The next gem we tried was this Amber themed one! While still a bit sticky and hard to remove from its packaging, this was the least melted of the four gems I’ve tried so far. It was very pretty though! It took a long time for the casing on this one to melt and the teabag to emerge and I can’t help but wonder if, were the gems not melted, this longer wait time would have been more normal than what we experienced with some of the other gems, like Peridot.
This flavour drew mixed reactions from the crowd of people we’d gathered to taste. I quite liked it and thought the flavour was a nice cross between a classic lemon lollipop with more of the soothing and slightly medicinal lemon of, say, a cough drop. Not much ginger at all to me, in terms of taste. Though it was sort of there in the undertone and I felt I could feel it on my throat. Others said it was too medicinal tasting and compared it to Neo-Citron. Which, like, fair.
I just know that when the samples were all divided out to our panel of people… I drank the rest of the mug. shrug