Banana Tie Guan Yin

Tea type
Fruit Oolong Blend
Ingredients
Freeze Dried Banana Slices, Natural Flavours, Oolong Tea
Flavors
Floral, Green, Smooth, Creamy, Fruity, Nutty, Sweet, Vegetal, Banana, Cream, Mineral, Caramel, Butter, Bitter, Astringent, Vanilla
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Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Organic
Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 30 sec 10 oz / 295 ml

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  • “My cats smashed my mug full of this tea (and knocked over several others, making the world’s hugest mess) so I’ve had to make a second mug of it. I’m drinking it at room temperature, and it’s a...” Read full tasting note
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  • “52Teas Countdown Day 7 SO happy to see this tea.I love banana flavored teas, and I do enjoy a TGY. Brewed gongfu, and this is just absolutely lovely. The banana scent is stronger than the flavor....” Read full tasting note
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  • “Tea Advent Calendar – Day 19 How is it less than a week until Christmas??? So much left to do… Anyway, this tea made me realize that I don’t think I’ve ever had a plain banana-flavored tea before....” Read full tasting note
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  • “This is over a year old at this point, so I was hesitant when I found it buried under other teas. However, this is still really good. I think I underleafed on the first cup so I’m getting mostly a...” Read full tasting note
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From 52teas

Tea of the Week for October 12, 2015!

While scanning some of the reviews appearing on Steepster – as I often do – I came across a review for one of the older Oolong Teas produced by 52Teas and although it wasn’t a banana flavored Oolong, they mentioned that they taste banana flavors in the tea. So, I thought, hey, why not a Banana Oolong?

Sounds good to me! I thought it might sound good to you too. So I went ahead and made it – and I’m very pleased with the result – really yummy! The banana is strong but doesn’t overpower the sweet, luscious, lightly floral notes and hints of nutty flavor from the TieGuanYin. I love the way the tea and flavor meld – really nice!

All Organic Ingredients: Oolong Tea, Freeze Dried Bananas & Natural Flavors.

Steep: 1 of tea to 12 oz. 180°F water. Steep 2-4 minutes. Allow tea to cool 5-6 minutes after brewing for best flavor.

http://52teas.com/banana-tieguanyin-taster/

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At 52teas.com, you will find unique, hand-blended artisan loose leaf teas: a new limited edition creation every week of the year. We pride ourselves on offering truly unique, one-of-a-kind tea blends that you won’t find anywhere else.

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My cats smashed my mug full of this tea (and knocked over several others, making the world’s hugest mess) so I’ve had to make a second mug of it. I’m drinking it at room temperature, and it’s a nice, authentic green banana flavor with a pleasant oolong background. This tea is just so fresh-tasting and lovely. And I’ve officially finished my last advent calendar tea from 2020! Feels good to be caught up finally.

gmathis

Bless their little feline hearts!

Cameron B.

I still have one last Vahdam advent tin hanging around somewhere… :P

Courtney

Just in time for more advents! :P

Michelle

Are the cats anti-tea or just very playful?

AJRimmer

Ha, they’re pro-tea (they’ll take a sip from my cup if I’m not paying attention) but also pro-chaos.

And yes, I’ve already bought my first advent calendar for 2021 – it never ends!

Courtney

Ooh which one did you get? We also picked our first ones — B&B regular and caffeine free!

AJRimmer

The 52teas one! I love B&B, but I’ve tried most of their flavors at this point and prefer to try all new flavors in advent calendars. I hope they’re awesome though!

Courtney

Fun! I can’t wait to see the notes on the 52Teas one. :)

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52Teas Countdown Day 7
SO happy to see this tea.I love banana flavored teas, and I do enjoy a TGY. Brewed gongfu, and this is just absolutely lovely. The banana scent is stronger than the flavor. It’s fresh, green, and floral which work wonderfully with the banana.

Flavors: Floral, Green

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Tea Advent Calendar – Day 19

How is it less than a week until Christmas??? So much left to do…

Anyway, this tea made me realize that I don’t think I’ve ever had a plain banana-flavored tea before. It’s always banana walnut or banana bread or banana pancakes or something. And after trying this one, I think I do prefer having another flavor in there to balance out the banana. This one felt a bit bland and I found myself wanting some nutty notes (like Fava’s Banana Walnut Bread) or maple (like AQTT’s Banana Pancakes). But it was smooth and easy to drink and gave me the caffeine boost I needed this morning, so not complaining!

Flavors: Smooth

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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448 tasting notes

This is over a year old at this point, so I was hesitant when I found it buried under other teas. However, this is still really good. I think I underleafed on the first cup so I’m getting mostly a candy-ish banana flavor and a faint whiff of tea. I’m guessing I need a bit extra since it’s older. We’ll see how the second round goes.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 3 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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Adventaggedon Day 13 – Tea 2/6

I actually already owned this tea, but I was still really excited to see it in the countdown because I always look at my little sample bag and then feel guilty making it – it’s one of those “tea hoarder” problems where you’re always putting off that last cup. Now I have a stash top up though, so I don’t have to feel guilty about it for at least a little while!

