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13
drank Indian Chai by Element Tea
788 tasting notes

Steep Information:
Amount: 2+ tsp – entire sample
Water: boiling, 12oz
Tool: kati loose tea system (my Review here.)
Steep Time: a little over 4 minutes (http://steep.it)
Served: Hot

Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: sweet, vanilla, cinnamon
Steeped Tea Smell: black tea, hint of vanilla
Flavor: astringent, bitter, black tea
Body: Full
Aftertaste: astringent, hints of cinnamon
Liquor: opaque dark brown

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bleh, too strong, wish i had not followed directions on the steeping time.

Pictures: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2011/01/element-teas-loose-leaf-black-tea.html

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec
Jillian

Have yout tried it with milk? I found it tasted quite good that way.

AmazonV

sadly no milk at work, and none left to try again :(

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75
drank Chocolate Mint by Element Tea
735 tasting notes

Backlogging from a few nights ago. I tried to make this extra strong, but it didn’t work out for some reason. I added a splash of milk and it made it sort of bland… the milk kills the chocolate flavor instead of making it better. So I was basically stuck drinking milky black tea with a hint of mint. Not as good as it sounds.

It wasn’t the tea’s fault, however, it was my bad preparation. Should have used more leaf.

Preparation
Boiling 6 min, 15 sec

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75
drank Chocolate Mint by Element Tea
735 tasting notes

I think I’m going to like this one. I brewed it with a little more leaf than I thought I needed, plus I gave it a long-ish steep time, hoping to bring out the chocolate flavor. While it is present in the finish, it’s not as strong as I’d like. I agree with what others have said about the mint being stronger. And the black tea itself is pretty mellow. I don’t see it getting bitter anytime soon. I’m going with seven minutes next time to see what happens.

Preparation
Boiling 6 min, 0 sec

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92
drank Lilac by Element Tea
4843 tasting notes

What a delightful tea! It has evoked such wonderful memories about my grandmother – who had the most beautiful lilac bush in her back yard. I miss her so much.

I don’t recall having tasted a “lilac” tea before, but I am sure I probably have! The flavor is wonderful. Lightly floral, sweet, not sharp, and tranquil. Serenity at its finest!

I really like this!

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec

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85
drank Almond Delight by Element Tea
735 tasting notes

This was my next experiment in making all my teas iced. It’s already basically summer here in Atlanta, so drinking hot tea feels absurd to me. But then again, I was raised on old fashioned sweet tea. The kind you get in a styrofoam cup with lemon floating on top of the ice.

Anyway, like the caramel tea, this tea’s main almond flavor is muted by the temperature. But that’s a good thing. This could get weird, for lack of a better word, if the almond taste was stronger. This really reminds me of amaretto when it’s cold, more so than when I tried it hot.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 30 sec

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85
drank Almond Delight by Element Tea
735 tasting notes

This is my first almond tea. The liquor smells like amaretto, but without the alcohol. Just the sweet nutty scent. As far as the actual flavor goes, the almond isn’t very strong. It almost tastes like an unflavored black tea. Not to say this is a bad thing, but I was expecting something a little different. It’s wonderfully smooth, with hardly any astringency. There is no bitterness at all.

This will go quickly around here, I think. It really is delicious. Just sort of plain. Would be dangerously good with honey.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec

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97

Finishing the last that I have of this lovely Oolong… this one will be missed. It is truly delightful. So many wonderful layers of flavor to intrigue and delight the palate.

YUM!

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97

This Oolong is Oh-So-Lovely!

I will write more about this later. Right now… I need to be alone with this tea.

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89
drank Pink Sonoma by Element Tea
4843 tasting notes

This is really REALLY good. I love the floral touches in the flavor of this tea – it really enhances the wine taste.

The flavor is very light, but extraordinarily pleasant. One of my favorite wine-infused teas.

Preparation
165 °F / 73 °C 3 min, 0 sec
Stephanie

Cute name, this has. :)

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95

This is so good. The coconut flavor is so sweet and creamy. One of the very best coconut flavored teas I’ve encountered thus far.

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 4 min, 0 sec
Sarah Ruthven

Added this to my shopping list…it is hard to find coconut tea that is not completely overpowered by the coconut. I have high hopes for this one!

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78
drank Toffee Delight by Element Tea
69 tasting notes

This is a pretty tasty offering. It has a nice, rich black tea that pairs nicely with the flavor profile. It is rich with little bitterness or astringency. The flavor profile kind of strattles the line between actually tasting like toffee vs caramel. I love toffee so if this had a rich definitely toffee flavor, it would be a 100! That said, I will still consider giving this a rotation in my tea cabinet esp if I placed an order with Element Teas.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec

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95
drank April Showers by Element Tea
4843 tasting notes

This is absolutely yummy! I think it has to be my favorite fruit tea! I love it!

It tastes like fruit nectar! Sweet, juicy, yummy!!! Definitely going on my shopping list!

LOVE IT!

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more
Jillian

Looking at the ingredients in this tea it sounds identicle to SpecialTeas’ Cold Bamboo Passion. And since SpecialTeas does sell its tesa wholesale it makes me slightly suspicious…..

