788 Tasting Notes
Steep Information:
Amount: ~8g
Water: 1,000ml filtered water 180°F
Tool: Breville One-Touch Tea Maker BTM800XL
Steep Time: 3 minutes, 4 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: not much of a smell
Steeped Tea Smell: nutty, vegetal
Flavor: silky, vegetal, nutty
Body: Light
Aftertaste: slightly bitter, vegetal, smooth
Liquor: translucent yellow-green
3 minutes was too weak, 4 was a little bitter, perhaps 3:30 would have been best?
It’s a light, clean, smooth tea. This would be a poor choice as a breakfast tea, but is nice for afternoon supping.
Good but not irreplaceable.
Pictures: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/07/thepuritea-loose-leaf-oolong-tea-ali.html
Preparation
http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/07/objective-tea-loose-leaf-green-tea.html
Steep Information:
Amount: 6g, entire sample
Water: 750ml 195°F filtered water
Tool: Breville One-Touch Tea Maker BTM800XL (Custom, Custom)
Steep Time: 1 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: lightly vegetal, like I expect from a green tea
Steeped Tea Smell:
AmazonV: sweet, vegetal
MilitiaJim: honey
Flavor: vegetal, sweet (MilitiaJim said not sweet)
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: grassy
Liquor: translucent honey yellow-brown
I received this a part of a sampler.
Preparation
http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/07/bigelow-teabag-black-tea-constant.html
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 teabag
Water: 8 ounces hot water from carafe
Steep Time: a little over 2 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: orange, spice
Steeped Tea Smell: orange
Flavor: spice, orange, black tea
Body: Full
Aftertaste: bitter
Liquor: dark brown
Enjoyable, and great selection if your choices are teabags in a conference center. It resisted over-steeping as I had multiple cups of this. It was better with a bit of sugar.
Preparation
While this is far from my favorite tea, I’ve always felt such respect for Constant Comment. For me, this was my first gourmet-style tea. You have to give a lot of credit to Bigelow for bringing specialty tea to supermarkets. Like you mentioned, at many a conference I’ve sipped this and been taken down memory lane to tea times with my grandmother. Here’s a link about the history of Constant Comment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_Tea_Company
Thank you! i love little notes about how a tea came about, i would not even have thought to check wiki for that tea :)
I still love ‘gormet’ supermarket teas, sometimes you just need a quick bag of tea, everything has a place i think
and i find smell is a very strong memory trigger
There is actually a video with Mr. Bigelow talking about his mother. I actually was looking for it when I found the wiki page. Be warned – it is not a flashy video. If tea makes me think of my grandmother, the video reminds me of my grandfather’s story telling that could vividly take me into the good ole days.
http://www.bigelowtea.com/our-story.aspx?video=1
http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/07/honest-tea-bottled-greentea-honey-green.html
Tasting Notes:
Steeped Tea Smell: honey, green tea
Flavor: not sweet honey, grassy green tea
Body: Full
Aftertaste: grassy green
Liquor: opaque yellow-brown
This is much more of a full out tea flavor than many iced teas are. It was not very sweet, it was more of a dry honey. I enjoyed it, but it was a bit grassy.
Breville 750ml, 212, 7 min
2 tsp pineapple upside down, 2 tsp pina colada
1 tsp sugar per cup
smell: cherry pineapple, hints of coconut
taste: cherry, pineapple, hints of coconut, sweet
color translucent orange red
yummy, not really a vast improvement over each individually though
MilitiaJim couldn’t decide which to have, so I combined them
Preparation
Breville 750ml, 212, 7 min
2 tsp pineapple upside down, 2 tsp pina colada
1 tsp sugar per cup
smell: cherry pineapple, hints of coconut
taste: cherry, pineapple, hints of coconut, sweet
color translucent orange red
yummy, not really a vast improvement over each individually though
MilitiaJim couldn’t decide which to have, so I combined them
Preparation
Steep Information:
Prepared in store
Tasting Notes:
Steeped Tea Smell: It smelled like vanilla
Flavor: It tasted like black tea, hint of vanilla
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: Aftertaste was slightly vanilla
Liquor: translucent brown
Post-Steep Additives: simple syrup, not much change
pictures: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/07/subtle-tea-loose-leaf-black-tea-vanilla.html
Steep Information:
Prepared in store
Tasting Notes:
Steeped Tea Smell: It smelled just like the almond cookies you get at Asian bakeries
Flavor: It tasted like a sweet green tea with light almond flavoring.
Body: Light-Medium
Aftertaste: Aftertaste was a sweet cookie taste that reminded me of celestial seasonings “sugar cookie sleigh ride”
Liquor: translucent green
Post-Steep Additives: simple syrup, a little sweeter
pictures: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/07/subtle-tea-loose-leaf-green-tea-almond.html
Breville 1,000ml 170, 2 min
~4tsp, that’s the end of this :(
so delicious! (hot or iced), more cucumber when iced
Preparation
BEST. ICED. TEA. EVER! And in the Breville yet! Frank, why aren’t you reblending this ?!?!?! :,(
Yeah a reblend would be nice! I would definitley want to get this one :-D hehe I like cucumber in my water instead of lemon so I would imagine cucumber green tea would be AMAZING!
