I am using this sample teabag to fulfill a prompt for the October sipdown challenge – a decaf/caffeine free tea.
I almost didn’t try this but decided to give it a go because I didn’t even know anyone who would be glad to have it. I figured if I made a mug to go with lunch, I could tolerate it.
The smell of the blend straight out of the packaging was strong maple, followed immediately by a big hit of rooibos. I don’t care for red rooibos. The flavor of the steeped tea is mostly a sticky sweet maple and that annoying, medicinal rooibos flavor bullying its way through. I didn’t pick up lots of hibiscus but it may have contributed a little apple-like tartness which is no doubt the reason it is in this blend at all. It was fine with my food, but I would not ever purchase this. It might be good if they swapped out the rooibos and put…almost anything. Black tea, puerh, maybe even honeybush.
That’s another sample gone. Hurray! Since I don’t add samples or small swap amounts to my cupboard, this doesn’t reduce my numbers but it does signal progress in getting rid of all these sample teabags! I’ll take that.
