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drank Red Bush Chai by The Tao of Tea
2816 tasting notes

Purchased a tin of this at the Berkeley Bowl last night. I’ve been looking for a good rooibos chai but sadly, this isn’t it. I should have read the list of ingredients on the tin. It has cinnamon, clove, cardamom and spearmint. Why would you put spearmint in a chai?

The flavor of this is… interesting I guess. I definitely taste the cinnamon and the spearmint but the clove and cardamom aren’t too prominent. I added soymilk and about a teaspoon of coconut sugar but I’m not too impressed with it. I will need to tinker around with it and see if adding fennel or a bit of ginger improves it somewhat.

I will probably finish it off eventually but definitely don’t love it. I think I just need to go to Rishi’s website and order their West Cape Chai.

p.s. it also leaves an aftertaste in your mouth like toothpaste… ick

Flavors: Cinnamon, Spearmint

Preparation
Boiling 6 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
Veronica

Toothpaste tea… yum. ;)

TeaBrat

and I have a whole tin of it!

Lupiressmoon

Well this sounds completely disgusting to me

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Veronica

Toothpaste tea… yum. ;)

TeaBrat

and I have a whole tin of it!

Lupiressmoon

Well this sounds completely disgusting to me

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