Pomegranate Raspberry Green Tea

I’m not sure why Stash adds any other ingredients to this, since it is just hibiscus… and maybe a bit of raspberry & pom. Maybe a hint of chamomile. But wouldn’t the raspberry & pom have filled in just fine for the hibiscus? Served the same purpose? The steep time & temp was even low. Okay, I’ve had worse teas that have been murdered by hibiscus. But I’m just so sick of hibiscus!

Not bad. Although pretty tart (hello, it has pomegranate in it), I can drink it without sweetener. I get the fruit notes all the way, but I definitely don’t get any green tea flavor, especially considering this has matcha in it. Not my favorite, but not the worst.

Fruit-flavoured green tea isn’t my thing. This one was too strong, too fruity. I need more grass and less spazzy flavour, I think.

Part of my Stash Assortment. I really enjoy fruit flavored green teas. This was fruit a little too much red wine flavor for my breakfast tea.

Fruit flavoured green tea sounds like a winner for this morning. But first aroma noticed was rather herbal! What is wrong? Ah, apparently chamomile, hibiscus is in. Citric acid? Why? Anyway – to the tea. I brewed about 80 °C (+) water, it is green tea after all! It doesn´t want to steep at all! It does not change colour much, right now it is some weak red, rather orange. I will keep it there for bit more than suggested 5 minutes.

Aroma – as I said, herbal, now getting some arficial notes of pomergranate, oranges and raspberrries. But it is so artificial I am getting a headache from it. Chamomile in backgroud, and still really strong.

In taste it is metallic, with little fruit notes. No green tea! It is in even? Tart, but not from pomergranate. Everything so weak. Raspberries? Where? Maybe one for whole batch? Matcha? Nonewhere! Even liquor is clear! This iis queer. Chamomile and hibiscus so dominating, fruit notes almost nonewhere and no green tea. I wonder if it is even in.

Not a winner, just plain NAH! Bit better than Arizona I had two months ago, as this was not so sweet. By derk. Thank you experience of good and worse teas. This is unfortunately second group.

What in the ever-living duck is this. The bag smells revolting, artificial, medicinal. Dumb and brave — not a winning combination. Here we go.

I’m getting a really strong artificial-medicinal-raspberry/pomegranate acrid smell. Chamomile mixed with hibiscus, which I don’t typically like.

Yeeup, definitely red medicine tasting. Vitamins. Grossly tart, not smooth. There’s no reason to put citric acid in this other than for preserving a poor excuse for tea that you don’t expect to fly off shelves. Where’s the green tea?

This holds my second lowest rating. It would be the lowest but smelling it doesn’t make my stomach turn, it just pisses me off, hehe.

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I’m actually pretty impressed with this tea. I like that it has some matcha, and I will probably drink it again.

This is another bagged tea that I felt like revisiting recently. It of course can’t hold a candle to the whole loose leaf Green Pomegranate from Art of Tea that I really enjoy, but before I had that tea, I remember I drank this tea quite a bit. Going back to it now (steeped sans bag, for two minutes in 175 degree F water) I find it drinkable, but pretty underwhelming. I like fruity green teas, but I like the fruit flavors more subtle and delicate so I can enjoy the notes of the green tea base, and it is impossible to taste any green tea in the base in this blend… I feel like I’m just drinking a fruity herbal. The base of the tea just tastes of hibiscus, though it isn’t quite as tart as most hibiscus teas I’m used to, sweetened up with a lot of artificial raspberry and pomegranate flavors. It has a decent enough fruity flavor, but I wish it had more of a green tea base.

Full review: https://teatimetuesdayreviews.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/tea13/

Old sample from Tea Sipper. Thank you!

I’m not tasting any green tea here at all. It pretty much tastes like a flavored hibiscus tea. I wish the raspberry were a little stronger.

I have been cold brewing this tea overnight, and it is tart and tasty midday. I have tried this tea hot, and it is fine, but it seems to shine for me when it is cold.