Coconut Ice

Coconut liqueur. This is exactly what this tea tastes like. Coconut is great when supporting other flavours, but it does horribly as the main ingredient. There is a very noticeable taste of alcohol that makes it all even more unpleasant. Borderline nauseating.
Part of the DAVIDsTEA 2015 Summer collection.

This tea tasted just like me smashing a dried up whole coconut on my counter then steeping it. Lots of coconut flavor and a thick texture. It’s got a coconut skin flavor along with some chocolate. The honeybush is in there but it’s got that usual weak tasting base.

This steeps up with a lot of residue. I steeped Coconut Ice late last night and this morning I went to make morning tea and there’s a coconut oily ring in my cup and my tea strainer was really oily as well. Clean your tea ware well after this one!

I’m happy to of tried this tea, but I won’t buy it again. It needs a little something something. More chocolate? Rum? Pineapple? A heavier tea base?

If any of you follow me on instagram – you may have noticed that I’ve been doing field work this summer in the middle of nowhere . Anyways, work finally ended and I got to come back home and the first thing I did was visit Davids haha.
Got this one and a bunch of their other summer teas. So nice iced! Coconut with a bit of chocolate. Kind of reminds me a little of chocolate macaroon! Anyways, glad I got 60 grams of it and that Newfoundland finally has some hot weather for me to enjoy some iced tea in! Its a balmy 25 feels like 35 today wipes sweat off forehead

I just had a sample pack of this and it was actually really awful. I usually love anything coconutty. It was really bitter with no creaminess like it claims to have. I got some odd alcohol vibes in this tea, almost like a watered down Malibu rum.

I wasn’t a huge fan of this one. I got a pitcher pack and when I opened the pack, there was the cocoa and coconut smell, but there was also an underlying sharpness that made me think of rum.

Steeped this in hot water, added some agave nectar, topped it up with cold water and let it sit in the fridge. The resulting brew was not bad, but definitely not the most pleasant thing. There was an oiliness and thickness to its mouthfeel that I didn’t appreciate, and as it cooled, little solidified flecks of coconut fat dotted the surface. Not the most appetizing.

This won’t be a restock.

Had this one iced last night and I’m starting to wonder why in the world did I wait so long before having it? This is sweet and creamy and such a great coconut flavour. I absolutely love it!

Definitely could be better.

The tea tastes more like straight up dried coconut than ice cream, and there’s no sweetness to it at all. The tea also didn’t last more than one steep. Thankfully a nice person gifted me a sample, because I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy it.

From the 2015 Summer Collection, Coconut Ice. This tea is primarily coconut ingredients wise. The tea is bitter and grainy and has very little sweetness, which I was hoping for. It’s described as a tea that should taste like creamy coconut iced cream but it tastes more like the coconut shell!

This is tea is pretty nice. It’s very simple but great. It’s very coco-nutty with a background taste of honeybush (which I’m assuming it’s a type of rooibos?). It taste rooibos not herbal, i’m pretty sure honeybush is a type of rooibos, someone correct me if I’m wrong. The smell is almost alcoholic for some odd reason. It’s a very simple but nice tea!

This was one of the collection of pitcher packs I purchased the last time I was in my local DT store. The temperature has been hovering around the mid-30s (celcius) and it’s going to be even warmer on the weekend so it really just isn’t hot tea weather right now.

Most of the iced teas I drink are fruit-flavoured so coconut iced tea was a bit of a new thing for me. It may well become a permanent thing because it was ridiculously delicious. The dominant flavour is coconut but leaning towards fresh coconut meat rather than toasted coconut. I did sweetened it a little bit but the blend has a sweetness all of its own and a light creaminess that reminds me of coconut gelato or sorbet. My only problem with this tea is that it leaves a odd sort of cloudy precipitate in the jug and glass, possibly from the oils in the coconut. It’s nothing too obnoxious, but it means I’ll have to be a bit more thorough rinsing out the pitcher when I’m finished it.

Definitely going to be stocking up on this tea before the summer is done.