Coconut Cheesecake Honeybush

Tea type
Honeybush Tea
Ingredients
Coconut, Honeybush, Organic Flavours
Flavors
Coconut, Tangy, Honey, Pepper, Butter, Soap, Cheesecake, Cream, Metallic
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Bulk, Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Caffeine Free
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Southern Boy Teas
Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 6 min, 15 sec 9 oz / 268 ml

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  • “Sipdown? What?! I almost never drink honeybush (or any caffeine free tisanes) anymore, so it’s been a long while since I’ve had this. Even though I love it. Steeped: 10 minutes, 3.5 tsp. tsp 500...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Sipdown!! (153) Coconut is the prominent flavor in this blend and though I am not tasting what I would call cheesecake, there is another component to this tea that is making for a thicker and more...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Brewed this up last night; didn’t care for it hot, let it cool and forgot about it. So trying it today! Probably not a good idea… meh. It’s the only cold tea upstairs and I’m thirsty ! I really...” Read full tasting note
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  • “3rd 52teas blend of the day! I’m getting sleepy, had an excellent dinner out with the guy, but soo much food, so I’m sleepy haha, but I had to log this. This tea is so good. Creamy coconut with the...” Read full tasting note
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Do I really need to say anything else?

Maybe just this: DO NOT drag your feet on this one; it is going to go FAST!

Ingredients: Honeybush, coconut, natural flavors

Our new Tea of the Week for the week of January 31st, 2011

Now part of our My Sweet Honeybush line’s permanent collection.

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Holy honeybush Batman! Coconut Cheesecake Honeybush is just plain delish. Lovey coconutty yumminess from start to creamy finish. As I’ve read in a few other reviews, I didn’t get a cheesecake flavor from this tea but the rich finish is enough for me. Very good indeed!

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It’s finally here!

And dear heaven it smells delicious. And I feel bad because my cat so desperately wants my attention, but… tea! The scent is coconut with a tang not unlike cheesecake, and I’m willing it to cool down faster so I don’t burn my tongue trying to enjoy it.

The coconut is authentic and tasty, and I’ll admit right now I’ve never had honeybush before—but there is a sweet honey rooibos-like taste under the coconut which I assume is from it.

There is definitely a tang in the taste which I assume is the cheesecake, made sweet by a very honey-like flavour (the honeybush? If so, I didn’t the “honey” in the name to be that noticeable!). This cup is delicious and I’m loving it. I need more caffeine-free teas to sip in the evening.

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Also with photos. Well, one.

The wait was worth it.

Preparation
Boiling 6 min, 0 sec

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OM NOM NOM NOM

Ok, now that that’s out of the way.

Picked this up along with the Blueberry Cream Cheese Danish, so creamy cheese is definitely the theme of this week at Chez Ewa. Which is awesome. Obviously. It is kind of hilarious to me that I picked up the Teas, etc. coconut custard and then a few weeks later managed to get this as well, SO MUCH CAFFEINE FREE CREAMY COCONUT NESS. Hey, I know what I like, or what I might conceivably like despite not actually liking for real (I’ve already discussed my…tumultuous relationship with coconut).

Anyway, you are all going to think I have gone absolutely insane, but the overriding scent I am getting from this is…wait for it…BUTTER. I know, I know, really? Butter? WTF. But, there you go, that is what I am getting, which is interesting because that was totally how cheesecakes in Japan tasted to me. They do this extremely odd thing with cheesecakes over there that makes them extremely dense and…buttery although not necessarily a nice kind of buttery, most of them were a bit too much for my taste. Cursory google searching tells me that they do indeed put butter in the cream cheese mixture for cheesecakes, but I can’t say for sure whether that is a deviation from Western cheesecakes because it has been ages since I have made cheesecake myself, although further cursory googling leads me to believe that it is. Anyway BUTTER. Perhaps I now just associate butter and cheesecake? That would be weird.

The actual taste of the tea remains buttery, but definitely the nice creamy variety of buttery that I can definitely get behind. There is also a really good balance of coconut-ness/butteryness/vague cheesecakeness/actual tea, that just has me wanting to drink this forever. It tastes like dessert, but it’s not overwhelming like many of the other dessert teas I’ve tried are. I have not yet tried adding cognac yet to see what happens, and I’m not particularly filled with the urge to, although I probably will at some point (FOR SCIENCE). I definitely prefer honeybush as a caffeine free/dessert base to rooibos, although I also find this saddening because I used to like rooibos a lot more until someone on Steepster mentioned the sour wood aftertaste and now it is ALL I TASTE >:-| Oh well, at least honeybush doesn’t have it. And if it does, don’t tell me about it, I am apparently very suggestible :P

PS: I contemplated just writing om nom nom nom and leaving it there, but that would have meant depriving people of my cheesecake related tangents and clearly that would have been Wrong.

PPS: So many highly rated teas over the past few days! AND my first ever 100 (I have a neuroses related to the number re: WHAT IF I FIND SOMETHING BETTER but I have decided to just take that risk and accept that if I find something better 1. that will be pretty awesome and 2. get over it)

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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Sooo yummy! This is even better than Teas Etc.‘s famous Coconut Custard. It’s much more creamier and milkier tasting. A very rich and creamy coconut, this is.

