TGFOP Tea Reviews (c) Silverneedles est.2005

found at Sunrise Mart (NY) forgot price, approx $1.7
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I like the bottle. Import JP so only a little english label that says Golden Oolong or some such. ItoEn JP product page (goog translation.)

Oolong superb, Katsura golden (do you ruled O)

i RULED O !!!!!!!

…onto flavors and somesuch: Tasty like a sorta roasted(dark) oolong TGY? , but that oolong flavor is kinda low 1/3 of total, rest is sortof astringent/tannin …some goes in the aftertaste on tongue mouth & posterior pharynx.

Overall: not bad, i’d buy but would prefer the Suntori which is better and has more oolong flavor. Goes it on the list, yes.

$1.99 found at Sunrise Mart (NY) …

Asahi ! hope i didnt buy some alcoholic tea

Got home, tasted it, …. hey… not green tea…

Peek better at the english translation:

GREEN TEA ASAHI KURO CHA
ingredients: Puaru Tea, Jasmin Tea, Vitamin C

… puaru… well… that kinda sounds like puer…

found the JP product page, which google translates as:

Feature: “Chikara born aged, black tea”
With time and maturity-fermented green tea “black tea”, through the use of the unique flavor of deep rich can enjoy a cup of tea.
● aged fermented green tea “black tea” Pu-erh tea (Yunnan Province, China produced) and a deep rich flavor仕立てました.
● de Sukkiri to finish it easier to drink, jasmine tea (China-producing province of Fujian) blends.
● fragrances unpigmented

OK….so its a black tea either that or aged black/puerh + jasmine…? no? yes? I’ll classify it as an RTD puerh.

Smells a little of jasmine but doesnt carry into taste (a little… but its very faded),

Taste: some roasted sensation…either roasted corn…maybe barley-like?. Aftertaste sorta seems to remind of (shu) pu-erh… but its faded. There is some medicinal flavor(more apparent when the tea is cold). But flavors blend pretty well together and has an interesting profile (except for the medicinal part). Didnt notice any unpleasant astringency/biterness (or i forgot).

Overall: Not bad, its different, @ 2$ on the expensive side. of a 0.5L bottle. Get again: YES.

$1.49, found at Sunrise Mart (NY)
tho it says on the label its made with Black Tea….

If i’ve tried American peach teas (Peach Tea .Lipton, Giant Peach Juiced Tea .Tazo, Summer Peach Iced Tea .Snapple, Peach oo-la-long .Honest Tea) why not see how Japanese tea people do it…

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Taste: … FRUIT ! i am pretty sure this is the closest of the bottled Teas to a real fruit taste i’ve had (Giant Peach from Tazo is my favorite of the bunch, but i can’t remember details to compare which was the fruityest)….remembering childhood …having peach compote (fruit boiled in water + sugar).(note: the word is compote, no relation to compost.)

so, Fruit + fruit tangy/tart in the mouth, sugar is medium-low = can feel sweetness but its not dominant. It feels very fruity-real to me (haven’t had peach in a while tho).

I don’t taste/feel anything weird (citric/strangeness.)

Some aftertaste, some from sugar, a fruity sense on the palate, tongue… its not watery, and i feel i want to drink more (or maybe its the heat).

Almost forgot: no tea taste :\ …. maybe its in the aftertaste feel combined with the sugar, but very not present at all.

very satisfying on this hot day…

As i was saying in my previous assam bottle post. NYC, WholeFoods, Central Park. Hot. Sun. Baking. No sunscreen. Oops. Burning. Ouchie.

I think i see a space in the yerbamate on the label so this post is called yerba & nbsp ; mate… profound.

This was 1 out of about 3 unsweetened, unmixed, unflavored bottled teas at Wholefoods, not a good day… Whole Foods needs to hire me. I want that 20% off employee discount. I’ll buy more unsweetened unflavored bottled teas than they sell to 100 people.

Onto the main feature:

Taste: WTF?! salt ?! WHATF ? … SALTY ?? EEECHHCHCHBEECHH…. i actually flipped over the bottle and there it was on its back label : SODIUM 11mg x 2 = 22mg (how much is that in grains of salt?)
+ taste low of yerbamate, a better dilution of flavor than others have achieved…
some of the naturally lemony i think of the mate,

but its just Nasty To Me, i can’t take the salty weirdness . eeeechhhhhyness. i did drink it all tho. i just couldnt believe my tastebuds, and everytime, “there it was”, “there it was”, “there it was”, “there it was”… weirdly torturing myself, and still don’t believe !

Overall: gee… toughie but quickie,  SALTY DRINK = NO.

ps. ok it says “a grain of salt is about 5.85×10^-5 grams” so 1 grain = 0.0585mg, from which you calculate that 22mg salt = 376 grains of salt. (also in theory, a grain of NaCl is a cube of 0.3mm sides, sqrt376=19, so which leads to 22mg pure salt being approx a solid salt cube of 5.7×5.7×5.7mm).

Out and about NYC, stop at “Central Perk” (Whole Foods/Columbus) get some snacks and drinks, head to Central Perk to bask in the sun.

