Spicewalla Chai Masala

I love this! After a lot of searching & testing awful teas, I finally found a delicious spice! I add this to my own plain regular or decaf hot tea. It's so good, there's no need for milk or sweetener. It's a fine powder, so it's not gritty. Has all of the great ingredients for a good Chai spice & not just an overwhelming cinnamon flavor. Has a good bite with the ginger, pepper, cardamom. It's a good value, fresh tasting. I used it in an apple pie & it was awesome, too.

Great Chai spice blend. Love the flavors of cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, black pepper and allspice.

Came In packed and in a squarish tin box. Fresh and long shelf life. Had a nice aroma to it when I opened the box. I will say for one cup use 1/4 tsp or so so it’s not overpowering specially if you do t add sugar like me. I made my cup of teabag tea and added 1/4 tsp of it and I liked it. Had hints If ginger but I feel the allspice might be overpowering it a bit and wished it wasn’t there. But I still liked the flavor.

This is one of those rare products that immediately DELIGHTS a customer. The packaging is a gem; I can see these becoming collectors' items. Like the finest teas, this chai spice is packed in a light- and air-proof tin canister, with a tight-fitting inner lid. Two lids total. As it should be. When you open it, the scent will make you drool like a St. Bernard eyeing a T-bone on the counter. The taste of the chai blend is addictive, with just a touch of ginger and black pepper heat. The cinnamon plays a back-seat role. Ginger, clove, and cardamon predominate. It's a masterful mix. The spices are very finely ground. If you use a tea bag no straining is required. One less step to bliss. Truly a wonderful product, highly recommended.

Received it today & I must say it smells & tastes authentic just like chai masala should. What I don’t like is that the masala needs to be shaken like a salt or pepper shaker. I’d much rather it like a regular tin with a small spoon. I’m afraid exposure to steam from hot tea will deteriorate the quality &/or cause clumping or even spoilage. For now, it’s good value for money.

This is a perfect blend of spices and closest you will get to authentic Indian Masala Chai other than grinding all the spices yourself. To those that complain it doesn't dissolve, it is not supposed to. It is ground perfectly to be infused in your tea. It does settle but when it does, those gritty spices have no more flavor. The flavors have been absorbed by the tea. Just don't drink the very bottom of the cup. There is no "cayenne" in this as one reviewer said but has a nice peppery after taste from the black pepper. Ginger is the strongest flavor. I use 1/4 tsp of spice and just a touch of stevia while I steep my black tea for 5 minutes. Then I froth some 2% milk and add it to the tea after removing tea bag. My husband is hooked and asks for it every morning. Keep the container well sealed as all fresh spices lose their potency to air over time.

i got the smaller amount that comes in the metal tin and unfortunately i am not happy with it. first of all i have made masala chai a couple times with this changing the ratios of things trying to make it work, balanced milk and water, more water less milk, even less milk. i've found to be able to taste it at all, i need to use 4 times the recommended amount. to make 10 oz i have to use a whole tsp. this would be gone in less than two weeks at that rate. the flavors are super unbalanced, the only flavors i can distinctly make out are ginger and black pepper. i don't know if the ratios are just off from production or if this is a result of it being pre ground and them going stale in short order due to the container not having an airtight seal and the aromatics just disappearing rapidly. i'll be returning this and trying a different brand that gives me more for the money while also being cheaper. at least with that it will be economical for me to simply add what's missing to balance out the flavor if it's the same kind of thing.

Very high quality Chai spice that you add into any cup of hot or cold black tea of your choice, to turn it into a chai beverage. I like that the powder comes loose in the cannister (in a bag) so you can measure out how much you need. The flavor emphasizes ginger as more prominent than cinnamon, and I love the kick of ginger. Have grown tired of the "too much cinnamon" trend that has been dousing many of our foods of late, at the expense of over-powering other delicate flavors. Also, many times products out there contain an ingredient called "natural flavors" which are actually NOT natural at all in many cases, and the manufacturer doesn't tell you the source of these so-called "natural" additives they label as "flavors". However this product does NOT have additives under the guise of "natural flavors" so I'm such a happy customer about that. The ingredients are labeled directly as just ginger, cinnamon, green cardamom, black pepper, and allspice. Yes delicious allspice, which other chai tea brands don't usually have. GREAT product also because you can add it to your vanilla puddings, Greek yogurt, rice, couscous and quinoa dishes, as well as sprinkle on desserts or even on fish, which I have done to wide appeal from my dinner guests. Can't say enough about this wonderful product... I love Spicewalla's "Chai Masala" blend!!!