Oh Canada!

As for all rooibos, they are not my favouite. From the bag, the tea smelled great—I really love the smell and taste of maple, so I thought this was one of the ones that I would like. When steeped, I could smell the maple. Unfortunately when really hot you can’t taste the maple flavour, but once it cooled down you could really tell.

I think so far this is one of the rooibos that I found easy to handle, normally I found that it doesn’t agree with my stomach because it makes my tummy do something funny. This is the best rooibos I have tried so far :)

Holy maple batman! This tea is great. I couldn’t imagine they could make it anymore mapley tasting. I think this tea would be great to drink with apple crumble and vanilla ice cream. Yumm!

Usually, I don’t get rooibos. It’s not bad, it’s just not exciting to me. This one is nice, though. It’s smooth, sweet, maple-y (yay!) and there’s no woody taste!

Mmmmmmm delicious!!! I re-visited this tea after a long break (not sure why it was so long). I am not usually a huge fan of rooibos teas because of their very distinct flavour, but the maple flavour is just too good to pass up. Also – the aroma is amazing. It makes the whole room smell delicious and maple-y and as a co-worker said to me, like someone baked in the room I was sipping my tea in. :)

I am currently trying to stay off donuts and other pastries and this tea tastes just like a tim horton’s maple donut to me. So no calories and all the flavour – perfect!! Yay tea!

I LOVE this tea. It is my favourite! The aroma is incredible! Nothing reminds me more of my childhood than the Oh Canada Tea! And the taste is just perfect! It makes me want to go to a sugar shack!

Mmmm. Feeling more canadian just thinking about this delicious maple tea.

I like this tea because it’s perfect to replace dessert at the end of a dinner. If you’ve eaten a lot of sugar, would like more but feel guilty about it, the ‘Oh Canada’ is perfect! The maple syrup is strong on the tongue. I know first time I tasted it, it was heaven and I never touched a cookie (well that’s a lie, but see the picture here) for the summer.

I received this tea in a swap ages ago, never wrote a note. This tea is adorable — love those maple leaf sprinkles! The fragrance is very syrupy. Despite the base being rooibos mixed with honeybush and green rooibos, the brew color is VERY deep red. The flavor is a great syrupy sweet maple flavor. But I also get a kick out of the base, because it tastes like the bark of a tree. Who’s to say if it’s maple bark? Not me. I’m glad this has a tasty flavoring anyway.
Steep #1 // 1 1/2 teaspoons for a full mug // 25 minutes after boiling // 2 min steep
Steep #2 // just boiled // 5 minute steep

#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #72 overall / Tea #39 for February

Tuesday 2/23 16 oz gold tumbler (old style) hot and plain. I think this was the older version of this tea because it was just in a clear Ziploc baggie but I’m not sure I know the difference?? This was my last tea of 2/23 I think hallelujah!

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I first tried a sample of this one from tea-sipper this summer. It was the first maple tea I’d tried, and I vaguely remembered liking it, so I ordered some more during the Black Friday sale. My whole office smelled like amazing maple after I brewed my cup. Maybe I steeped it too long, but the rooibos flavor was much too strong, and DT doesn’t use a particularly good rooibos base. I drank a rebrew cold the next day, and it tasted much better and more mapley. I’ve since tried better maple teas, so I’m not as sad as I anticipated I would be by this one disappearing. I do still need to find a good maple rooibos though.

On a side note, I went to a Tibetan restaurant last night and had the tastiest cardamom milk tea. I’m going to have to make some at home.