Iced Tea (391 reviews)
C+ Swiss The Original Hemp Ice Tea
Several people told me that they have never seen me as excited as when I found this drink in a corner store in New Brunswick, NJ. I screamed and giggled like a small child. I'm pretty sure I also was jumping up and down. Let it be known that I don't smoke pot ever, but I think the idea of this is completely ridiculous and hysterical and just thinking about how many people out there probably think that drinking this will get you high is almost too much for me to handle. On top of that the beverages logo is a pot leaf frozen in an ice cube. It's pure gold.
I strangely don't mind the flavor of this either. The way the flavor washed over your mouth is like watching a good DJ making a perfect transition between songs. It starts off tasting like a normal lemon iced tea. The lemon is actually pretty strong. Then as the lemon is slowly fading out the faders on the hemp flavor are moving up. There is a brief moment when they are in perfect balance, but before you can acknowledge it the hemp gets louder, while the lemon just fades away. There's really no other way to describe the hemp flavor other than it tastes the way a bag of weed smells. We've all got stoner friends who usually have weed on them, and we all know exactly what that dried plant smells like before it's smoked. That smell is the flavor. A friend who enjoys getting "lifted" says it tastes like stems and seeds. Ridiculous. I can't believe I don't hate the way this tastes, but I find it interesting.
I don't mean this as an afterthought, but I figured I should actually talk about the way the drink tastes first, but check out the packaging of this drink. It's way cool. It's a cardboard can. It's pretty much a drink in a Push Up Pop container. I absolutely love it, and I wish more drinks came in this format.
- Website
- http://www.cswiss.com
- Country
- Austria
- Sweetener
- Sugar
- Categories
- Iced Tea
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper on 12/21/2011
Hi-T Organic Hemp Iced Tea
Cheap Girls are an alt-rock/indie band from Lansing, MI. After a recent show in Buffalo on their tour with The Sidekicks Ian, Ben and Adam were nice enough to do a guest review for us after we got calzones at 3am. Their newest album, Giant Orange is out now on Rise Records. It, along with their other two full lengths are a must have.
ps. To me this tea tasted the way an old bag of weed smells. It also tastes like rope, like most hemp drinks.
- Website
- http://www.hi-t.me/
- Country
- Austria
- Sweetener
- Cane Sugar
- Categories
- Iced Tea
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Cheap Girls on 4/12/2012
Sol Mate Lemon Lime
I could definitely see this as being an acquired taste. On first sip I thought it was pretty terrible, but the further I got into the bottle the more I thought it wasn't so bad. If this was something that was around all the time, I could really see after drinking it here and there for a while, really starting to love it.
It's mate, so it has a ton of caffeine in it (which I need to stay awake tonight). It also gives it a strong bitter taste. I think the lemon lime flavor takes away from the mate flavor. I'm expecting to like the original one more.
- Website
- http://www.drinksolmate.com
- Country
- Canada
- Sweetener
- Organic Cane Sugar
- Categories
- Energy Drink, Iced Tea, Soda Pop, Sparkling
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper on 12/31/2010
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- Sol-Mate Lemon-Lime - 24/10 oz
Sol Mate Original
This is the strongest tasting mate that I have ever had. It's just sparkling water, mate and cane sugar. The first sip is so incredibly bitter. I almost considered not finishing it, but I'm glad I did. The second sip, not nearly as bad. By the fourth or fifth I was really enjoying drinking this. When I expected the bitterness it stopped being a problem, and it became something to look forward to.
- Website
- http://www.drinksolmate.com
- Country
- Canada
- Sweetener
- Organic Cane Sugar
- Categories
- Energy Drink, Iced Tea, Soda Pop
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper on 1/21/2011
Canada Dry White Tea Ginger Ale with Raspberry
Last night I went up to Canada to see Laura Stevenson and the Cans play. They were fairly incredible, which is to be expected. In-between bands I walked to a convenient store to see if there was anything unknown to the Thirsty Dudes in their coolers. Vitamin Water. Snapple. Coke. Pepsi. Jones. All of the usual suspects were there. As I was about to give up and head back to the show I noticed this little fellow on the bottom shelf. Canada Dry is a fairly standard "safe" ginger ale. No burn. Not even a real ginger flavor. It is still enjoyable for what it is though. Now they have gotten the crazy idea to mix in white tea and raspberry into the mix. Yes sir I will put my toonie down on the counter and take a bottle.
