You've had too much coffee and tea, but have you ever had coffee and scented tea?

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What is it?

What is it?

It's coffee and tea. This may sound incomprehensible, but let's put it this way-entry-level coffee lovers will be keen on single-origin coffee beans, and more geeks will try coffee fruit tea (cascara), a tea brewed with dried coffee fruits from specific areas.

Coffee scented tea is weirder than coffee fruit tea. I tasted a bag of Finca el Fuerte coffee flowers from Bolivia. This is a companion gift brought back by my colleague and veteran coffee expert Jeffrey from Has Bean Coffee in England.

How is it made?

How is it made?

According to Steve Leighton, the operator of Has Bean Coffee, coffee flowers are harvested when they are about to wither so as not to affect the harvest of coffee fruits. Out of curiosity, he asked the coffee bean supplier to keep a batch of coffee flowers for them. 'it 's a very hard work,'he said.

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Coffee is usually harvested in the dry season. Coffee trees grow slowly in the dry season because of lack of water. When the rainy season comes, the coffee trees will bloom with beautiful flowers and a sweet smell-if any brand introduces aftershave with the same smell, I will definitely buy it. Flowering means the beginning of a new season of work, and the fruit begins to grow, providing us with wonderful coffee beans.

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Following the video tutorial released by Has Bean, we soaked 4 grams of dried flowers in 300ml hot water for 2 minutes.

Herbal tea (Tisane) vs tea (Teas)

Herbal tea generally refers to drinks made from non-tea plants, such as herbs, berries, flowers, seeds and spices, such as ginger tea, wheat tea, scented tea, ginseng tea and so on. The biggest difference between herbal tea and tea is that it does not contain caffeine-although we are not sure whether coffee flowers contain a small amount of caffeine.

How does it taste?

How does it taste?

Twisted lightly at the fingertips, the brown dried flowers are fragile like rotten wood and emit a sweet smell similar to longan and litchi. After brewing, the tea stimulates the smell of bark and honey. It tastes sweet and, according to Has Bean, "gives the illusion that sugar has been added". But its sweetness is not excessive, like a cup of fine chrysanthemum tea, like a warm hug of healing.