| Teapigs tea is especially pure, I have not tasted a finer tea! |
Anyone who knows me, knows I am a big herbal tea fan. I drink fennel, chamomile, ginger, jasmine and more. Most people I know do not drink as much as I do, and some even think herbal tea is yuck! Well I think they just simply have not given it a chance or tried decent herbal tea. In my herbal tea journey, I have come across some yucky herbal teas, often cheaper ones sold in supermarkets, but to have a good quality herbal tea is a thing of beauty. So when I came across Teapigs in my local farm shop a few years back and wondered what the difference was between this tea and my normal tea, I investigated and discovered a lot!
Making The Shift From English Breakfast To Herbal Tea
Tea As A Meditation – Tea Can Be A Sacred Experience.
Tea meditation is a time to be with the Sangha in a joyful and serene atmosphere. Just to enjoy our tea together is enough. It is like a “good news” occasion, when we share our joy and happiness in being together.
At times, when we are drinking tea with a friend, we are not aware of the tea or even of our friend sitting there. Practicing tea meditation is to be truly present with our tea and our friends. We recognize that we can dwell happily in the present moment despite all of our sorrows and worries. We sit there relaxed without having to say anything. If we like, we may also share a song, a story or a dance.
~ Plum Village Mindfulness Practice – Tea Meditation
Green Credentials
So it is with great pleasure I get to introduce my journey through Teapigs tea in this review, and what better way to start than with a Festive Tea first.
Spiced Winter Red Tea (Caffeine Free)
(NOT just for Christmas – beautifully warming for Winter)
Ingredients: rooibos with orange, cloves & cinnamon – Christmas in a cup!
| So warming, this Teapigs tea warmed up my cold body on a Winter Day |
| Spiced Winter Tea |
CHAI TEA – A Taste Of India
Ingredients: black tea, cinamon, ginger, clove, cassia, natural flavour
| I had never had Chai Tea before now I had heard all about it and it was yummy! |
I had heard so much about Chai tea, chai lattes and the likes and as a herbal tea drinker who never adds milk, I was a bit unsure of whether I would like this tea, but I was pleasantly surprised. It was my first black tea since my experience some time ago but the combination of spices with milk and honey really made this a lovely alternative to my plain herbal tea. This is similar to the popular drink in India called Chai Masala which is a spicy milky drink.
This Chai Tea is “…a rich, malty Assam tea blended with cardamom pods, cinnamon, ginger and cassia…”
| Chai Tea |
CHILLI CHAI
Ingredients: Black tea, cardamom, clove, ginger, vanilla, cinnamon, chilli
Now I anticipated not liking this because my mind was thinking ‘chillis’ – is it going to be super hot to drink, but nooo, it was really nice. It was a bit like the Spiced Winter tea and made me nice and toasty on the inside on a cold day. It was not as overpowering as I was anticipating which is great. I think you could have it stronger and more hot if you left the tea temple in for longer, but it was perfect for me at 3 minutes.
| Chilli Chai Tea |
Chocolate Flake Tea
Tea & Chocolate ? What’s Not To Love?
Ingredients: Ceylon Black Tea (83%), chocolate (sugar, cocoa, emulsifier soya lecithin) (7%), cocoa beans (6%) natural flavouring (3%)
Now don’t expect chocolate in tea to be of the same strength or depth as say a hot chocolate would taste, but this tea is rather scrummy, and sometimes hot chocolate is just far too sweet, so this gives a nice balance. It delivers a hint of chocolate in the tea at just the right level and when sweetened with a little honey it’s a really nice flavour. I have to say I was a bit cheeky and did not add milk to this tea – I added double cream, so to me it was creamy and moreish. So far the inclusion of black tea has made me realise I perhaps had an aversion to poor quality tea and need other ingredients to enjoy black tea now.
Rooibos Creme Caramel
Ingredients: rooibos tea, caramel pieces (condensed skimmed milk, sugar, glucose syrup, butter, humectant: sorbitol, emulsifier: mono-and diglycerides of fatty acids) (5%), natural flavouring.
This is lovely. Really easy to drink. The Rooibos was a really gentle flavour after 3 minutes of steeping the tea temple and the caramel was just a hint, which to me was perfect. I was actually mesmerised watching this tea infuse into the hot water. Something I think will be a new addition to my regular warm drinks.
