Tealish

This is really great cold. I cold-brewed it and it was tasty after only a couple hours but it’s been infusing continuously while I drink my giant pitcher. The lemon makes it so refreshing and the creaminess makes it feel indulgent. I feel like I am never going to drink water again.

I was in Tealish buying a Mother’s Day gift and that wall of tins of teas I’ve never tried was too tempting. I decided to explore the rooibos choices and ended up taking a bag of this home. It smelled incredible in the tin.

This smells incredibly tart and potent once steeped, but it was actually quite nice and creamy. A little bit sweet, but with just the right amount of tartness. Very flavourful but smooth and not artificial tasting or chemically. It’s a blend of red and green rooibos but I actually didn’t get any rooibos flavour at all. Just creamy lemon.

The boyfriend picked some of this up at Tealish today. He says that “it doesn’t taste like much.”

I figured it could do me no harm though he quipped that it would put hair on my chest. I think it’s actually surprisingly nice. It’s more pleasant than I expected, and really nicely balanced. I taste mostly cinnamon and clove but they are not overpowering or dusty-tasting. Then there is some lemon and just a hint of ginger and fruitiness. I might steep it longer than 6 minutes next time.

I wanted to make a cuppa today!

This is actually a pretty big deal. At a certain time during the month – if you know what I mean – I don’t want tea. It’s weird. I just don’t want tea. Black, green, herbal, whatever. Unlike every other foodstuff in existence, I don’t want tea. So when I thought “Hmmm, I could do with a cuppa . . .” I was overjoyed, as its been almost a week of tealessness.

That said, the first half of this cup was delicious.

The second half of this cup was bitter and oversteeped, since I ended up with almost a teaspoon of sediment in the bottom of my cup that kept steeping.

Mmmmm. As with most of Tealish’s fruit blends, I found that this left a slightly perfumey feel in my mouth, but overall it was a very yummy green blend. The strawberry is the strongest flavour, with occasional hints of watered-down rhubarb. The green is mild and works well with the strong flavour of the strawberry. Nice airy summer tea.

I only steeped this for two minutes this morning and this time a really interesting sweetness revealed itself. A solid breakfast tea, good with the shamefully large portion of milk I like to dump in my morning black tea.

I don’t know why I bought this, really. I couldn’t decide if the name was cute or silly but it smelled pretty good and I could use a go-to breakfast blend.

So, it’s not morning anymore but this is my first cup of the day. I had rather a rough morning and would enthusiastically prefer not to go to work for the evening, but I have to get ready and I’m hoping this will help.

This is pretty good. Bold, astringent, rich. I’m not drinking it with milk right now but probably will next time. That is more because I always feel like I need milk to make it officially a breakfast tea. This is good without. I can’t remember what I was told was in this blend and it’s a bit strange that the description is so vague, but I think I recall a mention of Ceylon and Nilgiri among others. Who knows.

Anyway, a solid breakfast blend. I will probably try out a different one when I’m done with this but I think I’ll quite enjoy what I have.

This stuff is so good. Creamy and slightly sweet, with that awesome fresh young coconut taste. A definite rebuy.

This is keeping things nice and light for my early morning at work (and hopefully helping keep me awake). It’s a lovely, creamy coconut flavour, like young fresh coconuts rather than the more overpowering coconut flavours I usually find in DT teas. I’m still really pleased with the sencha in this. This cold-brewed for about ten hours and the sencha comes through nice and strong. It’s slightly grassy right now, but sweetly so and not bitter. I find with green teas I should stop infusing cold-steepin’ leaves as soon as I wake up and not let it go for twelve hours or bitterness may ensue.

Why, oh why did I buy more tea today?

Well, this is a very pretty tea. And it smelled too good to resist. I was a little worried by what I at first thought was a lack of scent once it had steeped, but I shouldn’t have been. The liquor is a lot more subtle but so delicious.

It’s very creamy and full, so it’s really satisfying. This is a good dessert-type tea. It reminds me a lot of DAVIDsTEA’s Toasted Walnut (and probably Tealish’s Walnut Ave. as I think they share a recipe), but this is a nicer texture for me. So creamy! I am really liking that I can taste the sencha with the coconut. It gives a really nice, refreshing aftertaste. Yum. I think that is why this rates higher for me than something like DT’s White Malibu. The sencha is really great here. I don’t get much from the floral aspects, but the sencha + not-too-sweet coconut has me very happy.

Guh. Last night was a rough one. Food tasted funny, I napped for three hours and was still exhausted, and I had a pounding headache that 4 tylenol didn’t even touch. I reached for this in hopes of getting some relief. It did help everything but the headache, for which I am grateful, but I still ended up in bed early with the covers over my head.

I reached for this tea because if I have to go after another of my “flu-feeling-better” teas, I’m going to scream, but I don’t want to waste any of my favorites when I can’t really taste them properly. So I went for this, hoping the orange zest and juniper berries would do something for my flu (it’s been a week now). I was surprised at how tasty it is! Surprised and very pleased. Another winner from Tealish! It seems that if I just avoid anything with hibiscus in it, their teas are pretty good! It doesn’t taste medicinal like a lot of herbals do and the spices in it keep it different enough to keep my interest.

I don’t think I gave this one a fair shake last time I tried it. I was only kinda meh on the experience, but I think I might have scorched it or something, because this time around it was delicious! A very full Earl flavour that isn’t too sweet and works well with the smoky green base.

Mmmm. I was very excited to try this tea, and was very pleased at the results. It’s very mellow, both for a green and a Grey. The Earl Grey flavour wasn’t terribly strong, but it was such an all-around nice cup of tea that I didn’t particularly care.

Having a bit of a crap day, including trying to decide if I need to call the cops or not, and I definitely needed something to wake me up and be soothing. This fit the bill beautifully. It’s smooth and not bitter at all. I only let it steep for 2 minutes and I’m in heaven. The vanilla and caramel and grenadine are all very present…I am very happy with this tea! Yay Tealish! You didn’t ruin this with hibiscus!

I was more than half-asleep when I made my morning cuppa. I brewed this at the same temperature I did for greens, and then forgot about it for ten minutes. I was sure that I had ruined it, but it was surprisingly not bitter! A little cold.

What else can I say? It was pleasant but forgettable, a nice little caffeine boost in a tasty package, but I didn’t linger over it.

This was a nice tea, very fruity without being floral and perfumey. The black tea was mild, not bitter. It was an enjoyable cup, but didn’t wow me. I got bored before I finished it.