your fucking herbal tea

Rain or shine it’s tea time until I’m warmed up from the inside without the help of hot plant water

I miss sharing/drinking tea w my students :(

Ordered a pound of straight hibiscus to see if it can replace my Red Zinger that’s impossible to find locally. Hopefully rosehips aren’t the magic zinger ingredient.

Rose hips don’t have much flavor imo but hibiscus does — delicious hot or iced!!

Rose petals and rose buds have gentle rosey flavor

Have fun with the hibiscus! I love it.

I'm ready for it to arrive, my only non-coffee/water drink since lockdown has been Topo Chico and I can't afford to drink as much of that as I have been.

My nighttime tipple for years has been hibiscus tea, a palmful of flor de jamaica in a Hario teapot. Sometimes I sweeten it with glycine.

And yeah, its demonstrably medicinal. Hibiscus tea reduces systolic BP.

Made an aggressively strong cold brew just eyeballing amounts. Undiluted, the thing it reminds me of most is beet juice without the overtone of dirt.

Diluted it's still pretty different from Red Zinger (but probably better since I like tart things).