Disappointingly, Whole Foods had a really bad stock of bottled teas this day, just itoen green-white, the others were mixed bullcrap sweetened and herbal bs energy bs vitamin boosting health organic natural crap. Of which i did get some - bottled yerbamate.

I did want to try something new so… got this which looked more “normal” even tho it had a little tiny bit of “sugar” on the label, and i don’t have such a good experience with Honest teas.

Taste: cold. mmm. well. not that bad on the citric additive - doesn’t taste that lemony. As for the black tea taste… uhm… there is …some… black tea taste… barely perceptible tho, couldn’t really say “assam yes !”, more like… “oh, this is probably black tea”. … didn’t sense any sugar. not much astringency.

Overall: not that bad, not nasty as others, but not much flavor either. pick between this and water? … water.

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part of the drown my sorrow with three bottles of tea day.
iced tea with lemon .teany,
Morrocan Mint Green Tea .Honest Tea,
green tea with ginseng .teany.
see the level- thats how much i could drink from them.

what’s with the ginseng? make me lov u long time or what?

smell: nasty

taste: sugar + weirdness … ass? + lemon.

overall: u suck.

the end.

part of the drown my sorrow with three bottles of tea day.
iced tea with lemon .teany,
Morrocan Mint Green Tea .Honest Tea,
green tea with ginseng .teany.
see the level- thats how much i could drink from them.

smell: some lemon & … fruit? medication?… a smell i cant pinpoint, need a word, having lapse in memory.

taste:
liquid,
no sugar (labeled 10g total),
astringency/bitterness
no green tea
mint? what mint, oh yeah, hmmm. well there is some mint aftertaste after the bitterness goes.
this feels like they over brewed the mint and components too long until the plant taste started to give it this bitterness. also theres not enough mint in this. maybe other components are interacting and diminishing it.

update: i added sugar: nice and sweet now - much better - some minty flavor but not like fresh looseleaf tea (did they use enough mint ???). there isnt much nasty sugar aftertaste. some freshness from the mint in the aftertaste. pretty good now!!!

how much mint etc compared to some real fresh loose tea? somewhere around 1/2

i really dont get it. either these people dont know how to make something good (that i could like) or they’re trying to make something that will just sell.

part of the drown my sorrow with three bottles of tea day.
iced tea with lemon .teany,
Morrocan Mint Green Tea .Honest Tea,
green tea with ginseng .teany.
see the level- thats how much i could drink from them.

label is simple, somewhat retarded looking. i coulda done better.

aroma: faint but : lemon + some black tea

taste: 3/4 lemony + 1/4 or less: black tea taste + faintness sweety in the aftertaste.

the frikin fudgepackin definition of american bottled tea= LEMON SUGAR WATER. and a label with natural organic f**** antioxidants that will keep away all of mankind’s diseases plus whatever your dog gave you when you kissed it(more like whatever you gave the dog- since the human mouth is the filthiest of all… except that big lizard thing) …SH** ….alright. i’m calm. shit. i was about to go off again.

again. why do i even try? curiosity? just hope. oh well. its just how i dont like it. u might.
obviously it dont goes on MYF*KN LIST OF TEAS *I* LIKE. (not narcissistic or self absorbed.)

Having had their bottled “green tea” i wasn’t expecting much,
and much wasn’t found.

Looked nice, thick (3.78L=1gal), and more cost effective (around $3.7) next to the awesome Tejava bottled tea ($1.70, 1L), also the “kettle brewed” sparked some minor interest.

Opent bottle, whatcha think it smells like? yeah, the lemon smell of citric acid.

Whatcha think it tastes like? yeah, the ****ing lemon taste of whatever makes it taste like lemon…citric acid?

This is some watery brown colored lemonade with some shitty ass watery black tea scraped from the bottom of long lost barrels arrived on the tea ship from friggin who knows where.

tea taste…? well, if you’d distillate the entire gallon, then you’d probably get about 1 cup of black tea. the shitty black tea they used to make this shitty dirty ass waterylemonade shit. >

having said that. i’ll drink the whole bottle, just to see if my pee turns brown.

update: couldnt guzzle more than 1/3 of it. if i look at it one more time i’m gonna be sick.

ps. my pee . - still yellow.  then, . my liver just destroyed caramel color of 1/3 gallon. thx. i’d rather drink cola for that.

found at Ito En’s Flagship Store.

Aroma: very light, couldn’t really tell what it is. sort of sweet.

Taste: light roasted, green tea (couldn’t pinpoint what, not real clear), sort of softness? very very mild astringency(it doesnt feel over-infused as their other bottled teas, like oi ocha, even teas tea.)

Overall: Good but flavor too mild for me and even with the lack of astringency i prefer their oi ocha japanese green. also too expensive (as this entire Weil for tea line is, $1.9/can (245ml)… i like their Darjeeling better.)

found at Ito En’s Flagship Store.