Liquorice And Mint
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Green tea with mint
It's a bit twisted to say any tea with mint (I'm allergic) so I can die, as the only way to get any peace over Christmas, right? I'm going to say the chocolate flake tea, a little chocolate taste without the carbs over a time I'd normally have been stuffing my face with chocolate…although don't get me wrong, I'll still be having a *little* actual chocolate!
Ginger Tea because it's good for digestion which let's be honest, over the Christmas period our digestion needs all the help it can get :-/
Chamomile tea – great for relaxing. It just makes all the tension melt away.
Really like the sound of the christmas red tea, I love christmassy smells and flavours
Green tea with jasmine always makes me feel better so I'd go for the Jasmine Pearls
Chamomile – need to relax.
Silver Tips White tea……pure, refreshing and soothing. Hopefully putting me in a relaxed frame of mind for Christmas
Chamomile tea – relaxing and very good for the digestion if you are feeling stressed!
Hazel Rea – @beachrambler
Chamomile -to relax me
I think the Chilli Chai would be the perfect thing to warm me up this Xmas. ( signed in under hubbys facebook, scott broomhead )
The Herbal Super fruit -great for an energy boost
Earl Grey, Strong, to give the stamina (and shake this blooming cold)
this is so cool
Liquorice And Mint, Liquorce is my favourite and I do love a bit of mint.
Chilli Chai – sure to warm me up
My mum would have the chocolate flake tea!
chocolate flake tea to keep me calm and happy
Real liquorice root and Punchy Peppermint leaves. As I believe these are good for the digestion / digestive tract. I think they may aid digestion.
Licorice and mint – will keep me energised!
liquorice and mint is very refreshing and calming
The Green tea with mint – would help with digesting all that food!!
It would have to be matcha for me! Nothing like a good strong boost in the morning to get me going for the rest of the day, and its full of natural goodness and antioxidants too, unlike other energy drinks.
The chocolate one. Very unoriginal I know, but I need chocolate to get me through life!
Glass of iced tea … relaxes me.
chocolate flake tea
I don't like coffee, love the smell, hate the taste but I do get a bit envious of all the mocha/latte/espresso choices so I'd really like to try the Chai Latte – and the extra calcium and protein from the milk should come in handy too
Chai latte for sure takes me back to when I lived in India fab place to drink chai with fab views of the himalayas imagine waking up to that felt blessed xxx
The chocolate one
spiced winter red will keep me in the christmas spirit xx
Chilli Chai
the spiced one sounds delicious
Chamomile tea because it's my favorite. (Gianna)
Spiced winter red sounds good
I think the Spiced Winter Red Tea would be a good choice to try – I've tried rooibos before, and wasn't too keen on it's own, but love the idea of it so hopefully the added ingredients would make the difference to me. I've been suffering with sore throat, snuffles etc. so feel this would be a good choice and that the spices would give me a boost without caffeine
Camomile, always relaxes me and I love the taste
chocolate flake as chocolate helps everything
Green tea! It is always relaxing 🙂
I love the Tea Pig's Breakfast Tea. It's my special treat at any time of the day. All the teapigs brews have such wonderful taste!
Liquorice and peppermint. Perk me up!
Chocolate flake tea looks good a bit of a treat
Spiced Winter red will relax and get me in the mood for Xmas
spiced winter red/ it wuddnt be xmas with out some spice
Spiced winter red – lovely
Spiced winter red yum
Would love to try the Chili Chai
spiced winter red, it just sounds warm homey and devine!
spiced winter red, as i am pregnant and trying to cut back on caffeine x
Peppermint Tea, I find it very calming and it wards off any bugs that may try and take you down in the days leading up to christmas.
I don't you an beat Chamomile, it's so relaxing
Would really like to try the Creme Caramel flavour as am a massive fan of Rooibos tea!
Popcorn perfect to relax with a christmas film
That chocolate flake tea sounds very nice… but then, I am a chocoholic
Spiced winter red
Camomile Tea help me relax before bedtime
Liquorice and peppermint to help with my poorly tummy ;(
Green Tea with mint which is very good for you xx
Peppermint is a necessity for these tough times ahead! 😉
I have some Christmas Tea with cinnamon – lovely! 🙂 x
camomile tea
The red tea looks very interesting.
Always camomile to soothe and relax!
I usually drink decaf pg tips, but the chocolate flake tea sounds divine!