Ginger Lemongrass

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This is another I believe was sent by Michelle, thank you so much! I tried this one about two weeks ago when I was really sick and wanted to clear my icky-ness. I haven’t had any of Tea Forte’s single infusion pack things but they’re made for 12 oz’s which is the size I have so it was perfect measuring and steeping parameters!

Unfortunately, I had to dump this one. Tooooooo much ginger. Like, way too much and way too spicy and I couldn’t taste anything at all. I had a scratch in my throat and this elevated it 10 times over and it was not pleasant. Ew. I’m not a huge fan of ginger anyways, but I like it in small amounts but this was way to much. I know I shouldn’t judge Tea Forte based on this, but I’m sorry this was atrocious.

Steep Information:
Amount: 1 teabag
Water: 6 ounces filtered, boiling
Steep Time: a little over 5 minutes
Served: Hot

Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: ginger and lemon
Steeped Tea Smell: lemon
Flavor: lemongrass
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: slight ginger tang
Liquor: cloudy yellow-green

Meh, it tastes good enough to drink, and is a bit more of a peppy tea than most caffeine free blends. I don’t love it, I don’t hate it. I think it needs to be a tea complimenting something, lemon cookies perhaps, rather than the main attraction.

Images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/05/tea-forte-teabag-herbal-tea-ginger.html

Thank you Ellyn! I feel like I’m starting to come down with something. I’ve been waking up with a sore throat, stuffy nose, and I feel like something is pushing on my chest making me cough :[ So I was happy to see this in my sample box. I always find blends like this soothing to a cold.
ANYWAYS… this was a nice herbal cup. The ginger is spicy but I like how I can taste the lemongrass and licorice through it. I couldn’t really find the spearmint but that’s ok. I was satisfied with the other flavors going on. I liked it :]
Thanks again!

I reviwed the other tasting notes. I can understand why other tasters do not like this tea. However, it was pretty good for me. I really like both ginger and lemongrass. I had been looking at the pure lemongrass tea by teapigs however I then got this in the single steep packing as a gift.

I think this is an “okay” infusion. It is not great, nor do I think I will be buying it again. However, the package of infusers had 12 in it and I will continue to enjoy the tea.

The scent is very lemony. The color is almost amber. The mouthfeel has a little “zing”. I can feel both the ginger and the lemongrass in the back of my throat. This reminds me (in a good way) of being home sick and getting ginger cough drops as a child!

Of all the single steeps I got with my Kati cup, I like this one best. That may not be saying much considering what I think of the other blends, but I do like this one. It smells more lemony than it tastes, but I like the hint of sweetness to the blend. The taste as it cools becomes more gingery and peppery, with an underlying grassiness. Overall I wish this one was a bit more lemony, and if anything it’s made this combo something I might look for now that I’m out of ginger tea.

The name is misleading… it should be renamed Licorice Ginger. I don’t find the tea as spicy as others have commented, though the taste of ginger is indeed pretty strong. The dominant note turns out to be sweet and herbal licorice – which I loathe. I really hate it when the sickly sweetness lingers in my mouth and throat. The whole cup is more like a herbal soup than tea to me… I don’t think the overwhelming flavours of licorice and ginger go well together, and can anyone tell me where lemongrass has gone???? Tea Forte, in my opinion, should really adjust the blend formula in order to achieve a better balance among all the flavours!

This one tastes mostly of licorice to me…. it tastes just like the free tea they used to give out in Aveda shops. There’s definitely a ginger note to it, but I’m not sure where the lemongrass is. Maybe whomever made my teabag liked licorice better. Man, I wish this tasted like ginger-lemongrass though.

I must admit, the cuteness of these little tea bags tends to make me forgive a lot of the faults of the actual tea. I want to love it- which means that the design is paying off for them. Not surprising- the company was created by a RISD grad.

Ginger and lemongrass. A winning combo in my book, but not with this particular blend. I agree with AmazonV, it needs lemon cookies or something to accompany it. Overall, not bad, but just not that good either.

The first half of my pot was underwhelming. Nice smelling, but kind of bland tasting when steeped 5 min per the label…. The second half, which had been left with the tea leaves, was pretty darn tingly! Seems to take a bit more than 5 min for the ginger to really come out. It already has a kind of sweet taste, and I did not like it with sugar added.

Brewed the leaves a second time, the ginger dominates now but with a mellower, cooked flavor, not the harsh raw version from the first brew’s second cup. This time the sweet flavor was missing, so a little sugar was nice. The lemongrass is nearly undetectable.

I’d taken out the basket of leaves when the second pot had brewed 5 min, to avoid another gingery punch in the teeth, but after tasting the first cup I dropped that basket back in. Second cup did manage to get some lemongrass without the ginger getting overwhelming.

I enjoyed looking at the leaves, both dry and wet. It’s a pretty little potpourri.

This is kind of what I wanted the chamomile citron to be like. Definitely want to try it again, but I need to experiment with brew times to get a better balance.

I actually don’t like ginger teas, but I enjoyed this! My mother is a ginger AND lemongrass fan, and she absolutely adores this tea. Great stuff.

I poured the single steep packet into my infusing basket and it looked to be mostly lemongrass with some bits of ginger and lemon peel thrown in. They smelled a lot like ginger. I can smell lemon too, ginger is definitely dominant though.

I steeped for five minutes in boiling water, result was a cloudy yellowish-green liquor. It smells like lemon.

The ginger is very overwhelming in this. Its really all I can taste. Okay, I can taste the lemongrass and licorice root a little but the ginger is really drowning everything out. Bummer, dude.

Surprising combo—I haven’t tried a ginger tea before. I enjoyed it but would not repurchase as the peppery aspect to the ginger makes this a tea where one cup will due ya. I’d prefer a tea that I can sip all afternoon in the office.