Aroma: mild smell, maybe DJ

Taste: wow, this is very very nice. I’m not your usual fan of DJ so this is kind of surprising to me(i liked it!)
A good, well defined flavor. The taste has a couple components, so its not monotonous. It reminds me of the darjeeling base from my favorite earl grey.

This is not overly infused as most bottled teas thus you get almost NO astringency/briskness !! just a clean tea flavor.

Ofcourse this doesn’t taste as strong as a fresh infused loose leaf tea, but they managed to create something very good.
i wouldn’t have guessed this is a bottled/rtd tea!

Overall: Wonderful ! pricing aside ($1.9/can (245ml)…!!), i would definitely get this. I hope they can package this in larger sizes, and make it cheaper. anywho, it goes on the list.
Too bad they had to put Weil’s name on it. This would have sold without it. ok, maybe not as much. maybe it will help to getting it in more supermarkets? i hope so.

Flavor: alot of “stuff” in this liquid: citrus front of mouth, straight down the tongue in the back some berry-like sort of bitter-sour, “foody”, licking the palate and tongue can feel a lingering sweetness from the added sugar (but there is almost no other sugar feel), cant really feel the honey as in their bottled Black Tea.

Alot of aftertaste around the mouth-palate: mostly a sort of sourness like after drinking black tea with sugar + the berry flavor, + a little more citrus leftovers… = unpleasant to me, feels like mouth is dirty. Only in the empty mouth, can i feel some vague distant reminders of some sort of black tea flavor.

i dont know what currant is, but i read its some kinda berry. anyway. this is some kinda black tea.

Overall: alot better composition and flavor than Snapple’s Acai thing (surprisingly i now read almost the same words in that review), but i dont like it, mostly due to aftertaste, and no tea flavor.

oh yeah, price like their other: 2.4$ (this time found at Au bon pain)

could that name BE any longer ?

i guess it could, since i left out the coconut ginger part…

smell: start with this because it disturbed me: pickled cabbage aroma… nice one ! i then was afraid to drink it… but i talked myself into it: “Come on old man, you LOVE cabbage” , “DOOO IT !!!!” OH MY GOD I CANT STOP SMELLING THAT !!!!!!!!!!!!

…

taste: pink. huh? dunno, just popped in my mind (maybe i associate bangkok, oh wait the label is pink). again as in the previous taste: their Black Currant: alot of “stuff” in the liquid: sourness, this time some clear bitterness (low, but it bothers me). i couldn’t really tear apart into precise flavors, dont care :: i dont like it. THE END.

update: had to comeback and +add this: alot of nasty aftertaste…. BOOOOOOO !!!

how about i transport you back to the store and get my $2.4 back, and that 5 minutes spent in line…

oh crap, i think im getting some diarrhea………… no… false alarm.

This is your big boy, brother of its little sibling oiocha .5L
the most liters of clean bottled tea one can buy… in the WORLD !!!!

and its pretty good taste too !

Pkg: nice and symetric, contains just green tea and vitamin c (works to keep it good). very low level of bullshit on antioxidants etc.

Price: in my little supermarket … 6$ , sort of expensive, might be better priced elsewhere with more population, like Manhattan/Chinatown/Flushing.

Taste: green tea - the type which tastes roasted-toasty-pan-fried, astringency (medium-mild). Not quite as clear taste as a fresh looseleaf brew.

Compared to others, cant really say much difference: Pokka’s can of green tea seemed more defined, Tea’s Tea green (still ito en) seemed less astringent, Adagio’s Green seemed less defined, with a weird little tiny flavor in there.

Overall: the best bottled tea out there (in the USA, in a 2L pkg)

*no, ito en doesn’t pay me in moneys, stocks or free shit. i just like their product.  

Found at Whole Foods Market, $1.5

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Dont remember having this before, so i thought i’d give it some tongue time.
Was imagining it to be like the ItoEn’s OiOcha Green Tea but it went like this:

flavor: green tea on the roasted/fried flavor side, no nasty baggy tastes, astringency is low and blends nice with the green flavor. The Pokka’s Japanese Green Tea had a more of a crispy grassy green flavor.

overall: GOOD! i like it. you go on the list.

found at Whole Foods Market . $2.4 … !

flavor: black tea, some faint sweetness, not much astringency (i suppose from the sugars that cover it), and some mild honey flavor (i thought the black tea tasted like honey, but it was on the strong side- so i looked on the label, and yup, there it was….it pissed me off, along with all the sugar and other shit it has). It finishes with some citric/lemon in the back/backsides of the mouth. But no more other weird tastes…

lets count the words on the front label:
master tea blenders
fine teas
harney & sons
master tea blenders
organic black
crisp pure
energizing black tea
made from fresh brewed tea
16floz 473ml

ok, now… crisp & pure fresh brewed, i then imagine the contents are ‘pure black tea’ and ‘citric acid’…right… lets see:
triple filtered water
contains less than 2% of organic cane sugar
organic honey
brewed from select organic black tea
ascorbic acid
citric acid
sodium citrate

alright. so. wtf… can i just get some of that “PURE” BLACK TEA ???… gd bullshit.

overall: not bad, not bad, not sugary, but deceptive front label. It will go on the bottled tea list.

