Sweet Ginger Heat (Organic)

I wasn’t on planning on buying this one – I was focused on getting a few other teas. I smelled this one and was like “WHOA GINGER PUNCH IN THE FACE” all over again (see my DAVIDsTea Pu-reh Ginger review, lol), but decided to try it as the sales gal said this one was her fav out of the new teas.

Annnd… this tea steeped into a murkey yellow green. The ginger punch decreased quite a bit for smell.

For taste, the Stevia is the first hit (and if you’ve never had stevia before, it’s pretty sweet on the tongue, but as it goes down it’s loses its sweetness) with a taste of the green tea.
As the stevia fades, the powerful ginger and light peppercorn heat can be felt heating the throat pleasantly.

After all that, there’s a licorice flavour that lingers in the mouth.

First few sips I thought it was kinda icky but also weird. In the past, I’ve disliked stevia so that’s where that “ick” comes from for me. After half the mug of tea, I was enjoying the changing of flavours of the tea. The ginger and heat is refreshing. The uniqueness keeps making me drink the cup despite my stevia hatred.

With that said – if you dislike stevia with a passion I’d stay away. If you want a very unique tea, love ginger, a little heat, sweet and licorice, give it a try.

Me? I think I like it because Sweet Ginger Heat is different. Not sure if I’ll buy more after my 30g is used up.

Yummyummyummy. I honestly have no idea what licorice tastes like, so I’m not really getting what other people are saying. All I taste is ginger! I love ginger teas, so naturally I love this.

ginger tea. that’s all i got really. no licorice, which i was hoping for.
i guess i wanted this to be my go to cold tea, but i don’t think so.
there was a little bit of green tea flavour hiding in there, but not much else.
i decent tea, but there’s better ones out there.
i’ll stick with my ginseng & ginger from silk road i think!

I’m trying to blaze through tasting the bits of all of the new Davids teas today, so I can place an order online for Santa’s Secret before it’s sold out. I may already be too late!

So, given that fact, I’m trying this one right after trying Splash! for the first time, and I may be over-gingering myself.

I like the smell of this one a lot – just like ginger beer. Spicy and sweet.

The flavour is actually a bit flat when compared to the smell. My first cup was just a 3-minute steep, so I put the leaves back into the pot to see what might happen. And still, it’s a bit flat for my taste. I want more punch! I also wish there was more of a green tea profile.

I’m giving this one a firm meh. I think that if I’m looking for a ginger hit, there are other teas I would turn to first.

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Friday 2/5 after disaster of raspberry cream pie I had a large bottle of this one (brewed 2x hot plain) made up so that I could have a completely different flavor. Have a few tins left but I
do think there are flavored greens I’d keep in cupboard not this one.

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Not sure about this one. I love licorice so I was excited to have a tea with that and ginger, which I also love. Plus it was a green tea, which I do like, but I really want to love. I figured I could love this tea, but alas, not. The ginger tastes prevalent, although it still seems watered down, the licorice is less strong, but it does taste somewhat spicy, might be the peppercorn, rather than the ginger which I would have preferred. It is okay, but no need to re-order – too bad I bought a lot of this to begin with – trying to get to the free shipping amount.

I love all the flavors in this one. It’s not my favorite but I do like it :)

Too much ginger. cringe I bought a lot though, so I’ll have to make it through somehow. I find that steeping for a shorter time helps.

Another retiring blend.

I remember, once, having a latte of this during a shift that was really quite stellar tasting but aside from that one experience I’ve always felt this tea was kind of underwhelming. It’s a ginger profile that does taste quite accurately of a natural ginger flavour, with a hint of orange – and that’s not really a bad idea for a tea blend. The problem, I think, is just that it doesn’t have anything to spark excitement and it’s also competing against quite a few OTHER ginger teas in our collection that are more interesting, either from a flavour perspective OR a functional one. Heck, we even have another ginger and orange profile that we carry year round!

Do you really need two!? I think not.

Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.

Been wanting to give this a try because it looks and sounds good. But.. when i got my sample today the smell wasn’t what I was expecting. It smells very gingery, and spicy. I brewed a cup anyway, had to try it out. I definitely had to add sugar to this or it wouldn’t be drinkable. It’s still very gingery, but it’s tolerable. Almost reminds me of the Ginger Beer tea, in the way that it tastes like gingerale, but stronger. In the background I think I can also taste the citrus, but other than that, this tea isn’t one of my faves.