Brandon's Blog

10/18/2007

Tea Review, Dahling

I am probably nearing the point of having tried almost every variety of Bigelow tea.

I would have to say, if I could get a room air freshener or candle that smelled like Constant Comment brewing, I would buy a bunch of them.  However, the tea (with copious amounts of sweetener) actually drank more like black coffee.  It gives you that little grimace when you finish a sip.  Not great.  Perhaps the orange zest tasted bitter.

It takes a lot of sweetener to get the Green Tea with Peach tasting right, but when it does it pretty much rocks the house.  I would assume it is hard for the tea engineers to get peach flavor (all natural, I gather) correct, but they nailed it.  Kudos to them.

Spiced Chai is kind of the workhorse of the family.  Needs less sweetener, takes milk (even low-fat) very well, and has a pleasant warming quality.  Definitely a blockbuster, but get it in a combo pack because it can get tired after a while.

Lemon Lift is a good entertaining tea.  It’s good on ice, and it doesn’t offend.  Many of these others are a bit avant garde for the uninitiated or non-impassioned.  I would also say that it accepts sweetener at conventional Nestea levels.  Very predictable.

More to come.  I need to add a blog category for “Pretentious.”