Frozen Raspberry

Day 6 of the DavidsTea herbal advent calendar. I bought a box of teabags of this one based on the description, so I was happy to see this in the sampler and get a chance to try it before opening the teabags! It does have a fair bit of sugar crystals in it. Thankfully that didn’t translate into an overly sweet brew. It tasted raspberry-tart, sweet, and gently creamy. I happily downed two mugs in a row, finishing off the tin. This is definitely a dessert tea, but I think it strikes a good balance of feeling indulgent without being sickly sweet or leaving a weird texture.

For the sipdown prompt, “a raspberry tea.” Prepared cold brew.

I was surprised to find that this is blue raspberry flavored, but as that is a flavor I enjoy and one I don’t think I’ve encountered in tea before, I’m fine with it. It steeps a deep hibi red but there is so much sweetness here there is only a vague hint of fruity tartness… Mostly I get a strong fruit punch flavor followed by sweet blue raspberry. It’s a very thirst-quenching cold tea, which is how I plan to finish this… I’m not sure how I’d feel about the flavor warm, though.

At this point it’s more surprising when I dislike a hibiscus fruit blend, and yet.

“Frozen raspberry” was begging to be made iced, but I’m sticking to hot right now, and I was glad I did. It’s a bold, tart blend that took well to my stronger steep. The sugar and yogurt pieces are getting close to overkill, though thankfully this particular cup was still primarily hibiscus and raspberry.

I can’t put a finger on what exactly makes this “frozen”, but the name fits.

DAVIDsTEA caffeine free advent, day 6

#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #112 overall / Tea #28 for March / #drinkwhatyouown February 12/25

Wednesday 3/24/21 — DT Frozen Raspberry. Pitcher pack time! And trying to get through my January/February DIY advent calendar (aka #drinkwhatyouown).. I need to work on March too but they are all green teas and today is day 11 in a row and my only day off for all of last week and all of this week is tomorrow Thurs so I’ll do a few green teas + work on my Steepster Sipdown Mad(ness) bracket. I generally drink cold-brew pitchers of tea (flavored and traditional) and hot lattes. Occasionally a hot cuppa, a drink out (like from a cafe / Starbucks / store bottled kombucha / etc), but I’m not really a sweetener kind of person. I’ve always been a Frozen Raspberry fan but as I was sipping a bunch last night with a spicy dinner my boyfriend made, I was really struck with how SWEET this tea is. I wonder if I’d still enjoy this tea if there wasn’t as much sugar in it? The DT Raspberry Cream Pie is tooooo sweet for me, this one is okay, maybe I could find something to mix it with, so the sweetness isn’t as strong for me?

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Good, tart tea

Hot – Yes
Cold – Yes
Tin – Yes

I used this as iced tea over the summer and loved it. At the end of summer, I was runningout of tea so I made another David’s order knowing tjat I wouldn’t use up the fruity teaa before Fall. I’m trying to use up some tea and make cabinet space so I started drinking some fruity teas before bed. This taste pretty good hot as well. Fruity but warm and comforting too.

Not sure what possessed me to try a cold steep of this on a cold day, but here we are.

The dry tea in the bag smelled super strong and my nose was not pleased. It’s not one that I could just smell in the bag and enjoy the scent of. Fortunately, the smell during and after steeping was much more pleasant and doesn’t overwhelm the senses to the point of almost gagging.

As for preparation, steeped 0.75 tsp of this tea cold in my 12 oz cup in the fridge for 90 minutes and now have a tasty pinkish red drink. Very reminiscent of a raspberry freezie or snowcone while cold, though less sweet than a freezie and slighly tart—like very slightly. Plenty sweet enough to drink on its own, but leaves a lingering artificial flavour. Refreshing is a good way to describe this drink.

Also worth mentioning: I took a peek after around 1 hour of cold steeping and noticed the yogurt pieces weren’t quite dissolved, so I dipped the infuser basket a few times to break up the pieces and put it back into the fridge for the extra 30 minutes. Seems to have done the trick. Not really sure if I taste the yogurt or not though.

Cup count (12 oz) from the 27g pitcher pack: 1 (Lots more to play around with)

Would I buy this one again? Maybe, still want to try it hot too, but I do prefer this to their Just Peachy flavour I tried yesterday.

A very good, flavorful tea. It all-around does exactly what it strives to.

Had this as a free tea on International Women’s Day! It was really delicious, even though I had it hot. They seem to have struck the perfect balance between sweet, tart, and raspberry; I assume there’s hibiscus in here but it’s the perfect amount. Really tasty. I hope I have a bit of this hanging around somewhere.

I absolutely love this one. The smell on it’s own is intoxicating enough. Smells exactly like a fresh raspberry bush. It’s tart and fruity, but somehow the yogurt pieces are giving it a nice creaminess. Can’t wait to try this cold.