Cold Brew!
When two of your favourite, most wholesome Youtubers release their own line of tea that gives back 100% of the profits going towards funding to Tuberculosis testing and treatment… well, you buy the tea.
Honestly when Hank & John Green started selling coffee through what has now become The Good Store I was pretty sure that tea was an inevitability. A part of me was a little disappointed to see that the flavours they released were pretty baseline but it also makes an abundance of sense that they’re gonna stick with tried and true classics in the tea space to start. Their audience may not all be tea drinkers and even the people who are tea drinkers are certainly at different education/exploration levels. So, you go with the things that are safest/with the most mass appeal. Heck, I’m even surprised we ended up with loose leaf and not tea bags or sachets…
Anyway, this one is basically your standard Moroccan Mint – though I do love the naming twist that they gave it and I think this might be my favourite spin on all the Keats inspired copy writing/poetry that is a commonality between all of the blends.
I went with a cold brew because I just think Moroccan Mint is often more refreshing cold than it is hot, and I think it brings out less of the coarseness of the gunpowder green tea used in the traditional recipe. With that said, there was still a bit of a bite-y smoky undertone to this blend after the initial wave of sweet mint. There’s a mix of spearmint and peppermint in this blend and I do taste both, those the peppermint is certainly stronger.
Overall I think it makes for a very solid, classic tea that captures all the hallmarks of a Moroccan Mint. Not exciting, perhaps, but reliable – and supports a fantastic initiative.