Strawberry Fields

I’m going to have to try this cold brewed with the rest of the bag!

I’m playing way too much SongPop on Facebook. I would go play on my phone but the sound is so low I can’t get anything right. I am destroying my competition in everything but “modern country” which I think two people have figured out they should choose in order to win against me, as I mute the sound and pick what they pick.

Because of this, I am also thinking a lot about “Strawberry Fields Forever” as I drink this. It used to be my favorite song! Every month or so, a local pizza place had some kind of appreciation night for my school and they had those little tableside juke boxes that played for the whole restaurant. Every time, I had to have “Strawberry Fields Forever” play. Didn’t care that it was The Beatles at the time, just liked it because I liked strawberries a lot.

This reminds me a bit of strawberry jello. It’s very strawberry but there’s just something in the background that one second makes me think jello and the next makes me think of cake.

Good thing I picked up some lovely strawberries today (thank you California for your neverending supply of them) because now I need some actual berries thanks to this tea.

Thanks, Kittenna!

I’m trying to cold-brew a different 2-3 teas each day, not only to have something on hand for when I need something thirst-quenching, but also as an integral part of my tea-stash-reduction plan (ok, there’s no real plan, I just thought it was a good idea!)

Anyhow, since I ordered so much fruity stuff from Teaopia last week, I figured I had better get started on some of them! Cold-brewed 2 tbsps of this one in two cups of water overnight. I was thinking to myself later that 1 tbsp/cup is not a sustainable amount, and could get very pricey, so it’s probably a bit overdone, but oh well.

This one smelled deliciously strawberry-like in the bag, and even cold-brewed, I’m still getting that aroma. It’s much like the 52teas Strawberry Pancake sort of candy strawberry aroma/flavour, which I’m partial to.

Aside from a bit of astringency (maybe I shouldn’t have cold brewed a white tea quite so long), this is one of the best iced teas I’ve had! Yum! Nice fruity strawberry flavour, which improves if I let the tea warm up in my mouth a bit. As usual, the flavour of the white tea is lost – I’ll have to check with this one whether it’s a cold-brewing thing or like DavidsTea, the white tea is just overwhelmed. Either way, it’s tasty. I’d buy this again at a significant discount (but the 30% off is not enough, given the much cheaper prices of Teaopia’s fruit blends).

I have been using my kids iced tea tumbler from DAVIDs lately (well, since I got it Monday), taking it to work with me with stuff from home and just filling it with water when it’s out, but today I decided to get more iced tea, and I went to Teaopia with it (no DAVIDs in the mall I work at). I knew that I was going for an iced tea (I don’t think the tumblers do hot, do they??) which means that my palate changes a little. I’m a little more open to herbals and fruit teas and teas with hibiscus as I can handle a little tart iced, just not hot. Though not super tart. And some of my favourite hot teas don’t necessarily work out well iced. Of course some are great both ways.

Anyhow, I told Danielle (I think that’s her name) that I wanted an iced tea, and I had been thinking of maybe Coconut Cream or Love Spell, but she brought over Strawberry Fields, and a few others, but Strawberry Fields won, hands down. So even though it has some hibiscus, it’s not terribly dominant, and I thought it was ok if it was iced.

And it was. AND, yet again, I took this one unsweetened! What is happening to me?! :P Probably for the better I’m taking more of my teas unsweetened, though I’m sure I will still be having some sweetened. Might it be better with a touch of agave/honey/sugar, etc? Probably. But I’m cool with it as is for now I think. The only thing I will say is that it was not terribly strong, and as the ice melted, it watered down pretty fast, and tasted like a slightly sweet and fruity water, like a spa water or something.

This is something I’ll definitely look into getting for the summer.

Daniel Scott drank NeoCitran

…Yeah, okay, it’s not tea. But as it turns out, I don’t have a lot of cold-busting teas in my cupboard. A few with lemongrass and/or ginger. And I’m getting sick of them.

