Peach Soda

I made a small Bird and Blend purchase on Boxing Day, to take advantage of the free international shipping. I’ve been quite interested in this blend for awhile, and brewed it up as soon as I opened the box.
The first flavor that hits me is cardamom. It actually dominates the cup (which I’m not mad about, I love cardamom). Next I get the tartness of the hibiscus and just a bit of peach. I do wish the peach flavor was stronger. it seems this would be much better iced/coldbrewed.

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I love teas with a soda profile, so I’m excited to try this! It became a much deeper red than I anticipated. I’m trying it after a few hours in the fridge. Huh, the other tart ingredients are definitely fighting the peach for attention. I also don’t get any soda flavor (except maybe in my final sip?). There’s a bit of spice. It’s much heavier than I expected for a tea of this name. It’s not really what I’m looking for in a peach tea, but it was all right! Now I’m in the mood for more soda teas, but I don’t have any others at the moment!

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This one isn’t for me. It’s a nice peach flavor and a nice cardamom flavor but I don’t think I love the two together.

#battleofthepeaches

Third place cold brew, but so close to tying with my second place choice. I liked this one a lot and since it was the first one that I had tried I was actually legit worried that I had started with the best and it would only go downhill from there…

This was one of the two peach blends I was most excited about on name alone, but what I saw the ingredients list I was a little confused because peach and cardamom is one of the weirdest approaches to a peach soda inspired tea that I can imagine. I would have expected either peach and a citrus of some kind for more of a “Sprite” feel or vanilla for a take on a “Peaches and Cream Soda”. I’m honestly not sure what the idea was here. Maybe it’s a UK thing lost on me? I don’t know.

Regardless of the naming miss, this tastes really good – and is a very fresh and unique take of peach that I really appreciate. It does feel a little more autumnal or “harvest-y” to me, probably because of the cardamom, over summer but both of the two flavours come through really clearly and are very balanced with one another. I wouldn’t call this more of a fruit blend than a spiced blend just like I couldn’t call it more of a spiced blend than a fruit blend. It’s also just right in terms of sweetness level, and very refreshing!

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Certainly it has got peachy flavour. And rose flavour.

But it was quite weak in flavour. Maybe cold-brewing as suggested would be great idea.

But I am glad that I noticed both flavours; and it worked quite well. But only so light!