LiberTEAS

It probably is a SpecialTeas blend. I wouldn’t be surprised at all. I wonder what will happen after 2/1/10……

Meghann M

What’s 2/1/10?

teabird

SpecialTeas will be closing their wholesale business, though Auggy just confirmed that they’ll still make retail sales http://steepster.com/wombatgirl/posts/53651

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86

The aroma of the dry leaf is delicious! It smells like apple pie!

It tastes really good. Very much like apple pie. Sweet apples, raisins… I can even taste a buttery crust like flavor in this. Very nice. All it needs is a scoop of ice cream!

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more
amandajo

You could add a little dollop of vanilla ice cream to see if it really does the trick! ;)

amandajo

(of course that would remove the “guiltless” factor!)

Geoffrey Norman

The title of this alone is wonderful.

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81

This is a wonderfully rich tea with a nice malty character. Strong and stout! Would go nicely with milk and honey, but I’m liking it without addition too.

I’m off to write a review for it on Tea Review Blog!

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec

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74
drank Indian Chai by Element Tea
4843 tasting notes

Yum!

This is a fairly “neutral” chai – it isn’t strongly spiced, but it isn’t too mild either. The Black tea base manages to hold its own and no one flavor is overpowering the rest. It’s good, not the best chai I’ve tasted, but good.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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85
drank Honey-Kissed Green by Element Tea
4843 tasting notes

This is just the ticket for this evening – I wanted something lightly sweet with a hint of spiciness, but just a hint… I wasn’t looking for an in your face kind of taste, and this tea delivered that.

The ginger is gentle, and the honey is sweet but not overly so. The green tea has a soft quality to it, it is light and fresh tasting with a very light mouthfeel and very little grassy/vegetative quality to it.

A very good tea!

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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85

This is a really delicious blend – I like how the strawberry flavor and the white tea work together. It tastes fresh and sweet with just a hint of tartness from the strawberry. Lovely!

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 5 min, 0 sec

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91
drank Serenity by Element Tea
6768 tasting notes

I really like this! REALLY like this! I am going to up the rating!! This is a nice decaf right here! :) LOVE the grenadine and vanilla combo! YUM!

SIPDOWN!!!!

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91
drank Serenity by Element Tea
6768 tasting notes

I wondered what the heck I was tasting…it’s grenadine BUT the vanilla changes it up a bit! This is highly flavored and hard to tell it’s a decaf tea! This is floral and fun but fruity and vanilla. YUM!

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87

This is one of the better chocolate teas that I’ve tried. The smell of the dry leaves is completely spot on. Mint is definitely the predominant flavor in the tea itself though.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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87
drank April Showers by Element Tea
6768 tasting notes

I’ve had one of those weeks where by the end of it I feel like a crazy person so this afternoon I am sure there will be a bunch of weird reviews and attempts. I figured…WHY NOT start with this one!!!

This smells like Raisins, Carrots, and candy.

It’s a bright reddish purple in color. I was so afraid thinking Hibiscus BUT-But-BUT…there is NO Hibiscus! It’s Beet Root I must be seeing!!!!

So…the first sip was a little odd BUT I ended of going…“OH…this isn’t bad”…As I sipped on it I seem to enjoy it more and more! Which surprised me!

I can taste Carrots and Pineapple, then I can taste sugar or a candied-fruit likeness. Then Lemon…and many some raisin. The after taste is a Lemon-Apple type hint. Nothing is overpowering and everything is playing nice it seems!

As it cools the carrot, lemon, pineapple, papaya, and candy-like hints pop thru a bit more.

Honestly…this is most unusual but I am enjoying this much more that I ever thought I would! I am rather shocked about it.

If one thing pops thru a little bit more than the other ingredients it just might be the carrot but like I said before…nothing is overpowering, really.

Interesting, Odd, FUN, tasty, HEALTHY.

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73

This is all about the honey, folks! If you like honey – try this! VERY much honey!!! Did I mentioned honey!?

There is a bit of ginger coming thru but really – it’s HONEY!

:P

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84

SIPDOWN!!!!!!

I can smell the crust-ness something I don’t remember from before!

The raisin and hazelnut pairing is delightful on the nose! I can taste the apple and raisin fairly equally. The nutty-flavors come and go but are very nice!

Upping my rating – better than I remember it!!!

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84

I’m having some digestion issues today so I am going to be drinking A LOT of Rooibos as they are supposed to help with that. This is a green Rooibos with other interesting ingredients! It DOES smell like Apple Pie…I will give it that!

I can taste the Green Rooibos and honeybush the hazelnut comes thru a little bit better than the apple and raisins but I can still pick out both.

This is a nice, creative blend…pretty good! I would love a more PIE-likeness – you know – crusty – but this is pretty good regardless!

Kryptryx

Also, ginger is good.

Cofftea

I ditto the ginger movement. Feel better!

TeaEqualsBliss

Thanks for the suggestion…I guess I knew that but forget about it because I am not a huge ginger fan in teas! LOL – desperate at this point tho! LOL

Cofftea

Matcha OJ would also be a great shot of antioxidants:)

TeaEqualsBliss

I have Matcha…just not the OJ! LOL

LiberTEAS

Honeybush is even better than rooibos for the tummy, because it tends to be milder and more soothing.

TeaEqualsBliss

True!!! I am a little low on honeybush…I think I have some SOMEWHERE!!! LOL

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