Maple Sugar

Finally got around to trying this. The smell kinda reminded me of French toast, the maple and cinnamon scents. It had a too sweet, and mild spicy flavour. There isn’t any apple that I noticed. So I ended up with a cinnamon tea instead.

Meh…doesn’t really taste like maple, although I do taste something artificial in the mix. I can’t really drink black teas often anyways due to my sensitive stomach so once my last bit is gone it will not be replaced.

I reviewed this tea on my blog, and described it as “mimicking the flavor of artifically-sweetened pancake syrup mixed with mild spices”.

I think the odd flavor and sweetness has something to do with it containing monk fruit – which is actually a “natural” sweetener. I tried a sample of monk fruit at a farmers market earlier this year, and wow, it is SWEET with a bizarre aftertaste.

One of my free DAVIDsTEA samples. I didn’t think I would like this, but it’s very good! Mild maple flavor so it isn’t too sweet. You can really taste the cinnamon. This is perfect for a cold winter night.

Not that mapley or sweet, has kind of an odd earthy taste. When steeped a long time (like 15+ minutes) it kind of starts to taste like maple sap, a little. Not a big fan of this. Might be good sweetened with actual maple syrup but I don’t currently have any.

I cold steeped this one and it was pretty good. I think the name of this tea is totally wrong though, it should be called Apple Crisp, because that’s what it tastes like – apples, cinnamon, brown sugar. It’s not really very mapley at all.

I think I have about 2oz of this to go thru! Ack!

This was not good. I didn’t get any maple. It had a really weird chemical/medicinal smell/taste. The dry leaf smelled really good! I tried without and with sugar and the taste didn’t change. I’m not sure if it’s the black base or what!

Very disappointed in this one though…hope Snickerdoodle is better.

Isn’t it funny how different the tasting notes are on the same tea? People seem to love it or hate it.I was sort of reluctant to try it but I am really glad I did. I am really enjoying this tea. :-) I do tend to like sweet and flavored blacks. I was all set to have to add maple syrup but I didn’t need to.

This was slightly sweet and a little bit maple tasting, but something was missing here. Not sure quite what it was as I had this quite awhile ago.

This has got to be among the worst teas I have ever tried, end of statement. The maple flavor is just too strong. You would think that a Canadian company would get maple right but they didn’t. I am annoyed that I paid ten bucks for this. I hope the other teas in the Maple collection that I bought are better.

I brewed this once in an 18oz teapot with 3 tsp leaf and boiling water for 4 min.