A celebration of the apple! Sweetness like a candied apple, fresh tart-floral notes of crispy crab apples.
Customers use these reviews to describe their experience with Sour Apple, including flavor, aroma, preparation preferences, strength, and how the tea fits into daily routines. Browse the full review history page by page to compare tasting notes, steeping tips, and favorite ways to enjoy this tea.
This tea taste just like a red delicious apple. Since it brews very strong I take 6oz of the tea and 4oz water to off set the strength. I use 1 tsp sugar to sweeten when making just 1 cup. When brewing a pot of it I use 5tbs of tea and 5 cups of water. Once brewed I use 4 cups cold water to the 5 cups brewed tea with 4 tbs sugar.
I added vanilla sugar to it and it tasted like a jolly rancher. was good cold or hot. just an all around good tea
I love having a cup of this tea cold brewed. It's so delightful and tart. I adore it so much. I first discovered it in a blend.
flavorful and colorful, tasty hot or cold. a lot of the fruity adagio teas are not bold enough to drink hot, but then they shine cold. this has the bite of a crisp green apple, with the body of hibiscus and rosehips. love the tart profile. well-balanced flavors. doesn't taste 'artificial' with the natural flavoring, but is very flavorful.
More tart than sour. It is very reminiscent of a sour apple but is somewhat more astringent in my opinion.
I was leary of this flavor but willing to give it a try. It has a string smell in the bag that isn't necessarily appealing. When brewed however, this turns into a tart delicious brew which is a beautiful amber.
Do you love the apple sucker part of the caramel apple lollipops they sell around halloween? Then you will love this tea. Zesty and refreshing!
Little to no flavor from this one. Had high hopes but was almost like drinking warm water.
Update 1/19/2024 CT. A little less tart today - I’d give it 3.5 ⭐️’s today.
This tea is definitely sour! It will pucker you up. It wasn’t bad just not one I would gravitate towards. CT 5/17/23 3.05g 212 for 7 min.
Maybe this tisane just had the misfortune to be ill-timed in the CommuniTEA rotation. When it's below freezing and snowing outside, iced tea is hardly appealing to me, but I find hibiscus far to sour when brewed hot. I was put off from the start, though, as I prepared the contents of the pouch to cold brew. The aroma reminded me of apple cider vinegar. After a 12 hour cold-brew, the resulting liquor was candy apple red and tasted - as other reviewers have noted - like green apple Jolly Ranchers. Though I was grateful the brew did not taste like vinegar, I still found it difficult to swallow as this familiar flavor was supported not by sweetness but by an off-putting bitterness. I suppose adding sweetener may have helped, but I wasn't curious or brave enough to try it. On a warmer day, maybe I would have given it more of a chance, but I doubt this would have been the tea for me regardless of the weather.
I read some review and thought okay this is gonna be like a tasty sour apple baked treat but literally all I can think is how do they make tea taste like a jolly rancher.
Not bad but a bit too weird for me.
Sour apple, check. A refreshing cold brew, not my favorite flavor, but it really does taste like a green apple. Fun!
This tea tastes like something you would drink sitting beside a bonfire on a chilly fall night. You can taste the tartness from the hibiscus. (I love the hibiscus) A Beautiful red color. It Smells like apples …reminds you of the hot apple cider packages.
Sweet, tart appley aroma. 212 @ 5 min. Strong hibiscus tartness, but the apple is lost. I'll try cold brewing this next time and hopefully the hibiscus is tamed so the apple comes through.
Smells like a crisp apple. Definitely has a sour apple flavor. Small amount of sweetener went a long way. Very smooth and fruity. Very recognizable flavors making it easy to enjoy. 1/19/24... I still very much like this tea.
Communitea Packet sampling: I'm not usually a fan of sour things, but this was surprizingly good. I put a little honey in and that reinforced the feeling that I was drinking a sour apple candy. It lingers on the tongue in a pleasant way and I'm glad I gave it a shot.
I really enjoyed the tea today. It was apple flavored with a hint of sour. Good tea again
It smells amazing, it steeps to a gorgeous color and then you drink it... and all you get is sour. Where is the apple? I gave it to my boyfriend to see if he got apple off of it was a no from him as well. I'm so bummed, I wanted to love this.
This definitely lives up to its name! Like a big bite of crisp, tart sour apple. I prefer it as a mixer, rather than drinking it alone. Steeped ~5 mins @ 200°
I threw this over ice, despite the great freeze outside, and it’s quite refreshing. The ice helps reduce that heavy tartness.
