Oh Canada

My God! The aroma the moment you open this tea. Instant and strong maple syrup. So much maple details. Just smelling this tea is enough to make you end every line with eh, eh?

But, a tea is not just a well scented beverage. I am so glad the maple flavor is working with the rooibos taste, instead of the rooibos taste overtaking everything. It is such a full maple flavor, with a bit of a winter kick. Quite beautiful.

But the aroma of maple syrup just doesn’t fail to comfort. This is a great late winter/early spring tea.

Day 46 of my 101 days of tea!

2tsp in my teaball, brewed in a large mug.

On its own, I find the tea not quite up to snuff. However, add a bit of milk, and that’s when the magic happens. The creaminess of the milk (and I’m using skim, so I suppose “creaminess” may not be the right word….) compliments the sweetness of the tea, showcasing it more and adding just the right mouth feel for me to really appreciate the tea.

Just tea-lightful. It smells just like Canada, which is good considering I’m so far away. Just adore this one. Totally agree that the smell is much stronger than the taste, which is good. For an over-the-top treat, add half a teaspoon of québécois maple syrup to your freshly brewed tea and be transported to maple heaven!

I love maple, and this tea really packs a flavorful punch. I worry about the maple candies in it, though. I don’t see how it can possibly be 0-calorie.

With milk and sweetener (yes, I do put sweetener in everything) this reminds of drinking maple milk as a kid, at the maple sap tapping place near my house.
My rating would be higher, but after drinking it a while, this tea tends to make me nauseous. I don’t know why. Maybe the rooibos? I like rooibos though.

As much as I like maple syrup and of course love Canada, this was a little bit too much sweet maple syrup for me. I wasn’t expecting it to be quite that strong.

It would make an amazing syrup though. I wish I would have seen that syrup recipes in the DT newsletter when I had this tea.

This tea really took me by surprise. The maple flavour works with the rooibos perfectly. I like to use the travel press mug or a tea pouch so i can leave the tea steeping as I drink it. I sweeten it with a little bit of maple syrup and some vanilla soy milk :) You don’t have to love maple to love this tea – I highly recommend it.

As for all rooibos, they are not my favouite. From the bag, the tea smelled great—I really love the smell and taste of maple, so I thought this was one of the ones that I would like. When steeped, I could smell the maple. Unfortunately when really hot you can’t taste the maple flavour, but once it cooled down you could really tell.

I think so far this is one of the rooibos that I found easy to handle, normally I found that it doesn’t agree with my stomach because it makes my tummy do something funny. This is the best rooibos I have tried so far :)

Holy maple batman! This tea is great. I couldn’t imagine they could make it anymore mapley tasting. I think this tea would be great to drink with apple crumble and vanilla ice cream. Yumm!

Usually, I don’t get rooibos. It’s not bad, it’s just not exciting to me. This one is nice, though. It’s smooth, sweet, maple-y (yay!) and there’s no woody taste!

Mmmmmmm delicious!!! I re-visited this tea after a long break (not sure why it was so long). I am not usually a huge fan of rooibos teas because of their very distinct flavour, but the maple flavour is just too good to pass up. Also – the aroma is amazing. It makes the whole room smell delicious and maple-y and as a co-worker said to me, like someone baked in the room I was sipping my tea in. :)

I am currently trying to stay off donuts and other pastries and this tea tastes just like a tim horton’s maple donut to me. So no calories and all the flavour – perfect!! Yay tea!

I LOVE this tea. It is my favourite! The aroma is incredible! Nothing reminds me more of my childhood than the Oh Canada Tea! And the taste is just perfect! It makes me want to go to a sugar shack!

Mmmm. Feeling more canadian just thinking about this delicious maple tea.

I like this tea because it’s perfect to replace dessert at the end of a dinner. If you’ve eaten a lot of sugar, would like more but feel guilty about it, the ‘Oh Canada’ is perfect! The maple syrup is strong on the tongue. I know first time I tasted it, it was heaven and I never touched a cookie (well that’s a lie, but see the picture here) for the summer.

Love this tea, maple flavor without being too sweet and has a light taste. No caffeine, so great for the evenings

So I see that some tasters have noticed variations in quality between batches of this, which would explain my experience with this tea. I was looking forward to drinking this. Between the strong maple syrup smell, apt name, cute maple leaf candies, I was ready to love this tea. It just wasn’t meant to be.

I was hugely disappointed with what turned out to be a very weak rooibos with a hint of maple – a tiny hint. At 5 minutes it was weak but drinkable, at 7 minutes it gained an unpleasant aftertaste and was a bit chemical. Adding actual maple syrup to sweeten it only seemed to emphasize the weird off-ness of the drink. I’m really hoping that I can try this again and have a better experience.

Smells more like maple syrup than it tastes, thankfully. I taste the caramel and toffee bits the most, not a bad blend overall.

Sadly my 100g of this tea have very few sprinkles and even less chunks of caramel bits.The maple flavor was ok, but much better when I added maple sugar. I’m Canadian and I love maple so this tea works well for me.

This tea is PHENOMINAL. It tastes like candy/dessert tea but yet it comes across so smooth. I highly recommend this because my cup of tea couldn’t last long enough. GOBBLED it up in a matter of minutes. Add a touch of honey and you have yourself a sweet yet flavourful tea. This one has my recommendation.. Enjoy!

I find this one needs to steep for a good long time before the maple is readily apparent, but, in that it’s a rooibos, there’s no reason to worry about that. It’s sweet, but I don’t feel like I’ve got diabetes after I finish a cup (yeah, I’m lookin’ at you, Red Velvet), so that’s ideal.

I wanted to try the Oh Canada tea today because I love maple and I’m hoping this tea tastes great so I have one more reason to be a proud Canadian!

Hot tea: It was simply delicious from first to last drop! I found it to be a much subtler sweetness than the orange blossom tea. And I love maple so much :) I might try it with some sugar and milk next time to bring out the maple flavour even more, I don’t think it would be too sweet.