Yawn Advent Calendar Day 4 – Sweet Ginger
Our first Rooibos of the Advent season! Day 4 of the Yawn Brew calendar is Sweet Ginger rooibos tea which tastes like a slightly gingery Werthers Original.
Slightly gingery Werthers Originals don’t exist in the real world but I think they should. In fact, manufacturers of creamy sweets could use Yawn Sweet Ginger’s ingredients list as a starting point and also bung in some calendula petals and blackberry leaves.
Do you think the blackberry leaves actually contribute anything flavour-wise here? Not to cast aspersions on the Yawn brand, but the inclusion of foliage that you can find in any overgrown stretch of railway does actually sound like a pretty canny way of bulking out your expensive South African-grown rooibos. A bit like when 18th-century smugglers used to add sheep dung to tea leaves.
The big difference, I suppose, is that sheep shit tea must have tasted awful, and this Sweet Ginger rooibos is really rather lovely.
Given that this is Day 4, I think it’s high time that I start ranking these teas so here you go:
- Pancake Stack (1st Dec)
- Santa’s Milk & Cookies (3rd Dec)
- Sweet Ginger (4th Dec)
- Toffee Apple (2nd Dec)
Just bear in mind that if these teas were all on a racetrack, the first three would be practically neck and neck, and Toffee Apple would be miles behind. In fact, it’d probably have been shot at the first fence.
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