooooove it, especially as a TeaPop, which seems to be my method-de-jour for brewing tea lately. Forget iced tea… making teapop takes it to a whole other level! I don’t get the metallic taste everyone talks about, nor does the stevia bother me. Instead I taste smooth, delicious Pink Lemonade that refreshes and quenches. It’s the perfect summer thirst-buster, plus it’s not as pricey as some of the fruitier summer teas!
Now, to get this stomach issue under control (gallbladder? Sphincter of Oddi? Pyloric Spasm?), so that the 6 years of mysterious pain can finally come to an end…
Preparation
Just got back from our first camping trip as a family-o-four and I just remembered that I forgot to log this!
I bought one of those pitcher packs for $3.50 and used the entire thing in my steeper to make teapop (I’m currently addicted!) for the drive to the campsite. It didn’t even need a whole lot of agave to sweeten it, which meant that the mango fruitiness shone through. Probably won’t repurchase though, since I could buy a mango Bolthouse smoothie for the same price, and I can make “smoothiepop” out of that just the same as I can the tea. I have to agree with everyone on here… this makes a delicious iced tea, but the amount you get for the price just doesn’t make it worth it!
Preparation
The toddler is preoccupied by Zaboomafoo on netflix and the newborn is in the throes of a milk-coma… quick, write a tea review!!
I’ve been meaning to try the teapop recipe that DAVIDsTEA posted on facebook, but it requires a certain amount of planning on my part. It also requires a key ingredient—sparkling water—which isn’t usually on my grocery list and thus I kept forgetting to buy it in order to make the teapop actually pop! Well, today I managed to have all the ingredients assembled and made myself a glass of Pink Passionfruit TeaPop which was… quite delicious actually. Although I do get a mild headache from the potent passionfruit smell, it was still quite refreshing and fruity as a teapop.
Now to experiment with other flavours as well! I’m thinking Bamboozled, Honeydew Mate, Luscious Watermelon (what little I have left), Goji Pop, Big Apple, and Coconut Grove…
Preparation
Oh that sounds like a good one to try! I tried strawberry rhubarb and that was nice, but I guess I just don’t like the taste of the sparkling water. More experiments needed.
Enjoy your tea break!
I have had Berry Good as a teapop in store and it was really good. Glad you got to DIY it!
Both Luscious Watermelon and Bamboozled are excellent teapops as well! My only problem… it requires so much tea to make each batch of teapop that I’m running out!
Squirt Soda might be a good substitute if you have that. It’s almost the only soda I drink and it tastes great with MIO flavors.
Lynxiebrat: Oooo, will have to look into that!
Sigh, oh motherhood.
I keep steeping this tea with the intent of writing a proper, full review, but then time gets away from me or the steeped tea gets cold or—hold on, the toddler just wee-ed on the floor (we’re attempting potty-training. Kill. Me. Now.) and slipped in it. And now, it is bath time. Such is life.
Anyways, where was I? Oh yes. This tea! Well, seeing as there are far superior and thorough reviews of this delicious cup-o-heaven I’ll just say this: I’ve had it hot, cold, lukewarm, and iced—with lemon & agave—and thus far it has been delicious in every incarnation I try it.
Now, if you’ll excuse me… the ominous sounds of a 7-week-old filling his diaper have reached my ears…
Preparation
This tea sounded intriguing and refreshing, so I took a chance…
I cold-brewed it, since it seemed like it would taste better iced anyways, being from the summer collection and all. Unfortunately, like Alpine Punch this tea gives me a headache when I drink it and I’ve had it twice now. Maybe it’s the artificial flavouring?
Sigh, and I really wanted to like this one!
