Tea Information:
Leaf Type: White & Green Teas
Where to Buy: Teakoe
Tea Description:
Inhale the fresh air and let your spirit soar while sipping this uplifting infusion of crisp pear, lemongrass & chamomile. Admire America’s scenic landscape, cruising a mile high with a bird’s eye view.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
It has been crazy hot these last few days. Time for iced tea!
I love the idea of throwing a tea bag into a pitcher over night and in the morning you are greeted with a gourmet iced tea to take along with you on the way to work. This is something I have been doing with my loose leaf tea quite a bit lately, but I love the idea of the tea already being in a bag for me.
Recently, I discovered Teakoe, a company in Colorado that creates their teas in small batches. I couldn’t wait to try them and this was one I had my eye on from the start. The packaging is fantastic. I love the overall look of the pouch. So very cool.
I followed the instructions on the back of the pouch and away I went. In the morning, I poured myself two pretty nice sized travel mugs for the start of my day. I couldn’t wait to try this fun combination of white tea, green tea, chamomile, lemongrass, and pear. The one ingredient I hadn’t counted on was stevia.
Unfortunately, my first go around with this tea, the stevia was the first flavor that popped and really dominated the cup. But fortunately for me, I brought along the tea bag, so I just finished what I had brought with me while I was steeping the tea bag again in a pitcher I keep at work.
The second infusion was a lot better. I think a lot of the stevia poured it’s little heart and soul into the first infusion so there were just traces of it in the second. This infusion was full of flavor. Bright crisp pear, vibrant lemongrass, a delightful herbal note of chamomile, a rich buttery green tea with a sweet white tea to finish off the sip. You can’t get much better than that. I ended up getting two more infusions out of the tea bag. The next infusion was just as good as the second one where I was able to really pull out those bright flavors. By the fourth infusion, I knew I had tried my luck one too many times. The flavors were weak and barely there. But hey, I was on my fourth infusion. I was expecting this sort of flavor from the 3rd infusion.
I am quite happy with this tea even with the stevia issue. I found myself wanting more of the tea the next day so the stevia must not have darkened my opinion of this tea too much. I think this was a great first experience with a new tea company (to me at least). I hope all my experiences are this great with Teakoe!
