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After reading the initial reviews of this tea (I believe there were only four at the time), I decided to visit my local David’s to find out for myself if it would work for me. I had them make me a hot tea with 2% milk and a tiny amount of sweetener. Not bad, but the flavor in general wasn’t strong enough for me to decide. I took home an ounce. I wanted to try this iced, and decided to add more of the tea than I would normally to try to get more flavor. I also tried it hot the following day. My takeaway was this: if you are looking for a strawberry flavor that is reminiscent of a ripe, juicy, sweet fruit, then this is not going to work for you. The dry leaf aroma reminded me of strawberry chewing gum (like Bubblicious – do they even make that anymore or am I dating myself? – or maybe Frankenberry or Crunchberry cereal). Iced or hot, that fake strawberry still comes through if you give it enough leaf. I personally don’t mind it, if I know that’s what I’m getting into, but if I’m expecting a true fruit flavor and get this? Well, I can understand why some people would be put off. That being said, it’s DavidsTea, which usually has more fun, trendy flavors rather than serious, fine teas, so I get it. And I like this, although I don’t think I’ll be getting more of it.

Flavors: Artificial, Floral, Strawberry, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 6 min, 15 sec 2 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
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I forgot to add one more thing: when I put the steeped tea into the fridge for the iced version, it became really cloudy – the cloudiest brew I’ve ever seen. I know this happens often, but it’s really unattractive. I’m getting persnickety about this lately. Never used to bug me, but I can’t see through this stuff at all! Sludgy.

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I forgot to add one more thing: when I put the steeped tea into the fridge for the iced version, it became really cloudy – the cloudiest brew I’ve ever seen. I know this happens often, but it’s really unattractive. I’m getting persnickety about this lately. Never used to bug me, but I can’t see through this stuff at all! Sludgy.

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