![]() This tea takes four to six minutes to steep according to the directions and if the water is truly boiling, I've found it can use the entire six minutes. To prepare Sleepytime tea, bring a pot of water to a boil and pour it over the tea bags, in a pot or mug. In other words, this is a terrible tea for the teabag miser! steeping tea pot and that works well, though a second pot with the same bags will come out about 1/4 - 3/8 strength. The second cup often comes out about as far weaker than the first, which is a serious detraction given how weak it is to begin with. coffee mug worth of tea and could be reused and make a second, rather weak cup of Sleepytime Vanilla tea. A single tea bag will make the standard 8 oz. Like many other Celestial Seasonings teas, there are no tea leaves listed in the ingredients, so this herbal tea flower-based. Sleepytime Vanilla is a very standard tea it is your basic herbal tea when it comes to preparation. This is a simple bundle pack, six boxes wrapped together! For those considering trying this, you might want to purchase the single box instead and give it a try that way. In other words, there is no saving the environment by purchasing the six pack in bulk in this way. ![]() The box of twenty tea bags is bulked together with another five, connected by an outer cellophane wrapper. A box of Sleepytime Vanilla tea comes with ten pairs (20 individual) of tea bags. When I make pots of tea, I tend to use two bags and leave them connected. Sleepytime Vanilla comes in Celestial Seasoning's standard stringless tea bags, which are paired together with easy to separate perforations that allow one to separate the tea bags. Sleepytime Vanilla beefs up the usual chamomile flavor, but then the addition of vanilla flavoring seems to undermine the spicing of the traditional Sleepytime. Chamomile is a wildflower and its use as a tea is interesting, but yields a tea reminiscent of dandelion juice. This Herbal tea is 100% natural and as a result is caffeine free - none of the ingredients in it had caffeine to begin with so it did not undergo any chemical process to remove them. Sleepytime Vanilla is an all-natural Herbal Tea from Celestial Seasonings. well, that's like putting whiteface on an albino! This tea is bland and stocking up on it is utterly pointless. Sleepytime is less bland than most, but it is still a chamomile base. By extension, you can spice up a chamomile tea all you want, but it's still going to be pretty bland. In the pantheon of chamomile teas, Sleepytime is the most flavorful, but this is about equivalent to naming a comedian the "funniest Holocaust humor joketeller " no matter how good that person is, the jokes are still going to be in bad taste. I'm not a big fan of Celestial Seasonings' Sleepytime tea ( reviewed here!). The Basics: A very bland tea, there is little reason I can find to stock up on Sleepytime Vanilla. The Bad: Environmentally irresponsible bulk, Doesn't taste at all like vanilla
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