This smells SUPER rootbeery. Totally not a word, but I’m using it anyway. I stepped out of the house after brewing this and when I came back in the whole place smelled like rootbeer! It is an odd flavor without sweetener. I can taste the rootbeer, but it has this cardboard flatness to it. Much better after sugar! I love the idea of rootbeer tea, but actually drinking something that tastes like hot rootbeer throws me off a bit, like I found a forgotten half drunk bottle in the car on a hot day and decided to take a swig. It is a very well done tea, has a creaminess to it and is right on the nose with the flavor it is trying to replicate. I want to love it, but it strikes me as strange. Still it doesn’t stop me from resteeping it for all it is worth!
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