Reviews of Popular Tea Beverages Written by Thomas J. Hesley
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Lifestyle Awareness Organic Green Tea Review
A tea drinker for more than three decades, I’ve consumed lots of different brands of green tea, and loved most of them. So I brought home a box of this Lifestyle Awareness Organic Green Tea for review today, and am sipping a big mug full right now. As far as organic green teas go, Lifestyle Awareness tea is among the best I’ve…
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Celestial Seasonings Peppermint Herbal Tea Review
Interesting that this Celestial Seasonings Peppermint Tea and Its tagless teabags have each, a reduced amount of peppermint leaves. Yet, it brews up into an intensely minty, delicious beverage with a taste very much like liquid peppermint patties, but definitely not as sweet. It’s among the best mint teas; because it is an exclusively peppermint tea, with no other flavors in…
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Red Rose India Single Estate Blend Green Tea Review
Red Rose India Single Estate Blend Organic Green Tea has a notably intense green tea flavor, though very little bitterness when you follow the supplied steeping instructions. Most any green tea can become excessively sour if left to steep for too long, in water that’s too hot. But when brewed correctly, this brew tastes divine. As thirsty and relentless green tea fans for a few decades…
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Great Value Decaffeinated Black Tea Review
We’ve consumed a few boxes of Great Value Decaf Black Tea in recent months. Mom drank orange pekoe black tea nearly every day, as us siblings grew up. So we fell in love with tea by observing how much she enjoyed it. To this day, black tea is frequently served at my sisters homes. So they must have been influenced by Mom to like it too. The tea-drinking family tradition continues. …
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Bigelow English Breakfast Tea Review
Bigelow English Breakfast Tea has perched on our breakfast table for a few years now. As loyal black tea fans for more than twenty years, we’ve consumed several boxes of this hearty dark tea in that time. They served English breakfast tea now and again at college cafeterias, and some friends and fans of Bigelow, drank it daily and offered it during our visits. This is an intense, robust, very…
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Salada Original Blend Black Tea Review
Salada Original Blend Black Tea has been as traditional a drink in our family as the Thanksgiving turkey, the Christmas tree, and the New Years favors and canon blasts. My mother often drank this black tea, while us kids were sprouting teenagers. [display_google_ad] So I’m sure that I fell in love with Salada tea by observing how much she savored it.…
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Bigelow Decaf Green Tea Review
I picked up a box of Bigelow Naturally Decaffeinated Green Tea some years back for review. This decaffeinated tea is among the best I’ve sampled. It has the same light green and clear appearance as its non decaffeinated version with almost no bitterness, and its flavor is virtually indistinguishable from the original. Most Bigelow teas are easy to locate, not overly expensive,…
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Stash Premium Green Tea Review
As long-time tea lovers for more than thirty years, we immediately grab new varieties that we’ve never tried before. We saw this Stash Premium Green Tea at Walmart a couple years back, and wanted to check it out. Our impressions follow. It has a different yet pleasing green tea flavor. Its clear, light green appearance with almost no bitterness; it earns its…
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Lipton Pure Green Tea Review
Lipton Pure Green Tea in my experience has a notably bitter flavor, particularly if you leave it steep for too long. It’s quite sensitive to long steeping. But if you follow its brewing instructions precisely, this green tea tastes as green tea should. As died-in-the-wool green tea fans for a few decades now, we’re always watching for the…
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Tazo Zen Green Tea with Lemongrass & Spearmint Review
This Tazo Zen Green Tea with Lemongrass & Spearmint has a clear, light green appearance with no bitterness as long as you do not over-steep it. This combination herbal tee and green tea sweetens well with stevia. For a premium name brand green tea, Tazo tea is not terribly expensive, fairly easy to find, and it stores well and for…
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Bigelow Mint Medley Tea Review
We’ve drank many hundreds of cups of Bigelow Mint Medley Tea (catalog # 00073) over the past one-plus decades. This doublemint herbal tea, a strongly-flavored duo of spearmint and peppermint leaves, is among the mintiest natural teas we’ve ever tasted. It’s color in the cup is a medium to light orange, perhaps owing to the absence of any really dark…
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Salada Green Tea Review
An avid tea fan for more than twenty years, We’ve consumed many boxes of Salada Green Tea over the past decade. As green teas go, Salada green tea is perhaps the best the authors have sampled. We like its clear, light green consistency with very low bitterness. It sweetens well with stevia or agave nectar, and…