I can barely taste anything but hibiscus and this tea for me is a combination of tart with a touch of sour sour, not a good combination. I would love a nice apple tea without the hibiscus.
When steeped hot, with plenty of rock sugar, this is a nice, tasty tisane, though it isn’t one I yearn for, as I do for the berries! I think I have some more in my stash and will try it cold brewed with nothing added. I steeped today’s cup at 212 degrees for 7 minutes.
I like this blend, it is very refreshing. It has a perfect balance of sweet and sour, with a refreshing apple flavor that reminds me of fall. The color is a beautiful deep red, and the aroma is sweet and tangy apple scent. The flavor is delicious, it has a crisp and juicy apple taste with a hint of tartness from the hibiscus and rose hips. But is not too sour or too sweet, it is just right.
Haiku Review:
Why you so sour?
Did you overbrew your tea
Did you bang your knee?
Maybe one sock's loose?
It keeps sliding down your foot
And clings to your heel?
If asked my cup,
Well, my sour apple tea
He would say to me...
Apples can be tart
But it's hibiscus today
Who's moody he'd say
The flavor was lighter than I wanted. I was a little disappointed. I was hoping for a stronger flavor.
This tea isn't terrible, but it is ultimately too tart for my taste. It's more like a candy apple than a regular apple. If you like very tart teas, this is certainly one to try.
I didn’t think that the apple flavor came through very well for my taste. I might try it again, making it stronger next time
Love that this is an apple tea that isn’t all cinnamon and spice. It’s naturally sweet from the hibiscus, love it hot or cold.
This tea is spot on. So much so, that it almost taist more like unsweetened aple juice then it dose tea. This is good both hot and cold but my favorite way to enjoy it is warm, with a little cinnamon suger mixed it. Taist just like spiced cider.
Tastes a lot like apple cider! Strong apple smell and the hibiscus gives it a unique flavor combined with the apples. Definitely a go-to fall favorite.
We made this into an overnight iced tea and it was great. You got the strawberry flavor right away.
Very true to the name, this one tastes like a sour green apple candy. It's a fun tea to have cold steeped in the summer, and I could imagine it being fun in cocktails.
Yum. This smells and tastes like candy I loved when I was younger: sour apple Jolly Ranchers and Blow Pops. No sweetener or additives needed, lovely after dinner treat. 🍏
Tastes like a sour, fruity candy without being overpoweringly sour and yet not sweet, but still nicely balanced
A nice change of pace tea for the days I would like something different. It is a 'must be in the mood' tea for me.
This tea is amazing it smells so sour and fruity and is delicious
although it says sour apple, I won't say it has any sourness. it is very tasty, has rich flavor, but reading the name, I had a different expectation.
Shockingly good. Got this as a CommuniTEA sample and it’s just the right level of flavor - doesn’t taste like a Jolly Rancher, but it’s distinctly sour apple. This could be an everyday tea, which I was not expecting.
I do believe the flavor deliver as it says. Sour apple. I was surprised at the ability of the sour apple. Granny smiths piece perhaps. Fun taste.
CommuniTEA portion: 7 minutes at 212. A touch on the sour side for me. Hello the name. But still a decent apple taste with hints of cider. I don't normally sweeten my tea but might give it a shot next time.
Communitea Review: I would try this again. I enjoyed the ruby-colored liquid but it did not scream sour apple to me.
This smelled bad when I opened my CommuniTEA packet. It was a combination of chemical and moldy smell. After brewing for 10 min and adding monk fruit sweetener it was not drinkable and I had to pour it down the drain.
Whew! This is one sour tea! Not my tea of tea but I'm glad I tried it.
Not the biggest fan of this one. I know it is called sour apple, but it's still a little tart for my taste. Likely the hibiscus, which I always find to be a bit tart
A bright burst of tangy and tart apples in a cup. If it's a bit too sour, honey or agave can help to temper the bite.
This was pretty tasty! A tart apple flavor easily sweetened with sweetner. Nice and refreshing!
Hot and plain this was a bit too tart for me, which makes since as it is called sour apple. Iced with a bit of sugar I enjoyed this much more.
With a spot of sugar this tea is divine iced or hot. Most cooler days I prefer to make it hot, then put some aside to have iced later.
This tea is lovely cold brewed. It’s refreshing without being overly sweet.
Too sour for what I was looking for in a tea. Perhaps with less hibiscus this would have been a winner.