African Honeybush, Mandarin & Orange

It’s in teabags, but doesn’t seem to suffer from the experience! If you like orange, you might want to take a chance on this. If you have fond memories of “Russian Tea”, you have to try this. (Russian tea is a mixture of tang, instant tea, instant lemonade, cinnamon, etc.) It took me all night to figure out what it tastes like! This might not be a drink that suits a sophisticated kind of palate, but if you still like koolaid, give it a try!

Smells like fresh, juicy oranges, and there is a hint of spice in the aroma but not in the taste. Took it without additions and it was lovely.

As soon as I removed the plastic wrapper from the box, the orange scent wafted out of it, even though the bags were individually wrapped. The flavor tastes like mandarin oranges, sweet but with a slight bitter aftertaste, rather than regular oranges. I added a teaspoon of orange blossom honey to sweeten it. The longer I drink it, however, the less I care for it. It is too one-dimensional in its orange flavor. I would rather have the orange flavor paired with a rich black tea that would give it some depth.

About half way through the cup I tired of the flavor, so I added some more hot water and a ceylon teabag and let it steep awhile longer. The orange flavor was muted but at the same time brought out the citrus in the ceylon. I will have to try this again using the two different bags from the beginning.

Wanted to try something different as far as herbals go. This is my first honeybush tea. I like it. Reminds me a lot of “friendship” tea or russian tea as previously mentioned by fcmonroe. It’s very much like an adult version of tang. Throw a little milk in there and you have yourself a creamsicle. Yum!

My 1st honeybush and my 1st Twinings tea! For really not being that much of an orange person, I dunno what’s up w/ all these orange teas I’m drinking lately. Not only am I drinking a lot (like usual) of mandarin matcha, I’ve also had orange sencha this week- and now this.

I find it funny that this says it’s flavored w/ mandarin and orange. Isn’t mandarin a type of orange? When I take it out of the wrapper, I definitely smell orange- but I also smell a little bit of spice… is that the honeybush base?

1 bag/6oz almost boiling water, 5 min. The liquor is a reddish camel color and the aroma is almost exactly that of the raw leaf. It smells slighlty of orange jello, but there is definitely a more complex, grounded base to it.

Yay for consistancy! This tastes exactly like I was expecting it too. It still has a little jello aspect to it, but it’s also very rich and complex. If you love orange and honeybush, this is a must try.

I received a bag of this tea as a gift from a charity that I had given a donation to. What an awesome gift!

The smell of the dry tea bag and of the steeped tea is very strong mandarin. Not sweet, more spicey, more like the rind of the orange.

The tea tastes very sweet, there is a mellow orange flavour. The aftertaste is zesty and spicey, again like the oil from an the mandarin/orange rind.

This tea is good, but I will most likely not purchase for myself.

I wish I could drink the smell of this tea bag! The scent is definitely mandarin. The steeped tea, however, is a little bit weak. It does still smell great, and really it’s not bad. I tried a second steep for a looong time, and it definitely wasn’t oversteeped. I might try two bags next time.

Orange! I’m pretty happy with this tea. It’s refreshing and lovely, and I’d like to try it iced one of these days. My only complaint is that it’s kind of weak: as others have said, the fragrance is stronger than the flavour. I might try two bags and a longer steep time, next time, to see if I can pull more flavour from it.

Chosen at random from a bag of samples I have. Today is the perfect opportunity to taste my samples as I am dog sitting for the day and have nothing else to do.

The colour is a dark Amber.
The smell is sweetly orange.

A nice cup of tea for orange lovers (like myself) as it tastes natural and fairly strong. You can just taste the Honeybush in the highlights but I would say overall the combination fits well. I imagine sitting underneath an orange tree whilst sipping this :) Not sure where the mandarin comes into this but as it is a type of orange and they taste similar it’s too hard to differentiate the differences between them. It’s much more simple to just drink and relax.

Reading the description that has been given to this tea it says no added sugar and caffeine free which is always a plus. Also even though this is pre bagged you can’t really tell in the taste so it makes it just that little bit easier to take this tea to a friend or families house.

Smells AMAZING. The taste is not nearly as strong as the smell, but I did pour two cups out of one bag, so a one bag to one cup ratio will likely increase the orange scent. The falvour alone makes me happy – was a treat of a tea.

Kind of like warm Orange Crush … O_o

I just received my tea sampler from Twinings in the mail, and of course I had to jump right in and start tasting. The smell of the citrus is very powerful while brewing. Anyone who isn’t a fan of orange would definitely not find that as appealing as I do.
The taste is definitely not as strong as the smell as others have already mentioned. It is a very mild citrus flavor and not much else. I like a strong cup of tea so this is not really my ideal match so I added a little agave to see if that helps it.
The agave did give the tea a little more depth and I think it is the best approach to making this tea. I still couldn’t pick out any honeybush but the aftertaste is mellower than the citrus so i assume that was the honeybush. Overall a decent tea but nothing I would buy personally.

It’s 5:30 on a Sunday morning, and I’ve been awake for nearly 3 hours. Sleep fail. Am at parents’ place, where the house is sorta an open-air layout. Moved my electric kettle into the laundry room to make some tea. Hopefully something warm and soothing will slow my mind down and let me drift off to sleep.

This is lightly citrusy and sweet (brewed for 10 minutes). And this one cup is going way too fast…time to brew more.

I absolutely loved this Honeybush with so much flavor of orange and mandarin it hardly needs any sweetener at all. It is a wonderfully soothing late night tea.

I grew up drinking Twinings tea, it’s what my mother always had in the house, and to this day I keep it on hand for guests. Whenever I see a different variety I like to try it out, they make an excellent bagged tea. If you like orange I would give this one a try, but I thought it was a bit bitter for my tastes.

This shit be sort of like relaxing Tang. I like Tang though so it is RIGHT UP MY ALLEY

I am very intrigued by the ingredient of African honeybush as I have run across it in a few teas that I have recently tried. It seems to add a pleasantly light sweetness. I love that the orange and mandarin notes sing in this tea with the same sweet/tartness that you get when eating the fruits themselves. I bought this tea to share with my sister-in-law the day we had planned to go to a hooka bar that she says has excellent teas. Unfortunately the hooka bar was closed, so we had to make our own fun. I bought this tea because the name sounded like something that you might find in a nice tea room. I would describe this tea as demure in all the right ways!

Bitter, bitter, bitter taste! To me, this tea has an unpleasant bitter aftertaste. The beginning, warm and orange, then bitter yuk! I had to add 2 stevia sweeteners! I try to taste the tea and not muddy it up with loads of milk or sweeteners. That said, some teas I enjoy doing milk and honey or stevia or agave. A fruit tea like this is generally not one of them. :(

Tried this for the first time today (black) and it was great. I love rooibos tea! There’s a very slight orange taste to it, but the scent of the orange-goodness was more definite.