Blood Orange Fresh Brew Iced Tea

Thank you Lala for this sample.

My third cold steep, I have caught the bug and will be trying them out all day. The weather is bright and warm here today so it’s just as well.

In raw form this tea smells lovely, very orangey and sweet. Not quite blood orange but more tangerine like. Still nice though.

Cold steeped for roughly 5 hours this tea is orange in colour and has the same juicy tangerine scent. Flavour is delicious, delicate and juicy, refreshing and sweet. Orange is one of my favourites and I was curious to see what the cold steeping would do to it. It tastes like a tropical orange juice that suits the hot sun perfectly. The sort of thing I would enjoy daily…may have to pick some of this up.

This must be a newer tisane at Harney and Sons because I had to add it to steepster myself and there is actually limited information on it on the Harney website. But it is pretty much what it is named, it is a fruit tea.

The dry tea appears to be a mixture of dried fruit and orange peel. It smells like a mixture of candied orange and grapefruit. It has the tartness but it not what I would consider blood orange.

The colour of the brewed liquor is hands down the colour of blood orange. But the smell of the brewed liquor is more like the rind of an orange peel.

The taste is actually quite good. It tastes more like a tangelo to me. Not blood orange at all. There is very minimal tartness to it. I did not see any hibiscus in the dry blend, and I do not pick up any taste of it in the brewed tea (and there are no ingredients listed on the website).

Overall a good orange flavoured tisane, but a disappointment in the blood orange tea search.

I just had this one after a 12 hour drive and I was expecting something pretty amazing from the citrusy scent. I was slightly let-down from the actual taste, seeing as it was next to nothing compared to the scent, even after a 5 minute steep.

The blood orange taste was clear but not as strong as I was expecting. It tasted great but I’d prefer if it had that great taste but in a stronger form.

Thanks jessiwrites!

I really like this one..hot it’s…ya know…un natural…I fell like hot fruit is unnatural…I mean unless it’s in a pie crust….
But it smells HEAVENLY citrus.

On ice it’s awesome! It’s like the best orange grapefruit strawberry juice I’ve ever had but not so dang sweet (which is why I never drink juice)

Will buy some more of this for when I want a refreshing cold something. :)

I was really impressed with this Blood Orange tea — not overwhelmingly sour like most I’ve had. Pulled this out of a Sipsy box and loved it!

Yum! This is a wonderfully spiced fruit tea that smells delicious and tastes just as good. Lots of flavor.

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Sipdown no. 6 of 2022 (no. 656 total).

I had a mega bag of this and used it all to make cold brew, which no. 2 (the only kid still at home) loved as did I.

The only annoying thing about cold brewing this tisane was that the safflower petals were quite clingy and difficult to get off of the pitcher in which the brew took place. Because my pitcher’s shape doesn’t lend it self to cleaning implements, I had to resort to lengthy soaks and attempts to get a brush at hard to reach areas.

This isn’t my favorite Harney tisane, but it’s good. The base for all of them seems to be the same which gives them all a similar flavor, including hibiscus, but if you throw you mind out of focus a bit, you can taste the flavors that give these blends their names.

I’m working my way through a mega bag of strawberry kiwi now. That one doesn’t have petals, fortunately.

This tea is Citrus with a capital “C”. The smell, the flavor, the color; all scream citrus. I tired the blood orange tea this morning and finished the pot (1.7 liters) before I got dressed. It was wonderful both hot and iced.
A touch of Splenda really brought out the orange, hibiscus and grapefruit notes. Though the goji berry is still my favorite, if you like fruity citrus flavors, this is a n excellent choice.

Not too bad of an iced tea but not as fruit tasting as I would have liked. I ended up mixing a few cups of lemonade with this batch in a pitcher and it balanced out the taste a bit. I’ll give it another go next time and see if I can steep it longer since it is an herbal tea.

I love anything blood orange, and this tea is no exception. Thing is though, I don’t get blood orange from this tea. Tangerine? Maybe. Orange? Could be. Blood orange? Not even close. The bitterness that one would expect from a blood orange is nowhere to be found.

In the past I have found I always love the scent of blood orange teas, but the taste of the brewed tea never lives up to the smell. This is also the case with this tea.

Even with all my complaints, I would still drink this tea. It’s not my favorite orange tea, but it’s still pretty good. However, if you’re looking for more of a blood orange experience, look elsewhere.