Bananas Foster

Sipdown (187/192)!

EDIT: Sipdown (186/191)! I did a sweep through my cupboard looking for things to cold brew, and found another 52Teas blend I finished a ways back but never actually removed! Hooray for a slightly smaller cupboard!

Thanks VariaTEA for the sample! I think I’m still beating you in cupboard size, but only just. Gonna have to work on that tomorrow with my day off. I know I have a few easy sipdowns waiting for me.

I have to go in to work tomorrow on my day off because I was stupid and left my cell phone there. Urhg. I just wanted to lounge around the house and not do things; and now I have to go see my stupid manager who’ll probably be pissed the store was left so messy (but really it’s her fault for short handing me and giving me an inexperienced closer for the shift…). Bleck.

I brought this guy with to work today, but didn’t get to drink him until the bus ride home because it was so busy that I didn’t get to take any breaks during my seven and a half hour shift. Bleck. WE NEED MORE EMPLOYEES IN THE EVENING. Two people does not an efficient closing team make.

But the tea; it was kinda… Mediocre? Really there weren’t any overwhelming negative or positive flavors. A little bit of banana and maybe the faintest hint of rum or caramel? And as for the usually very powerful and astringent black base Frank uses: really well behaved and muted…

I feel like in the long run this will be one of those teas that just doesn’t make any kind of impression on me; and that’s ok – it makes me feel better about not buying it when I had the chance to.

A bit of an earthy-bitter tone in the flavour. Banana flavour in the background seems to be quite authentic.

Thanks to Kittenna for sharing with me!

Thanks CharlotteZero for sending me this one!

I love banana teas, and I really love Frank’s Banana pudding tea so I really wanted to try this one. It’s not bad, but I didn’t realize that there was cinnamon flavouring in this, I guess I should have read the description. I am not a fan of the cinnamon flavouring Frank uses, but it was quite faint in this one, so it didn’t bother me too much. I am glad I got to try this as I won’t be tempted to buy it if it comes out again.

This has a delicate banana flavor with a subtle caramel undertone. I’d say it’s pretty spot-on. I was even able to drink this without sweetener OR cream -surprising. /patselfonback Thank you NayLynn for giving me a chance to sample this one!

I LOVE bananas foster so I am sooo glad NayLynn was awesome enough to send me some of this tasty treat (Thank you NayLynn!!!).

First off, the brewed cup smells awesomely delicious – like caramelized bananas (shocking, right?). And as I sip on it now, I am reminded of the 52 tea’s Butterscotch Banana (another shocker :P). There is one exception and that is the base – there is a quality to it that is a touch present but it is lending itself to the rum component of a bananas foster. Overall, I continue to be impressed with 52 tea’s banana blends and am glad NayLynn was so generous with her sample size.

In completely unrelated news, has anyone ever used snapchat? I got the app because a bunch of my friends are spread throughout the country and it is a fun way to keep in touch but also its just really weeeiird.

This was delicious. It tastes like whipped cream and slices of banana. It doesn’t have quite enough going on for me. I think prefer banana pudding, but both are great.

This tea just doesn’t quite make it for me. I put off reviewing it because I’ve had residual congestion from a mild flu I had about 2 weeks ago, and thought I wasn’t tasting anything too well. By now, I’ve had quite a few cups of this tea, and it just isn’t quite right. There’s a nice banana flavor, and it’s sweet, but it doesn’t cry bananas foster to me. I even added some brown sugar, but it isn’t really doing anything to accentuate the flavor. Today it turned out a bit bitter/astringent, and I only steeped it for 3 minutes at 185 degrees. I also feel like my mood is turning toward more natural teas…seems to happen occasionally, but it could be messing with the appeal of this tea at this moment. Overall, I think I prefer Frank’s hot, buttered banana bread tea to this one.