Honey Bush Choco Caramel

Special Thanks to Amanda for this one!

I would agree with Amanda’s comment about it smelling a little like Coffee after infusing and before sipping! Once I began my own personal sipping process – it was a nice change up!

The honeybush was nice and sweet but somewhat creamy at the same time. The caramel was sweet and creamy, too, but in a different way – from the honeybush. There was a noticeable Milk-chocolate creamy/sweet chocolate hanging out in the background, too! The end sip on to the aftertaste was VERY sweet – but naturally – and lingering. A pure delight!

Yes! This is a nicely flavored honeybush. Not over flavored but sweet and memorable!

Time for a break from black teas – a brief honeybush interlude! Thanks Amanda for this sample!

Based on Amanda’s notes, I made sure to use an ample amount of the dry tisane and the tea ball has now been sitting in the cup for…. ever. I don’t know, maybe 30 minutes? Maybe more? I want something really desserty!!

Dry, it smells DELICIOUS! Sweet and caramelly with almost a hint of cheesecake zing? Odd, but whatever, it smells good! Not getting chocolate, but I don’t particularly care.

Steeped, I can smell caramel and honeybush. Mmmm.

It tastes pretty much like a caramelly honeybush, too. Ooh, and the caramel taste is lingering in my mouth! Delicious. It could definitely stand to be stronger yet, but I like the flavour. Desserty without being overly sweet. I think maybe I am getting a bit of a chocolatey flavour, but it’s pretty subtle. Thanks Amanda, this one’s quite nice!

I should at least take a picture of this tea so there’s something. I went to use a 50% off coupon at ZenTea and saw this. It’s not on their site, but it’s in the store so that’s all I really know about it.

It smells very caramelly in the bag. The honeybush is coarser than I’m used to, which is perfectly fine because that means less bits in the cup.

Steeped up, it smells a lot like coffee. Thankfully it doesn’t really taste like it. The chocolate tastes kind of artificial and thin, but the caramel is good stuff.

The honeybush is okay, I can’t really taste it. I would like to be able to because I think it would help out the chocolate taste. Maybe I should have just kept on steeping it, but I think it had already been 10 minutes.

I’ll let it steep much longer next time and see if I like it more.