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drank Peach HoppiTea by Butiki Teas
863 tasting notes

After the success of the Tropical Splash iced tea I made, I really found myself wanting more iced tea and I remembered how tasty and fruity this was even when hot. I know it’s January but maybe if I keep icing tea summer will come faster. These are things I tell myself.

Anyway, I did my usual boil 1/2 gallon water, steeped 4 tbsp. tea at below parameters and sweetened with my normal amount of sweetener for an iced tea (1/4 cup sugar, which amounts to about 1/2 tsp. per cup).

I still really smell an underlying banana-ness to the peach but I like that. Normally banana kind of overwhelms any other flavor and so it’s nice to see it tempered a bit with the juicy, sweet peach notes at the forefront. This is the juiciest peach I have ever smelled, too. I said this in my previous note but it really makes me want a fresh one. Or a couple of fresh ones, to make a pie out of…

Anyway, I let it chill overnight to have the flavors settle and GAH. Peach juice, with a nice added astringency from the hops so you get that sweet peach and also a tart note that you sometimes have with an unripe one. The tea itself has a pleasant nectary consistency that makes me sad only because I imagine that will mean I finish my ounce of this far too soon.

Liquid summer, guys. That’s what this is. The best peach tea I’ve tasted.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec
caile

Sounds nice!!

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caile

Sounds nice!!

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My tea habits:

*I am an unashamed Lipton iced-tea drinker (mass quantities, year round).
*I like hot teas but only in cold weather (and occasionally late summer nights or mornings).
*I love Japanese greens (the more seaweed-y the better) and good strong malty black teas.
*I do NOT love smoke in any form.
*Vanilla, cinnamon, or lemon anything will usually pique my interest.
*I’m working on pu-erh but it’s definitely going to take some time to grow on me.

(updated September 2015)

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