Forever Nuts

I really enjoyed this tea as a sort of dessert. I loved the way it smelled. You could really smell the apple and cinnamon. Yum!

As this one is a best-seller, I decided to give it a try…I only made it one sip into the cup before I had enough. I found the flavour really wierd and it honestly made me sick to my stomach…I will not be trying again.

Am I crazy, or does this tea taste A LOT like Apple Cinnamon Cheerios? It’s still absolutely delicious, don’t get me wrong, but its resemblance to my favourite childhood cereal has me craving it for comfort’s sake.

Try it out!

I like this one. I add a bit of sugar and I sit comfortably to enjoy this little treat. I bought a 100g.

Looks like pink grapefruit juice. The smell reminds me of walking around a food court or theme park with lots of places selling sweets. Taste reminds me of churros mixed with apple cinnamon rolls. I like it.

Possibly my new favourite tea? I don’t know how I went so long without trying this. With a little bit of sweetener it tastes like you’re drinking mini-donuts. There’s no bitterness at all. I suppose the only downside is that there’s very little actual tea flavour to be had, but I don’t really care too much when it tastes this good.

an amazing fruity infusion. dry, and steeped, this tea has such a pleasant aroma of apples and oatmeal and nuts… the beet gives it a gorgeous pink hue and a natural sweetness … i am NOT a fruit-tea person. i was expecting more of a nutty flavour. but this mix was such a lovely surprise, and i’m delighted to have found another herbal infusion (aside from Mulberry magic) from DavidsTEA that i am enthusiastic about.

It wasn’t as flavorful as I expected but the smell was incredible – like apple crisp as another reviewer mentioned. Looking forward to trying again.

Bizarre. Made of almonds, apple, cinnamon, and beetroot. It’s pink! It’s very, very pink. Like, put milk in it, and you could legitimately confuse it for Pepto Bismol (methinks I just found myself a great April Fool’s prank…). Reminds me of granola or apple pie. So if you’re in the mood for a cup of tea that tastes utterly unlike a cup of tea and more like a cup of breakfast, than this is the tea for you.

This tea smells amazing – like delicious cinnamon apple crumble or cake baking in the oven.

I had 64g of this tea, and this is the first cup I’ve made that actually has tasted good. Honestly, it’s pretty delicious made this way, tasting like baked goods and oats. I used over 1 tbsp of the nuts and apples in an 8 oz cup, and added some almond milk and honey. Since I only got 4 or 5 cups of tea out of 64g, and this is the only cup that has impressed me, I’m not ever going to buy this one again. The cost is extremely prohibitive, and the outcome just isn’t always worth it. It’s too bad because it smells SO good.

Ah, Forever Nuts. The tea that finally swayed me to the side of Big Tea. (The husband imagines some large SPECTRE type tea conglomeration ruling over the world and desperately trying to put more people under it’s spell as he can’t fathom why anyone would drink it.)

I’ll concur that there is more of an apple cinnamon flavouring, but I still do notice a nutty undertone. I drink this with increasingly less sweetener as time goes on, occasionally some honey but more often than not just on it’s own. This is the tea I give to friends who want to try something new and I’ve yet to encounter anyone who didn’t enjoy it (aside from the aforementioned husband who likened it to tree bark.)

This tea smells delicious and has an awesome pink (pink!!) color from the bits of beetroot. That’s mostly what I love about it: the nut-tastic smell and color. Taste… not as much. It’s kind of a weak tasting apple cider. There is a hint of nut, which I really love though. Very yummy smelling, and somewhat yummy tasting tea.

Frankly, Better for eating than drinking.

I think in song.

That may seem like an odd sentence, but I swear it’s true.

Okay, so maybe not all my thoughts are musically-based, but it hardly takes anything — a word, a phrase, a few hummed notes, a picture of something or a soundalike — and I’m off with a song firmly stuck in my head.

This tea is one of the ones that does it to me far too easily.

While there are a few songs that I suppose could be equally likely to be the cause of this, for me it’s the fault of a certain Alphaville song that may have been covered by (among others) One Direction…. (For those of you thinking of the Rod Stewart song, you’d also be right, it’s just not the one that comes to mind for me.)

For me, it’s a fun game. And a genre-crossing one too, sometimes with results that I’m sure the tea creators or musical artists ever thought possible (though I’m still nowhere near being the next Weird Al).

