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7 minute brew time with boiling water

Very pretty blend. Green and yellow “grass” like cuttings are sprinkled throughout this lemony blend.

Champagne colored brew.

Lemon grass is the dominant flavor. This blend would be great added to another tea for that just right lemon addition.

As I neared the end of my cup, I noticed the astringency of this herbal blend, which makes me really think that using this as a mix in with another tea would really be the best use for this one.

Overall, a good lemony cup of herbal tea.

You can purchase the Lemonade directly from the Shanti Tea website.

If anyone’s been following my reviews, they would have noticed a pattern by now. I tend to review teas with any or all of the following ingredients: lemon, ginger, and ginseng. Not to deviate from that trend, this review will be on Special Tea Brew’s Lemon Ginger Snap. Dry leaf is made up of Chinese green tea, lemongrass, lemon myrtle, and ginger. Upon opening up the package, the aroma was a piercing ginger smell. Ginger was the only ingredient I could smell. I steeped 5g in 600ml of hot water for 3 minutes. The aroma coming off the steeped liquor was now more lemony than ginger. Funny that the ingredient that is dominant for a chosen characteristic does not show up as the predominant ingredient in other characteristics. For example, although the dominant ingredient in the aroma is lemon, the taste is predominantly ginger. It was like a lemony swamp, like lemon mixed with muddy grass. It did not smell very appetizing. As for the taste, you are wham smacked in the face with ginger at every sip. It is very overwhelming. Then after you swallow, you can taste the lemongrass and lemon myrtle which in this combination makes it taste dirty. It certainly is more herb than tea. Ginger swamp are the words I would use to describe this tea.

However, having said that, I am glad I gave this tea a second chance by tasting it cold. It tasted much better, not like you’ve just had a face plant in a muddy soccer field of prior, but a subdued bitterness with a much more tolerable level of ginger taste. It is much more drinkable this way I found.

You can purchase the Lemon Ginger Snap directly from the SpecialTea Brew website.

There’s a smell that you get from cold lemonade on a hot day. It’s the smell of sweet refreshement, a tang of sour and a scoop of sweet. It’s a smell of people outside at a country fair, sweating in unison, but happy to be there because of the gorgeous day, the riot of color and activity around them and the ice cold glass in their hand.

This tea – has that smell. The leaf for this herbal tea smells more lemony than lemons – it smells like the distilled essence of lemonade. And not just lemonade – but outdoor, perfect refreshement on a special occasion lemonade.

The flavor isn’t the same, it’s not lemonade, but it’s really good in its own right. It’s more lemon grass than lemonade, and has a warmer, mellower taste that the crisp, lemonade tang. It’s lemony, smooth and naturally sweet.

Hot, this tea is soothing and relaxing. Iced, this would be a summertime refresher. This is an amazing tea. Lemon-lovers, TRY THIS TEA.

You can purchase the Lemonade directly from the Shanti Tea website.

I wish I was at home, reading a book on a nice summer afternoon, because this tea deserves that. Or at least it deserves a little more than sitting in my boring cube at work in the middle of winter. A nice light tea, with strong ginger and lemon tones. While mild, this cloudy sage-green brew is not subtle. It is definitely GINGER and Lemon. Ginger is the strongest element, and comes out more in the flavor while the lemon flavor comes out more in the scent. The herbal element here is more to the fore than the tea element; it really feels more like a herbal than a flavored green tea. The blend works well both sweetened and unsweetened. I also bet this would be lovely iced.

You can purchase the Lemon Ginger Snap directly from the SpecialTea Brew website.

What an incredible tea!   The aroma of the  dry tea leaves instantly transported me to an orange grove where the blossoms are sweet and the fruit is mature and ready to pick.   This orange grove also has some very “meadow-y” undertones which is one of the characteristic aromas of a good green tea.  I love an aromatic dry tea and I am always deeply curious as to what will become of the aroma when the tea is steeped.   The aroma typically transmogrifies under the alchemy of very hot water I have noticed.  This is a good phenomenon and means that the tea is multifaceted and opens itself up to complexity throughout its various stages from dry, to steeping, to being consumed.

I allowed the water to come to a boil and then I allowed it to cool down to approximately 175 degrees.  The tea had suddenly transformed!  No longer was I in an orange grove but I felt as if I were in the middle of a lemon grove where the trees were heavy with ripe citrus fruit and the grass was green and smelled freshly mown.  The orange aroma, however, had not gone away.  At this point it was deferring to the greater tartness of the lemons.   The taste, however, brought my back to the supremacy of the orange.    Because the ingredients include lemongrass and natural essential oils of rose, orange, lime, and tangerine, I am not surprised that the lemon made a strong secondary appearance because another ingredient is “lemon myrtle”.   I was not certain what the “lemon myrtle” is, but just spent some delightful time researching it.  It’s like lemon without the tartness and is used in a lot of Pacific cuisines.

This absolutely delightful tea seems to be more of a general “citrus” tea than a specifically orange blossom one. True, the orange provides the primary aroma for the dry tea, but the lemon sweetly dominates the wet aroma and the taste.  I might have named it “Sweet Lemon Organic Tea”.  It’s a  medley of citrus blends with the lemon taking the harmonic lead after an  orange overture.  I hope that my notes convey my general delight with this tea.   I absolutely plan to buy more.   I enjoyed it hot and think it will be a fantastic iced tea as well.   I also can see it as a soothing tea for a cold winter day; as a healing tea for any respiratory problems, and as a delightful tea for entertaining.  Rishi Tea Organic Orange Blossom will bring out the flavors of snacks sweet and savoury and will create a great atmosphere for a private conversation or a large party.  Just because this tea presents itself with a slightly confusing identity is no reason not to rush out and buy some.  If you like orange or lemon you will love this tea.

You can purchase Rishi Tea Orange Blossom directly from their website.