Just Beet It

When I smelled this in the store it smelled really good, but tasting it, this tea is quite tart… It needs agave just to make it enjoyable. I’m not a big fan of strong tartness like that, but Ive only tried it iced so far, maybe it would be different hot.

So today has been a super productive day. Im getting a lot done at work and though I normally ignore the teas I bring, I’ve actually drank 2/3 I brought (this and the dragon…I took a sip of the other and burnt my tongue). In the case of this tea, because of the mate and the lack of food, I dipped on this forgetting the caffeine content and got super jittery for a bit. The thing is it is so fruity that I didn’t even realize at first what was going on. So, anyways, moral of the story is despite the copious amount of fruit here and the lack of mate flavor, you can still get buzzed off this.

Btw this is a Sipdown. Yay!

Beet lover here, thanks to my Ukrainian heritage. Dwight Schrute would be proud. But in spite of my love of beets, I am relieved that this doesn’t taste like them. I have had a couple fruit blends in the past with beet that tasted heavily of cellar. Granted, I have had actual beets from the grocery store that taste a lot dirtier than others. My grandma’s garden-grown beets have spoiled me.

But this is Berry Central. A lot more artificial, though, thanks to the wild berry flavouring. A pity the raspberries and elderberries are covered up by the fake nuance. Some goji pops through too but I would think that it is a little out of place here.

Only had this iced, and the hibiscus wasn’t out of control as a heads up.

Cold Brew!

We were handing out free samples of this tea at the MTL Tea Festival and the little single serves are just so conveniently sized for iced or cold brewed teas that I swiped one of the extras at the end of the day.

If I’m being honest, my tin of this tea that I have at home is older than I’d care to admit and though I still think it tastes really nice aged there was definitely a noticable difference in how fresh tasting this cold brew was. Much more of a bright flavour with a pleasant light tartness to offset notes of ripe strawberries and black currant. Kind of jammy but not really necessarily sweet. Just a thickness to the flavour, I suppose. I really enjoyed it though – very refreshing and with dark enough berry notes and that hint of beet earthiness that make it such a good “seasonal pivot” tea for the summer to fall transition.

(Tbh it’s mostly just fall now, but every now and then we have a day that feels more summery than autumnal.)

Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.

I was given a sample by a lovely lady. She warned me that it was sour, but I was optimist. However, she was right. I tried it iced but this tea is just too sour for my taste buds. This makes me sad as I really, really wanted to like it because I LOVE beets!