Wild Things Hawaii

I did so well on the scavenger hunt at the first of the month and only had two to go, but got stuck on the Girl Scout cookie one. I am not a huge fan of GS cookies, but when we buy them we get Thin Mints and Shortbread. I only started liking shortbread recently so I wanted to go with Thin Mints but I had no tea to represent it, I thought. I was resigned to drink something with just mint and call it a day.

Then today I decided to dust the tea shelves and go through the bags and samples box and I found this sample from derk! Perfect for the prompt.

I let it steep long, as derk did, and found it to be a pretty mild tisane. At first I only tasted the chocolate and wondered where the mont had gotten to, but now as it is cooling the mint is becoming more and more apparent. I probably should have tasted the plain mamaki first, because I have no idea what it tastes like and had never heard of it before. It must be fairly mild. I get chocolate, mint, and a hint of nutty flavor.

Nice to sip on as I sit here and suffer from reflux because I dared to eat a “normal” breakfast today. Sigh.

Thank you, derk!

Brought back from Hawaii by my work father’s wife. Thanks, Jennifer!

Setting: October 17, 7:30 pm, dark living room, watching impeachment proceeding news. My girl is purring on my housemate’s lap. RIP Mr. Cummings.

A pot for me and the housemate. I made a pot last night or the night before using 3T to 1L. Twas weak so I upped it to 4T tonight. Better.

Three ingredients, no added flavoring. Natural cocoa aroma and taste from the cocoa shells. Clean, not muddy spearmint lifts it up a little. Decent body which I think is from the Hawaiian herb called mamaki. I can’t taste it though… probably because there isn’t much of it in the package compared to the cocoa shells. The tisane finishes clean with no lingering tastes, just some light cooling from the spearmint. Gets nutty and yammy as it continues to brew and cool while we sip (that’s the mamaki taste finally coming out!).

I have some plain mamaki that I’ve drank and it’s excellent but I haven’t written a review for it yet.

This is a very pleasant and easy to drink cocoa-mint tisane. Nothing terribly interesting but what it does, it does well. Yummy.