Watermelon Black Tea (Iced Tea Series)

HOT review…

This infuses super dark super fast. The watermelon isn’t as hardcore as I was hoping but then again I was a rebel and did this hot first. I will review and rate based on the cold…stay tuned.

Special thanks to The Purrfect Cup for this one! It smells AWESOME!!!!!

I received my iced tea series today and this is the first tea that I had to try.

Very good! The black tea is strong with a juicy watermelon taste. It isn’t a strong, cloying flavor – this isn’t your average iced tea. I really like this a lot.

My daughter picked this one out. She thought it would make a watermelon. :) (She’s three.) Okay, it’s good, but I don’t know if I made it right. I’m getting a vegetal/watermelon taste, which isn’t what I expected. The watermelon is great. It’s not sweet, just the flavor is present. My husband even likes it, but added Splenda to his.

I used the Breville and brewed it at 205/4 min with the basket cycle to agitate it. I just dumped the whole packet in and then added 40 oz. of water (which is as high as you can do a tea cycle with the Breville.) I figured the amount of water doesn’t matter all too much as it’s going to be iced anyway, which adds more water. I’m just not certain why I’m getting such a vegetal taste to the tea. Any ideas?

I don’t know if I like this one or not. The melon flavor is pretty natural tasting which is great, but there’s something that makes me not love this tea. Maybe it’s the aftertaste? I can’t put my finger on it…

So, it took me a while to get around to trying this and I’m not sure why. Last night I finally dumped maybe half of one of the packets into some cold water, and tried it this morning. Delicious! I was mostly worried that it would be too strong if I hot-brewed it, and I was worried that it would be too weak cold-brewed, but this is actually perfect. Really flavourful and refreshing. It made me buy the second iced tea series even though I am so beyond my tea “budget” these days.

Backlogged from the weekend. THIS one I brewed right. It tastes like watermelon without being overpowering.

Drank it outside in the bright bright sun with my family. Mom loves it too!

Thank you TeaEqualsBliss! I didn’t like this when I brewed it hot then iced it.. So I just went with cold brewing it and it’s awesome. Light and ever so slightly watermelony!

I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel

Due to receiving two packets of this, I set one aside for iced tea and opened one up right away to try hot. Because I’m difficult that way. I also cooled it down to drinking temp with a frozen slice of watermelon. It was very good, the tea came out a bit bitter to me, but I’m picky about my black teas. I look forward to trying it again, though!