Ginger Beer

This tastes pretty accurate. The ginger flavor tastes most similar to powdered ginger. There is also a soda quality or maybe a hint of lime. The rooibos is the perfect base, making it really feel like a ginger soda. The resteep tastes almost the same as the first. Sometimes the flavor gets a little murky, so I don’t think I’d order this again, but I did enjoy this.

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Another VariaTEA share – this is one I’m thankful she shared because I had a really interesting experience with it, and it’s also the kind of thing that I probably would have always passed by just based on name alone. Ginger isn’t my thing.

The dry leaf smells amazing, and familiar. It took a hot second, but I finally figured out that it smells exactly like Della Terra’s Lemon Chiffon blend to me. Man, I miss Della Terra – they had some really interesting teas, and are a bit nostalgic for me as they were the first place I ever ordered from online. But I digress; as much as this smelled like Lemon Chiffon it also tasted NOTHING like it. In fact, I did a complete 180 with my impression of it because the taste was actually very spicy.

Just, there’s a WHOLE LOT of ginger in this – and real ginger. Man can you tell that this uses a lot of real ginger; it’s just very intense and warming and actually sort of had a very mild burning sensation on my tongue. I am a wuss; I just don’t do spiced things very well. So, I didn’t love the blend overall but I didn’t hate it either and I just thought that in the grand scheme of ginger teas, of which I’ve had many, that this still maintained a lot of uniqueness. I’m sure many would love it.

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I went back and forth on making this one into a lemonade, but finally decided in favour. I don’t know why I felt like it might not work, because it has lemon as one of its main ingredients. Maybe because it’s a rooibos? I did it anyway, so…

It’s…interesting. The ginger is pretty fiery, so there’s a really spicy kick throughout that’s pretty spot-on for ginger beer. Underlying that is sweet, creamy lemon, which reminds me quite a bit of Della Terra’s Lemon Chiffon. I guess it works with the ginger, but I’m finding I’m having to think about that – maybe it’s the creaminess? There’s the tiniest hint of lime towards the end of the sip, which is a actually what I like most about it. It freshens and brightens the whole thing to a surprising degree, given that it’s a relatively small flavour component.

I think it works as a lemonade, and although it’s obviously a fair bit sweeter than it would be in water, I don’t feel like it’s overpowering in any way. I found that some teas (like Strawberry Lemonade) became very candy-like with a sweetness that was noticeably heightened, but that’s not the case here. The ginger is really bold, and there’s a pleasing sharpness from the lemon/lime that somehow seems to keep the sugar in check – if you discount the creaminess. That’s the only thing that seems slightly off here, even though I’m 100% certain I’d like it as a standalone flavour. Everything else is bold and emphatically not-sweet, and then there’s this soft, moussy creaminess in the mid-sip that, while lovely, just doesn’t quite seem to fit in.

I think if you’re a ginger fan, you really need to try this. I’m not, but there’s enough lemon to redeem it in my eyes. Putting it in lemonade was probably a good idea after all, although I’m interested in trying it in water just to see. I’m also going to have to give some of it to my Dad, because I think he’ll really appreciate this one.

Funnily enough i’d agree with VariaTEA on this one. Lemon chiffon + spicy! haha i actually really like this because of the spicy kick.

This has a ginger burn but tastes like Della Terra’s lime chiffon. It’s sweet and spicy. Weird but better than expected since something in the dry leaf smelled off.