Hi! I'm Cinna!

I like tea, and I'd like to give some tea suggestions if you'd like to hear them.

Is there anything you are interested in?

Want to know about my favorite cinnamon tea?

It's Hot Cinnamon Spice from Harney and Sons (not sponsored).

Or maybe it's Hot Cinnamon Sunset...? (still not sponsored)

I don't know why, but it seems like they took the same tea and gave it two names.

It's good tea though! It has a serious cinnamon kick to it. It's good hot or cold, and you don't have to worry about over-steeping it!

If you let it keep steeping, the cinnamon flavor gets more and more potent, but not necessarily bitter.

Best of all though, it tastes sweet without any added sugar!

There are also decaf and herbal options.

The herbal variety is less bitter which makes the sweetness stand out more and it tastes smoother overall

If you like cinnamon, you should definitely give it a try!

You want to know my cool tricks involving Moroccan Mint Tea?

While you can buy Moroccan Mint in tea bags, they don't taste right in my opinion.

It's way better if you brew your own mix of it.

The mix I have been doing is 3 bags of gunpower green tea and 3 sprigs of fresh mint that are like... 4-5 inches long. I steep that all in my teapot filled with 1200ml of boiling water. After 3 minutes remove the teabags and mint from the teapot, then add 3tbsp of sugar. Give it a good mix to melt the sugar and you are done.

It all melds into a surprisingly tasty flavor combination that is good hot or cold!

That's not all though, you can mix the tea to make other treats such as...

The Moroccan Mint Sparkler!

Make sure your mint tea is cold. Fill a cup half-way with your tea and fill the other half with Sprite.

The lemon-lime soda works well for some reason and it's really great with ice during a hot day.

A bit harder to do, but you can also turn it into a satisfying slushie.

I was able to try it at a certain theme park, but I don't really have the tools to make it on my own.

Still, it's worth a try if you have the means.

There are a couple ways of brewing tea. Some of them are more convenient than others.

There is the classic method of just boiling water and brewing your tea. But you can also brew a concentrated batch that you then water down later.

If you want some iced black tea but don't want to wait, bring half a gallon of water to a boil and remove from the burner. Throw 6-8 teabags in or like, 4-6 tbsp of loose leaf tea and steep for 15 minutes. Afterwards, strain the leaves from the tea. Then you can either pour the concentrated tea into a pitcher and fill it up with another half-gallon of cold water. This is quick and convenient, but leaves you with lukewarm tea. A better option is to pour your concentrated tea and then fill the rest of the pitcher up ice instead.

With the ice method you can have nearly instant iced tea!

The only downside is you need about half a gallon of ice.

Another option though, if you want less effort and don't mind waiting, is to cold brew your tea.

Fill your pitcher with a gallon of water, then add 6-8 teabags and place it in your fridge overnight. When you wake up the next morning, remove the teabags.

Now you have a full pitcher of tea ready for the day and it took almost no effort!

Supposedly cold-brewing your tea also makes it less bitter, while increasing it's antioxidants.

That's not why I drink tea though. It's just good.

If you like the normal mass-produced black teas, like Lipton (not sponsored), but wanted to bump it up a notch then I got a tea for you.

Assam!

It's like.. The tea flavor part of most mass-produced black teas.

Like you removed some of the muddier notes of Lipton (still not sponsored) and were left with just a pure essence of tea. Or at least... that's what it taste's like to me.

I am sure that the CTC Assam I've had from Harney and Sons (not sponsored) tastes like how I wished most black tea would taste.

Just use it how you would use normal black tea. Cold brew, hot brew, custom mixes. It works anywhere a normal boxed tea does just, in my opinion, better.