Re-review of this tea.
I’ve been drinking this tea in latte form and at first I really liked this tea cause it seemed quite a bit like carrot cake, but I think I had maybe only a bit of licorice root (or I wasn’t discerning the taste enough) in my 25g sample. I have now purchased 200g of it and I think I have an understanding of it better. Here are my findings:
Reg cup of tea (8oz, 200F, 1 “perfect spoonful”, 5 min): Mild cinnamon spice taste, a bit of tart apple in the background, and I can get a hint of why this is carrot cupcake. Ok, not memorable.
Latte: (8oz of 200F water, 4 “perfect spoonfuls” steeped 5 min, mixed with hot, frothed 1% milk (approx 6oz): Lately I have been subbing out 1 or 1.5 perfect spoonfuls of another tea to balance out the licorice root sweetness and to me the resulting latte tastes like Anise Milk (a Dutch treat). I do like it but understand why others do not. I was mixing it with an early grey cream rooibos but I finished that up so I’m going to try a cinnamon rooibos to blend. Altogether I like it, but it’s a damn expensive Anise Milk (normally anise milk is just hot milk mixed with some anise powder which is a lot cheaper than using 10tsp of loose leaf tea. As mentioned previously, I am subbing out my glass of red wine on weekday evenings to a tea latte (keeping red wine for weekends), so I will try and use this up quickly. I somewhat regret picking up 200g of this tea (even though I still like it) since I can make Anise Milk for so much cheaper.
Flavors: Cinnamon, Licorice, Sweet
Thanks for the dealing-with-over-the-top-liquorice suggestions. I will use them for other teas.
No prob :) good luck!