Monster Mash

Steep:
212°F
6 min

Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: spice, cinnamon, woody, clove
Steeped Tea Smell: cinnamon, clove, pumpkin
Flavor: cinnamon, wood, clove, ginger, sweet
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: clove
Liquor: translucent dark orange brown

Comments:
having just made pumpkin puree from scratch to put in coffee, it does. not have much flavor! so this is mostly pumpkin spice rooibos, and delicious

Post-Steep Additives:
honey
yumm dessert tea

Resteep:

Rating: 3/4 leaves

Leaf system:
1=Bleh! not again if it were free
2=Acceptable, if it were free or there were limited other tea options
3=I might purchase this tea from time to time, or select it while out
4=A staple in our cupboard from now on, I will purchase and keep purchasing

YouTube Review https://youtu.be/vGPS9wGTA10

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Finished a bag of this and opened my last bag of this one for Fall. It’s one of my favorite caffeine free night time teas. The squash in this one is really pleasant and I don’t love pumpkin drinks. The spices are balanced nicely too and it just gives the best autumn vibes. Plus the dry leaf is pretty.

smells so good, apply, spicy and sweet, but it tastes terrible.

Another sachet from the skelebear. I kept reading peanut butter instead of pumpkin butter and somehow got the idea this was a peanut pumpkin blend. It is not. It is very cinnamony! More of a sweet cinnamon than a spicy one. Pumpkin and apple flavors roll up next and stay into the finish. There is a sweetness in the sip that also lingers into the finish where it quickly becomes sour and distracting. Stevia? The whole thing makes me think of the pumpkin apple cider that is around in October. I think I like it a little better than the cider because the flavors are a little more prominent, but it isn’t one that I’d buy more of. Once cup is enough for me.

I hope everyone had a safe but festive Halloween yesterday!  I tried this one last night with the first steep being the night before last.  THANK YOU to AJRimmer for sharing a favorite!  (I also had the scrumptious Angry Tea Room’s – Candy Caramel Apple tea yesterday, based on AJRimmer’s suggestion when I reached out for spooky suggestions, and it steeped up perfectly.  Sadly, it isn’t available at Angry anymore… along with so many of my other favorites… I wonder if they can be sourced elsewhere.  I also had Butiki’s Pumpkin Creme Brulee.)
I’ve always been a bit puzzled by the name here – what makes it Monster Mash?  Some variations seem to have sprinkles.  This one does not – only large sugar crystals which I’m hoping at least aren’t some sort of stevia crystals.  I’m one who doesn’t drink diet soda.  Just full sugar soda.  If I’m gonna drink soda, I’m gonna go full sugar (though sips – and in moderation, I guess I could also be called “soda-sipper”).   The flavor here is very sweet on the first steep!  The description mentions pumpkin butter but I’m thinking more along the lines of a very sweet rooibos chai with a hint of pumpkin.  The second steep – I think all the sugar went into the first steep so now it’s mostly spice.  It’s good!  I’m glad the apple didn’t take over, like the photo of the tea suggests it might. Grateful to try without buying. :D
Steep #1  // 1 1/2 teaspoons for full mug // 10 minutes after boiling  // 2-3 minute steep
Steep #2  // just boiled //  6 minute steep

The smell of this tea is comforting.
It smells like a lot of very fall things, from a pumpkin candle, to a pumpkin pie baking in the oven.
I can taste the pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon and just general fall, if that was a taste. The blend was smooth, and the spices where not overwhelming. I get a slight hint of apple in the background as well.
Overall it was a very nice tea, I just think it would be much better as a latte or even with some sort of honey or agave, or maybe maple syrup.
This is a shorter review because I feel the tea was exactly as described, it was well balanced and had a nice aftertaste.
I am just missing that one thing that makes me feel like it is a tea I want to drink everyday all the time… what that is, I am unsure.

Picked 50g of this up on a whim because it was on sale and I hadn’t tried it. A gamble for a rooibos, but the reviews weren’t too bad. Turns out, I actually quite like it! Cardamon-heavy pumpkin-spice-y tea, where the rooibos hardly makes an appearance. There’s a bit of lingering sweetness that I’m not too fond of – reminded me of stevia, but apparently that’s not in the tea (and neither is licorice), so who knows.

On another note, it’s really the best when your tiny child refuses his nap and instead stands screaming in his crib like you’ve abandoned him forever. Sigh.

I love this tea, and not just because the name is awesome. Sweet, warming pumpkin tea.

Today I say good bye to what turned out to be one of my favorite teas. I haven’t had the reblended version, so this is a review of the old one. I’m sad that they messed with a formula that really worked though. It definitely succeeds at tasting like pumpkin butter. The spices go together perfectly, and I don’t really taste the rooibos individually. I always had it with milk, and it makes a strong second steep as well. The flavors all mesh so well, some fruitiness from the apple, along with spices like clove. This is the only time that I’ve finished eight ounces of a tea and immediately wished I’d had more.

This is very pleasant. A nice cinnamon pumpkin with a little apple. I like it with a little milk and extra sugar.