Rooibos Chai from Rooibos Rocks is regular Natural Rooibos tea spiced up with a fragrant Chai blend of star anise, ginger, cardamom, cinnamon and a pop of pepper.  All of these added ingredients are organic.

Rooibos Chai combines the incredibly smooth, gentle, sweet and slightly nutty taste of Rooibos with a aromatic twist of spicy tanginess.  

Rooibos is unique and rare.  It grows wild in the Cederberg Mountains a couple of hours north of Cape Town – and nowhere else.  The hot and dry summers, winter rainfall and coarse sandy soil are ideally suited to the Rooibos plant.

The indigenous people have used it to brew tea for as long as anyone can remember.  In more recent times local farmers attempted to cultivate it as a crop.  This proved exceedingly difficult but they eventually succeeded.  This combination of distinctive ecosystem and specialist knowledge means that all the Rooibos in the world comes from one tiny community in South Africa’s Western Cape. 

“Roy-Boss”.  Easy!

If you would like to see our fun video on the correct way to pronounce Rooibos then click here. 

Yes, totally. It contains no colourants, additives or preservatives.

No.  Despite its naturally sweet taste it’s totally sugar free and has no calories or kilojoules. 

It rather depends on your own personal preference.  The standard method is to steep your Rooibos Chai teabag in boiling water for 4-5 minutes.  Leave it in the water for longer to create a stronger and more flavorful beverage.  It is much lower in tannins than regular tea so a longer brewing will not produce any bitter aftertaste.  

It's naturally sweet and tastes delicious hot or cold with honey and a slice of lemon. Some like to add a splash of milk, but we prefer it natural. Rooibos Tea can also be used for a delicious Cold Brew, Sun Tea or Ice Tea.

Yes, yes, yes!  You’ll find some very tempting Rocktail ideas using Rooibos Chai if you visit our blog.

Absolutely.  Rooibos Chai adds an extra depth of flavor to a wide variety of recipes from roasts to cakes and desserts to bread.Check out our blog for recipes that rock!  

This is a matter of personal taste.  Rooibos is naturally sweet so you don’t need to add sugar.  But some people do prefer to add sugar or maybe honey.  Again, adding milk is a matter of personal preference.

Yes, just brew as normal and then chill it.  Or cold brew it (see below).

You just steep some Rooibos Chai tea bags in a pitcher of cold water for about 12 hours in a refrigerator then enjoy as delicious iced Rooibos. 

Same process as cold brewed but you leave the pitcher in the sun for a couple of hours, then chill or serve with ice.

Basically it is Rooibos Chai served with hot milk – a great bedtime treat as it’s caffeine-free.  There are different variations you can try but basically you brew a couple tea bags in a small cup of water that’s just boiled.  Let it steep until you have a strong concentrate.  

You might (according to taste) add sugar, honey or maple syrup.  Add hot milk (you can froth it if you like) to your tea concentrate using a 1:1 ratio to ensure that the tea flavor stays strong. 

You bet!  Just use your imagination or whet your appetite with the smoothie ideas on our blog.

Rooibos and organic ingredients used for Rooibos provides income and employment to more than 5000 people in the Cederberg region.  The annual crop earns an estimated R500 million per year.  Most Rooibos farms provide housing and schooling for the local people who work on the Rooibos farms. 

What’s more, the industry as a whole pays 1.5% of the value of each year’s crop to the indigenous Khoi San people who used the plant for hundreds of years before it began to be cultivated on a large scale.  This payment usually amounts to roughly $650,000 a year.

Organic Rooibos and the organic ingredients in Rooibos Chai are grown without the use of any artificial fertilisers or pesticides. The organic status of the product is monitored by various international organizations that provide organic certification.  Rooibos Rocks is certified organic and non-GMO by the US Department of Agriculture.