My pick for National Strawberry Day. Strawberry teas are my very favorite, especially strawberry black teas, but I’m going in with something different today and trying a honeybush I picked up recently. Unfortunately, it doesn’t taste or smell anything like strawberries. Or pie. My first and immediate thought was that it smells like cherry cough syrup. The taste is medicinal as well but with that woodsy note added from the honeybush. Side note – I haven’t decided yet if I actually like honeybush. Most of the blends I’ve tried are from 52Teas, though there was one from Satori that I really enjoyed. It’s like it has this almost stale nutty taste that dominates all the other flavors. Does anyone else experience this or is it just me? Maybe I feel about honeybush the way some others feel about red rooibos (which I do like, by the way). The honeybush is overpowering the other flavors in this cup as well, but since the other flavors are cherry and medicine it’s not such a big deal.
Flavors: Cherry, Drying, Medicinal, Tangy, Wood
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I always get a peppery note from honeybush, which can really be clashing depending on the blend.
I really do think it’s the honeybush for me. I don’t know if it’s only the one that 52Teas uses or if it’s honeybush in general, but I’ve definitely had other honeybush blends that were off-putting to me.
I always get a peppery note from honeybush, which can really be clashing depending on the blend.
I really do think it’s the honeybush for me. I don’t know if it’s only the one that 52Teas uses or if it’s honeybush in general, but I’ve definitely had other honeybush blends that were off-putting to me.