Sampler Sipdown September! Here are a couple of easy sipdowns. I had some herbal samplers I got as freebies with a past order from Capital Teas and they are tiny, honestly being herbals, which are larger, chunkier ingredients, I’m uncertain if these will make for even a cuppa properly, but there certainly isn’t enough for more than that. Due to the size I limited the brew to a single cup (235ml) rather than trying to top off my coffee mug to 350-370ml like I usually do.
So the first is Lemon Drop. There is no info on the tiny sampler packets other than a name, a brew length, and a temperature, so I had to do the leg work myself. This is described as a honeydew melon fruit blend… I admittedly have never had a melon tea warm, only iced (I do quite like them iced). Curious how this will bode to me as a warm tea…
It steeps up a peachy-pink (no doubt from the hibi, but since it isn’t a dark red, it must be scarcer on the hibi than most fruit blends), and it smells less like melon and more like… a lemon-lime pop to me. It just has a strongly citrusy aroma, but somewhat sweet, as well. After taking a sip… this tea tastes surprisingly like Squirt to me, which isn’t really a compliment, since I’ve always thought of that pop as “shitty Sprite.” I’m getting this sort of grapefruit tasting note in the tea, not melon, and a very heavy lemon citrus note. The lemon is at least quite nice, without that really fake/artificial flavor that reminds me of cleaner, and the slight sweetness of the tea balances the tart/tangy notes nicely. I just find that grapefruit flavor (and I’m not sure where it is coming from?) a bit off-putting, because I personally am not a fan of grapefruit. If that weren’t present, this would actually be a pretty decent lemon tea.
Flavors: Citrus, Grapefruit, Lemon, Sweet, Tart
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How dare you speak lowly of Squirt. Unfollow.
It’s the mild grapefruit flavor in Squirt that makes me dislike it so much, heh. Though when I was a kid I never knew what it was that turned me off from it, I just knew I didn’t like the “yellow can Sprite,” heh.
You should see me get into fights in restaurants out east that want to tell me that Mr. Pibb is “the same thing” as Dr. Pepper. No, no it is not. Does Mr. Pibb have a medical degree? I don’t think so. Now send that crap back, I ordered Dr. Pepper and they taste nothing alike!
Pibb is swill. Dr Pepper++. Refollow :)
How dare you speak lowly of Squirt. Unfollow.
It’s the mild grapefruit flavor in Squirt that makes me dislike it so much, heh. Though when I was a kid I never knew what it was that turned me off from it, I just knew I didn’t like the “yellow can Sprite,” heh.
You should see me get into fights in restaurants out east that want to tell me that Mr. Pibb is “the same thing” as Dr. Pepper. No, no it is not. Does Mr. Pibb have a medical degree? I don’t think so. Now send that crap back, I ordered Dr. Pepper and they taste nothing alike!
Pibb is swill. Dr Pepper++. Refollow :)