Cococaramel Sea Salt Herbal Tea

This tea is definitely for dessert. I have had it with and without milk, and it tastes wonderfully sweet. It is almost too strongly sweet, but the spices mellow this some. The scent is an amazingly strong caramel, but the taste is comparatively light. Color is coppery, and I always have dregs in the bottom no matter my infuser type. I do recommend if you are looking for a snack, not an accompaniment to a meal.

Why is it the ones that smell so good seem to be the ones that lack flavor?? Maybe I shouldn’t be using the infuser with this one? Maybe it needs to be loose so I can stir that chocolate into the water and just deal with the residue at the bottom of the cup?

I’ve tried it twice, following the brewing instructions on the bag and I’m just not getting a lot of taste. Ican see and smell the chocolate. But the taste…it has a richer flavor than just boiled water but I really am not getting a distinctive flavor.

I did add a little sweetener and that finally brought our a hint of the key notes but overall disappointing.

I plan to try some of the suggestions here regarding adding milk or cream. Hopefully I’ll be back to up the score :(

Not appetizing. Kinda like weak artificially flavored coffee.

Again, I wanted to love this one. But there’s just not enough flavor there.

Really awful, the fake sweetener is overly present and cloying. Will not buy again.

Not My Cup Of Tea #1

So I thought that this would be a good place to start on the monster tea box, I mean, I love coconut, I love caramel, I’m partial to a bit of sea salt,… So I brewed this up during lunch and stuck it in my timolino to drink at work for afternoon tea… Unfortunately I took one sip and ended up pouring the rest down the drain… it was a little too chemically for my taste buds…and upon review of the ingredients it has the usual suspects you would generally expect to find in this sort of tea…. and red bell pepper…. that’s a little strange… Afraid this is not my cup O’Tea either but I’m sure someone will enjoy!!

Dry the scent will knock your socks off ^^ Sadly that’s it for me. No salt to notice, drink was weak… I did wait to steep.

This tea smells amazing, it trully does, but I think that without any sugar it doesn’t tast really that great, and even with sugar I think that the flavor could be a little bit better. I still have to try this with some milk, maybe it will go well with the chocolate :)

Round 2, I steeped 1 tsp in half cup of water 125mL. The taste came through much better this time, although the liquorice was also stronger in taste.

I tried this as a tea latte as well, with a strong half cup brewed as above, then with hot milk mixed in, but unsweetened. The milk helps bring out the chocolate and cocoa flavours, and the creaminess of the milk also serves to mask some of the icky liquorish flavour. I’ve never been fond of liquorice flavour so tend to skip when possible, especially here where it seems a bit out of place among the decadent dessert flavours of choc, coconut, etc.

Normally I avoid teas like this, as I know they are laced with artificial BS, but my son Leif (age 22, big fan of Teavana since they first opened their doors in St. Louis), was making himself a cup, & the aroma was so alluring that I just had to try it. He made me a cup too, & although I know I probably won’t ever drink it again (& if I do, it won’t be the same), today is was an awesomely decadent indulgence. Just for today…