Bushmen's Brew Honeybush

Tea type
Honeybush Tea
Ingredients
Honeybush
Flavors
Brown Sugar, Honey, Nectar, Nuts, Sugarcane, Sweet, Winter Honey, Wood
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Caffeine
Decaffeinated
Certification
Organic
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 6 min, 0 sec 17 oz / 500 ml

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  • “Sipdown! No. 10 for 2014. Four bags left, so the entire family engaged in the sipdown. The kids really like this one and I worry it will be a hard act to follow, but I’m not unhappy to see it go. ...” Read full tasting note
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  • “It’s a bagged tea and I love it. There, I said it. =) I also have to say that the dry leaves don’t have the most pleasant fragrance. I don’t know what it is, maybe a bit chemical in nature(?), but...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This tisane, which came as part of “Numi’s Collection,” tastes woodsy to me, and has a sweet but subtle pine-sap flavor and scent (not like pine-sol), rather than like honey. I added some acacia...” Read full tasting note
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  • “It’s cold; I want tea, but it’s late. So in ferreting through my uncaffeinated (now out of decaffeinated options) stash, I happened upon a couple bags of Numi Bushmen’s Brew Organic Honeybush. It’s...” Read full tasting note
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From Numi Organic Tea

For hundreds of years, the Khoi and San peoples of Southern Africa hand gathered this plant from the mountainous regions of their homelands. This honey scented flowering bush creates an enticing rich brew with sweet honey over-tones. Rich in anti-oxidants, phytoestrogens and essential minerals, this new, organic African herbal is both delicious and healthy. One sip and the secret touches your soul.

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60 tasting notes

leftover from a wonderful international tea swap group i used to belong to, this Bushmen’s Brew is probably ancient, but it still tastes quite nice to me, perhaps a tad too sweet for my liking, but it is, after all, a honey-based teasan. the colour is very red. i had never heard of honeybush before. that was the joy of the tea swap, new discoveries.

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This was a nice surprise. I’ve had other honeybush that turned weird or tasted too sweet to me, so the Numi version is refreshing. There’s not really anything else to it- no blends, no bonus flavor. I prefer my tea strong, so I brewed it quite a long time and it still didn’t taste heavy or bitter at all.

The aroma is more complicated, and sweeter, but the actual flavor is simple; mostly a grass-like freshness.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 6 min, 30 sec

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8 tasting notes

Got this just now from a tea swap. Have never had honeybush before! It brews up a clear rich reddish-brown, like oolong, and while both the dried bag and the final result are sweetly aromatic, the scent doesn’t resemble honey at all to my nose. What it is like is the slightly medicinal-fruity sweetness of dried longan meat or red dates, as used in Chinese soups and fortifying drinks. Based on that I’d assume honeybush is “heaty”. My mother says she finds it acidic, but I don’t. It doesn’t taste like much, actually (and it’s been steeping for 6 minutes at this point), but that’s fine with me in a late-night uncaffeinated brew.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 6 min, 0 sec

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4170 tasting notes

I had no idea what this tea was before I tried it, but it was EXACTLY as I thought it would be. A nice scent and a nice flavor. It also doesn’t get bitter if you boil the water. I think it would be nice if Numi paired honeybush with some kind of melon flavor in another tea.

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5 tasting notes

I wasn’t a fan of the honeybush. While it had a pretty good flavor, the smell was off-putting to me.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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1629 tasting notes

This has a very nice, sweet smell. Tastes mild and sweet. It goes down smoothly, but for some reason I am getting a hint of cardboard or that taste of an an envelope if you lick the sticky part. It might be the bag. Regardless, the honeybush’s sweetness overpowered the cardboard taste. I would not repurchase this.

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This is a fantastic tea, very nice scent, a rich but not overpowering flavor with wood notes. I always have a box handy.

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6768 tasting notes

Sweet scent. Nice brown with reddish tint for color. Delightful taste. I really like this

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