The first tea in my Christmas calendar! Obviously I’m posting this now instead of adding it to my queue. If I were to add it to the queue like normal, I’d end up writing it now and posting it in February, and I figured this was a little too topical for that sort of thing. So I’ve decided to skip the queue. I’ll just have to try and not forget about the queue in the meantime or those posts will get SERIOUSLY old before I get to them.
The information on the little bags is sparse. It just says a name and steeping suggestions and type. This one is a minty herbal. Husband don’t really care for minty teas, but he’s trying some this morning anyway, because of the possibility of creating a little air in his sinuses. His voice was threatening on going yesterday and this morning he’s discovered a whole new lower register.
Anyway! I haven’t the foggiest what all is in this stuff other than mint. I saw some lemon grass in it and some big brown chunks of… something.
I can definitely smell the lemon grass and surprisingly vaguely the mint. Then there’s this big smell of something which must be the big brown chunks. I think perhaps they’re dried apple.
When sipping I can taste primarily lemon grass and LOTS of surprise licorice! That should be good for Husband’s throat! I’ve been giving him chamomile with licorice root yesterday which is quite soothing for troublesome throats. There’s some mint in there somewhere but for a blend that is actually called ‘cool mint’ I would have suspected more of it. You can tell it’s there, though, from the way the mouth feels cold after sipping. I still don’t know about the maybe-apple. I can’t really identify it, so maybe it’s just a sort of filler flavour.
This should be very suitable for a bedtime blend, but I’m not going to run in and get more of it.
