Hey y'all. In the effort to both update more often and exercise my need to rant, I'm going to talk about my Christmas presents from my sister and her boyfriend: two tea kits. One is just a sample of a bunch of teas, and the other is a more fancy bit that comes in a wooden box. It's super cute, and even has little metal handles. It sort of looks like a cigar box.
So I'll be doing tea reviews of what I got. Are you here to read that stuff? I dunno. Maybe you'll be willing to try new things after reading it. After all, tea is pretty amazing.
The thing about these kits is that they're not meant to be gifted together; there's a couple of repeat teas in them. For example, I have two kinds of pomegranate. The box version, by The Boston Tea Company, is a Chinese green tea with pomegranate. The kit version has both Chinese and Indian black tea, by Bentley's.
What surprised me about the black tea is that the pomegranate was more obvious, despite the fact black tea leaves more of a "stain" of flavor. Unfortunately, there was a bit too much pomegranate for my taste. The trouble with fruit flavor in teas is that it can be very easily overwhelming if you leave the bag in for anything longer than two minutes. And then of course risk not getting the full tea flavor.
On the other side of that, the Boston Tea Company's pomegranate didn't have enough flavor. Sure, it was flavored enough so that you could tell what fruit it was, but just barely. Someone who didn't know it was pomegranate might not be able to point it out. I let the bag soak in the tea at least five minutes, so clearly it didn't quite have enough flavor.
To be honest, BTC wins this round. I'm not a huge fan of feeling like my mouth is full of what feels like un-sugared Kool-Aid -- I don't ever sweeten my tea, and I don't think that would help if the fruit flavoring is too strong. My dad found the Bentley's to be really good, so perhaps it's just a matter of opinion.
So which do you prefer? Too much flavor or too little?
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