Adagio Teas 2$/ea or 24$/case of 15 + s&h
anteadote Black, Oolong, Green, White … i dont know what anteadote means, obviously a play on the Tea word, but to me it just sounds related to a medical drug or something. antidote is a substance used to neutralize a toxic substance.

Package:

Product of China.
no organic on this label, yay.

label is crooked stretched and rotated…

Liquor: golden-yellow.

Smell: faint

Taste: some faint astringency-tannin back of throat/tongue, then swishing around feel “roasted-toasted fried” green tea taste - ok, tastes mildly-faint like tea. no medicinal flavors, no citric acid-lemon. But… after tasting the 4 teas from them i have to say there is sort of a faint funky flavor in there, in all them bottles… its not the lemon taste, its a weird faint medicinal maybe kind of funk…

Faint aftertaste, but doesn’t feel completely watery, some remnants on tongue and back of throat but again, faint.

Overall: taste is fainter version of their anteadote green. not a fan of this white one.

Adagio Teas 2$/ea or 24$/case of 15 + s&h
anteadote Black, Oolong, Green, White… i dont know what anteadote means, obviously a play on the Tea word, but to me it just sounds related to a medical drug or something. antidote is a substance used to neutralize a toxic substance.

Package:

Product of China.
no “organic” wording on this one… OMFG !

nice packaging: the label is really crooked, rotated on a corner… (if its the chinese packing plant, they should slap them around with a large trout.)

Liquor: dark-brown.

Smell: a little sweet, reminds me of assam.

Taste: black tea taste about medium strength, astringency is low! feels like a sortofa mixture maybe, assam-ish something. *** apparently after a little live chat on their website, they say its just Yunnan gold black tea (oops, its there too, on teh label…i should clean my glasses, …i should buy some glasses to have some to clean) … i really have to wonder where my tea tongue is at… oh yeah, here it is:

to me it tastes like an assam/sortof wine-y, maybe if i stretch it i would place it with this Yunnan Pure Small Bud Black Tea Gold Tips from Yunnan Sourcing but this bottled tea i dont feel any tobacco-ish-ness-y in it.

The bottle label says something of ’smooth peppery taste’ <– what the * that means i dont know. there is no pepper of any kind in this tea, i’m pretty sure, i just went and sprinkled some on my tongue.

…after tasting, i find there is a weird little flavor i cant describe-maybe faintly medicinal, but i think its there, like in their green tea bottle.

Not much aftertaste, but doesn’t feel completely watery, some remnants on tongue and back of throat.

Overall: taste is medium, ok, not bad, if found in a store i’d buy it, but if Tejava was there… i pick Tejava Premium iced tea bottle-which is more crisp, strong, defined, astringent. should i put this one on the Favoritea Bottled tea list… well ok, there isnt much choice out there…

Adagio Teas 2$/ea or 24$/case of 15 + s&h
anteadote Black, Oolong, Green, White… i dont know what anteadote means, obviously a play on the Tea word, but to me it just sounds related to a medical drug or something. antidote is a substance used to neutralize a toxic substance.

Package:

Product of China.
not going to spank the monkey on the whole organic thing again, am tired of typing about it. whatever.

label is crooked rotated on an edge and stretched…

Liquor: golden-yellow meaning i hope tea is oxidated & most likely not much preservatives.

Smell: faint flowery!

Taste: Hot DAMN! flowery oolong tastes !!! good job Adagio havent tasted any bottled tea like it yet. Flowery oolong ! nice ! (its no way like drinking fresh brewed oolong, i’m comparing to other bottled teas.) Not much astringency/doesnt bother/overwhelm.

Faint aftertaste, but doesn’t feel completely watery, some remnants on tongue and back of throat but again, faint.

Overall: taste is medium but good flavor, i like it. if found in market i’d buy it.

Adagio Teas 2$/ea or 24$/case of 15 + s&h
anteadote Black, Oolong, Green, White … i dont know what anteadote means, obviously a play on the Tea word, but to me it just sounds related to a medical drug or something. antidote is a substance used to neutralize a toxic substance.

Package:

Product of China.
not going to spank the monkey on the whole organic thing again, am tired of typing about it. whatever.

nice packaging, this one is less appealing as the name does not stand out. should be bigger/bold and darker. label is crooked and stretched. (i’m feeling very picky… calm down…should drink some of the white tea)

Liquor: golden-yellow meaning i hope tea is oxidated & most likely not much preservatives.

Smell: faint, imho a bit of medicinal but lets see taste.

Taste: some mild astringency-tannin back of throat/tongue, then swishing around feel “roasted-toasted fried” green tea taste - ok, tastes like tea. no medicinal flavors, no citric acid-lemon. But… after tasting the 4 teas from them i have to say there is sort of a funky flavor in there, in all them bottles… its not the lemon taste, its a weird faint medicinal maybe kind of funk…

Faint aftertaste, but doesn’t feel completely watery, some remnants on tongue and back of throat but again, faint. i think it kind of feels fatty-coating on the tongue in the aftertaste(might be wrong).

