Trick or Treat! I decided I wanted to rewatch one of my favorite movies, the vampire comedy mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, so I decided to brew up this tea I received as a generous free sample from Ost when I got some teas from her cupboard sale. Thank you Ost!
This apparently is a green tea, but it didn’t appear to have any green tea leaves in mine that I could see… luck of the sampler, I guess? So I decided to brew this as an herbal, rather than how I would brew a green, with water just off the boil that would really steep the flavor out of all the dried apple pieces. The dry leaf smells just like caramel popcorn, though. I really enjoyed Angry Tea Room’s Caramel Popcorn Movie Night blend, which has a black base (and is still one of my favorite caramel black teas I’ve tried), but I do watch a lot of late night movies/TV when black tea isn’t a good option for me. Honestly, ending up without the green leaf in this so it’s just that heavily caramel-flavored apple tisane may be entirely to my favor, since something that evokes caramel popcorn but won’t make it so I can’t sleep after the movie may be exactly what I want and need!
The brewed tea is a golden yellow color and really does smell like warm caramel popcorn. The flavor, however, has such a sweet apple note to it beneath the strong caramel that the taste I’m getting is caramel apples. Which is certainly not an unpleasant flavor, and fits nicely into the fall motif right now. It has a sort of buttery sweet flavor which is very pleasant. I enjoy the taste I’m getting, but if caramel popcorn is supposed to be what it was going for, then the apple is coming through too strongly… and perhaps the fact my sample was lacking the base green tea leaf could have a lot to do with that. I imagine the green tea may have helped mellow out the apple some? Ah well, just rename it “Carnival Night” and s’all good.
Flavors: Apple, Butter, Candied Apple, Caramel, Sweet
