Movie Night

Another delicious tea from DAVIDsTEA that will become a regular in my tea cupboard. I picked this one up today along with 100g of Chocolate Cake and once again I’m more than pleased with my purchases.

I just finished my first cup of Movie Night and I’m already ready for another! First off it smells wonderful, like lightly caramelised popcorn with a sweet hint of apple. I very lightly sweetened mine with honey and it brought out the flavours wonderfully. You can definitely taste the popcorn and the apple pieces add a subtle layer of flavour that really completes the flavour perfectly.

If I had any critique to offer at all, I would say that I didn’t really taste the green tea in this much, so if you’re looking for the green tea flavour to come through, you might be disappointed with this tea.

All in all, I would highly recommend this very tasty tea!

This cuppa smells like butter and caramel, which is kind of awesome. The taste is much more apple-y, with a popcorn taste. At the back there’s some smoothness. I wish the caramel/maple was more prominent in the steeped tea, but the tea is pretty good overall.

So on my second try, I am liking this tea a lot more.

I still find that it has an unfortunate smell while steeping, and I tend not to want to linger over the wet leaves. But, I increased to a very full 2tsp and I steeped at the high end (I wasn’t keeping track, it might have been more than 7 minutes).

I find the taste much less weak, and I am getting a bit more sweetness. I still wish there was more sweetness in the taste, as there is still a big difference between the taste and the smell, but it’s something that I could probably add a bit of sugar to if I wanted.

Overall, increase the leaves to the recommended amount really made a difference for me. And while I enjoyed the tea before, I am thinking it could quickly become a favourite. It has an uplifting scent that just seems to make me feel happier, so its perfect for those days when I am feeling down about all the thesis writing I still have to do!

Finally decided to have this one. The smell is so wonderful in the cute little popcorn box package that I didn’t want to open the tea and lose the smell. Plus there was no way to reclose the plastic bag. But last time I was in David’s Tea the girl behind the counter gave me one of there silver bags to put my Movie Night in once I opened it.
I think I may have oversteeped this. It is a little bitter on the back of my throat. And it has a wonderful caramel smell but the taste seems off to me. The colour is great though. Looks like a very thin caramel. I am undecided about this tea and will do it again but pay attention to the steeping time.

So, I bought this on a whim. It smelled way too good to resist!

I stayed at the lowest recommended steep time because I have this habit of overdoing it with green teas. The tea is very pale. I almost thought that there was something wrong with my infuser. I tend to judge my tea’s “readiness” by colour so I’ll have to remember that this one won’t be dark.

Now, I love sweet teas. I invariably add honey or sugar to my tea, but this one smelled so sweet that I tried it as is. I love this! It smells and tastes like caramel popcorn. There’s a little bit of acidity in the sweetness that I’m guessing comes from the apple. I’m so glad I didn’t add anything to this. Once I’m done the little bag in my stash, this is going to become a permanent tin on the shelf :-)

Sipdown!

I used up the last of this tonight and my infuser was overflowing with pieces of popcorn. I guess these sunk to the bottom of the container? As a result. I got a cup that smelled and tasted like delicious, lightly sweet popcorn. SOOOO GOOD! But now I want actual popcorn…

This tea was NOT what I was expecting. I was really, really hoping for more maple flavor in this tea. That aside, this is a tea I would smuggle into the theater (as the description says lol). I know I need sugar in this one though, it just wasn’t as sweet as I was expecting. The apple flavor in this one is very night though, it doesn’t taste fake and their is just a hint of cinnamon. The popcorn in this tea give it a nice roasted flavor, the next time I make it I might put toasted rice in the mix just to see if that sweetens it more.

Sipdown! (No I did not mean “Wild own!”. Damn you, autocorrect.)
One of my staples that had actually become neglected – probably from drinking it too often and then being distracted by all of my shiny, new purchases.
I love having this with a bit of agave. Tonight’s pot reminded me why I love this tea (I originally bought it because I am addicted to popcorn) but since moving on to other teas, I kind of wish this was mixed with a genmaicha. Crap, I wish I had thought to blend it with some and now I can’t since I’m on my second steep and all out of this :( Sigh, oh well!
Not sure how soon I’ll be reordering this since I have so many other teas to drink and also want to try some other DAVIDsTEAs.

(Note: I can’t drag the rating or prep scrolls on my iPod but I give it a 75 and steeped it for 4 mins for my first steep and 8 for my second.)

Thank you whatshesaid for this sample! The name of the tea intrigued me as well as the concept of popcorn in tea. Popcorn is one of my weaknesses and I don’t eat it often after going low carb three years ago.

The scent is a mix of popcorn and maple with something a bit earthy. I was good and did not eat any of the popcorn in the tea, though it was tempting! This brewed up pale yellow in color and I steeped it for seven minutes in order to get all the flavor out of it. I prefer drinking this in one of two ways: The first is with nothing added to it, because it tastes almost just like buttery popcorn. The second is with no more than one Splenda mini tab to slightly enhance the maple flavor. This makes it taste more like kettle corn. I do not get any apple notes from this tea unless it is cold and has been sitting around for a while.

Overall, I am happy with this flavor! It is not one that I will be drinking regularly, but it’s good to have around when I get a popcorn craving at night.

This one surprised me…I only got 10g of this the first time to try but now I have a 100g tin. The smell is like caramel popcorn which immediately attracted me to it. I prefer to steep this only slightly as I find that is when it tastes the most like buttered popcorn. I have tried steeping it longer and have found that the flavour becomes more like sour apples.