Overall: taste is mild-medium, ok, not bad, i wouldnt go out of my way to buy it again, and if ito en was there i’d pick that first. compared to itoen’s green tea, adagio is more mild, subdued, less astringent-tanninic, less defined, and it also has a funk-o-flavor on my tongue.

supermarket (well, you know, where all the great quality all natural antioxidant fresh organic teas are found)

aye had nothing to drink, thought to lick on something new,

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supposedly contains fresh brewed/as opposed to stale brewed black tea (originating from south america- everyone knows southamerica is where the good black tea is made)…heres the lipton (i like them, they really try to stock every goddamn supermarket with their brand, hey ITOEN WTF ARE YOUR PEOPLE WAITING FOR???)

flavor: the citrus/lemon sensation around mouth dominates, sweetness, astringency, some tea flavor but low- still tasteable tho. some cruddy aftertaste from the sugar. the diet version has splenda if you care to know.

compared to Tazo’s Black Tea Lemonade, Lipton’s has little more black tea flavor, and less pronounced citrus.
compared to Snapple’s black tea (the earl grey), Lipton’s has little more black tea flavor, but its a small difference.

i must say, it didn’t hit like swallowing a porcupine- doesnt have such a horrible citrus /lemon spike in the tongue as i expected. overall the taste is mellow, it didnt turn out so bad. not bad mr vaseline. im still not going to put you on my list until you come out with a no sugar no splenda/other sweetener tea.

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all natural… ok? …alright?…but…
..i dont see… wheres the ECGC …?
……. i dont see ECGC ON THE LABEL !!! OH MY GOD WHAT HAS COME OF THE WORLD MAKING LABELS WITHOUT ECGC… yeah you know you’ll get fired.

after sticking tongue down many similar ‘tea’ drinks you know what to expect

1: lemon taste up the wazoo, citrusy all over the mouth, i admit it does taste a little better of a lemonade, maybe because its “NOT FROM CONCENTRATE”
2: it has sugar 20g/8oz so its a sweet lemonade
3: there’s Waldo?… uhhh… i mean somewhere in the citrusy depths of the liquid one can find with difficulty the taste remains of tea. more like can feel some faded tea flavor after the liquid is swallowed. swishing it around in the mouth i cant really feel anything tea-like due to the strong citrus experience.

buy again: i didnt want to buyit the first time, so i stole it from a little child who cried afterwards from not getting the daily dose of natural organic antioxidants that will counter the effects of the 2 slices of pizza 1 hamburger and 2fists of re-used oil deep fried fries, …and the 3 donuts at breakfast (no. thats not a metaphor of what i had to eat, i ate all natural organic fair trade broccoli, picked by low paid dirty&diseased illegal border-crossing spanish-speaking residents-of-Mexico. oh well, it wasnt that healthy, topped some with cheese, melted, just to make sure the antioxidants have work to do.)

found at target next to the “calorie burning” crap, enviga (also coca-cola)
price <2 >1

label: attractive,

sugar: 22g /8oz(240ml) almost like snapple 24/8oz, i think coke is like 34g/8oz
so… its sweet enough.

Taste:
-> sweet sensation
–> strange perfume-y around back of mouth
—> tea! damn! ill be friggin damned! Coca-Cola managed to create more green-tea tasting drink better than Snapple?!
—–> astringency, oh, unfortunately at first taste one can feel a cruddy cheap-green tea teabag astringency settling on the tastebuds.
after 1-2 sips just like most drinks, taste changes and dont feel all the details, remains only the sweetness as the major component.

overall: ! surprised! it was not bad, and much better than snapple’s green tea crap.

sidenote:
think it has many/enough additives-preservatives:
1. the bottle is clear - everyone knows green tea liquid doesnt like light
2. color of liquid,taste didnt change at all even next day when i finished what you see in the picture.

i didnt buy those japanese tea sodas when i had the chance… why did i buy this? ? i dunno, curiosity.

calorie burner, just what i need to melt the lard on my humps, my humps

found at Target, priced <2$ but >1$

didnt feel like editing the picture so here it is unprocessed.
on one side the can babbles about some eggcgn and probably
natural and organic and calorie burning or some shit, i didnt read it.

liquor photo is darker, and more orange than reality, but u can see the murkiness probably due to the millions of nano-bots that will be doing the calorie burning work on your ass.

taste:
lots of soda bubbles
-> front tongue: lemonade-y
–> back: lemonade, some weird sugar taste, some remote astringency (oh yeah!!! thats it right? the astringency !!!! its the green tea ***CONCENTRATE*** !!! i dont know ! because it doesnt taste like tea at all, but damn, that must be the green tea !!! the green tea!! OH MY GOSH THE FAT IS MELTING RIGHT OFF MY ASS ! I CAN SEE IT FLOWING !!! WHOLY CRAP !!! WHY GET LIPOSUCTION !!! DRINK GREEN TEA !!! WHY EXERCISE ?!?! CHUG 5 of these babies for brkfst lunchanddinner and you’ll have your own commercial just like that subway guy !!! (actually i just had the king size Double Whopper at Burgerking, with onion rings and a medium milkshake, and after drinking 5 of these calorie burners my cholesterol dropped 100 points, to 1500 !!! (nah, im just kidding, … about the cholesterol points ofcourse.
—> swishing around feels remotely like redbull but a more ‘mild’ taste with a lemon lemonade feel
—-> aftertaste: can feel the shitty leftovers of fake sugar (and there it is, on the label, asspartame)… WHY???? oh , its a low calorie drink, …now i get it.

