Tropicalia

Tastes like Pina Colada

I put off ordering this one for a long time because it didn’t sound like my sort of thing, but it was super cheap, so I threw a bag in my most recent order. I’m glad I did! The flavor is mostly a refreshing coconut and pineapple. It’s pretty pleasant cold. It’s light and tasty, and the cold resteep is flavorful too. It’s simple, but good.

Ashmanra’s sipdown challenge – June 2023 Tea #5 – June 29 – International Day of the Tropics: drink a tropical tea!

Nope, nevermind tomorrow — I snuck in a tropical tea tonight.  And could the name of this tea BE more accurate for this prompt?!? I just happened to have this one along on the trip.  It’s aging.  Not fantastically.  but that is understandable, and could be worse at this point.

Sipdown! 110/395

Another tea I put off drinking because I remembered not liking it. I thought I’d already wrote a note for this tea the first time, saying as much, but I can’t find it anywhere. I remember it tasting and smelling a bit sicky (sorry), and this tea was in fact the first step in my discovery that I don’t usually like pineapple teas. I decided to bite the bullet and drink it now before my taste comes back, and I must say that it is a lot better than I remembered it. Still has a faint sicky aroma while brewing, but no sour sick taste, just a sweet candied pineapple fruitiness. I suspect the ‘candied’ aspect comes from the little candy heart pieces, which I must admit are very pretty. It is rather a nondescript kind of flavour, but ‘nondescript’ is much better than ‘sicky’ in my book.

Thank you Hapatite for sending this to me in my first ever tea swap! It started something pretty huge.

I tried a cup of this tea iced with nothing else added and thought that it wasn’t sweet enough. Plain, it tastes like pineapple and coconut without the natural sugars. I didn’t care for it too much that way. Then, I decided to mix it with some Coco Colada from DT. I enjoy this tea so much more that way and often crave the combination of the two teas if I am wanting an iced tea to cool off with. I wouldn’t repurchase alone, but in combination with Coco Colada, I would definitely consider it.

I gave this an “OK+ / meh” rating. I would only buy it again if it were on sale. So many better teas out there.

This tea is sorta waxy to me. Anyone else have that problem with it?

I really wanted to like this tea because I love pina coladas and it smelled lovely. But I’m not a fan of this tea.

This tea is amazing iced. I made sure to hoard as much of it as possible to enjoy for quite some time. It’s light-tasting and refreshing to sip.

Another from my generous swap-package from Nattie :D

I was really curious about this one – it looked so funky in the packet and smelled really fruity. This morning, I didn’t really want anything caffeine-y before I had breakfast, and I usually like fruit juice with bread and cheese, so this seemed like an excellent cold-weather choice (I did a “normal” brew, obv). I probably oversteeped it a little (I reckon I did around 7 or 8 minutes).

It was really fruity! I was actually kinda surprised by how fruity it was. Especially because most fruit teas I’ve tried so far have been berry/hibiscus based, so this was a nice change. I’ve never drank a Pina Colada (I don’t drink alcohol, at all), so I couldn’t comment on whether or not it tasted like one. But everyone else seems to think it does, so I guess it succeeds on that front! :D

People are all talking about cold brewing this, and I probably have enough left in the packet to do a cold brew. Maybe I’ll try that later in the week and see what I think…

Either way, this made for a lovely fruit tea – genuinely intense fruit flavours (I got that “tropical” flavour, which I’m guessing is pineapple and coconut mostly) and a lovely, non-artificial sweetness :D Thanks again, Nattie!