Herbal Traveling Tea Box
You know how restaurants tend to sell wine, beer or dessert “flights”? Small amounts of various items… well I made an iced tea flight. 4 little cups of 4oz of boiling water, 1 teaspoon of tea, steeped and then stuck in the fridge. I want to get the box out by tomorrow and this was the only way I could think to try everything I wanted to, without drinking too much tea (I tend to make 12-16oz at a time)!
Anyway,
Monterey Bay Spice Company Passion Berry Fruit Herbal
I’m getting a hint of passion fruit, but it’s mostly a more or less generic berry taste. The good part is I’m not finding it particularly bitter or sour, though there is a hint of that – so I didn’t need to add sweetener, nice to try, but not something I’d keep.
ESP Emporium Grandma’s Garden
This kind of reminds me of watered down fruit punch. Lots of different flavors, maybe a bit of cherry? Also reminds me of the Tealux Berry Picking Delight, though not quite as tart – at least I don’t think so at the moment.
Darlene’s Tea Port Paradisco Peach
This surprisingly tastes like peach without adding sweetener, but there’s an underlying tartness which kind of requires the sweetener. I’m one of those few people like hibiscus, but does every single herbal blend have to include it? At least with teas that don’t pretend to be something else, it’s fairly obvious, but who thought “oh yeah, some hibiscus sounds great” when trying to make a blend calls paradisco peach; must I place additional emphasis on the peach part, because… ya know, peach.. stone fruit; hibiscus, flower. Just no – other brands use apple – that probably would have been better. Would have loved this without the tart, but my guess is it’s being used as a cheaper filler in this blend. Sad face.
ESP Emporium Vanilla/Cream
Slightly scared of this one, but intrigued enough to make some. So it kind of tastes like hibiscus plus cream. [slight edit since I found it on the website] guess what the ingredients are? Apple pieces, hibiscus blossoms, rose hip peel, flavoring. Why? Can’t we just keep the apple and vanilla flavoring and call it a tasty, forever nuts-esque day?