did this give me any energy? yeah !!! it pissed me off so much i started babeling like a lunatic for a minute in that previous passage. seriously? no energy, maybe for a minute ‘cos i was excited to drink something new.

Nestea … or … Nasty? (imho my tongue picks #2) … at least it doesnt taste like pee.

Well i didnt buy this one thx to my friend who wanted it, while i was delightfully enjoying my hot ‘real’ (snob) tea at Whole Foods Market in Union Square, Manhattan.

Ahem… well, everything was nice until i stuck a straw in this abomination and poluted my mouth with this horrible concoction, which i’d say per my experience tastes like GLUE… yes… glue, or as Tea Guy Speaks: “cough syrup“. I agree with that, and in conclusion:

its nasty…

the website is full of the health bullshit, amazingly the .com is not even company name, … its healthy… white …tea… jeez.. its like: YOU are going to get very sick unless you drink our cough syrup.

these i like, my favorite being first in each category.
none of these taste as good as fresh brewed loose leaf tea, but, for a quick fix…

Black Tea

• Tejava Premium Iced Tea
• Ito En Weil for Tea - Darjeeling
• Adagio Teas Anteadote Pure Black Tea

Black flavored, sweetened, etc-ed Tea

• Harney and Sons Organic Black Tea
• Tea Peach .Ito En

Green Tea

• Ito En Japanese Green tea (Oi Ocha)
• Pokka Japanese Green Tea
• Ito En Pure Green Teas Tea
• Ito En Weil for Tea - Green White

Green flavored, sweetened, etc-ed Tea

• Adagio Teas Anteadote Jasmine Tea (no sugars)
• Tazo Giant Peach Juiced Tea
• Gold Peak Sweetened Green Tea
  

Oolong Tea

• Suntori Oolong Tea
• Golden Oolong ItoEn
  
• Adagio Teas Anteadote Organic Oolong Tea

Oolong flavored, sweetened, etc-ed Tea

• Fuze Oolong tea

liquid, vitamin c sensation in front half of mouth, tongue
palate, back sense a food like flavor (might be the acai)
some very light sweet sensation
berry? not really
some astringency/sourness left around mouth.

aye …como se dice…

es gusta como mi dirty culo.

rating: ( ! ) <- donkey’s ass award.

didnt take a pic of this cos it didnt deserve it.

bad boy.

let me down after that good Giant Peach …

ehhhh….

brown poo: mild + weird sweet taste 1/3 black tea taste, weird tea blend i think dont know wtf it is…

unfortunately i drank it, along with a “green” poo from honest tea

found @ Whole Foods NYC @ Columbus Circle, along with a couple other rtd tea bottles,
then i took them out for a walk in Central Park… me, my tea bags, and my bitches…

enjoying the shade… and a couple wild vultures…

Well … guess what… yeah… shit.
but anyway, here’s the shits description: smell 1/3 lemony. drink: 1/3 flavor of ?tea? mixed with 0.5/3 vitamin c or whatever everybody mixes this shit with these days. = .no. rebuy.

issues…:

1. Forgot to take a pic of the cap, a Roosevelt saying “Women are like teabags…” jesus. whatever it said after that didnt matter anyway. but maybe its just me.

2. wtf is with the name? just green tea… hmmm… are they gonna sue me? the wayback machine only got me archived in feb’07 with the category name

3. now along organic, natural, ecgc pc dc, antioxidant, and other bullshit the tea companies have a new label to wank: ‘FAIR TRADE’. like i give a rats ass, and like i believe any of their bullshit - how can we really check anyway how much the tea pickers get paid, without it being relayed thru many intermediaries.

did drink something good today tho, >> yeah its looseleaf tea, thank god!

PLEASE STOP ME FROM BUYING THIS SHIT, or…this shit

this is horrible, citrus/lemon, COLORED WATER !

“lightly sweetened”

new? first ive seen it anywhere, got this and another they had in the fridge: Orange Pekoe

kinda hurt my wallet, ~2$ (incl NY tax)

very hot days of ny/long island, full of wonderful humidity

lets see:…
cold, watery,
lemon/citrus sensation
washed-super-diluted tea taste, very faded earl grey flavor
cant really sense the sugar,
annoying aftertaste probably from any sugar combined with the citrus sensation.

T-rating: 1.5/7 = hell no , got better ways of wasting money.

… and then i get really pissed off, with tasting their orange pekoe 

Here we have your oolong tea brewed hot with your best parameters, then poured into bottle and stored in the fridge.

