Cool Coconut Chai

Cool? I find this rather spicy – perhaps by COOL they mean a COOL CAT because this is one groovy chai!

It smells like a breakfast danish of sorts with your stereotypical chai spices, coconut, something resembling citrus, Rooibos, and Pepper!

That Pepper stands out a bit more than the rest of the spices but then the ginger is a close 2nd. The flavor is one of those that wants to be center of attention. I can still taste those spices, the coconut is nice, and something that resembles that citrus flavor on the tongue is still present! It’s sweet, it’s spicy, it’s creamy in parts of the sip, it’s citrusy, it’s darned tasty! The more I sip the more I think this chai was made for me!

This is my cuppa chai! Cool Coconut Chai is a spicealicious red rooibos based chai with a creamy coconut twist. I couldn’t resist adding a bit of agave and coconut cream to this tea and it made the flavors sing. So very, very, very yum.

I’ve been away from Steepster more than I like for the past week and I’m missing my tea-friends. Why must life get in the way of my fun???

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This chai took me by surprise because the name of it suggests to me that maybe it’s a bit on the tame side when it comes to chai, but it’s got a spicy kick! The sweet, creamy notes of the coconut do soften the flavors a tad, and they give the overall experience a sort of “latte” type flavor without adding dairy which I appreciate.

Lively spice notes of ginger and pepper. I like how the heat of the ginger and pepper seem to bring out the spicier notes of the cinnamon, giving it more of a hot cinnamon flavor rather than a sweet cinnamon note.

I like the strong spices in this. I like that rooibos – which isn’t a favorite taste of mine – isn’t a focus of this blend and the spices really shape the direction of the tisane. The coconut adds just the right sweet, creamy flavor. Nice.