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Tried this one iced today. As I noticed when my hot cup had cooled down a little, this tea tastes very different cold. I don’t really notice the fruitiness and the taste reminds me of a cross between green tea and camomile. It’s not unpleasant, but having never been a fan of camomile I’m not a huge fan. Definitely prefer this one rather hot which brings out the peach.

Last night I visited a friend’s house. I noticed her tea collection and she last me take home a few samples, including this one.

At first sip I get lemon and a light peachy sweetness. It’s fruity and juicy. As the cup cools down the juiciness fades and a taste almost similar to camomile, but not as intense, comes out. Overall I like it, but prefer it before it has a chance to cool down.

Yay! A new medicinal herbal blend from DAVIDs tea with no artificial flavours or hibiscus!

I like this one a lot-I’ve recently discovered how much I like lemon herbal teas and that’s the first flavour in this tea, followed by hints of apple and peppermint. I’m personally not detecting vanilla right now but that’s alright. This tea is supposed to help someone go to sleep but it doesn’t have an y chamomile in it so I can’t see it effecting me too much in that way.

Either way, thank you, David’s, for creating a new herbal blend that I really like (it’s been really few and far in between lately between all the super-fruity, hibiscus, and artificial stuff you’ve been putting out).

Sipdown! I’m glad it’s out of the way. You really need to be in the mood for it. I noticed DAVIDs is offering an Espresso Yourself chocolate bar right now. I almost got it but thought it could be really hit or miss.

I woke up feeling gross this morning, like on the verge of getting sick. And you know how sometimes you get that hollow feeling in your stomach and you’re getting continual mixed signals throughout the day regarding hunger? Like you’re hungry but you’re not? I’m so getting that today, and ended up eating more than usual today and feel horrible for it. Have been so good at restricting lately. Ugh.

DAVIDsTEA’s email advertising their 40% summer sale, including this tea (online only, though, I guess) prompted me to get off my behind and walk over to pick up more of this before it’s gone, plus some others.

With light cream, it’s like Mexican hot chocolate with a shot of espresso. I do enjoy it. Not a favourite, but it’s good.

Ooh, coffee tea. My kind of thing. The idea of a coffee-flavoured tea has always been amusing to me. Why not just drink coffee? Because a coffee-flavoured tea can taste so damn good too!

The dry leaf is coffee with heavy cream, kind of like a double-double (which reminds me that I need to get in on Tim Hortons Roll up the Rim before it’s gone again).

I’ve actually had this twice already. The first time I added less leaf and it turned out the best. Delicious iced cappuccino (Tim Hortons-style again, that is!). Then a whisper of cinnamon comes in. With 2% milk, this is smooth and creamy with some hard-to-describe dessert-like note in the background too, kind of like cake. My mind would like to think that it is appropriately coffee cake.

The second round wasn’t as good just because I had a weird amount left that was too little for two more cups, so I dumped the rest into my Nordic mug filter. The liquor was murkier, the coffee stronger, but those other flavours got kind of weird, slightly chemical. So the key is to keep the leaf ratio to a moderate level.

I’m actually tempted to get more sometime. Just maybe 20g or so, like I was thinking with Chocolate Macaroon. But I wouldn’t load up on it and drink it religiously.

I only bought 12g of this tea just to try it. My sample was pretty much all mulberries and coconut flakes and very little white tea, so when I brewed it up I grabbed some white tea and mixed it up so that it would be actual tea. The main flavour of the tea is coconut, and I believe the mulberries add a bit of sweetness as well. It’s a nice taste, but I dunno if I like it with the white tea because it completely masks the taste of it. I would like this better as a herbal tea, especially because adding the white tea into the mix jacks up the price to nearly $12/50grams. To me, this tea isn’t worth the cost and I prefer just a plain white tea instead. However, if you like light tasting coconut tea, this tea is indeed for you.

This is another tea I have had my eye on for months. I bought 10g of it just to try it out.

The brewed tea looks like green tea, but the taste is almost like an oolong. It has sweet notes like ginseng, and therefore reminds me of the long-gone ginseng oolong from DAVIDs. I like it! Once again though, just like guayusa, it is a stimulant so I have to be careful with my caffeine intake with this tea. Overall though It’s one that I may stock up on in the future- especially considering the decent price!

Finishing off this sample from Anlina. This is a very nice yunnan black, lots of aroma and flavour. I’m getting malt, crusty brown bread, something spicy, and that honey sweetness that I associate with Chinese black teas. As it cools I’m getting a bit of acidity or fruitiness. I think I might buy more of this, next time David’s has a sale. :)

I was recommended this tea because I like Buddha’s Blend. She probably suggested it because they both have hibiscus. But they do not taste the same. Unfortunately this one tastes like watermelon and I hate watermelon! Oh well, at least I only bought a very small amount. Moving on.

Today I discovered that this makes a fabulous iced tea— so creamy it reminds me of a spicy, fruity iced chai. Served hot, it became a bit cloying, but iced that strong flavor works. Really works! Husband says upon his first sip— order more from Davids right now— a strong endorsement indeed. :)

I really want to like this tea more than I do. I love the almond smell— perhaps it is the apple flavor that I find cloying. My husband really likes it, he loves strong flavored teas, so I am likely to keep it stocked in the tea cupboard and enjoy trying other noncaffeinted dessert-style teas in the evenings.

