Our ice maker has been having issues for the past week so today my step dad decided to take it apart and see what the issue was. That meant no ice for iced teas, teapops, or iced lattes (other than the few scraps I was able to grab for my Turtle Dove latte) so I tried to figure out what would make a good hot brew to try.
I decided to go with a rooibos from Tea Taxi because I was curious as to how their base would hold up against hot brewing (since it usually stands out more in hot cups than cold brewed). As soon as the water hit the leaf, I could smell the base which was not a good sign. Now that I am drinking it I am definitely getting the base. It’s not an offensive base but it is essentially all I am getting which does not reflect well on the tea.
It’s main flavors are supposed to come from the peppercorns and chili powder. There should be a spicy kick if those are the focus of the tea (usually these are secondary flavors and not the stars) and there isn’t. There’s nothing but rooibos. This is the first TeaTaxi tea that truly disappointed me. Hopefully other brewing methods will help coax out the spice otherwise I am stuck with a plain rooibos tea and that is definitely not all that appealing to me.
ETA: If you drink a large amount at once, you get a tiny spice tingle at the back of your throat but really not much
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Interesting that Drac’s nightmare is spice though – I’d have thought maybe garlic? But probably best not to stick that one in a cup of tea…
That’s actually what I thought it was when I saw it and so I had to look up what was in it because garlic just seemed too out there
I wonder what you could blend with garlic to make a good tea. Could be an interesting experiment…
So I pulled out my Flavour Bible just to see what different things go well with garlic, and then I looked for the sweeter/less savory things that are somewhat normal tea flavourings… I think the best combination of flavours I could come up with was garlic/almond/ginger/lime? It’d definitely be a savory tea, but sometimes those come out pretty good.
No offense Roswell, but that sounds kind of revolting.
Hahaha I think I may be avoiding garlic teas if I came across them
@Jillian Oh, I didn’t say it would be good – just that it was the best combination I could come up with ;)
Also, just typing in “garlic” into the Steepster database pulls up at least FOUR teas with garlic in them. One is garlic vanilla which sounds horrible and intriguing. One of them is a Garlic Chai which makes a bit more sense? And then there’s also one from Frank Era 52Teas which is “Garlic Toast”…
The garlic toast from 52Teas was an April Fools joke (there’s also a Justin Bieber tea in there somewhere).
The “Garlic Toast” sounds rather intriguing. I bet you could make it from Roasted Barley and Garlic. I wonder if dried tomatoes work for tea.
@rosebudmelissa there are tomato teas so I suppose they “work” in the sense that you can have tomato tea though I don’t know if I’d say they “work” as a great flavor. With that said, people have had the tomato teas and liked them so maybe garlic is the next step. I think I’ll stick to my dessert/fruit flavors though lol
Interesting that Drac’s nightmare is spice though – I’d have thought maybe garlic? But probably best not to stick that one in a cup of tea…
That’s actually what I thought it was when I saw it and so I had to look up what was in it because garlic just seemed too out there
I wonder what you could blend with garlic to make a good tea. Could be an interesting experiment…
So I pulled out my Flavour Bible just to see what different things go well with garlic, and then I looked for the sweeter/less savory things that are somewhat normal tea flavourings… I think the best combination of flavours I could come up with was garlic/almond/ginger/lime? It’d definitely be a savory tea, but sometimes those come out pretty good.
No offense Roswell, but that sounds kind of revolting.
Hahaha I think I may be avoiding garlic teas if I came across them
@Jillian Oh, I didn’t say it would be good – just that it was the best combination I could come up with ;)
Also, just typing in “garlic” into the Steepster database pulls up at least FOUR teas with garlic in them. One is garlic vanilla which sounds horrible and intriguing. One of them is a Garlic Chai which makes a bit more sense? And then there’s also one from Frank Era 52Teas which is “Garlic Toast”…
The garlic toast from 52Teas was an April Fools joke (there’s also a Justin Bieber tea in there somewhere).
The “Garlic Toast” sounds rather intriguing. I bet you could make it from Roasted Barley and Garlic. I wonder if dried tomatoes work for tea.
@rosebudmelissa there are tomato teas so I suppose they “work” in the sense that you can have tomato tea though I don’t know if I’d say they “work” as a great flavor. With that said, people have had the tomato teas and liked them so maybe garlic is the next step. I think I’ll stick to my dessert/fruit flavors though lol