But I used this one to make my Cream of Wheat today. Previously I’ve used Oh Canada from DAVIDsTEA, which also makes a good bowl of Cream of Wheat (if not a good tea), and Chocolate Orange/Oh Christmas Treat (also from DAVIDsTEA), which had a great chocolate-orange taste on top and a nauseating pu-erh taste underneath. (Note to self: pu-erh does not make great Cream of Wheat.)

This one makes an excellent bowl of mush! Tea taste is nice and light enough to not make the food taste odd. Strawberries come through decently; I wish they were just a little stronger…I’ll need to experiment. But with brown sugar added, this tastes a lot like when I was a kid and my parents would give me and my sister fresh strawberries to dip in brown sugar for dessert.

Steep time/temperature is how I prepared the tea before pouring it into the Cream of Wheat, obviously.

Unfortunately I found this tea to be very tart. I could not taste the strawberries at all. I tried two different steeps, but found both to be disappointing since this tea seems to be very popular. I will be returning this for something else.

I am really on a iced tea kick because it has been so nice lately!
I cold brewed this overnight.
What a lovely delicate strawberry tea! I really enjoyed this today.
It does not taste tart to me, so I am glad as I didn’t realize that there was hibiscus in this until after I drank it! Yay!

I had a cuppa from the shop this morning…. and enjoyed it immensely! However, David’s strawberry white has set the bar out of reach on this one. If I had to compare the two, David’s would win hands down.
This tea is heavier on the strawberry. Without any sugar at all the sweet yet tart aroma and flavour is strong. The white tea takes more of a backseat but it’s nice for a change. I can imagine, like most tea’s I love, that it would be fantastic iced.
As for the finish/aftertaste… it has that same mild pleasant taste but has a slightly acrid lingering effect that I don’t see in David’s version- I suspect because the strawberry is less prominent.
Overall, I would buy this again… but only hot in a cup, not to take home with me- and that’s assuming I can’t get to a David’s :)
(errr, just in case that wasn’t clear!)
Also, bring breathmints… I needed them!

I got my Teaopia order a couple days ago and broke into it with this last night as I was making tea for my boyfriend and I and he likes strongly flavoured fruity teas. This smelled like it would fit the bill.

I was worried at first. I am not pleased with the bags Teaopia shipped in – they don’t seal. Also, I was surprised by the fruit chunks:tea ratio as this was priced like most other whites but most of the bag seemed to be fruit pieces.

Anyway, it turned out very tasty and berryful and I think it would be a good iced tea.

Made with steeps of around a minute I did not find this tea to be tart like others were finding. Instead I am getting a kind of strawberry shortcake type flavour, as the fruit mixes with the creaminess of the white tea. Having said that the fruity flavour doesn’t last through resteeps. Pleasant enough but not a must have, which is good as it is no longer available.

This is the first white tea that i’ve tried and it just might be the last. I still open my pouch just to smell the wonderful aroma once and a while. It is a fantastically fruity tea that tastes amazing!

At least the tea tastes better than it smells. There is something in it that makes me question the ingredients. However, it tastes wonderfully light. Best enjoyed hot, or iced with some honey.

Faint undertones of white tea come through, the dominant flavor is the strawberry and hibiscus.

Maybe I should’ve tried this one iced. Most of the reviews rave about it, but I found it wasn’t that great brewed hot.

I ended up mixing it with the creamed earl grey also from Teaopia and that helped it, but it’s not a tea I would buy again.

While I do enjoy this tea, it tastes more like melon than strawberry. Not BAD, but not what I expected or hoped for. Still good, though.

I could drink this forever. It’s a perfect afternoon perk-me-up tea for me, light and a sweet flavour.

ohhh man this one is super tasty. It is pretty much straight up strawberry flavor. Honestly I prefer this one iced as it doesn’t need any sweetening and it is great for a hot summers day.