Well past the expiry date ?

I have teas that are 30 years past expiry that taste fine because of other reasons like proper storage. If the packaging is properly sealed tea tins then don't worry. You shouldn't be able to smell any tea through cardboard and cellophane packaging. This packaging normally has the sealed aluminum foil for the tea. The expiry date is money in your pocket. The expiry date is a government regulation.

Jim

mario wrote:

Cardboard package has plastic traslucent foil, and the foil is intact, but i can smell the tea. However, it is a vague odor. The place where tea was stored in, is moisty :/ Anyway, I`m going to drink it, thanks for the advice.

Actually, there are a few teas that taste better when they're stale- if they start out with tastes of cigarette or tobacco smoke, or fishy, or like fresh manure or library paste, they can sometimes be redeemed by being put in the back of the cupboard for a few months or years. Toci

You might as well give it a taste. If it still tastes good, drink it. If not, ditch it.

Try it. It will probably taste stale, and also the bergamot flavour will have changed as well.

When tea gets old, most of the lighter and more delicate flavours disappear, and the bitterness and tannic flavours remain behind. Because the Earl Gray is also flavoured with bergamot, though, you have the additional change to the bergamot flavour. If the original tea was overly soaked with bergamot, like some Earl Greys are, it might be quite nice once it's lost some of its flavour. If it started out as a good tea, it's probably mostly bitter and stale. Try it and see.

--scott

In a couple of years when I move from my tea sarcophagus to the coast I'm planning on a wake.

Jim

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