Steam Tea House

Sipdown, but it wasn’t in my cupboard!

I cold steeped this one last night. It’s very tart and juicy. I do like it a lot, but right now I’m preferring DavidsTea’s Pink Passionfruit and Redberry Tonic as cold steeped drinks.

Sip down! Made a huge mug of sweet-tart iced tea. The first sip was a surprise though, since I forgot which tea I had decided to ice (yeah..). I was expecting sweet berries but got sour grapefruit. Haha.

I added some honey and stirred it into the hot tea before I finished pouring it over ice. Much better.

This one also works well as a DavidsTea Tea Pop! Just FYI.

I was SO thirsty tonight. A caramel rooibos tea while out, then 32 oz of iced teas when I got home. Well. Time to sleep now. Hope I don’t have to get up too often…

Having this one iced tonight. I used 1.5 tbsp in a 16 oz tea pot, then poured it over a whole tray of ice cubes. So delicious. Definitely need to remember to leave room in my tiny freezer for 2 ice cube trays if I’m going to be icing tea a lot this summer!

Yum! This was a good option tonight. I made it a couple hours ago and sipped on it while it was hot, then napped and now I’m sipping on it cold. I really like this fruit tea. Nice and grapefruity and tart. It’s not one I’ll drink all the time since the flavour is quite strong. It “stains” the lids of my Contigo mugs, and it took a week of plain teas, lots of washing, and a couple soaks with denture tablets to only get most of the smell out! So, uhh, be warned.

I chucked some into cold water in the fridge to try a cold brew. I’ll be having that in a ceramic travel mug tomorrow, because I don’t need my nalgenes to smell like grapefruit tea!

Edit: Oh wait. Tomorrow is a PJ day. No work or school yay!!!!

I received a sample of this today (instead of buying some based on the AMAZING smell) as I’ve been having horrible luck with hibiscus based herbal brews.

This one, this is fantastic. I steeped for only 4 minutes and possibly didn’t use enough tea for the amount of water I used, but although it feels a little watery, the flavour is really good. It’s actually quite sweet as-is, with a bit of a sour tang that goes really well with the pink grapefruit flavour. I’m excited to try this cold (both hot and cold brewed) as this has potential to be an excellent summer tea.

Sipdown! (OH NOES! Now I need to go get more, and Steam is closed tomorrow!)

Anyways, I didn’t have enough for my travel cup so I added some Irish Breakfast. It worked! Yay! So good.

(Oh, and my tutor is impressed with how far I’ve come, and I should manage to pass the course, might even get a B if I don’t get tripped up with the simple things. Like algebra. Freaking algebra.)

I think I’ve had this tea every single morning for the past week, so this is definitely one of my go-to morning teas. I don’t like mornings so much, and I find the peach flavour soothing, while the ginger calms my tummy. Adding in the usual soy creamer and honey makes it even more delicious.

Yay! I used this one up, then got more. I really really like this tea.

It wasn’t quite enough to make up for having to go to calculus class this morning, though. I don’t know what would be. Maybe I’ll try a matcha latte on Friday.

As for my neck, I have a protruding disc that is pressing against a nerve bundle. The pain comes and goes, and all I can really take for it is naproxen or advil. Whee. I started physio today, and will use up all my massage/chiro/physio/acupuncture moneys for this, as I’ll be doing physio twice a week for 6 weeks (or more). :/ (In BC we get 12 combined visits at a reduced rate if we’re poor, and I have an extended plan with my university that covers an extra $300 per year. That’s an extra 3-4 appointments.) There goes all my tea money!

I love this tea. So much so, that when my honey fell out of my cupboard and knocked my mug to the floor (breaking it and spilling tea everywhere) I wasn’t really upset as now my apartment smells delicious. Also, the falling was probably my fault as I can be a tremendous klutz in the mornings.

This is what I need from a strawberry tea. It tastes lovely up to 5 minutes of steeping (my max, really), is good with and without milky stuff and honey, and reminds me of summer. Just perfect.

I made myself a fresh cup after wiping up the floor, and noticed that I’m already starting to run low. Maybe I should get 100g this time!

I can smell!

Definitely gingery, but not in a POW or burning way. It’s delicate and earthy.

Drinking this today with just a splash of almond milk. This tea doesn’t actually need sweetener, YAY!

I’m starting to feel better, and I can (mostly) smell again! This is exactly what I was looking for in a peach-ginger tea. Juicy peaches (yes, kind of like the jelly candy) that hint towards being spiked with some sort of alcohol. The ginger isn’t as strong as I was expecting, but it is there, and it imparts a warming feel. I oversteeped this time and it hasn’t become bitter, which means that the base is something I should investigate. I love me some strong black teas that don’t get bitter (it is somewhat astringent)!

I drink this in a soup bowl with 1/2-to-1 tsp of honey and a splash of soy creamer.

Still sick, unfortunately, so again I’m waiting to rate the tea until I can actually smell.

Dry, the leaves smell strongly of fresh peach (dare I say Fuzzy Peach candies?) and black tea, with a little ginger. Brewed for 3 minutes, the tea is a lovely reddish colour, and still smells of peach.

I tasted it without sweetener, but it was a little bitter/astringent (honestly I can’t tell the difference right now) for me. I’ll have to try it cold brewed without sweetener in the summer, as that might be tastier than iced. After adding a little honey and soy creamer, this is exactly the tea I was after when I purchased it. A little warmth from the ginger, more of a smell of peach than a taste (possibly due to my cold), and a nice black tea that holds up well to my favoured additives. Yay!