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Happy National Pear Day! Today the prompt is to drink a tea with pear flavor notes.

Found this old (yet still sealed) bag that I purchased from a cupboard sale by Ost, back in 2018. Thank you, Ost!

Normally I won’t drink caffeinated tea after 6 p.m., but the dry leaf of this looked far more like a chunky fruit herbal blend than a flavored white tea blend, so I’m expecting anything from the tea leaves to be minimal enough to not effect my sleep (and if I’m wrong, at least tomorrow is Sunday).

I decided to steep this like I normally steep herbals as well… just a big, haphazard scoop into a fillable teabag that is left in the cup while I drink. The tea does have a nice, very pear forward aroma while steeping. On the tongue, I am getting a sort of mixed pear/apple fruity flavor, and, oddly enough, an unplaced floral note. Midsip and lingering after the swallow is a nice ginger flavor, certainly present, warming, and lingering, but not spicy-hot/burny. I’m tasting cinnamon as well, and I think the sweetness of the cinnamon is probably taking some of the edge off the ginger being spicy.

I like the flavor combo. I’m a big ginger fan but find ginger-forward teas tend to be too hot for me, and this is just the right balance of warming spice and sweet fruit.

Flavors: Apple, Cinnamon, Floral, Fruity, Ginger, Pear, Spices

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 8 min or more 1 tsp 12 OZ / 350 ML
tea-sipper

I almost had this tea for pear day too but couldn’t find it! (I just found it today going through other teas.) I also was going to have it at night thinking there wasn’t TOO much white tea in it.

Mastress Alita

I’ve been enjoying it! So far it hasn’t appeared to affect my sleep. I can usually get away with houjicha after my cut-off period, as well. In general I only drink herbals at night, so I’ve been going through those waaaaaaay faster than my gobs of caffeinated tea.

tea-sipper

Yeah, I noticed that too, as I need at least one caff-free option every day, but the caffeine options have so many types. haha

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tea-sipper

I almost had this tea for pear day too but couldn’t find it! (I just found it today going through other teas.) I also was going to have it at night thinking there wasn’t TOO much white tea in it.

Mastress Alita

I’ve been enjoying it! So far it hasn’t appeared to affect my sleep. I can usually get away with houjicha after my cut-off period, as well. In general I only drink herbals at night, so I’ve been going through those waaaaaaay faster than my gobs of caffeinated tea.

tea-sipper

Yeah, I noticed that too, as I need at least one caff-free option every day, but the caffeine options have so many types. haha

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Hi! I’m Sara, a middle-aged librarian living in southern Idaho, USA. I’m a big ol’ sci-fi/fantasy/anime geek that loves fandom conventions, coloring books, simulation computer games, Japanese culture, and cats. Proud genderqueer asexual (she/they) and supporter of the LGBTQ+ community. I’m also a chronic migraineur. As a surprise to no one, I’m a helpless tea addict with a tea collecting and hoarding problem! (It still baffles me how much tea I can cram into my little condo!) I enjoy trying all sorts of teas… for me tea is a neverending journey!

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-Spices/chais
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Disliked Flavors:

There are not many flavors or ingredients that I don’t like. These include:
-Bananas/banana flavoring
-Hemp/CBD teas
-Smoke-scented teas/heavy smoke flavors (migraine trigger)
-Perfumey teas/extremely heavy floral aromas (migraine trigger)
-Gingko biloba (migraine trigger)
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-Extremely spicy/heated teas
-Medicinal flavors/Ginseng
-Metallic flavors
-Overly strong artificial flavorings

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