This is so great. I’m really enjoying this. I’m on my second mug after practically inhaling the first one!

And another great thing is that the flavor is yummy even with using the non-boiling. hot spigot water at work! Total thumbs up.

Preparation
190 °F / 87 °C 8 min or more

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247 tasting notes

Hmm… I’m almost afraid to post this, but as a coconut lover, this tea didn’t meet my expectations. I thought that I’d be LOVING this one.

The scent is extraordinary. Coconutty, decadent, rich. I’m imagining a piña colada tea style.

Boiling/5 min – The scent is filling the room. I’m really anticipating taking a sip, and then I do. Hm. Another sip. I’m not transported to my tropical isle. Another sip. Okay, I decide to set it aside and let it cool a bit. I come back to it and sip yet again. I wasn’t mistaken; this tea isn’t meeting my hopes and dreams. It’s good, but I think it’s the honeybush that is throwing me off. I’m really, really wishing this had a green tea base, or maybe even oolong. I’m just not tasting tea and it’s leaving me feeling empty inside. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not horrible, it’s just that with all the hype, I was expecting a fantasy-achieving tea. I can taste the toasted coconut (nice), the cheesecake (a slight tartness, yum), but the tea… ((sigh)) Where is the tea?

Did I mention the beautiful aroma? Ah!! It’s like edible suntan lotion. Yum.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec
threewhales

Honeybush is something I have just gotten into. But, I wondered about this blend. Have you tried 52 teas Strawberry Pie? tastes just like strawberries!
I too teach middle school, 8th grade science. It will be nice to have someone here to share stories!
Also, do you have any idea when the book club~second steep is going to kick off?

QuiltGuppy

I’ve never been a fan of rooibos and wondered how I’d feel about honeybush as I had heard there were similarities. I don’t know either well enough to compare them, but there was something about this one that felt like it was missing. I was really hoping to have found a new favorite.

Twing and I were looking through the book and thinking that maybe by this weekend. We wanted to allow enough time for everyone to get it. We’re thinking about three chapters a week with questions to discuss on the weekends. It’s just been difficult to organize in the beginning. We’ll get it going, though! :)

Ah… middle school. I love teaching it. I just wish I didn’t have so many preps. It leaves no time for relaxing and one of my classes is totally new, so I’m writing the curriculum as we progress through the trimester. I think it’s a great age, though. Lots of great kids! (And funny stories!)

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Thank you to Frank for restocking this one. I’m so pleased that I was able to get my hands on a bag! :) Scent of the dry leaf is all about the coconut! The coconut smothers everything.. so I don’t really smell much else. Steeped, the tea is a bit toned down and the coconut shifts from scent to flavor. This tea revolves around the sweet taste of the coconut and the cheesecake comes in a tangy/tart aftertaste. I’m pretty happy with this tea, but I don’t love it as much as I thought I would! It’s very yummy, though!

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Welp, I have to revise my opinion of this tea. Apparently I didn’t use enough leaf last time, so the flavor just wasn’t quite there. Add that to the fact that the sample I have now is probably a different batch than the stuff I tried before, and it’s no wonder this last steep was much better. I got plenty of coconut flavor, along with a little tangy-ness that must have been some cheesecake trying to come through (although it still wasn’t strong enough for my liking). I think I have enough in the sample for one more cup, so I’ll try adding some almond milk to that one to see if it helps the cheesecake flavor. Much improved!

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec
ssajami

There was a time when this tea was one of my all-time favorites. Very coconut-y, very cheesecake. The honeybush there, but not overwhelming. It was my perfect decaf coconut tea. Oh, and the aroma was divine – you could smell coconut from across the room.

Sadly, when I re-ordered it, the second pouch was 95% honeybush, barely any coconut and no cheesecake, just as you described. I think maybe there was a batch of this that came out really bad. My pouch is sitting in the drawer, mostly unused. And I don’t dare order yet another…

Too bad you didn’t get to try the first batch, it was outstanding.

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I’m not sure I have anything useful to add about this tea that hasn’t already been said. It’s one of my favorite 52teas blends.
It’s sweet, it’s coconut, it’s a bit cheesecake esque. I really like it and am sad that this is the last of my package. Would consider ordering more if I had the opportunity.

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I’m still running a rampage for my Lupicia order. I hate UPS. It’s raining (rare in california) and I do not want my tea tossed over the fence and getting soggy!

More annoyingly, staying home for jiu jitsu – I was about to go but my sinuses hurt too much when I was getting ready. Bleh. Back to watching jiu jitsu videos then.

I still have tea trades I haven’t finished, lol! This one is from Kittena, yay!

Creamy coconutty that lingers in my mouth. Slightly sweet as well. The honeybush is good base, going well with the coconut. I’m not getting much of the cheesecake though.

Overall, okay but not fantastic. I’d like the coconut to be stronger, with more cheesecake flavor.

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This thing I get out of this the most is dried coconut. I happen to love coconut, so no problems there. There’s also a tangy, creamy flavor that’s probably the honeybush but it works to taste pretty close to cheesecake. I’m liking this more with every sip, so I’m really glad I have a large size of it. Another seriously good cup.

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