Teabox Tuesday! This is another bagged tea I grabbed to try from the Discovery Teabox, so thank you to Skysamurai for organizing and all participants for sharing! I’ve been leaning heavily on my bagged tea cupboard for sipdowns this month, so I decided to make this for my herbal tea tonight, since I cleared out my entire box of Tension Tamer rather quickly (I’ve had quite a lot of tension to tame lately…)
I really disliked Stash’s Lemon Ginger tea, which I thought tasted like Lemon Pledge cleaner, so I admit I don’t have high hopes going into this. Though, to be fair, the Lemon Ginger tea had “natural lemon flavor” and “natural ginger flavor” which I think tasted really artificial and overbearing to me, and I don’t see any flavorings listed in the ingredients to this tea, it only has lemongrass and meyer lemon oil. The oil might push it over the edge for me (peppermint oil added to tea often makes it taste too strong and artificial to me, when I prefer just peppermint leaf) so I guess I’ll just have to see if it comes out with that super strong, lemon cleaner quality…
Eh. It’s… all right. It’s a bit stronger than I’d like; it’s very sharp and tangy, and I think the strong tartness is actually drawing me back from any possible associations to furniture polish that I could possibly get from having such a strong lemon flavor in the tea. My favorite lemon teas dial back the fruitiness and the tanginess just a bit, but since I have a tongue that can take tart/tangy/sour like some sort of super power, this is all right. But for those that are hibi-hip sensitive? There is no way they could handle this without ample amounts of sweetener. I can drink this plain fine, but I’d probably recommend adding some honey, honestly.
But I do think the lemon oil is faring better for me than whatever flavoring Stash was using in their Lemon Ginger tea, which I still find abhorrent. I’m actually finding this cup pretty pleasant, even if it isn’t my favorite cup of lemon tea.
Flavors: Citrus, Lemon, Pleasantly Sour, Tangy, Tart
