451 Tasting Notes
Sipdown!
This turned out to be an excellent work tea, even doing well when I (repeatedly) let it oversteep (oops!). It’s shocking how quickly it went too – even if I did give a bunch to our tea-loving neighbors. The last time I got a 4oz tin from Harney & Sons it took me over a year to finish it off.
I think I prefer this one with creamer, but it’s not bad straight if brewed in cooler water. I don’t get a lot of berry flavor (if any) but I think it’s working to tone down the astringency to a pleasant level. The one time I did get berry from this tea, it was blackberry pie. Yum.
Preparation
Sipdown! And what a happy sipdown it is!
When I was first getting into tea, a friend of mine made me a cup of key lime pie flavored tea. I hadn’t heard of novelty tea flavors at this point, and this blend was fantastic. Limey and creamy and just scrumptious. So, when I bought DavidsTea’s Key Lime I was expecting a similar reaction.
How can I say this nicely? I dread this tea. It’s not that it tastes particularly bad, it’s just not key lime and I don’t enjoy the tart cinnamon flavor that is there. Made today at work, the sour edge was the closest to lime it’s ever been and it wasn’t bad “cold steeped” (read: left in a mug of cold water while I went to a meeting). But yeah. Soooo happy to be done with this one and feeling just the tiniest bit proud that I finished it off myself and didn’t pawn it off on a friend.
Flavors: Cinnamon, Sour, Tart
Preparation
If my memory serves me correctly. I had this tea iced in the summertime. I remember a very gross bitter taste-possibly from the rind of the lime. Yuck.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one! I wanted so much to like this but … no, just no. :-(
I had a in-store sample of this not so long ago and wth. Yes, exactly that reaction. It’d be better as a soda or fizzy something, but hot tea, no.
Somewhere in my tea cabinet, I have a small amount of dry leaf which I had bough to try before the sample.. I’m in no rush.
I am not sure if this still holds true, but you used to be able to return tea with a receipt
Thanks, tigress_al. I wonder if I had the presence of mind to keep the receipt?
Sipdown!
And too bad because I really like this one. It’s like the syrup they can peaches in without the cloying sweetness! Yum!
(The only downside is this is super dusty and really needs to be brewed in a sachet to avoid a layer of dust at the bottom of the cup. Hmm.)
Preparation
Hello gorgeous!
Opened this one tonight and – my stars – I can taste banana. Mmmmm. Sweet, creamy banana! And, at the end of the sip, just when you least expect it – CHOCOLATE.
I need more of this…
Yum.
I hate how much this one has increased in cost since I first bought it. I don’t know what it is, but $10/50g feels excessive to me. So I may have steeped the leaves from my original latte six times so I wouldn’t feel so extravagant. It worked nicely in that I ended up with a bunch of latte concentrate in my fridge which makes these little beauties so easy after work. Hopefully it helps with the migraine I’ve got after grinding my teeth all night and spending all day in training – ugh.
I need to try this with Cranberry Pear next…
I just discovered I had a few teas in my Steepster cupboard that weren’t in my actual cupboard. >.> This is one of them – I think I finished this off just before we moved? Good for me as I didn’t really like this one. It was weirdly bitter and sour and, while you could taste the melon, it just wasn’t very good.
This is such a sweet tea for me. It’s actually the tea I chose to make for my in-laws when they visited my husband and I after our wedding. It’s warm, inviting, thick and spicy-sweet. I’m not reminded of baklava,
unfortunately, but it’s undeniably comforting. And isn’t that the characteristic trait of grandmas?
Preparation
This one is odd. With creamer, it’s cloyingly undrinkably sweet. Without, it’s thick and lives up to the chocolate in its name … but it’s not appealing. I don’t quite know how to describe it – it’s like Tootsie Rolls but not sweet. Despite the taste being accurate to the name, I’m disappointed.
I made this as a latte earlier today hoping to finish off the leaf I have (one cup left!). It was better … but I realized why DavidsTea’s instructions for lattes use SO MUCH leaf. Even steeping at double strength for a 16oz mug, I couldn’t taste anything but the milk.
Anyone else get this to work for them?