As soon as this passed my lips my mouth was invaded with an intense flavor, or flavors to be more specific. All three of them (tea, ginger ale and raspberry) hit you in their own way. At first it's just a highly carbonated white tea. Then a small hint of raspberry sneaks in to the mix. Finally as you swallow and take a breath the ginger ale flavor sits on your tongue for a bit. This drink has surpassed my expectations. Canada you've done it again. This is just another reason to lure me up north. First it was beavers and moose, then delicious veggie food and now drinks.
- Website
- http://www.canadadry.com/
- Country
- Canada
- Sweetener
- Sugar/Glucose-Fructose
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper on 5/9/2011
Beaver Buzz Dam Good Green Tea
Mike did not enjoy the Beaver Buzz citrus energy drink. As we all know, Mike it wrong sometimes. Actually Mike is normally infallible, it just turns out he doesn't like energy drinks. I in turn thought it was one of the best energy drinks I've had. I was excited to drink the tea version of it. Non-carbonated energy drinks always seem weird to me, but I'm starting to come around. It reminds me a lot of Arizona's green tea. It’s very sweet, with a green tea after taste when you exhale. It's decent, but it's not as good as the other two Beaver Buzz's I've had. That being said, I would still pick this over most "normal" energy drinks.
Also, it's Canadian and it's still hysterical that it's called Beaver Buzz. I appreciate their sense of humor.
- Website
- http://www.beaverbuzz.com
- Country
- Canada
- Sweetener
- Sucrose
- Categories
- Energy Drink, Iced Tea
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper on 6/4/2011
Tetley Iced Tea Lemon
To me Tetley is an old ladies tea. A grandma tea if you will. It's what my grandmother always drank, and it was probably my first experience with tea as a child. I was young and dumb and I thought it was complete garbage. Now that I've wised up through the years I love tea. It's probably my favorite beverage. The thing I loved about Tetley when I was a kid was that each box of tea came with a little ceramic animal. My grandmother's cabinet was filled with them (She was a women who loved her tea). Playing with them filled many hours of my youth.
When I was up in Canada recently I saw this at a grocery store and I felt I owed it to that forgotten porcelain army to buy it and review it for the site. Let me tell you 2 liters is a lot of beverage. Especially when it's a way sweet beverage. This is a good quality low quality iced tea, if that makes any sense. There's nothing special or fancy about it. It's actually more like sugar water than tea, but it kept me coming back for more. The lemon flavor is also very strong. If this came in tall boys it would be a nice and refreshing drink to pick up at gas stations on road trips. As it is I'll keep nursing this huge bottle.
- Website
- http://www.tetley.ca
- Country
- Canada
- Sweetener
- Sugar/Glucose-Fructose
- Categories
- Iced Tea
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper on 6/8/2011
Flavur Tea Black Tea Lime & Mint
It's a wet one outside in otherwise Canada. You need to drink. It's been 93 degrees and you, rather stupidly, haven't drunk anything all day. Now it's raining and you have to go outside. You dumb idiot. You put on your nice shoes that in about ten minutes will be pretty close to ruined. You aren't front these parts and you don't know where to go. You are just walking blindly and wet down the street and you just so happen to stumble into a tiny bodega. You shake your head like a dog because you're in your late teens and you think that having super long hair is cool. You'll learn when you paint your room and get paint in your hair that maybe it's not as awesome as you thought. The man behind the counter say, "Nice weather we're having today, eh?" sarcastically and stereotypically Canadian. You hand the dude two Loonies and leave without your change because it's more important that you have a drink than change in a country that you are leaving in a day. You crack open your drink. Black tea? Mint? Lime? Alright. You might have done well for yourself. Take a sip...you could have done better. It certainly does have everything in it, but it's lacking something. You aren't mad because now you are quenching yourself and ringing out your Roots shirt that your dumb friend bought you as a joke in your hotel room. You don't hate the drink, but you might have been better off with either lime or mint. Both tastes like a strange mojito and you didn't want it.