I think I like this more than the Banana Pudding from earlier in the advent, but both are excellent. I feel very treated to have got not one but two banana teas in the countdown! The banana is creamy but mostly fresh and naturally sweet and the slight greener edge of the TGY with the building florals really emphasize the realistic banana flavour. Medium-ish bodied, but one of those teas where the simple, cleanly executed flavours seems to build in richness over the cup as those flavours hang on the palate.

Mmm!

Advent Photos: https://www.instagram.com/ros_strange/

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it’s been rainy the last couple of days, the temperature has dipped down and it actually feels like fall. yes. perfect, just like this tea. I thought I was going to have to partially swim to work this morning (it had been raining since at least midnight and stopped around….5am ish?) bc the city where I live is so used to being in drought, that rain? raiiin? the entire city like floods bc WHO KNOWS WHAT TO DO WITH THIS WATER? so, I packed an extra pair of socks and this tea to prepare myself for being upset this morning, but surprisingly it wasn’t too bad. I didn’t even see any huge puddles of water. nice.

tldr; it rained and this tea is actual banana perfection.

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This is delicious cold brewed or hot. Tie Guan Yins are one of my favourite teas.

Flavors: Creamy, Floral, Fruity, Nutty, Sweet, Vegetal

Preparation
Iced

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This is so perfect. I should’ve picked up more, especially considering I got dinged for Duty by Canada-US Customs and won’t be ordering again for a looooong time because I’m so mad (yet, I’m already fighting the compulsion to order a giant pouch of this).

Seriously though, the world needs more creamy banana with brightly floral tieguanyin. This is a jackpot blend for my taste buds. I look forward to resteeping and savouring all 12g of this.

Steep Count: 4

(2017 holiday reblend)

Flavors: Banana, Cream, Floral, Mineral

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 0 sec
Evol Ving Ness

To be dinged by Customs with already worrying about the poor exchange AND shipping sucks. A lot.

Crowkettle

They didn’t even end up charging me for anything in the parcel- just the inconvenience of holding and handling for $13 CAD. Not impressed.

Mastress Alita

I hate to admit it, but it’s all the US/Canada customs horror stories which is why I personally won’t ship over the border. I once really needed a medical device from Canada (had more settings and didn’t require a script for it in Canada) but I knew the shipping would be evil part when my good online friend up there agreed to get it for me when I sent her the money for it. She brought it with her on a visit to friends in Michigan, then shipped it to me after she was stateside. Honestly, though, it shouldn’t have to be that difficult…

Evol Ving Ness

I have had A LOT of tea coming from the States and all without incident. However, out of dozens, one batch got dinged and I won’t be ordering from that company again.

Crowkettle

I’ve been ordering across border semi-regularly since 2011 and never payed duty. Going by the paper slip they sent me and the original customs declaration, I honestly don’t know how they justified it here. The tea companies I love right now are so limited right now that I’d be pretty choked to cut out 52teas. I’ll probably give it another shot and if it happens again it will be a PO box for me!

@Mastress Alita, glad that worked out and that you had such an amazing contact! The hassle can be real.

mrmopar

It is more about how the declaration on the customs paperwork is I think. If you list something as a gift and list the value as low I think it will bypass the duties.

Sil

this sounds yummy….

Fjellrev

That sucks, CrowKettle! I’m lucky that so far I haven’t been charged for any tea orders, however, I’ve been dinged 2-3 times for ColourPop (and maaaybe another cosmetics order from somewhere else…) so I stopped ordering from them. Definitely all the more frustrating when we are already dealing with a weak dollar.

Evol Ving Ness

If the value is listed at under a 100, it should be fine. It is the over 100 purchases that seem to raise eyebrows at the border.

Crowkettle

Yeah, it was listed well below 100 ($29) so it’s a mystery to me. Oh, well!

Evol Ving Ness

!!!!!!

Likely a random spot check then. Boo! And here I thought that I had things figured out. Luck of the draw then.

Evol Ving Ness

Certainly an uncertain world.

Fjellrev

Hmm, just checked and my Colourpop orders were all 40-60 USD, yet they got me anyway.

Evol Ving Ness

When did this dinging take place?

I am wondering whether it might have something to do with the orange debacle’s more recent attack on us— tariffs etc?

Starfevre

“the orange debacle” LOL

Evol Ving Ness

hahaha, and that it more of my more polite euphemisms.

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308 tasting notes

I love a banana tea, but I prefer my banana flavor be that of ripened bananas. The banana flavor in this tea was a bit…erm…green. It wasn’t full-on unripened banana. It reminded me of those times when you buy a bunch of a bananas that don’t quite ripen fast enough…but you have a hankering for a banana so you eat it, even those it’s still a bit green.

I’m also a bit iffy when it comes to oolong teas. I can count, on one hand, the oolong blends that I’ve actually enjoyed enough to drink more than just one cuppa. The oolong base for this blend is a little bit too mineral for my tastes. That quality combined with the flavor of unripened bananas just did not work well for me.

Sad times.

Flavors: Mineral

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