Thanks to Frank for letting me keep this little ‘oops’ in my order – I wanted Strawberry Pie Honeybush, but got this one instead! Now the honeybush is en route, and I get to enjoy an unexpected treat. Yay!
The dry tea and steeping liquor smell amazingly of strawberries. It’s not entirely authentic to me, but I admittedly like fakey strawberry flavours, so I really don’t care. As it has cooled some now, the aroma reminds me quite a bit of sugared strawberries like my mom makes in the summer for over ice cream (i.e. sliced strawberries mixed with white sugar to create a syrup). Makes me really hungry. My stomach is growling like crazy (I don’t think I’ve eaten very much today, oops.)
Mm, it definitely tastes fruity, not as fruity as I was expecting given the intensity of the aroma, but it’s nice. I can’t really taste the green tea, but I’m sure it’s lurking behind the strawberry, and I think I’m getting a hint of pancake at the end of the sip. Hmm, another few sips and I’ve changed my mind to tasting more green tea/buttery pancakey flavours at the beginning of the sip, and strawberry at the end.
I think it’s perhaps a stretch to call this a Strawberry Pancake tea, but it is quite a lovely strawberry green. I am definitely not going to have difficulties finishing off this package! I wonder what it’s like iced or cold brewed???
ETA: Second infusion has predictably less strawberry, but at three minutes, it does make a lovely lightly flavoured green tea! Oh man – I’m even getting the signature green tea flavour! Wonderful. Worthy of a second infusion simply because of that. Third infusion, however, is worthless. Fine by me, though! Makes my life easier :D (Ok, I shouldn’t say worthless. The flavour is just too much reduced for me. I think I’m getting some green tea flavour though, so would do this if I had no other tea around.)