Sweet Almond Green

This smells like maraschino cherries…and tastes like it too. The end of the sip almost tastes like amaretto or cherry whiskey???? What the heck? I don’t get any almond or green tea notes. Maybe this is a different tea and labelled as sweet almond green. Or maybe I did something very wrong. Help!!

This tea smells incredible. I love all things amaretto, so I knew this would be the one tea from this year’s winter collection that I had to purchase. While I like the flavor of the tea straight, it’s just begging for sweetener. Darned whole100 journey! I might try adding a bit of citrus juice to enjoy the bit I’ve got in my cupboard, and I’ll buy a few ounces to enjoy when I start reintroducing things to my diet in a few months.

I’m a bit behind on my advent calendar days.. I should be able to start catching up more on Thursday. I was a little hesitant to try this one as I’m not wild about almond flavor… Or at least I have to be in the mood for it. The scent of this tea reminds me of an almond cookie.. Really spot on! It smells quite sweet in the cup.. almost like almond frosting. Sipping… I like this more than I thought I would. The almond flavor is just as you’d expect.. Just like a cookie but without that crunchy, starchy character. It’s a little weird with the green tea as a base as the green tea adds a mild grass flavor. I would think that it would’ve worked better with a different tea, but I’ll finish this cup as I’m liking the almond flavor for tonight.

Day 4 of 2015 Advent Calendar

This tea smelled promising. I’m not usually into nutty teas because rarely do they taste any good…looking at you Toasted Walnut.

But this one, being sweet almond, smells more like marzipan than actual almonds.

And it would be good, but here’s the problem. The base is just awful. The initial flavor was good, but that base just ruined it. I steeped it at the temperature on the little box, so if I decide to try again I will be going lower, or just cold steeping it.

I only managed to drink like a third of my mug before I was like, nope. Bummer, because it smells so good but hopefully I can make it work for the rest of the mini tin.

The almond flavouring is quite good in this tea- amaretto with sweet nutty tones. The green tea in this blend, unfortunately, seems to be of low quality. There’s an odd artificial aftertaste. I like the sugar cookie sweetness in the background.

Advent calendar [4/24]

Alright, I was a little scared that this one was going to taste like the Amaretto tea that David’s had several years ago.

Don’t get me wrong— I like almond flavoured things. I like almond flavoured things that have a balance of flavours, and don’t taste sickeningly like strong alcohol. I think David’s got this blend pretty well right when they paired it off with walnut.

I remember standing in the kitchen this morning after I’d brewed this tea for just over a minute. I poured a little into a pyrex bowl that I reserve for “tea-checking” and making sure I don’t pour an oversteeped or understeeped batch into my travel mug for work. It was so smooth and almost creamy somehow. I was surprised that it was nothing like Amaretto.

I drank all of it before even getting halfway through my commute. Then I got to work and actually felt sad that I’d left the rest of the sample at home. I really wanted to have more than the small cup I’d made.

Now I’m drinking some gyokuro genmaicha to pass the time, but it’s not the same. It doesn’t have the smooth creaminess that this tea had.

Forgot to add: Very happy that this tea has such simple ingredients. Green tea, almonds, marigold flowers, cornflower petals. With natural almond flavouring*

Day 4/24 of 24 days of tea (DAVIDs advent calendar).

I will admit that I was skeptical of these tea from the beginning. This is because I did not like toasted walnut, don’t usually go for flavours in my green tea, and was concerned that this would be overly sweetened. Surprise surprise, I actually enjoyed this one! I noticed a type of flavouring in the scent of the dry leaf + brewed tea (almond extract? Some people say marzipan?) but after the initial smell it tastes like the grassy base of green tea. It works well. Don’t know if it’s something I would stock up on, but I’ll have no issue using it up.

Days 4 of #24daysoftea, and I LOVE this one. Sweet Almond Green tastes like marzipan to me, and I love marzipan. This one goes on my wishlist!

This is literally an almond green tea. We get an almost overpowering almond smell and taste with the lingering notes of a hearty green tea. I love it. This tea is perfect for when I want a green tea with a twist of something else, it’s delicious and simple.

I found this to be way too strong the first time I tried it (I only got a tiny sample, but still working on finishing it off) so I just steeped it 2 minutes instead of 3. It’s an improvement, but the almond extract is still really drying to my throat, so as much as I love almond, I gotta say I’m not a fan of this approach to it.