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Seeing that I am supposed to be catching a ride back to my home in the middle of nowhere this weekend (my no-more-than-two-week stay in Edmonton has turned into TWO-AND-A-HALF MONTHS, ugh), I thought I’d pick up some of the new teas and stock up on more Chocolate Macaroon to have with me in the wilderness.

This tea is full of surprises. I didn’t get it the previous time I was at DAVIDs because I automatically thought I wouldn’t find it that great, but this time, I blindly grabbed it without even bothering smelling or looking at the dry leaf.

Now that I’m doing both of those things at home, I’m thinking, “Really? This is supposed to be a green tea? Really?” It does smell like apple, apple candy. However, once you start brewing up this bad boy, it morphs into another being. Red liquor. Whoa! So there is hibiscus in this. The dry leaf went straight into a tea bag from the pouch so I didn’t even see it.

So of course, flavour-wise, there’s that tart hibiscus bossing around the other notes in here. Maybe gently bossing around, to be fair. After all, I do taste both apple and pear. This could be nice cold brewed, but I only have around 6g left. Not sure if I should cold brew a tiny batch or just make one more cup hot tomorrow.

Appropriate for fall? Yes. Repurchase-worthy? Likely not. But worth trying at all? Sure.