Klarer Kopf

Gotta be in the mood for licorice root. First time I tried Klarer Kopf I made the “eugh” face it was so sweet. The flavor profile, for me, is best utilized on days like today — late afternoon, warm outside but not immobilizing hot. It’s like a spicy chai with a base of that licorice root, spicy ginger, ginseng (listed as taiga root), black peppercorns, and cinnamon with herbal accents from basil, eleuthero and yerba maté. I’m unfamiliar with guarana besides knowing it has caffeine. I think I could recommend Klarer Kopf if you make sure not to brew too long because of the licorice root. It has a really nice revitalizing flavor.

It was a rooty and yerba maté kind of day. Started off with ginseng oolong then moved to a can of Guayakí yerba maté when my head almost hit the desk at work. Then this. Here’s hoping I’m not up until midnight.

Thanks again for sharing, Martin, and to your friend Fabiana :)

I prepared this tea early morning before the exam today. Please note, name means in English “Clear head” or “Calm head”, and well me, as an overthinker, needed this en route to University.

The travel wasn’t much helping. Usually it tooks about 35 minutes by train, sometimes less, sometimes more, depends on category of the train. But 35 minutes are safe bet.
NOT TODAY! We had a faulty locomotive and we stayed in middle of the route for 20 minutes. At first, I was afraid that we hit someone (pretty much common thing here, unfortunately). But no, the acceleration was too low. (I am a train-fan too)
Hmm, the train in front of us hit someone. Possible. After 10 minutes of nothing, I started to be nervous. Being late for exams isn’t great. I decided to write my teacher, what I shall do. If I should join other group (we can do exams in 9 students group maximum, as Covid-measures). Or what… No information from train crew, nor train-company app. Weird, if accident happened, it would send a notification.

I have nervously send the email. I took my laptop with me, as I wanted to check a few problems I wasn’t really sure about. And since I have sent the email, we were back en route! Yaay! I had to take the trolleybus, while I wanted to go on foot, but whatever. I was in the University just in time. I could not worry at all while waiting, as I was waiting too short.

The tea HELPED ME a lot. Among prayers. I was nervous, but not with a panic, which was certainly a good thing. I chose a seat near the middle of the classroom, which isn’t the best place for cheating but I didn’t wanted to cheat at all. Maybe it was a better thing for me, as I just could not and wasn’t nervous I get caught if I want to cheat.

I looked on the exam and again, no panic. “Okay Martin, this is something you solved x-times, not a big deal.” "This is clear, it must be this way, or that way?
Of course, I was nervous, but not with panic attack saying “You have seen this, why you don’t know how to solve it, you dumbass?”

This tea HELPS. And apparently, being panic-free caused that I HAVE PASSED THE EXAM.

Of the taste profile, read derk’s note. Yes, it’s awfully sweet with herbal undertone. I have even sweetened it with teaspoon of honey, as I needed to raise blood sugar in the morning. And I took a breakfast which is extraordinary for me as well. I have to thank Fabiana for this tea as well. It’s not tasty, but works.