#1 was the high mountain king of oolong. <SO-SO>

next day, tea is cold indeed, seems that mild astringency is #1 sensation, floweryness seems lost (maybe coldness impairs the feel). as its getting towards room temp, floweryness seems to make a comeback but not as crisp and nice,
not much other flavors, taste is rather dull.

#2: cold high top oolong. < GOOD COLD>

good flavor, mild astringency replaced by the ‘roasted’ type of flavor, and extra flavors i cant describe.
reminds of one of the bottled oolongs i tried… might be the oi ocha from ito en… but mine is better for less astringency and more flavor.
this one tastes good cold.

so i thinks… lets try some mixing today…. hoping to make snapple iced tea TASTE LIKE TEA,

but i was wrong.  dont know what snapple puts in its drink, but its so strong it blocks all other tastes… this sweet citrusy/lemon, mildly astringent liquid…

8oz snapple + 1 tbsp yunnan black loose tea (now i feel kinda wasted it…and it was gold tip too…)

result: 1 snapple flavor with a totally separate perfumy creamy yunnan black flavor (blunted by the strong snapple flavor).

this totally does not work.

i dont even think ill try to mix it with anything else, it obviously will block out any real tea taste.

Finally have found you!… green “tea” by snapple… seems to be out on the East coast /NY, not on the west coast (at the time of this review.)

Taste: low-medium flavor of….unknown…+ sweet (the diet version has splenda), some tea flavor (but low)

Overall: disappointing, but not surprised.

no, id not get this. rather drink water, or some coke, sprite, 7up(has too much bubble), pepsi(gives me tummy ache after too many mL.). Ergo, NOT on my FavoriTeas Bottled Tea list

UPDATE: a better tasting (as per my tastebuds) sweet green tea drink is from Gold Peak

emergency alternatives in case of green tea 500mcg EGCG AOX antioxidant withdrawal:

• chew some grass
• eat some leaves
• hump a tree.

rtd bottled tea, sorry didnt have anything to drink today.

taste: low, watery, juice, not much tea flavor. worse than snapple.

.no. pick Tazo giant peach/ else: snapple’s.

flavor: low, juice, no tea taste.

reminds me of the bathroom tile cleaner spray Scrub bubbles or whatever its called.

.no. this is shit.

yes thought id try these things again but after the peach mango fuze fiasco, i fizzed down on the enthusiasm…

this too tastes rather shitty, something like baby-barf wash with some baby soap and window washer mixed in…cant even compare it to the oolong fuze … large gap in product flavor, dont know what the hell happened here.

hoping on the goodness from oolong fuze, i picked this up (even tho its not tea)
shoulda kept the receipt

tastes like sweet shit juice with dissolved baby vitamins.

made in taiwan

found at Singapore Banana Leaf (Farmers Market at the Grove). SBL is on my top list of the food court restaurants (wonderful consistent good food and great flavor).

liquor yellow

taste: flavor 3/7 some kind of strange green tea bag concoction… an awful sour powerful astringency hit my tastebuds… it reminds me of aspirin dissolved in water. After it thoroughly numbed my mouth, astringency and other tastes could not be felt like normal, had to rinse my mouth couple times…

no. definitely wouldn’t touch this ever again even if there was no water around.

again, seems like everybody wants to stick their tail into the tea market. Which TJ does due to a desire to lower end product cost to consumer, since they brand their own products…

was happy to see it,

99c /1L ! …maybe because its new to market.

similar bottle with Tejava, except for a green tint and different label.
ive seen ascorbate (vit C) on other tea labels so i thought nothing of it.

opened bottle… oh-oh… smells like lemon … errr

taste: lemon flavor 3/4, tea astringency 1/4 … fudge pack…

i guess someone told them, yeah, mask that shit it dont taste like nothing anyways, just drop a ton of ascorbic acid in the mix, them suckers wont know and we’ll get our money anyway. damnit TJ get some better TEA people.

overall: NO. i like Ito En Japanese Green tea (Oi Ocha) actually tastes good…

product discussion: may want to skip to taste or…
YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?!?!

Lets give them a hand. you ever seen anything so cute???!!! gosh, and trying to put it in american stores, they got some ballz. I suppose they have an established base so theyre just trying to see how this fares.

was expecting a mouthfull o’ sugar but its not that bad {(16g/18oz vs snapple 26g/16oz) [its always nice how the US does not adopt the metric system, but marketers use it: what the hell theyre mixing grams with oz for ? obviously because Joe does not know how much 16g is...either use one or the other damnit (not just fuze, but everybody does it)]}.

bunch of bullshit on the label irrelevant to taste but relevant to ‘health nuts’.

taste:

flavor: 4/7 –> something almost sweet, astringency, fruit, apricot?peach?, astringency…tea? kinda, works for me.

not bad, yes., id pick this over snapple’s sugar or bullshit tea’s (oops i mean honest teas)

i dont know… i feel bummed… maybe i got defective tastebuds… but

all the ItoEn bottled teas have tasted the same with minor variations in astringency and intensity…

we have today a bummer of a ‘combination’ of white + green tea

taste of bummer: 3/7, mostly fried oil/roasted flavor, astringency mild, aftertaste minute.

uhm, thanks for not putting any sugars :P, and selling it at whole foods (where by the way most of the bottled teas have sugar). priced at a fabulous $2.03 (incl CA tax).