Just sipped down a 100g tin of this from last Halloween. I’m actually surprised it took me that long to finish it since I’ve burned through this one a lot faster in the past. With that said, still not completely sick of it and I will probably pick up more in the future.

Oh my, I’m trying this as an iced latte for the first time and it’s wonderful. Chocolate coconut truffle with 2% milk. Swoon.

The last couple of shifts were by far the worst ones that I have had since starting this job, so here I am just sitting at home experiencing slight aftershock and trying to enjoy some peace, quiet, and tea. I have quite a few days off now, which while sucks because my pay cheque won’t be the best, this could not have come at a better time. Ugh.

It’s not even 11am and I’m enjoying a dessert tea before having breakfast, because I can! I’m surprised that after all the Chocolate Macaroon that I’ve gone through, I’m not sick of this one yet. It is sweet but somehow this one works for my tastebuds because it isn’t cloying or the flavours aren’t really artificial either. With whole milk, it’s like drinking a milk chocolate brownie topped with coconut.

Sipdown yet again! But it’ll be back in my cupboard soon enough, I’m sure. I wouldn’t be surprised if I’d gone through nearly 300g of this by now. It’s really good with whole milk.

100g of this in a navy tin came home with me yesterday. I figured since I buy this now and again, 20-50g at a time, and probably had at least 150g by now, I might as well get a bunch on sale.

Second cup with milk in the last 24 hours and I’d say I definitely made the right decision. The cacao shells really shine in this particular batch, and luckily, the coconut has never been rancid or weird.

Tins of Strawberry Rhubarb Parfait and Ginger Beer also came home with me. I’ve been running out of tisanes to cold brew so the sale came at a great time. No Redberry Tonic but I’m ok with that, and I think I made the right decision passing up on more Cardamom French Toast and Cranberry Pear (which I got 100g of the other week). But I’m over 50 teas again, so it’s time to take that slow hike back down again. No Bayswater until I hit 40!

Sipdown for the third or fourth time. I’ll probably pick up some more someday. Always makes a tasty latte. That coconut. Awesome.

Sippity-doo-down, AGAIN. I think I’ve gone through upwards of 120g of this by now. It’s sweet but I like it? Especially with light cream, since that balances out the sweetness and brings out the buttery pecan, rich chocolate, and creamy coconut notes even more. This tea was built to be made as a latte. So don’t be surprised if you’ll be seeing more of this in my cupboard in the future.

Sipdown already? Apparently I’ve gone through 54g of this tea in eight days, and I haven’t even been home too much, always out and about so I’m surprised by my own self. I go back to the grand wilderness tomorrow so I’m tempted to pick more up to keep me company, but at the same time, I should continue working on my other teas. Plus, I finally made my first Lupicia order! Hoping it’ll come in before I come back to Edmonton in a couple weeks.

So, creamy coconut, nutty, and chocolatey goodness, should I bring more of you home? Or should I just suck it up, go at least a couple weeks without you whilst I try to sip down other stuff? The former is so tempting, but the latter is ultimately more practical.

Sure, it’s sweet, as it contains little chunks of sugar in it, and I normally don’t care for pre-sweetened tea, or any sweetened tea for that matter, but it somehow works here.

Oh yeah, so despite buying more of this today, this review is actually for the chocolate bar which I had a few weeks ago. I don’t even think you can get it anymore, but it’s no loss, really. The coconut was ultra weak, there was a hint of nuttiness, but overall, it was basically like a plain milk chocolate. I liked it, but would have preferred another Salted Caramel bar.

I haven’t had a proper latte in ever so I decided to partake in one yesterday, grabbing this to keep me company while I started to clean this kitchen for the very last time. I was really excited about it because I loved making this with just plain milk at home, so I figured that DAVIDs fancy preparation will elevate this tea to another level.

Did it? Sadly, not really. I got it with a bit of sweetener and 2% milk, which is the milk I was using when I’d make them at home. Yet, for some reason, this was rather lacklustre. The tea flavour itself seemed a lot weaker, but that is probably to do with how the tea guide prepared it. Plus, the extra sweetener was a little too much. It only covered up the oh so subtle chocolate and coconut notes more rather than enhance them. Once I finish with this damn move, I’m just going to pick up more of the actual tea to enjoy at home. Man, to think how many cups I could have made at home with that $4.50!

ZOMG, I just posted an ad in my building trying to sell my reclining sofa since I need to get rid of it. I put the price as less than half of what I paid even though I only used it for seven months, and it’s like new, so I hope someone will be interested. Don’t want to have to resort to skeezy Craigslist. Fingers crossed.

About this tea. It sure surprised me. Pleasantly so. When I smelled it in the store earlier this year, I wasn’t so impressed. I also thought the chocolate flavouring would go waxy which sometimes happens in DAVIDs blends (like in Love Tea #7 or Red Velvet Cake) but it does not do that at all here.

Added some 2% milk and there is a macaroon resemblance. The coconut is toasty and not soapy nor rancid. The chocolate, on the other hand, is subtle but not waxy or plasticky. Then there is this general cookie-like vibe going on in between. Maybe it’s one that is 20g-worthy every once in a while but I can see getting sick of it if I had it too often.

I packed this up in the timolino for work. The smell of the leaves is really sweet so I was wondering if I was going to like it at all, but the taste of the tea isn’t crazy sweet. I can definitely taste the apple, but not as much as say, forever nuts. The raspberry leaf is the next dominant flavour which is nice. I still say they should have left out the apple, but then again I like more plainer teas. Overall it’s pretty decent.