Day 24 of my do-it-yourself scavenger hunt advent calendar!
When my dad was making the advent calendar, he didn’t know that this was one of the teas not on my list of “teas I like, or teas I would like to try” for a reason. I had this tea, and ended up giving it away because I disliked it so much. I almost enjoyed the first few cups, but as my 50g bag was slowly disappearing, I liked it less and less. Thankfully, I only have 3 more cups to choke down (my dad tried this as a sample in-store and really liked it, so this might actually be the only cup I have to choke down).
Part of my distain for this tea definitely stems from the coconut they put in it. Why on earth does a salted caramel tea need coconut in it?! This makes no sense. Other than to make it taste fake-creamier. Just put more caramel pieces in it! Problem solved. I still don’t get any sea salt flavour, but the caramel flavour is more obvious than I remember it being. And it almost tastes in this cup like I’m getting some caramel flavour from the actual toffee pieces, not just from the artificial caramel flavour they add to the leaves. I get more of a “coconut black tea” taste than anything else. And I hate coconut. Bumped the rating down to be the same as my dislike for coffee cake.
Verdict: I don’t hate it, but I certainly don’t like it enough to buy it again.
