Couldn’t resist picking up the new teas tonight, so swung by DavidsTea 20 minutes before close and picked up 8 new teas, 1 old tea, and one of their adorable little glass “gung fu” teapots that I’ve been eyeing up for a while now.
This one smells. Like. Pina Colada. Exactly like it! Reminds me of the Fusion Tea Room version, which also smelled right, although didn’t taste close enough for me.
I guess Tropicalia was being sampled as the tea of the day, so I got to try a cup of it iced as my samples were being packaged up, and although it was a bit weak for me, it actually tasted like pina colada! Did someone actually finally get it right?! I was told that making it into a latte was a fabulous idea…
I’m having it hot now (only because I’m too lazy to wait for it to cool)… the smell of the steeped liquor is delicious. Creamy and like a pina colada. Heavier on the pineapple than coconut, which is perfectly fine.
The taste is pretty friggin’ good. Pineappley with a lingering coconutty creaminess. Actually, the more I drink, the more I’m falling in love. This could possibly replace pina coladas for me!
Seriously, if you love pina coladas, try this tea! None of the other three I’ve tried have come close enough for me to consider them as a replacement. There is a bit of apple flavour showing up in this one, but it’s not taking over and just is adding a bit of sweetness/tartness/body.
I’m going to cold-steep some of this tonight and see how it fares. I have high hopes for it and Luscious Watermelon!
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@Dylan – Non-vegan??? I wonder if that’s because of the little candies in it. Where did you read that?
@DaisyChubb – Bank account hates me. I really don’t care right now though. I’m letting myself indulge in whatever I’d like because 2012 has been awfully crappy. I’m just waiting on the next awful occurrence. Don’t think there have been three yet.
Yeah, it’s the candies. I was looking at the ingredients list, and one of the sub-ingredients for the candies is ‘real carmine’. Its in like everything though, so its hard to get too worried about it ;)
yay! you found your pina coloda tea!
mmm can’t freaking wait to try this. Hard to justify it when I look at my bank account though ._.
Strangely non-vegan tea. This amuses me.
@Dylan – Non-vegan??? I wonder if that’s because of the little candies in it. Where did you read that?
@DaisyChubb – Bank account hates me. I really don’t care right now though. I’m letting myself indulge in whatever I’d like because 2012 has been awfully crappy. I’m just waiting on the next awful occurrence. Don’t think there have been three yet.
Awwwww. Hugs and stuff.
Yeah, it’s the candies. I was looking at the ingredients list, and one of the sub-ingredients for the candies is ‘real carmine’. Its in like everything though, so its hard to get too worried about it ;)
Yeah, Real carmine is made from the skins of boiled beetles. Real funny.
I didn’t look at the actual ingredient list beyond what’s on Steepster. Interesting to know. Luckily I’m not vegan (or vegetarian) :)