![]() ![]() ![]() Sugar cubes, melted down into a brown liquid of death. The label shows some sugar cubes and tea leaves, and that’s exactly what this stuff tastes like. One of their teas, you’ll find, I thought was absolutely delicious, but this particular flavor is just bad. It wasn’t until this tasting that I discovered that 7-Eleven has its own branded products, from teas to snacks, to fruit juices. 7-Eleven - Sweet Tea (Taste 16) Dane Rivera Guayaki Organic Yerba Mate - Enlighten Mintġ5.Guayaki Organic Yerba Mate - BluePhoria.Arizona - Green Tea With Ginseng and Honey.7-Eleven - Green Tea Flavored With Ginseng And Honey. ![]() If it contained tea or some sort of steeped herb extract, I considered it fair game. I didn’t differentiate between sweetened, unsweetened, black, green, or herbal varieties. I had each tea served chilled (as that is how they are sold) and randomly poured for me. Here are the best bottled and canned teas, blind taste tested and ranked.įor this blind taste test, I tasted 16 different varieties of bottled and canned tea from local gas station convenience stores as well as 7-Elevens in my area. Unfortunately, this test revealed that bottled tea doesn’t really have that level of complexity - so if you like tea but have no f*cking clue what I’m talking about, fear not. That’s like saying “we have clear alcohol and dark.” And don’t even get me started on Chai and Matcha! Once you know all of that, it’s impossible to go back to being fine with “black or green” as a descriptor. If you’re a true die-hard tea drinker like me, you’ve probably been offered tea before and immediately asked “what kind?” Only to be told “we have black and green,” to which you asked once again, “but what kind?” It’s an annoying line of questioning but there is a whole lot of difference between something like a pearl jasmine green tea and a gunpowder Genmaicha, or a Darjeeling and an English Breakfast. When you brew tea for the proper amount of time (3 minutes for green, 5 for black, 7+ for anything herbal) the leaves and flowers evolve into a complex expression that can taste grassy, floral, vegetal, rich, malty, toasted, chocolaty, savory, bitter, and sweet - no sugar or artificial flavors required. Which is why bottled tea is usually packed with sugar. After it has chilled in a bottle for who knows how long, it loses that special essence that makes tea such a delicious drink. So when I set out to blind taste test every bottled and canned tea beverage we could find I knew it would be a good time.Īnd then I remembered something - tea is best enjoyed right after being brewed. Give it to me hot, give it to me iced, sweetened, unsweetened, I’ll drink it down. White tea, green tea, black tea, mate, rooibos, gossip, psychedelic tea, herbal tea… if you can steep it in boiling water and turn it into a beverage, I’ve probably drunk it and loved it. ![]()
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