EPIC: Morning Sleepyhead by Calypso

Made the sparkling lemonade recipe with the Calypso tea and it was truly divine! 10/10 recommend! And I don't even like tea that much!

I was unsure about this tea at first, but it blew my expectations out of the water. 1: ITS BLUE. Like genuinely blue. so cool. (Picture is having steeped for a minute, it gets a little darker.) 2: It's good for at least two brews (steeped for 3m the first, 5 the second). 3: Good summer tea, I'm excited to try it iced. Its sweet, but not overwhelmingly. Quite fruity, with a somewhat darker aftertaste. For sweetener I think brown sugar or agave would be best, or a very mild honey

Another winner from the Epic collaboration! This tea brews up into a fragrant teal/green tea with sweet papaya and gentle floral notes that only needs a touch of honey to sweeten it. As it cools, it becomes a beautiful amber color and the papaya notes become bolder and mask the floral notes the tea initially brews with. If you want to use this tea in a blend then I recommend either leaning into other fruit white teas (hot with a splash of milk or creamer) or floral black teas (iced with honey).

I adore this tea; it is my absolute perfect blend!!! Fruity, floral, unique, and lightly sweet... I can't stop bringing this everywhere. As a super whimsical Caribbean girl with a heavy dose of delulu in her world outlook ;) not only does this tea speak to me as a human, it's PERFECT for my tastes! I need a steady stock of this tea for the rest of my life, please.

The tea was great! The bag it came it was beautiful and the papaya was delicious. Something I discovered on accident was that when you add a couple dashes of lemon juice; the tea becomes pink and it tastes SO MUCH BETTER!!! I think they should add lemon or something into the official recipe. My only quip is that I’d REALLY wish for more tea inside the bag. Especially for the price. At first, I thought the amount was perfect, but then when I opened the bag I realized that there really wasn’t much inside. I’d also love it if it had a bit more papaya in there too.