It was only nine questions, but each was specific enough for me to question just how much I knew about tea at all. As someone who wanted to keep an open mind to new varieties, I tried to only nix things that truly did not interest me. Next came the questionnaire, meant to zero in on what you want out of your subscription. I signed up and created a profile, opting for a three-month package for $45, minus a coupon code available on the website (my total: $43.50). While the pre-made tea boxes intrigued me, I wanted to craft my own personalized tea kits. Sips by boxes include bagged and loose leaf teas, as well as empty tea bags. You can also give a Sips by gift certificate, allowing the recipient fill out their own taste preferences and profile to get the box best suited for them. Sips by’s website also sells mugs, electric kettles, loose teas, and a (now sold out) mug club subscription. Current seasonal offers include both Nice (a combo of caffeinated and herbal options) and NaughTEA (all caffeine-free) boxes for the holidays, as well as a women-owned tea brands box, a chai tea box, and more. Boxes are either personalized to your specific tastes or pre-packaged for the season. If your box includes loose leaf teas, Sips by also sends along empty biodegradable tea bags to fill. The boxes contain loose leaf and bagged tea that ranges on the spectrum of high-caffeine black to caffeine-free herbal. You can also prepay for six or 12 months at a time to receive up to one month free. You can make about 15 cups from each shipment, or more if you re-steep the bags. Once a user establishes a profile with preferences, and opts into a standard membership of $15 a month, Sips by ships four teas per box along with detailed flavor descriptions and brewing instructions. Sips by is a female-founded startup out of Austin that connects tea drinkers with more than 150 global tea brands based on preferences identified in an extensive questionnaire. I already knew I could order subscriptions for everything from razors to plants-would one devoted to tea be high-quality enough to justify the recurring cost? Fueled by perhaps one too many cups, I signed up. So when my Instagram served up a piping hot ad for Sips by tea subscription box, I was intrigued. Other than that, my go-to teas have been pretty basic: English breakfast in the morning and afternoon, and the occasional chamomile before bed. Having never developed a taste for coffee, I loved finally holding a warm mug in my hands as I ate breakfast and got ready for class.īut in the decade or so since, I haven’t experimented much more aside from eliminating the milk and sugar and stocking up on some tea infusers so I could enjoy loose leaf varieties. Yes-cue the eyerolls-tea: a Lipton tea bag steeped in what can only be described as sugary milk with a splash of hot water. So it’s fitting that it was during college that I tried my first sip of. Spot one that we've missed? Email us at is a time rife with experimentation. For our 'As Seen On IG' series, our writers buy them and put them through their paces to find out if they're actually as good as they look online-or too good to be true. We at Reviewed are just as curious about those flashy products we see in our Instagram feeds as you are.
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