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I hadn’t quite cleaned my thermos out well wnough, so this particular batch tasted like raisins + lavendar. It wasn’t unpleasant. The directions from Rishi instruct you to steep for 1.5 minutes, I’m not convinced that it wouldn’t taste better if it was steeped a little longer.

The ginger and the lemongrass are strongest here, I think they overshadow the coconut so that it is very hard to notice.

For whatever reason I didn’t get the water as hot as I usually do for a second steeping and the result was a subtle flavor and maybe a little weak, but not unpleasant.

I’m feeling annoyed at everybody and everything today and this tea is hitting the spot.

I think there is a little more than a hint of Bergamot in Paris, but there is a fruity/chocolaty taste.

I’ve said before that it has a bitterness when hot, which lessens when it cools. But, if you let it age in the cup a little it seems the bitterness disappears almost entirely. I do not drink tea by the cup actually, I drink from a thermos through out the day (during work/class/etc) and it seems the farther I am from the time of brewing the better this tea becomes.