Rooibos Honig (German Honey Rooibos)

Rooibos Honig is honey-flavored rooibos, a staple of German tea shelves. Honey blends often use honey aroma, honey granules or sweet date pieces alongside the South African rooibos. Brewed in a teapot at 100°C for five to eight minutes.

Origin & Story

Germany is a nation of tea drinkers whose favorites are not black tea. Of the 66 liters of tea each German drank in 2025, according to the German Tea Association, about 39 liters were herbal and fruit infusions and about 27 were black and green tea. Rooibos fits that habit well: it is mild, caffeine-free and easy to flavor.

It is also where the rooibos trade runs through. By the mid-1960s Germany had become the biggest importer of rooibos, and Hamburg, the center of the continental tea trade, became the hub from which rooibos was sent on to the rest of western Europe, the United States and Japan.

Rooibos Honig, honey rooibos, is one of the flavored blends that grew out of that market. Read the label and the honey is rarely just honey: ingredient lists for German honey rooibos blends show honey aroma, honey granules and sweet date pieces, with marigold petals for color and sometimes vanilla or lemon.

Those ingredients make a cup that tastes sweet without sugar, and rooibos has so little tannin that a long steep only makes it rounder.

Steep 3.5 g of rooibos Honig in 240 ml of water at 100°C for five to eight minutes.

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