Sweet Almond Green

The flavouring may be natural, but it smells and tastes artificial – maybe there’s just too much of it. The tea is also very sweet, considering it contains no sweetener.

I’ve had worse but I won’t buy this one again.

I know I’m a harsh rater, but honestly this is a good example of why I didn’t think I liked green tea for a long time, until I finally found a couple that I enjoyed. This would not make me drink more green tea.

Ashmanra’s Sipdown Challenge | February 2023 | An afternoon tea

I’m drinking this tea in the afternoon, therefore it is an afternoon tea! Faultless logic! XD

This is one of those days that is not REALLY cold at all, but because it’s grey and damp, the mid-40s temperature just feels kind of nasty. I’ve been chilled all day long!

This was today’s afternoon green tea of choice. I’m enjoying it alongside some dried (unsweetened) mango slices, which I consider the food of the gods. It’s a pleasant pairing.

I stand by my comments and rating from last time!

2023 sipdown count: 19/75

Over the weekend I pulled out 2 huge plastic storage bins in the basement of tea. This is not surprising, I have 2348324294823049124 boxes and bins of tea mostly in my “tea room” (spare bedroom) and basement (but also all over house, all over my office at work, in my backpack/tote bag I carry with me everywhere, etc.). One was a Dessert by Deb filled bin from the early years of buying her tea. The other was ONLY boxes of teabag tea. A lot of Stash and David’s Tea, and this included a DT “Festive Favorites” tea wheel. 6 teas with 6 teabags each. 3 herbals, 2 black, 1 green.

Yesterday and today, I made my morning hot/plain cuppa as this tea with 2 teabags.

If I’m doing hot tea and want white or green, I do that in home kitchen as I’m getting ready for the day (have a kettle with different temp. settings, the only nice thing an ex-boyfriend ever bought me LOL). Work is only the tap in the breakroom (or yesterday at my parents or my boyfriend’s sister C’s house would have only been heating up water in microwave or something like that) where I mainly do herbal or black tea.

If you missed my note from 3 years ago, it’s pretty much the same thing. This is definitely the tea that was a gateway into exploring green tea (and along with herbal/tisanes, white, and oolong are my favorites general tea types). But as green teas go, sipping this is more nostalgia factor for me as this wouldn’t be a tea I would go to anymore…well also the fact this is old and I know green tea isn’t made for my long term hoarding er, storage, habits.

It will be fun to sipdown this box (a January 2024 goal) – even though it is from 2016 – as the other flavors are more old school DT flavors (Snow Day, Apple Cider, Sleigh Ride, Santa’s Secret, Chocolate Covered Almond).

I’d like to wish everyone on Steepster a belated happy new year. Let’s hope 2021 will bring better things. (After 2020, the bar is set pretty low.)

In honour of National Marzipan Day, I’m drinking this very old tea from 2016 or thereabouts. I steeped around 4 g of leaf in a 355 ml mug at 185F for 3.5, 5, and 8 minutes.

Surprisingly, the aroma of almond and amaretto is still pretty strong. The first steep has notes of almond, marzipan, cherry, and grass, though the tea is a little stale. These flavours persist in the second steep, with the green tea becoming more grassy and slightly astringent in the third.

This is a nice, if not memorable, tea that probably hasn’t been improved by sitting so long at the back of my cupboard. I enjoyed the amaretto and marzipan, but the green tea not so much. I’d give it a 65, but will hold off since it’s so old. Thanks, Mastress Alita, for the suggestion to revisit it.

17 is my lucky number, but apparently Plum Deluxe didn’t get the memo… since I had to toss out my advent tea for today, I had to dig through my stash to find something else to brew. Anyway, found this who-knows-how-old-it-is sampler packet and decided to go with it… came to me from Ost’s cupboard sale in summer of 2018, but who knows how old it was before it was passed onto me. Brewed the whole 5g to 500ml which is stronger than I usually do greens, but eh, it’s old and flavored and I want to clean it out of the cupboard so hopefully it’s fine…

I smell an amaretto sort of aroma coming from the cup… that mix of honey/almond/cherry with a slight bite to it, but is likely a marzipan flavoring (I usually read marzipan more as an amaretto in aroma/taste! But then, I don’t think I’ve ever eaten anything with marzipan…) And it tastes… pretty much just like amaretto/marzipan. I am getting a bit of a generic nutty note as well, and the green base tastes pretty stale at this point, which I’m not going to hold against it because of the age. It’s a little off-putting against the really sweet flavoring, but not so much that I won’t be able to finish the cup. And, ya know, still better than drinking a certain-ingredient-that-shall-not-be-named…

Organic version: Not quite cherry/almondy enough. Not very “green” though, so that’s a plus.

I didn’t think I would like this one, as I find most green teas to be quite bitter. I really enjoyed this one tho. For a green tea with medium caffeine (some days I like a higher caffeine content) I would try this one again. I really enjoyed it with a bit of milk.

I was plenty surprised when i opened the little baggy of tea from my David’s Tea advent calendar this morning. It smells so amazing! I thought for sure it would be over poweringly sweet, but it really isn’t! I only added 1 sugar cube and its absolutely perfect. Definitely one of my favorites

This smells delightfully like marzipan. It tastes like it too, along with notes of grass and umami. I get two solid steeps out of the tea. It reminds me of Della Terra’s Almond Biscotti blend, although that one had a cookie note absent here and this one has a grassiness absent there. The almond candy flavor is a dead ringer though.

This is probably one of my favorite DavidsTea blends even though it’s not particularly unique. It’s just extremely solid and tasty, especially if you drink it before it cools.