Harris Teeter

June Sipdown Prompt – a tea you can buy in your town or city

I was going to use Harney’s Vanilla Comoro, but I have that in loose leaf and you can only buy sachets in town. I decided to go with this one that has no reviews.

Honestly, it tastes like decaf black tea with no bells and whistles really. We drink it sweetened and I like it best when we add something to it. I have been adding a ginger and lemongrass tea to dress it up and that is tasty. Tonight as an experiment, I added a spoonful of Bonne Maman Four Fruits Preserves. The Russians add cherry jam to their hot tea, so why not try it?

It wasn’t as good as I had hoped. I think it should probably have been stirred in while the tea was hot.

This tea is cheap and good for slugging down by huge glassfuls when it is 100F day after day like it will be this week. But I have been finding it a boring lately and decided to splurge and pay triple for Luzianne and see if I enjoy that a little more. I have had it before but usually buy this one just for the savings since it is for sweet tea to go with meals.

November Sipdown Prompt – drink your cheapest tea

We go through a quite a bit of this one and the decaf version. Ashman takes this one to work and we drink the decaf at night – sweet and iced. Not bad, but not great. Just serviceable and quenches thirst. I think I had the decaf today but I am too lazy to add it to the database.

Found this last week and drinking now. I made a London Fog with steamed soymilk and added a touch of raw vanilla powder to the tea as I brewed it. I brewed for 5 minutes. Delicate lavender flavor and for the price point it is a win from me! :)

A fresh-tasting jasmine green tea with good flavor for the price point. I can tell it’s not artificially scented. It has a lot of minerality to it and a light green profile, but the jasmine takes the forefront. It’s lightly sweet as well.

Although there is a pleasant lavender fragrance when you first open the can, I found no lavender, or bergamot for that matter, flavor in the brewed tea. The black tea is not bad. No strong tannins.

4-11-2020 1st Steep of this Harris Teeter Trader Lavender Earl Grey, What a Treat during Covid-19 Lock in, Great Cup Subtle Lavender after Taste, with a Front of Earl Grey to Start the Way down the Path Of Tea Drinking Pleasure,Enjoyed this in the Late Afternoon, Early Evening. Time for another Cup

Another tea bag I have received through postcrossing.
And more over, steepster entry is wrong, but I could not access Harris Teeter website to download a new picture and/or add some information about this tea.

Received just only foil wrapping without any inforamtion, not even steeping parameters. It is just plain purple wrap saying “Harris Teeter Organics – English Breakfast Black Tea”

So, steeping paramters for blacks. 3 and 1/2 minutes, boiling water, 300 ml.
It seems it is dusty tea, not even trying to be quality, dry bag smells after basic cheap black tea. Maybe a little of bergamot or citruses, but that’s all. Moreover, I cut through the bag when opening the foil wrap with box cutter, so some tea “leaves” went out. Luckily not much of them.

Wet bag aroma – at least it is not somehow bad. Otherwise is is common, bit cocoa like + malty. Brew aroma is strongly malt.

In taste it is indeed very malty. As well it is quite drying. Few drops of lemon juice will make it better, but I do not have lemons at home. And I like my teas straight.

Overall, it is average, but tasty tea. Do not expect anything extra from this one.

This tea…it will be odd at first! It has black pepper, resulting in an odd peppery taste – it may grow on you. The pepper manifests as an aftertaste, blending with the Cardamom, Ginger, and Cinnamon. This tea is cheap….and it tastes decent. I would buy it again and recommend it to anyone wanting something different (it was my first encounter to tea with black pepper in it)