Here is this week's featured tea from 52Teas. It's a black tea and honeybush blend. I had high hopes for this one, and it fell a little flat. The description of this tea made it sound like it was a smokier evolution from a chai, however, this didn't taste like a chai to me at all. Nor did it taste like tea. It tasted like I steeped my spice cabinet. It tasted heavily of cloves and cumin, and I am taking serious consideration to taking the rest of the sample and using it as a meat rub.
I know a lot of people that like their teas really savory, so if you're one of those people, give this one a try. And if you don't like it, it will probably go great on the barbecue!
Rating:
2/5 stars
Buy this tea here:
Smoky Spice
Price: $12.00/2 oz
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