You're leaving tomorrow with a sour taste in your mouth because you didn't get to see Dan Aykroyd amongst other celebrities, which brought you down to the great white North. You did have some poutine and it was just as gross as you thought. It wasn't a total loss because you did have Coffee Crisps and those are delightful.
- Country
- Canada
- Sweetener
- Organic Cane Sugar
- Categories
- Iced Tea
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Mike Literman on 6/23/2011
Hemp Garden Tea
Grab your hacky sack and put on your patchwork pants and your "drug rug" and let's go on an adventure. An adventure in the world of patchouli and Grateful Dead live-sides. Push your way through the beaded doorway of your mind and accept the fact that weed drinks have hit the market. Somewhere Woody Harrelson is ecstatic.
I know this is going to be the same as it was when Marley's Mellow Mood hit the stores. We are going to get an influx of searches and questions asking if this "gets you high." If you think that it will, then you my friend truly are a stupid hippie. This has hemp oil extract in it, not THC. It has some health benefits, but it does not get you stoned. So you should probably stick to that ditchweed the hesher down the street sells.
One would think that a hemp drink with pot leaves all over it would be a relaxation drink. One would also think that because this can says, "Chill your head with the good stuff." One would be mistaken with this product, and whoever developed it missed a huge market by not going that way with it. Instead this has both black tea and yerba mate in it, both of which contain caffeine. Oh well.
This is essentially an earthy yerba mate with some black tea in the mix and a whole lot of lemon juice added (I definitely could have done with a lot less of it). That alone would be a nice decent tea. Then the company mixed in some hemp oil extract and suddenly this once great tea now tastes like a teenage art student's bedroom. Editor Dan said it tastes like liking a baja inside of New Age Creations. I never realized how much hemp actually does resemble the inside of a hippie store. It's like perfume, incense and white kid dreadlocks all got rolled up together and mixed into this tea. On top of that it kind of tastes good. At first I thought it tasted like rope. Then I realized that was the baja flavor. I was weirded/grossed out, but as I drank more I started to enjoy it.
If you can't find this stuff at your local head shop tell the burnout behind the counter that he's doing things all wrong. Also tell him that in the days of high speed internet nobody is going to pay $40 for a Pearl Jam bootleg.
- Website
- http://www.hempgardentea.com/
- Country
- Canada
- Sweetener
- Sugar
- Categories
- Iced Tea
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper on 11/17/2011
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Sun-Rype Apple Green Tea Chai
I do believe that mixing ingredients this way in the olden days would get a person branded a witch. In fact I’m not positive that the folks back at Sun-Rype haven’t been dabbling with the black arts. All three ingredients (apple juice, green tea and chai) are all fairly normal on their own. A combination of green tea and chai is a little unorthodox, but it’s nothing that someone would really think twice about. Apple and green tea is definitely on the stranger side of things. I don’t believe I have ever had an apple flavored green tea. If I did I’m sure the company got it all wrong and instead of using normal apple juice they probably used green apple flavoring, which is the devil in it’s own right. All of the above mixtures are acceptable, and I don’t think I would think much of them if I saw them, but when you throw all three ingredients into one drink you’re going to get my attention (and presumably the attention of some dark beings).
Things have changed as time has gone on. While this mixture probably would have gotten a person drowned or burned at the stake a couple hundred years ago, nowadays it’s gets me to yell, “Holy Crap!” and makes me giddy. I am a staunch supporter of all of these beverages and together they do not disappoint. The apple juice and green tea blend together fairly seamlessly. It’s a wonder that more companies don’t use this combination. The chai is the game changer though. It makes this drink taste like nothing I have ever had before. It adds a slight vanilla spice flavor of the likes that juice has never seen before. It forms a new hybrid creature that would be unstoppable if only the dark lord would make it a sentient being. Luckily for the world it remains just a delicious juice-tea combo that will knock your socks off.
- Website
- http://www.sunrype.com/
- Country
- Canada
- Sweetener
- No Sugar Added
- Rating
- Reviewed By
- Jason Draper 4 days, 16 hours ago