I’m hesitant to write this review for a couple reasons: 1.) I only have enough to make this into iced tea one more time before I’m completely out and 2.) by the time I do have some cash to buy more, Frank could be completely out of this – then what will I do?

So be nice and don’t buy it all! Save me some, like 4 pouches to get me through this summer, um okay? :)

Forest Berry Silver Needle is awesome iced! I can’t say what it’s like hot because I already love it when it’s cold and slightly concentrated. I did add a couple more dehydrated strawberries to the mix, because I like to over-enhance things… (its the former-coffee drinker in me!)

I was a little heavy handed with the leaf and was able to get four steeps out of this, each time increasing the temperature 5 degrees and brewing a minute longer. The last two steeps I brewed with half the amount of water I used for the first two. A bit of simple syrup to make the berries shine, and I’ve got a great carafe of Frank’s Forest Berry Silver Needle iced tea waiting to be rationed enjoyed!

I’m with Azzrian – this is definitely worthy of being on the list of permanent stock! Heck, I’ll settle for just being in stock seasonally, I don’t know – say, around summer?!

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180 °F / 82 °C 4 min, 0 sec
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Azzrian 13 years ago

Yes PLEASE for the love of all that’s holy or unholy – whatever you prefer Frank keep this in stock FRANK are you hearing us??? Love of course with wild abandon and demands for this tea to be permanent!

Southern Boy Teas 13 years ago

I am reading the comments. It is an awfully expensive tea to promise to keep on hand permanently, particularly when I still haven’t sold the first batch.

Southern Boy Teas 13 years ago

I’m glad you are enjoying it though!

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Azzrian 13 years ago

Yes PLEASE for the love of all that’s holy or unholy – whatever you prefer Frank keep this in stock FRANK are you hearing us??? Love of course with wild abandon and demands for this tea to be permanent!

Southern Boy Teas 13 years ago

I am reading the comments. It is an awfully expensive tea to promise to keep on hand permanently, particularly when I still haven’t sold the first batch.

Southern Boy Teas 13 years ago

I’m glad you are enjoying it though!

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I’m a native Midwesterner (Iowa, specifically) who was happily uprooted to California twice. SoCal is what I consider home, even though I currently don’t live there. I hope to return home again!

Tea has really come to fill the void of my current displacement. My husband & I (with our two tiny weenies) moved to Indiana hardly knowing a soul. It’s been a tougher transition for me than I’d thought it would be. I have amassed a cupboard of teas to keep me company until I feel more familiar in my newer surroundings.

I will refrain from giving numerical values to teas because I am a faddist. My likes and dislikes are constantly changing. Flavored blacks are what I gravitate to the most. Having said that, I do enjoy a wide variety of teas – you name it, I’ll try it. I may not like it today, but I might revisit it later and love it.

Flavor note: I prefer my teas to be bold in flavor. I am starting to come around to drinking tea without additives. But I do like to dirty my tea with rock sugar/simple syrup and sometimes with half-n-half/milk. Unflavored greens are unsweetened, but flavored greens I usually add rock sugar. Lately I have been favoring flavored guayusa and matés.

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