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Hmm, tastes more or less like ginger ale, which I don’t usually drink, with the addition of mate bitterness and non-caloric sweetener, aspartame maybe? Nope, not aspartame. The ingredients show sugarcane reb.m. Not sure what that is if it is not sugar. I’ll look it up and get back.

I would not buy this as I am not typically an energy drink consumer. I do like Yerba mate though and enjoy the bit of wake up buzz that comes from it.

It came in my online Quebec Tea Festival tea box which I purchased after Ms. Strange’s review. I have a lot to say about the way the tea boxes were arranged, organized, and sold. Some (Many?) of the original items featured in the boxes were substituted for other things. It was mentioned that there may be substitutions. The original sale advertising mini-videos of the boxes were pulled down by the time the boxes were shipped out—a three-week time lag. More venting to come.

This is my first review of one of the box items. This drink is peppy, I’ll give it that.

There’s that fizzy ginger ale thing going on.

I am probably not the person to be reviewing this drink as I am biased. Ginger ale reminds me of having my tonsils taken out.

Crowkettle

That’s incredibly disappointing. Sounds like a drink best saved for a sick day :P

Evol Ving Ness

I do like the grab bag-like idea of the tea fest boxes. I also want to discover and support our local tea people, who have probably been suffering during this endless COVId situation.

There were a number of random tea things in the boxes, but I’ll refrain from comment until I have a chance to explore more thoroughly.

I got something like five RTD drinks (among my three boxes). To be continued. Maybe a bit of praise with the ranting and raving.

Crowkettle

A local tea box is such a neat idea; its cool they change things up but it sounds like a bit more transparency would be nice (the hit or miss nature of sub boxes, eh). Was there a link with this event? Totally flew under my radar.

Looking forward to what you got though!

Evol Ving Ness

I was certain you were around when she posted details and discount code. It was, however, a very brief window before the purchase cutoff date.

Click into red visit the site button and shop to see what’s available (though boxes I think are done.). https://en.festivalduthequebec.com/

Evol Ving Ness

Who knows—maybe they are still available.

Crowkettle

I probably was but am sometimes (often) oblivious to hyped deals and sales.

The boxes that are up right now are pretty nice! :)

Evol Ving Ness

The packaging is fun and some of the contents are cool. Looking forward to exploring. I like the idea of a tea festival in a box, especially in our quasi-lockdown days. I was hoping to go beyond my tea comfort zone a bit. I wonder what they will be putting up on the site the days of the fest.

Crowkettle

I do love that they got creative with an online festival. You’re right, it’s a nice option with covid stuff causing everything to be up in the air all the time!

It also looks like a better spread than our Vancouver Tea Festival; when I went to that one a few years back, everyone was pushing puerh. So.Much.Puerh. lol

Mastress Alita

The Portland (Oregon, US) Tea Festival did the same this year, since they had to cancel an in-person event. Offered limited time sampler boxes which also included the cups you’d get from a physical tea festival.

Evol Ving Ness

Did you get one of the boxes?

I was one of the tasters for the Toronto Fest a couple of years ago and the sampler pack we got was awesome.

These are pretty well everything—oolong, whites, herbals, forest botanicals, fruit blends,, greens, mate, puerh, matcha— except for the dearth of black tea.

Mastress Alita

Yup, I bought one and so did my friend; we attended the festival at their last in-person event in 2019, so I was on the notification list for them. It was quite a limited run, though.

Evol Ving Ness

Here too, I think. Overall, I think it is going to be a positive experience.

Crowkettle

Portland Festival’s page says they did 200 boxes? I could see them being a good one! It’s going on the bucket list; Portland is fun.

Evol Ving Ness

Our in-person festivals are quite good with quite a variety of vendors. I’ve been to several. That said, I find the crowds overwhelming.

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This is a sipdown but I forgot to put it in my Steepster cupboard so not stash number decrease…

This was a gifted RTD through the MTL Tea Festival. Truthfully I didn’t think I would like it because I have a complex and not always favourable relationship with ginger, but it ended up being pretty tasty! I’d describe it as very similar to a ginger beer but with an added grassy earthiness from the mate used in making it. Refreshing and not overly spicy, but still some heat and tickle. Not my first pick, but good and I definitely see the appeal.

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