Still, there’s something all too fun about changing a certain song from A Muppet Christmas Carol to be all about how there’s only one more steep till Christmas. (Tea humour is a wonderful thing, is it not?)

Anyway, today’s musical tea, and another beautiful red/pink-steeping one is reviewed below for your enjoyment.

Steeped: 1tbsp in my 2-cup pot. Made with freshly boiled water.

First Cup: Steeped 5 1/4 minutes. Clear.
More fuchsia than yesterday’s “red tea”, though it’s still the same ingredient (beetroot) creating the colour. There’s a lovely fruitiness from the apple, nuttiness from the almond (which, by the way, is the only nut in this), and sweetness from the cinnamon. Nowhere near as pungent as yesterday’s tea, and I somewhat miss that, but quite enjoyable. Hoping it will be stronger with the second cup (same steep, brewed longer).

Second cup: Steeped approx 30-40 minutes. Clear.
Stronger fruitiness. There’s a lovely, sweet aftertaste which lingers after. The nutty flavour comes out quite nicely as well. Still a little mild, but stronger.

Third cup: Resteep. Steeped for 10 minutes. Clear.
The tea is now a salmon pink. Still some fruity and nutty flavour, but very mild. Nothing unexpected, though, as most tisanes don’t resteep well at all. (I’ve always wondered how flavoured teas can, but tisanes can’t. Anyone have any idea?)

Fourth cup: Same resteep. Steeped for around 40 minutes. Clear.
Although there’s not much substance, there’s still a lovely ghost of nutty, fruity flavour that lingers long after the tea is drank. Pleasant, though not substantial.

Overall impression: This tea is very delicious, but also very light. I feel like I would want to brew this at a higher strength than recommended (and I used a heaping tbsp as it was!), in order to try and get a stronger flavour from the tea. However, the flavour that is there is good — fruity and nutty, though I’m still not sure how accurate a name Forever Nuts is when only one nut is involved. (That being said, it still makes me want to sing, so I guess it’s all good.)

My rating: 79. B+ Lovely, but not quite enough… substance to get an A from me.

Tea #12. Seems to taste almost exactly like Sleigh Ride that I had yesterday. I said that Sleigh Ride tasted like liquid apple pie, well this tastes like a cross between apple and pecan pie to me. Overall not quite as good as Sleigh Ride for me so I’m rating it a little lower.

My friend made me discover this tea a while ago and I thought it smelled fantastic, but I could not describe the flavour. I later bought 50g of it and I absolutely fell in love with it! Before steepes, it smells like apple pie with a hint of a nutty flavour. But once steeped, the experience begins. We smell the whole nutty part of it with a cinnamon smell that fills your nose. The taste is somehow very complex: a soft taste of apple in the background that then changes with sweet hints of beetroots, that is mixed with a cinnamon smell. That is all completed with notes of nuts.

It’s an amazing herbal tea. That’s the only way I can describe it.

I love this tea hot or cold. Hot its got a lovely smooth almondy flavor but cold it tastes like apple cinnamon cheerios. It does I swear! You’ll have to try it!

I think that it’s very interesting that this is one of DTs best sellers. It has a lot going for it; the aroma (dry and brewed) is out of this world, the colour is really cool, the name is clever. A lot of people point out that this is really a ‘tisane’ and I think that’s important to remember. The brewed taste of this tea is very subtle, definitely has a mild tartness but not a lot of nuttiness. But the smell….oh the smell.

For me, this is a Tea Experience, and it’s is about holding a hot cup up to your face, inhaling the aroma and then taking a sip of the subtle sweetness. I don’t think that it’s necessary for the taste of the tea to match the flavour. It’s comforting, smooth and special.

I have had it with sweetner (agave) and without. I think a touch of sweetner enhances the flavours and that’s how I will continue to drink it. It’s too bad that it is heavy and expensive, but for me it’s worth it.

Just the aroma of the dry tea makes me want to eat it straight out of the can. Steeped, it is a lovely, nutty cup of comfort – delicious on its own or with milk and a bit of rock sugar.

The first time I discovered David’s Tea on Mt Royal, I had this tea to go. It was like having an apple pie in a cup.
I don’t think I had ever been so impressed by a tea.
So it is one of my favorites.
Teavana just came up with the same exact thing this season.