Cherry Rose Green

Today’s #septembersipdown prompt on Instagram is to cold brew a tea you never have before. This is a bit of a cheat because I haven’t had this tea before at all so of course that includes never having it as a cold brew.

This is fine. It’s actually on the bland side. I get sort of cherry and sort of rose and sort of green tea but it’s all really subtle. I cold brewed this for over 12 hours so it should have more flavor but it just doesn’t.

The more I drink, the more the green tea base builds and there is a little bitterness that is making me thing cough syrup with the hint of cherry. So maybe I’m not loving this so much.

Cold Brew Sipdown (724)!

Pretty sure this was a VariaTEA share, so thank you!

I’ve had a handful of these “cherry and rose” green teas this year, and I’m not entirely convinced they aren’t some type of catalogue blend coming from a big wholesaler, but this one kind of makes me question that theory. The reason for that is that all the ones I’ve tried have been far more rose heavy than cherry, but this is the first one where I feel like it actually has a stronger cherry note than the rose. It is floral, and mild – but that cherry is smooth and ultimately just really speaking my language!