772 Tasting Notes
There is just something about this tea that is not sitting right with me. I generally like green tea. I LOVE coconut in tea. But this particular coconut tea is just not doing it for me. I think it’s whatever green they are using. It didn’t make me sick to my stomach (yay!) but it tingled along my tastebuds as almost a weird flavour I can’t put my finger on. Into the free tea stash at work it goes.
I could have sworn I’ve reviewed this before, which makes no sense that it’s not even in the database. Has there been a purge or something with entries disappearing?
This is tasty, though I oversteeped it. The tea extract that makes it extra caffeine-y makes it taste weird when oversteeped. Otherwise, despite the hibiscus, I liked this enough from my sipsby box from forever ago that I bought some.
Just opened my bag of this from…years ago. I don’t know how many. More than one. Tastes delicious, definite cocoa note as indicated in the name. Very nice black tea to get through my morning with. 2 steep so far in my giant Deadpool mug and I think I’ll probably go for a third, though maybe with a little less water. Then decide what I want to drink next.
New medication causes weight gain and is making me super hungry so I’m triyng to placate with tea.
Preparation
I’d get lots of healthy trail mixes. I love trail mixes. :D
May tea be the salvation!
Trail mixes have tons of calories, unfortunately and I’m currently on a 1200 calorie diet to lose weight from years of being on OTHER medications that caused massive weight gain. I’m finally of “normal” weight although not at goal yet and I’d really not like to go backwards.
Oh sorry. :( I just figured trail mixes were a much healthier option than all the other crap I eat. haha. I guess I didn’t know they had more calories. If they are nuts without sugar then it should be healthy calories? By the way, I’m drinking one of the teas you sent me a while ago today (Bluebird’s Terry’s). So thanks for those again.
While nuts are healthy calories, they are also LOTS of calories for very small serving sizes. Mostly I’m drinking my calories in smoothies.
I just figured nuts would be FILLING though, like protein. Oh well, smoothies are delicious too. :D
Yeah, it’s great how doctors don’t seem to mention these potential side effects and often leave it up to the patient to connect the dots. After years of various drug experiments brought on by doctors’ prescription pads and overall appalling side effects during and after, I do intensive research through patient review sites to see how others have fared.
Break a leg! Hope it’s all a good fit for you.
My doctor and I made a decision to take me off of it (Seroquel, if anyone cares) so I’m back to my regular meds, which I have adapted to already.
Another one of my doctors suggested that that would be worth a try, in the exact therapeutic dosage i.e. under the usual, for sleep issues. I haven’t tried it tough and likely will not.
Good to hear that your choice is working for you. YAY!
It’s a tricky thing commenting on such things. I was going to delete my earlier comment, but ultimately thought my experience might be useful. Thank you for understanding my intended meaning.
If it matters, what HAS been working for me (for the most part, though I’m adapting which is why we’re searching for other things) has been Trazodone at a 100-200mg dose. I haven’t experienced many side effects with it so it seems fairly safe.
Thank you for that. For me, the problem is external and Trazodone doesn’t seem to work well for people whose sleep is disturbed. The search continues.
I’ve found magnesium and meditation to be a helpful addition to whatever else I am doing.
Sad Sad Sipdown. I LOVE this tea. And it’s stood up well to being forgotten in my drawer for a while. Still delicious and coconutty and wonderful and I am so SAD that I am drinking the last of my stash of this discontinued tea.
Good to know it holds up! I have a little lingering in my cupboard too.
Best drink it soon. Coconut certainly doesn’t last forever and it’s a year old at this point. Tea of the month for February 2018.
I’m so happy it stands up to a second steep though. Going to probably try for a third too.
Oooh, yeah, I loved this one too. I need to dig out all my coconut teas to salvage what I can! I think I only have a cup or two of this one left.
This tea is okay but not spectacular. It needed a fair amount of sugar to make the flavour pop for me, which isn’t ideal since I’m on a diet. It was tasty enough, fruity and such, but not fantastic.
It probably didn’t help with the concurrent anxiety attack I experienced this morning but it’s a tasty snack afterward.
My sister got me a Tea Forte sampler box for Christmas and this is the first tea out of it I’ve tried so far.
This tea is just okay. Possibly I was spoiled with my good black tea over the holiday but this one is just not as good and is making me wish I was drinking something else. There’s something almost grapey to it that I don’t like. I’m not a fan of Darjeelings after all. I will not be resteeping it.
“I wish I could take it out of the cup and pet it like a cat.” – this line for the win!
I LOVE this one.
@52teas – feel free to use it in your advertising.
hahaHA! :)