Fruitalicious

#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #21

Cold brew pitcher. Just kind of a non descript fruity cold taste. Finished last 8 oz this morning Tuesday 1/19. My t2 order arrived yesterday (I get teas from t2 once or twice a year on sale) so need to find more of the older t2 still in my collection.

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Sipdown! I finished up the last of this by cold brewing in lemonade. It’s almost time to say goodbye to summer, after all. I have a feeling that anything cold brewed in lemonade is going to taste good, and this is no exception. The blueberry comes out really well, as does the dragonfruit (more so than when brewed hot). The cranberry is more muted, which is fine with me as I’m not a huge fan anyway. The goji berry? MIA, but again, I don’t mind.

The sweetness of the lemonade complements the fruit really nicely. I mean, of course it does. You can’t go wrong with this.

For the sipdown prompt, “a cheap tea.” I purchased a tin of this on a very deep discount during one of their after-Christmas sales. Prepared as coldbrew.

I had a sampler of this long ago, but the bulky fruit nature of the tea made me misjudge my water ratio and it turned out extremely weak, too weak to properly review at the time. It’s kind of nice to try it again after all this time. But honestly, I still find it a little on the weak side?! I think because this is a fruit tea lacking hibiscus, so it doesn’t have a lot of body to it. The flavor is a very generic “fruit punch” sort of flavor without a lot of distinction… I mostly get a red berry flavor with a bit of pineapple and papaya. It’s also really sweet, which is another reason why I think some hibi would be a nice counter-balance.

I never expect too much from fruit teas besides being pleasant and thirst-quenching, and it does fit the bill there. Would I get more of this particular one? If it is on sale for the same sort of low price point, sure. Otherwise, nah. There are better options out there.

Fantastic as an iced tea. Sweet and refreshing without having to add anything in. I like stronger tea so I like to leave it to steep and come back to it maybe 30 minutes or more later if I use boiling water.

Very lightly flavored tea. Mainly a generally tart indisciminate fruit flavor. The tea smelled so delicious and strong, but the flavor is disappointing.

Thanks to Black Friday, Cyber Monday, et al., I’ve had the opportunity to try new brands this past week. It snowed yesterday (in Texas!) and it’s currently 40-something degrees, but I’m craving fruity iced tea. I don’t think I steeped this long enough to extract all the lovely flavors from the dried fruit, but my (large) glass of iced tea still went down a treat. It’s a muddled melange of fruits. Apart from the cranberry, I can’t quite discern any of the other fruits, but that’s fine by me. I think this would work really well cold-steeped or steeped for much longer than the suggested 3-5 minutes. I steeped for closer to 10 minutes and it still was quite light. That may just be the way it is, especially given the lack of hibiscus, rosehips, etc. Perhaps it’s just meant to be a lightly flavored fruit tea. I’m not mad at it.

Now that DT’s discontinued/retired Goji Pop and Melon Drop, I’ll need to find some nice flavorful tisanes for spring/summer. I’ll give it a longer steep next time and see how I fare.

I used up my whole bag of this blend on a strong iced tea (with some Turkish cherry sweetener) and now that I’m drinking that tea, I’m kind of annoyed I used it all because it’s really delicious.

This tea is a blend of cranberries, blueberries, dragon fruit and goji berries. It smells great. I recommend adding honey to your cuppa.

This tea worked very well as an iced tea, perfect in summer – added in frozen blueberries and cranberries for an extra fruity flavour!

This is one that my delightful spouse tried in the T2 shop on Regent Street and actually liked! So we, like, couldn’t not get a box of it. That’s just so unusual.

I’m giving it a test run as a warm brew this morning, having sampled it iced in-store, and it’s still lovely. It’s got a good punchy fruit flavour without being obnoxiously tart, which I’m not always in the mood for. It’s absolutely not the season to be brewing up a big pitcher of this cold, but I probably will anyway.