Happy National Coconut Torte Day! Finally getting around to drinking my coconut tea! This is the oldest coconut tea in my stash (from 2018) so crossing fingers and toes that it is still okay! (At least the package was still sealed…)
The dry leaf has a lovely lemon aroma, but since the citrus is so strong, I can’t really tell from the sniff-test the state of the coconut. Guess I’ll have to steep and see!
Brewed 5g to 450ml 205F water, teabag left in grandpa-style. Getting a satisfying lemon cream sort of aroma from the steeping tea. On a tentative first sip… well, the coconut doesn’t taste particularly fresh, I am getting a little of the acrid coconut taste, but it is fairly tolerable, since mostly I’m tasting lemon, and it’s a very nice lemon, bright and citrusy and not that artificial-furniture-polish flavor that lemon can so easily veer in tea. There is a light tanginess but mostly the tea is sweetened up by the coconut, which is a more subtle note to the lemon, but easily noticable. I really like the flavor combination of the lemon with the coconut as well. The base is a combination of green and red rooibos, and I think I’d like this a little more if it was entirely on a green rooibos base, but it is pleasant, very sweet, maybe a hint of nuttiness and herbaceous citrus.
I’m liking this! I’d probably like it even more if I could finally get to the point where I am drinking my teas while they are in their prime, but I’ll enjoy my few cups of this as I work on sipping it down before the coconut gets any older.
Flavors: Citrus, Coconut, Herbaceous, Lemon, Lemongrass, Nutty, Sweet, Tangy