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“Oh man! I don’t like beer,but the hops in this lends such an amazing counterpointt the peach! It brings out the sweetness while at the same time deepening it. Sweet and bitter dance in complicated...” Read full tasting note
“Azzrian sent me some of this – it’s her custom blend via Butiki Teas and I am pretty jazzed about trying it! I couldn’t find it in the database so I am sorry if it’s a double! It sort of smells...” Read full tasting note
Azzrian’s Custom Blend via Butiki Teas.
This blend was inspired by a beer I used to love drinking.
It was a lambic beer sweetened and flavored with peaches.
Thus we took an organic guranse and mixed in cascade hops, peaches, and peach flavoring.
All organic, all delicious!
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Method: 1.5 tsp, 8 oz, 208 degrees, 3 minutes, Mug + ForLife Brew in Mug Strainer
Dry Aroma: Peach and hops, just like the name says
Brewing Aroma: Same
Flavor: My perspective was that this did have a nice peachy flavor, but that the hops made the tea too bitter. I did very much enjoy the peach.
My boyfriend thinks this is the greatest tea ever. He was really happy with it, which is awesome, because I bought it for him anyway!
However, I based the review on my own impressions. i think this was a fun idea for a tea, but I am not a big fan of overly hopped drinks, beer or tea (IPAs are my least fave beer). If you like IPAs and other hoppy beers, you will probably really dig this tea. I love the smell of hops, I just don’t like their flavor to be front and center, I guess.
This is better than I expected. I feared that the hops would ruin the tea as I’m quite sensitive to bitter favors. Fortunately, peach predominates and the bitterness only makes as appearance when the tea has cooled. Even then the hops only serve the create interest and a refreshing sensation.
I got 2 steeps out of the leaves. Both very flavorful sweet and invigorating. I’m glad I got some of this. :)
This tea I ordered mostly as a curiosity to share with my beer-loving friends (as well as beer-loving myself) and even though I said I would try it with all of them when we meet this next weekend, my husband lured me into trying it last night, so here we go :D
Dry leaf of black base is mixed with delicious-looking peach pieces as well as leafy hops particles. It brews into an orange-ish liquour – more reminiscent of an IPA than a black tea blend (how thematic!). Smelled mostly of ripe peaches, with a bit of lingering bitter notes. The flavor pretty much reflected the aroma dot for dot – lots of peachiness balanced by the unusual, velvety bitterness. As I was nearing the bottom of the cup, the hoppy notes were stronger but never too strong. I would say that hops in this tea is more to underline the sweetness of peach rather than stand out on its own. While I was hoping for more hops experience I believe it could have been also very risky to make tea actually taste like… an IPA ;D This blend is extremely delicious as a peach tea though, and I usually have a problem with peach teas. This could be my favorite one.
If I have any left after tasting it with my friends next weekend, I will try to cold-brew some (yes, I got into cold-brewing lately, although I said before that I wasn’t too much excited about it, now I really like doing it!).
I’m thinking about using ordering this tea for my husband as an excuse to place a Butiki order. Did you add a little sugar to it to try to bring out the hops?
Haha, any excuse is good for that! :D I didn’t add any sugar to it but I will definitely try it. Thanks :)
Back in November or December, my tea sharing partner, Roswell Strange, sent me some of this tea after the smell alone made her nauseous. However, that package never found its way here and now it is lost somewhere in Canada. I wasn’t too sad given Roswell Strange’s reaction to the tea and yet I was still intrigued as to what it tasted like. Now, thanks to NayLynn, I got a chance to sample a cup.
It actually is much better than I expected. There is a hint, a very subtle bit, of peach sweetness which helps to balance the flavors of the hops (which are certainly the most prominent component of the cup). Not bad, though not necessarily for me either. It is an interesting cup to have once but I am not too heartbroken that it is the only cup I will have.
Hehe, tea share*. :P
I wanted to love these ones too, but beer = blech for me.
Yeah, I was actually scared of the hops but they weren’t too bad in this cup. Though it is like the bacon teas – a different sort of taste that is fun to try once but not something you want again.
This one still gives me nightmares…
There’s something about this tea that’s not sitting right with me – which is frustrating, because I want to love it. Something in the hops part of the brew that I’m missing. I’ve had peach beer (albeit it’s been a very long time) and I remember it as something very different than.. this. I wanted juicy peach with a slight beer reminder, and I’m getting strong bitter beer with only hints of peach waaaay back there in the background.
Did I steep it incorrectly? Am I doing something else wrong? Will have to try again.
Flavors: Malt
This one is a bit on the bitter side. We were going for a heavy hoppy tea and used a very strong and almost grapefuity type of hops (cascade). This was based off of a peach lambic that Azzrian had tried in the past. Sugar will tone done the hops and will give the tea a fruity taste. Basically, you would want to add just the right amount of sugar in order to decrease the hop flavor without completely suppressing the hops.
*down not done
I have to give this tea a good rating because I usually don’t like peach-flavored anything. I usually find that the peach flavor is over-done and horribly artificial tasting. While I still get a bit of that peach gummy ring flavor in here, it is nicely balanced with the other flavors and ingredients such that I don’t find it nearly as offensive as I normally do. This captures the flavor of a peach Lambic pretty well.
