Coconut Rum Tropical Green Tea

Tea #17 from the ‘Here’s Hoping’ teabox.

My daughter wanted to try this as her morning tea. I didn’t think she would like it, so I just brewed up the one cup thinking I would finish it. Turns out she loved it. Loved it! I was able to get her to let me try a couple of sips, but this is more her tea review than mine.

Lots of pineapple and coconut flavor mixed with the sweet grassiness of the green tea. The rum (which my daughter referred to as ‘the odd flavor’) lingers on the front of the tongue throughout the sip. No sugar required. The tea is plenty sweet on its own.

She also hinted that this would be great with coconut cake. Looks like I have another tea to add to my shopping list and some baking to do.

Thank you Will Work For Tea for allowing me to try this one! This is the tea bag version of this, if it matters. I think this is one of those teas that will be really sensitive to water temp and steep time. You have to get it just right. My cup was SO bitter. But there was a definite coconut fragrance and flavor. I didn’t seem to find any pineapple. Just bitter bitter bitter. I’m not even sure what it’s from. I’ll really have to try this one differently next time. Sad, I really wanted to like this one as I LOVE Zhena’s Lavender Rooibos! This is getting the same rating as the bitter Harney Earl Grey Supreme I had yesterday. They can be bitter buddies!

The rum and coconut certainly dominate here! I almost think I shouldn’t drive after drinking it and if I drank it before 5 I’d feel I was behaving badly! I’m not tasting the pineapple at all (and I really searched for it!). I was pretty put off by this fact, as the whole pina colada idea was what drew me in in the first place. In my next infusion I will try to monitor the temperature a little better and see if that helps.

Thanks again to Erin for this lovely (and generous!) sample!

I’ve been itching to try some Zhena’s Gyspy tea and she has scratched my itch. Happy!
For a bagged tea, I am enjoying! The flavour is light, but with some coconut milk and rum (how fitting haha!) it’s a nice, simple treat. Sometimes my palette just wants some simplicity.

I’ve made a huge mistake…..

thought this was rooibos for some reason

This tea is quite tasty. Sweet, very coconutty and nice rum flavor. The green tea base is somewhat muted, not too astringent, which I like. I feel like this would be better iced than hot — I will have to try it out on a warm day.

Thank you Jaime for sending me this sample to try. I found it very interesting and very sensitive to water temperature. I made this once as if it were a Rooibos and steeped it for 6 mintues in error and it was terrible. This is the second time around and for some reason I treated it as a black tea and used boiling water. However, I steeped it for 2 1/2 mins and it was infinitely better. I still found it a bit bitter but the tropical flavors did shine a lot better this time around. Next time I will be sure to use a lower temperature. I have high hopes that it will be much better.

Making sure that the temperature is right certainly makes a difference with this tea. If you brew it with too hot water, it’s bitter and thick and must either be watered down or mixed with something to be drinkable (I usually use lemonade).

When brewed with the correct temp, it’s still thick, but not bitter. The pineapple is the most prominent note, then coconut, followed by a healthy taste of rum. The green tea base is almost lost, but there’s a grassy note in the aftertaste that let’s you know it was there. Not my favorite of Zhena’s, but if you like coconuts and rum, it’s worth a try.

Edited because I can’t type or spell right now.