Gingerbread Treat

I was teased yesterday about more tea coming into the house when there’s so much in the cabinet already. Decided it was time to maybe finish off some of the teas that have been hanging out in the “new to me” tin to see if they are keepers or ones to give away.
I’m fairly certain this was in my stocking last year. I’m a big fan of gingerbread so I tried to go into this with low expectations. Sometimes the names of the teas don’t match up to the actual flavors. I taste apple and ginger but weakly. A longer steep might have brought out more of the flavors. I steeped for about 4 minutes and should have let it sit for a bit longer but I was impatient. Overall, not a bad tea but as a Gingerbread lover, I wanted more spices and snap.

As I noticed with my last English Tea Shop blend, this also seems to be a renamed organic version of an existing blend from the company – this time Ginger Bread Man.

I left the tea bag in to steep while I was drinking, and noticed that the ginger became a lot more prominent as I drank. At first, the cinnamon was the most prominent note in the initial sip, followed by the apple and clove intermingling, chased by the ginger, which was faint but present. As the tea steeped, the ginger became more prominent until it was the most prominent note throughout the sip, with the cinnamon, apple and clove becoming background notes which are only noticeable at the end of the sip.

It doesn’t taste much like gingerbread, and ginger isn’t my favourite flavour to begin with, but it’s a decent cup for a winter’s night. Not bad, but not one I’d run out to buy.