The Final Sipdown: Day 14.2
I’ll confess: I dumped my entire sample of this [thanks teaplz!] into the strainer. I figured it was honeybush, so it wouldn’t really make a difference and I’d just steep it at the shortest end of the recommended steep time range. The tea brew was dark, dark, dark which made me nervous, but I could smell strawberry from a few feet away, so I figured it probably wasn’t horrible.
And it wasn’t.
But it also wasn’t fantastic.
This seems to be a theme for me.
The smell of the strawberry was strong. It was accompanied by a strong smell of caramel. Both of these components were present in the taste of the tea, albeit the caramel was rather weak and only appeared at the front of the sip and at the tip of the tongue, and the strawberry was disappointingly watery.
Also present was a medicinal taste that seems to accompany a lot of these honeybush/rooibus flavored blends.
When I think about this tea, I keep thinking, “That wasn’t too bad.” But really, when I have a solid stack of really great herbals at my disposal, why bother?
Also, does anyone else think that Smooth Strawberry Dream kind of sounds like a race horse name?
Teas Downed: 23