This is a black tea grown in Java, brewed in California (as per their website).

its unsweetened yay!, a US made tea that keeps it real!

and look no bullsh*t on the label (sofar) … no ‘organic’ , no ‘all natural’ ,  no ‘10000mg flavonoids’ yay #2 !

it does say that there are no preservatives or anything artificial, so that’s good

Cost: low for a RTD tea ~ $1.4 /1L (compared to $1.8 /0.5L as other RTD teas are priced).
Available at most supermarkets (its owned by the Crystal Geyser corp)(that’s in CA, in NY its only at TraderJoes…)

Taste: its TEA with: moderate astringency first, upon swallow flavor appears as a black tea sort of an assam flavor with a little specific taste but i dont know of what (maybe a fruit). lingering astringency aftertaste in the back of the throat with a bit of a dryness sensation (as is most black tea astringency.)

Overall: good product, i’d buy it again (i haven’t found another black tea as this one yet).

~ $1.80 RTD tea .product of japan. manufactured for Santory LTD.
Found at Mitsuwa market (LA), Sunrise Mart (NY)

…got another oolong. but it turns out its not just another oolong. this time its a bit better…

Taste: same RTD taste (the tannins which quickly give it a astringent? feeling in the mouth) that’s found in itoen products, but the astringency is lower, so this tea is much more pleasant to drink. The oolong flavor is much better and prominent than that found in ItoEn’s product. (IMHO that is).

like the package too, seems more ‘conservative’ than others..

Overall: Good, YES & i’d pick this over the Itoen products. Listed.

thirst and curiosity does maketh for new experiences. ~1.95 @ Starbucks, Whole Foods.

“iced green tea with apple & peach juices”

Nice package ofcourse. image found on the internets (not my property).

Lets describe the flavor: fruit juice sweet: perceive flavor of peach * nice good sharp peach flavor, then sweetness, then some minute tangyness (either from the apple or from the peach skin or from green tea). some minor tea flavor.

I’d have a tough time right now choosing between this and Snapple peach… i dont remember the snapple’s detail but i actually think    this one (giant peach) has a better flavor than Snapple with more personality, while the snapple emphasizes sweet & bland compared to this.

who’s ready for a science experiment????!!!

these cans caught my eye at Ralph’s since they were “on sale” 2 for $5

they’re SELF HEATING!!! yay !!! way cool!!!

turn it upside down, press a button to release a chemical, turn it on its side until an indicator turns white, then put it right on the table.
about 5 min later i pop the top and the liquid was HOT HOT HOT!!!

that sounds all dope and shit, but i bought a tea…so how’s it taste???

well i shoulda remembered that one time at band camp when i put milk in green tea - it wasn’t nice - i didn’t enjoy that taste experience. so how’s this?

taste: milky, it has sugar, some tea flavor. don’t know if its the combination with the tea but it tasted like powdered cheap milk concentrate or some shit.

i didn’t like it, only reason to drink it was for the sweet milk, but then the combination with the tea felt nasty.

buy again: NO. i’ll try the other i got- chai latte- keep my fingers crossed for better.

***UPDATE: the other one: chai latte from hillside tea tastes a bit like chai, milk, but it has the same shitty ‘powder milk’ taste that i dont like.

5.4oz 190ml @ ~ $1.6

can is already printed in english unlike the plastic bottles which have a sticker attached with english translation.
the can repeats on the “catechin” & “antioxidant” words.

liquor: green (finally. i guess the light-proof can protects from oxidation as well).
taste: smoother than the plastic bottles (oi ocha).
astringency: 2.5/7 tanninic (less than the oi ocha) with a twist of fried oil as usual(less than oi ocha).
flavor: 2.5/7 (less than the oi ocha), mildly green grass …mild…
minor aftertaste.

somewhat disappointed with this product, was expecting a shot of grass-like taste.
size is also annoying.

buy again: no. (would rather get the oi ocha hit me with its astringency).

where? Mitsuwa market/Torrance
price? $1.90+tax

flavor: 3.5/7 same old friggin fried tea taste, some chocolaty sensations (i think like the pokka can of oolong). more astringency than the can of pokka green tea can i had today.

overall not as strong in flavor/astringency as the ito en oi ocha.

where? Mitsuwa market/Torrance
dinero? .98/can+tax
package? aluminium can

flavor: 3/7 fried green tea taste, some minor green tea flavor, minor astringency.

again: no.

this is starting to frustrate me, all the bottled teas tasted sofar taste basically the same…

heh, this one was the most disappointing of the day. / or it was a fake ! :\

flavor … 0.5/7 astringency 0 … geez… more like $1.20 for a can of water.

found at Fujiya Market /Silverlake. cost $ 2.50 !!!