382 Tasting Notes
I’ve found lately that most cider is too sweet for me. This tea offers a great alternative, having the wonderful aroma of cider without being so overwhelmingly sweet. This is exactly what I wanted out of this tea. I’ve found that both the flavor of the apple and the spices is quite clear, but doesn’t overpower the tea flavor either. Perhaps I got an abnormally well mixed batch?
Preparation
Boiling
4 min, 0 sec
Although I am reasonably sure that the flavoring is natural, this tea has a weird, almost chemically smell. Did they supersaturate it with lemon or something?
Despite the overpowering smell, the tea itself is quite nice and the lemon flavor isn’t overpowering as I first feared it would be.
It drives me crazy that all the hard ciders readily available on the US market today are so sweet. 15 years ago you could get a really good, dry, hard cider but not anymore. So gross with all that sugar.
I was actually referring to the hot spicy apply drink (should have specified), but that does not stop you from being totally right. You get really spoiled for cider as soon as you leave the US
Ah, that kind of cider, I make my own spices and heat it myself and just don’t add sweetener. Sadly, the cider press I worked at when I was a teen no longer exists - they didn’t pasteurize which meant you could also make your own -hard cider, complete with spices.
Best thing I ever had, a friend tried to make hard cider at home using a beer kit, and added fresh ginger. Having never used it before, he put in way too much. So instead of apple cider with ginger, he basically made ginger beer. No one but me liked it, so I bought all 20 gallons off him. Amazing.