Maple Baked Pears Honeybush - 52Teas - herbal (honeybush)

This is the first of my reviews of 52Teas' teas of the week.  This is a great little tea site that has all kinds of interesting tea blends and also features a tea of the week.  They offer a subscription plan in which you can get the four teas of the week for the month at the beginning of the month.  Since I'm all about trying and rating teas, I subscribed!

This week's tea is a honeybush tea.  I don't know a whole lot about honeybush except that it is similar to rooibos and native to South Africa.  Like rooibos, it's naturally caffeine free, and has a bit of a sweet flavor to it.  Some would say that honeybush is a little sweeter than rooibos.

I was excited to try this tea, because I like pears a lot, but I'm not the biggest fan of maple.  I was hoping that the pear flavor would be the predominant flavor.  Unfortunately, I was wrong.  As I opened the package, I only got a slight sniff of pear, but it was sickly sweet with the maple aroma.  As I brewed it, the maple scent only got stronger.  When I drank it, it tasted like I had just heated water and stirred maple syrup into it.

If you like maple, you will probably love this.  I just didn't like it at all, though.


Rating:
1/5 stars

Buy this tea here:
Maple Baked Pears Honeybush

Price:  $4.00/.5 oz taster