Grapefruit Granita

Probably my #3 favourite tea. I like that it’s a green tea, and for people that want green tea benefits without committing to the original taste this is a good, fruity, refreshing way to go!

Am I the only one who’s really into this tea? Today was my first time trying it hot, and it was definitely not what I was expecting. This tea had been sitting in my cupboard untouched since it came out because I was so apprehensive about ginger being the first ingredient, but lo and behold, I can hardly taste the ginger! The ginger taste that I do get is very fresh and sweet, pairing well with the tartness of the grapefruit. I don’t taste any green tea at all, but the tea is somewhat astringent. While I likely won’t be reaching for this one very often, I’m glad that it’s not the overwhelming disappointment I was expecting.

I had this iced and loved it. Heavy on the grapefruit which gives it an overall pleasantly sour taste which I found very refreshing. The grapefruit overpowers everything else which is fine by me because I love grapefruit. I can detect a nice hint of ginger in the mix which gives it a little depth of flavour. I really enjoyed it!

Eww, this tastes like grapefruit. There’s a reason I don’t like grapefruits, and I see they’ve transferred its acrid bitterness to this blend. Tried an in-store sample; I will not be doing that again.

Well, it seems that I am the only one who loves this tea. But I love everything ginger or grapefruit to start with, so I thought is was a brilliant idea to mix these flavours together. I had this cold brew overnight and it’s the most refreshing beverage I have ever had. I drank it ‘’western style’’ without any sweetener or milk. Of course, it’s tart (on the bitter side), due to the grapefruit peel and I can really feel a creamy side to it. I also get a lot of ginger, wich is a plus in my opinion. I can aslo taste the apples a bit, but mostly I get a mix of ginger and grapefruit. The smell is to die for. I understand that it’s not appealing to everyone but I will personnaly enjoy my 100 grams.

I’m so confused by this tea. It’s too tart to drink in most forms. I tried it hot, I tried it iced, and then I had to add a generous helping of rock sugar to my iced tea after that. I cold brewed my recycled tea leaves in a bottle, and at least the resulting lightly-flavoured water wasn’t terrible. However, the only positive things I have to say are that the tea leaves turned my drink a very pretty pink, and the aroma – both before and after brewing – was wonderful.

I just crawled out of bed to be for work at 4am. I had cold brewed this over night and grabbed it on my way out the door.
Holy heck – this is being dumped. The flavour is a sharp ginger and grapefruit but more like the bitter rind than the actual fruit. There’s something else in there that I can’t put my finger on. It tastes sickly in my mouth and not at all refreshing. My stomach already feels off from getting up so early, otherwise I’d test another swig to try to figure it out.

Oh well – I’m shivering from lack of sleep so I think I’d do better with a cup of hot earl grey anyway.

This was my third and last sample that I tried iced. I must say that I don’t like this tea. It tastes bitter to me but I do kind of get a grapefruit flavor from it.

So I got a pitcher pack to try this one more time before giving up completely, and I tried it out in my new iced tea pitcher press. I had to add a lot of agave – and that stuffs expensive! But still, I don’t like this really at all. I’m tolerating it, because I don’t want to waste the tea, but it’s still very bitter and sour to me. Just like grapefruit. Which I don’t like either. Its slightly more tolerable with the agave but I just don’t like this tea in general.

Final of the new Summer Teas…

Drank this one iced, and I’ll say it right now – of the four new teas this one was overwhelmingly my least favourite. I just did. not. like. it.

As soon as I saw the ingredients for this one I had some concerns about it though. The key flavours are grapefruit, ginger, and cream on a green tea base – and while I don’t hate ginger and grapefruit as a pairing on principle I do think that it’s very important for something to sweeten them up because otherwise I don’t think they work well together. Everything just tastes very harsh and bitter, otherwise imo.

That’s exactly what happened with this one; it’s not so much that the green tea itself tasted bitter/burned but there was absolutely NO sweetness coming from the grapefruit. That absence of brightness/sweetness left a really harsh, pithy bitter taste in your mouth that kind of made me feel like I was chewing on grapefruit rinds. Gross! Also, the ginger is really, really strong and intense. Way too heavy handed, in my personal opinion. The final nail in the coffin is that the finish has a really pronounced, hibiscus tartness to it.

This one is just a really hard pass, for me.

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