Steepology Advent of Tea calendar: Berry Delight
This tea brews up almost the color of a dark red wine, and the nose is very strongly elderberry and black currant (at least to me) which always makes me think (fondly, to be clear) of the cough drops and cough syrups I used to be given by friends from the U.K.
Unfortunately, the moment it’s in my mouth, all I can taste is the hibiscus. I wish companies would stop sticking it into teas like this one – they’re advertised as berry teas, and they don’t actually need the hibiscus in them at all. And for those of us who taste hibiscus very strongly, it completely overpowers everything else. I’m sure that if I added honey, I could mellow it out – but I prefer to drink my herbals unsweetened, because if I’m drinking them, it’s usually late in the day when I don’t want sugar at all.
Hard pass on this one. I poured out the remainder of my cup. :sigh: Oh well, on to the next herbal.
Flavors: Hibiscus
