Sunny C

I tried a bit of my friend’s iced tea to-go. As someone who loves citrus blends, the smell of the dry blend was just soooooooo mouth-watering to resist a taste. It’s definitely not a tea I’d buy for myself. The carrot flavor is too present – carrot pieces AND carrot flavoring?! Blasted carrots. I used to juice fairly regularly. Carrots, oranges, and a bit of ginger was my go-to when I started to feel a bit run down or sick. This tea reminds me a lot of that. There’s no ginger in this blend, but the pink peppercorn gives a slight hint of heat at the tail end of the sip for me.

Tried this hot. It was….unpleasant. Like watery orange juice or those gross vitamin c packets people take while traveling, what are they called? I’ll refrain from rating until I try it iced but it is not a tea to be drunk hot. Not at all.

I picked up a sample of this one to try a few weeks ago. I tried it iced, not expecting much since I don’t tend to like orange or citrus teas (I really disliked Sunny Citrus) but liked it more than I thought I would. It tastes like very sweet artificial orange to me. There’s some other vague fruity flavour that I can’t quite make out in there too. It’s not very tart or sour. All in all, this one was okay but I won’t need to buy any more.

Stopped in for an in-store sample. It was ok.
Mostly, I got a firm impression of watered down Tang.

This smells so good in dry leaf-very fruity and citrus-y. Tastes fruity and citrus-y too but I find that there is too much lemon in this blend and not enough orange flavor. Still drinkable though. I finished my mini tin of this flavor but it isn’t a favorite so I won’t be restocking.

Adventaggedon Day 8: Tea 2/7

Cold Brew!

Sunny C is not a tea that I usually keep stocked for myself because I find the orange flavour often a little too saturated and intense – especially when steeped hot. It’s not that the very sweet and tangy orange flavour is something that I dislike, but I just think I get sick of it quite quickly if I drink this tea back to back too often. However, I like to brew it iced or cold brewed once or twice in the summer because it’s super refreshing chilled.

I thought this cold brew was pretty enjoyable! Definitely more of the sweet and sunshine-y tasted juicy orange flavour than the tartness of the hibiscus or a sourness (though both are still present among the sweet orange). It was almost weird to drink it during the winter though, especially as I could see flurries of snow from outside the winter. It’s such a nostalgic and summery flavour for me that it felt out of place. Maybe if I had actually steeped it how I would have felt like it was more healthful like an emergen-c packet, and that would have been less out of place to me.

But that’s not what I did, so I just tried to enjoy my refreshing and summery cold brew in the middle of the winter instead.

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.