Forever Nuts

My favorite DAVIDsTEA to date. Smells like pancakes are cooking every time it steeps. I love it warm, but have never tried it iced. I only use the tea leaves once.

Warm and (obviously) nutty, this is one of my go-to teas. My rainbow tin is almost out.

Day 9 DavidsTea 24 Days of Tea advent calendar – Forever Nuts. I love the idea of this tea. Nuts, apple, cinnamon — these ingredients speak to me. I even love the scent of this before brewing, reminiscent of fresh baked goods warm from the oven. But in the cup, it’s a let-down (to put it nicely). Most of that can be chalked up to the highly artificial aftertaste. Some of it can be chalked up to this tea really wanting a less cloying nut than almond. I want this to have pecans. Or maybe walnuts. (Or both?) And 100% less ‘artificial flavouring’.

Tried a bit of it on its lonesome and the sugarbomb and fake-y taste were too much. Decided to go out on a limb and add milk. It was pretty much that or just chuck this out & hope tomorrow’s tea is better. It went against my nature to add milk, as this tea brews up very pinky-red thanks to the beetroot, but it looks like it ought to be hibiscus-y because of that same colour and hibiscus + milk sounds like a pretty not-good combo. But I did it anyway. Milk added in (far more of it than I would normally ever put in tea, too) and this tea was a bit like a cross between a warm apple cinnamon bun and strawberry Pocky, but in beverage form. And it looked insane, the color of pink, pre-made birthday cake frosting from a tub & just about as sweet. This is tea Hello Kitty should drink.

It was weird, but I grew to quite like it. Still, it’s a peeve that this is undrinkable without other things added in, so I can’t exactly recommend it, but I can’t give it too low a rating either.

Highly dessert-y, requires milk or some other addition to begin to approach palatable, sorely disappointing lack of agreement between the pre-brew scent and the post-brew taste (again, DT keeps pulling this particular fast one, not cool). Had high hopes. They did not survive the experience of consuming this.

Advent Calendar 2017, Day 9: The smell of this tea is lovely and different. At first taste, though, it tasted like almost nothing. Enjoyable, because of the smell while drinking, but a let down. However, once it cooled a good bit more, the flavors emerged and it started to taste a lot more like it smelled. Still not a strong flavor, though pleasant. And since I generally finish my teas before I allow them to get that cool, I would find waiting that long an annoyance.

This tea is essentially an unsweetened, milder version of apple pie. It’s actually quite refreshing. I like it with a tiny bit of sugar. I love the aroma of apple pie it gives off, just isn’t super packed with flavor, but it’s easy to drink. There is also a hint of almonds or nuts, but honestly, it’s not overpowering at all, although it does give it a tad bit of an oily feel.

It’s okay

Has a taste that reminds me of gooey, sweet, caramel apple pie with a cinnamon sugar topping. Makes a great latte and is one of my favorite “nutty” teas from DavidsTea. I find that it has a stronger, sweeter flavor than Toasted Walnut.

Prep: sample packet using about 7 oz of boiling water. Covered and steeped for 8+ minutes.
Wanted something comforting to drink and reached for my new sample of this tea. I added some stevia to it to make it sweeter and the stevia brought the flavors to a whole new level. (note to self with a tiny bit of stevia this tea is a 100.) I don’t hate stevia, I just find that it is often added to blends that don’t need it and only works well in some teas like this one and peppermint for example.
I’m really wishing that I had ordered some of this when David’s Tea had their free shipping on all orders promo recently.

Don’t waste your money on this

Pretty good, added some stevia and it tastes a bit like froot loops/apple jacks cereal. :)