Almost finished with all the tins from this sampler! This was a very underwhelming chai… I felt like I just didn’t see a lot of the spices in the mini tin? And the flavor is very bland… I can taste the anise, so it has a strong black licorice flavor (I’m one of the few people that actually loves black licorice so this was fine for me) but I really didn’t taste anything else. Occassionally there was sort of a musty cinnamon aftertaste? Maybe age did this one particularly dirty, or the tin just did not get a good distribution of spices in it. It definitely didn’t have a strong enough flavor that I would ever imagine drinking this as a latte. Since all I could taste was the anise, I added some sugar syrup to my iced tea to really boost the black licorice flavor which was pretty pleasant, but judging this as a masala chai, it was really lacking.
Flavors: Anise, Licorice
I like that black licorice flavor too, glad you were able to salvage the cup as sweet tea!