Tourist tea…. a gift from my parents last trip to Canada. Granted we have this in the New England area as well. It came in a neat little wooden box with a vacuum sealed bag containing 12 tea bags. Since today is Canadian Thanksgiving, it seemed appropriate.
The tea bags look like typical cheap, fine powered tea and remind me of Red Rose or Lipton. I grabbed my favorite mug and steeped for just under 5 minutes. It’s a nice clear light brown color and smells like any other black tea. Then I ran up to get laundry as it cooled some. I don’t find it super sweet, which I was surprised by. I don’t equate this tea with maple syrup but definintely with the scents of a maple sugaring off. I didn’t add anything to it but I do have some maple sugar in the house. I might experiment with that.
I liked this and while I know it’s a touristy thing, I probably would pick it up again especially for any maple gift baskets I put together. I’m sure it’s found in all the local maple sugar shacks in the area
Flavors: Maple
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Oooh…maple candy! Metropolitan Tea does flavored tea very well.
@gmathis being outside of Boston, I’m curious to know how good the Boston Tea Party tea is.
If I tried that one, it’s been too long for me to remember. One that I did like and bought in foolishly large quantities as a newbie was their Monk’s Blend.
Oooh…maple candy! Metropolitan Tea does flavored tea very well.
@gmathis being outside of Boston, I’m curious to know how good the Boston Tea Party tea is.
If I tried that one, it’s been too long for me to remember. One that I did like and bought in foolishly large quantities as a newbie was their Monk’s Blend.