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drank Orange Pekoe by Tetley
70 tasting notes

It was already hot today when I woke up, so I decided to play around and try making a cold tea latte. My initial efforts failed spectacularly, in which I dropped a tea bag into cold milk and hoped for the best. After like an hour, some tea flavour had come out of the tea bag and there was a little tea taste in the milk, so I said, fine whatever, I’ll just drink it weak because I didn’t want to wait anymore. So I added my usual amount of sugar and this drink was SWEET. Like, unbearably so.

I then poured that tea into a container to hopefully salvage later, stuck it in the fridge, and went back to the drawing board. This time I figured I’d start with some hot water to extract the tea flavour, so I used a small amount of boiling water in a mug and steeped a second tea bag just fine as expected. Super dark, looks very strong. This cup too I put into the fridge to cool down.

Once everything was cold, I took my original drink, added a bunch more milk to it and most of the “concentrated tea”.

The result – a drinkable cold tea latte or rather a container with enough tea for two cold tea lattes!

I think I more prefer this tea warm, but I guess this is okay to keep me cool.

gmathis

Sounds very tasty! Tetley is a good, plain stock-the-cupboard bagged tea; a little hard to find in my corner of the midwest.

MandyJS

Yea, it was a nice change on a hot day. It’s all gone now though lol… at least I know how to make more so I don’t have to choose between going without my tea or overheating myself.

As for the Tetley tea, it’s one of those teas that are so familiar to me that I just assume they are easily obtained everywhere lol… The hardest part for me is waiting for it to go on sale so I can stock up.

gmathis

My favorite is their Black & Green blend. More often than not, that’s my afternooner at work.

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gmathis

Sounds very tasty! Tetley is a good, plain stock-the-cupboard bagged tea; a little hard to find in my corner of the midwest.

MandyJS

Yea, it was a nice change on a hot day. It’s all gone now though lol… at least I know how to make more so I don’t have to choose between going without my tea or overheating myself.

As for the Tetley tea, it’s one of those teas that are so familiar to me that I just assume they are easily obtained everywhere lol… The hardest part for me is waiting for it to go on sale so I can stock up.

gmathis

My favorite is their Black & Green blend. More often than not, that’s my afternooner at work.

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Just getting into the whole loose leaf tea experience. (Thank you favorite sister of mine for getting me started on this journey…)

Since I’m a beginner when it comes to most teas, I don’t have a very good understanding of the flavors yet, but I hope I will get there. Right now I’m basically at “tastes good” “tastes less good” “tastes awful” lol….

Anyway, have been an avid tea drinker prior to now as well, but mostly only have experience with typical grocery store teabag selections. My old standby’s being Tetley’s Orange Pekoe and Celestial Seasoning’s Sleepytime.

My dislikes are: Ginger, licorice, overwhelmingly strong mint flavors, overwhelmingly strong anything flavors really.

At the moment I have 31 loose leaf tea varieties to try. (All single servings or sampler packs cause I’m too scared to get anything larger!) Though, I anticipate I’ll be getting plenty more because this experiment is too fun!

Please note:

I’m very picky when it comes to tastes so I’ll likely run into many flavors that I don’t personally like. I also tend to find most teas too strong and thus will likely use less tea than suggested while I experiment with the loose leaf teas.

Also, I’m more-so writing my reviews for myself like a diary, so I can keep track of how to best prepare the flavors to my liking and which flavors I might want to buy again.

Please keep this in mind if you’re reading my reviews. Thanks!

As for recommendations:
Recommended – I can drink it without issue.
Not recommended – I probably made a face while drinking it or gave up part way through.

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