This was one of three free samples included with an order, but the first two I have tried are a dud.
I was really hopeful for this one as it contains mostly green tea plus a touch of matcha. But….HIBBY. WHHHHYYYYYYYYY? sob
When the hot water hit the bag, it didn’t instantly turn red, which gave me hope temporarily.
But then the pinkening began.
Ah well. This was at least muted hibby and smelled like strawberry candy more than anything else. I didn’t add sugar and I did manage to drink it as a hot beverage, and I did not violently hate it, but I don’t think I would buy any unless I wanted to make really sweet iced tea with it. It is pretty tart, but not too much so.
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lmao ‘the pinkening’
:D
I wrote “make and taste hibiscus tea” into a curriculum unit I just finished—it’s a biggie in Ghana with sugar, lime juice and chai-ish spices, so I bought a little packet of straight-up hibiscus leaves to check recipe proportions. BLEGGGGGGGGGGHHHH! I took enough of a taste to meet the “try everything before you write it” requirement and tossed the rest down the drain as fast as I could.
Gmathis: I don’t know why, but lots of hibiscus also has a woody taste to me, as if they have added rooibos even when there is none there. It makes me think of what cinnamon would taste like if an equal amount of oencil shavings got mixed in.,,,
‘The Pinkening’ is the horror movie inspired by hibiscus. :D
I’ve had many blends that were ruined by hibiscus. I love the color it gives to tea, but man the sourness is so overpowering.
I love hibiscus. I think I’m it’s only fan on Steepster (what a lonely fanclub). And I actually have a bag of plain hibiscus leaves, and… use them for things. (Gasp!) ……..And even I hated this particularly tea. It wasn’t the hibi, it just… tasted nasty to me. Really, really artificial and… not good.
You are not alone, Mastress! Superanna, my eldest, likes hibby, too!
lmao ‘the pinkening’
:D
I wrote “make and taste hibiscus tea” into a curriculum unit I just finished—it’s a biggie in Ghana with sugar, lime juice and chai-ish spices, so I bought a little packet of straight-up hibiscus leaves to check recipe proportions. BLEGGGGGGGGGGHHHH! I took enough of a taste to meet the “try everything before you write it” requirement and tossed the rest down the drain as fast as I could.
Gmathis: I don’t know why, but lots of hibiscus also has a woody taste to me, as if they have added rooibos even when there is none there. It makes me think of what cinnamon would taste like if an equal amount of oencil shavings got mixed in.,,,
‘The Pinkening’ is the horror movie inspired by hibiscus. :D
I’ve had many blends that were ruined by hibiscus. I love the color it gives to tea, but man the sourness is so overpowering.
I love hibiscus. I think I’m it’s only fan on Steepster (what a lonely fanclub). And I actually have a bag of plain hibiscus leaves, and… use them for things. (Gasp!) ……..And even I hated this particularly tea. It wasn’t the hibi, it just… tasted nasty to me. Really, really artificial and… not good.
You are not alone, Mastress! Superanna, my eldest, likes hibby, too!