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TTB 2025 – To me, this blend does not taste like a cookie, but more like the spices that would go into a Christmas cookie. It’s somewhere in the realm of gingerbread cookie spices, but not really ginger forward. I think it’s a tasty blend, and the little snowflake sprinkles are adorable.
Sipdown! I oversteeped this by at least ten minutes today, but actually it was fine. Just made it a little more citrus-tart than usual, but not unpleasantly so. I’ve never gotten a significant creamy note from this particular blend. Mostly I get lemon, lime, and sweet. Surprisingly, I like it better hot than cold. Not one I feel the urge to restock but I enjoyed it while I had it!
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This tea was so sunny and happy last time I drank it. How could I resist trying it as an iced sweet tea on a hot day, during a break from garden work?
It is really refreshing cold, and I am undecided as to whether I prefer it cold or hot. It really works both ways. It has a lightness that suited itself to gulping it down sweet from a chilled mason jar, but it was also lovely as a plain hot tea.
The aroma of this tea is absolutely delightful. Ashman has tried other pear teas and wasn’t fond of them so I drink this by myself, but I think he would like it. His complaint against pear flavor in general is that it tastes floral to him. This tea smells like sunshine.
I don’t know what the natural flavors mentioned in the ingredients might be, but something about this tea is citrusy to me – thus my impression of sunshine when smelling the dry leaves or the steeped tea. It could be just a brightness in the base but I find it delightful. It was just the thing to brighten and cheer this gray and blustery day.
The scent of fresh mango was super strong. The first time, it turned out a little astringent seeming even though I steeped this shorter than the recommended time. The resteep was somehow tastier than the first steep. It was mostly super mapley pancakes, which was nice! On subsequent steeps, I kept the time under three minutes and let it cool completely before drinking. Then it became really wonderful, blending the mango, coconut, and maple perfectly.
I would never have thought of mango and maple together, but I can see how they’d fit!
Totally makes me think of Hawai’i, where the intersection of breakfast/brunch and tropical fruits seems to be a major thing! Still dreaming of the guava chiffon pancakes…
Now that sounds amazing!!
Soy milk complements the banana flavor well. This is so similar to other 52teas banana blends that I assumed I’d had it before until I checked Steepster for a note to be sure. It’s best cold, and I may have enjoyed the resteep even more than the first. It tastes nice, but the banana could be even stronger, and nothing about it says pie distinctly to me.
I want to add a tasting note from the friend to whom I gave the rest of my tasting pouch since she knows the taste of mango very well. I asked for her thoughts since I don’t know what mango tastes like by itself.
“I tasted both the mango and the coconut very well. It was excellent with my breakfast. My husband loves mango and this reminds me of when I used to make him grilled brown sugar mangos years ago. He said that when he was overseas, they served grilled mangos with raspberry and honey drizzled on top.”
Safe to say she loved it, and I wouldn’t be surprised for her husband to come home and find both grilled mango and mango tea waiting for him.
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Another tea I had a couple of times and shared to my new tea friend. (A while back I gave her Blueberry Lemon Lavender and she used it for tea with her young daughters and they all loved it. She highly recommends it as a tea party tea!)
I had never had mango by itself that I can recall so I don’t know exactly what it tastes like. I liked this blend a lot, and mostly I tasted a slightly toned down maple syrup in comparison to Pancake Breakfast Black, with a bit of creaminess and vanilla. If I squint, I might detect some fruit but since I don’t know what mango tastes like, I don’t know if that is what I am tasting,
I have asked my friend to report back once she drinks it but I don’t know if she has ever had mango. Lovely tasting blend, though!
Mango has a very juicy and sweet-tangy tropical flavor. I see it described as peach and pineapple together, and I guess that’s somewhat accurate? Sometimes there is a slightly piney note to it as well.
That sounds wonderful! I love pineapple in drinks and desserts. I think this tea had a more lightly fruity vibe, less tropical to me. It could just be me.
Definitely give one a try sometime if your local grocery carries them. For science! ;)
For science! It sounds delicious!
Re: Mangos. You don’t eat the skin. When ripe, they yield to gentle finger pressure. They have a large hairy flat pod embedded in the flesh which can be difficult to cut out. Since your goal is to get the flavor, I suggest just buying a small bag of frozen mango chunks at Walmart or other grocer. Remove a few pieces and let them thaw to room temperature before tasting. I like them in fruit salad with melon, berries and citrus. Mango can be very sweet, so it goes well with tart or less-sweet fruits and melons and yogurts. If you buy the whole fruit, it takes practice to remove the skin and pit, and frozen is nearly as delicious, even when eaten as a snack while frozen. A mainstay of smoothies (and daquiris).
Thanks for the advice, TeaEarleGreyHot!
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I have had this a couple of times and decided to share the last of the pouch with my new tea friend who is trying lots of new things.
I have had the Marshmallow Treat Genmaicha before, and this is true to that blend with lovely chai spices added for a “just right” level for me. There is nothing too hot or too savory leaning in this for me, it is just a lovely addition to the marshmallow treat line up of blends.
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This is reminiscent of the Snowball snack cakes (minus the chocolate cake part) I ate in my youth. My big sister bought us lots of junk food and Snowballs were the only form of coconut I would eat back then, being sold on it by the sticky marshmallow coating on the cake.
Overall, it is a nice marshmallow and coconut green tea!
@Ashmanra – I’m so happy you picked up on the snowball snack cakes – because that was my exact inspiration for this tea. I LOVED those snowballs! I didn’t include the chocolate cake part in this, because the cake was my least favorite part of the confection, I’ve always found those hostess cakes to be very dry but at the same time, kind of grossly moist, if that makes sense at all. Gross, but not too gross that I wouldn’t eat them as a kid. These days, I don’t know if I’d eat them, but they definitely hold a special place in my nostalgic heart.
I agree on the weirdly dry and also grossly moist at the same time! Ha ha! If it hadn’t been for the creamy filling in the middle I think I would have just peeled off the coconut and marshmallow layer and tossed the cake! A “past date” Snowball was truly a bizarrely dry confection. But we washed it down with a Pepsi.
YES! I wouldn’t have eaten the cake either, but I love that cream filling. It is SO junk food, but also so dang good. If they could have just sold the marshmallow with coconut plus cream filling, I would probably still be eating that on a daily basis.
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This was a really lovely tea for breakfast. Ashman and I had it with our tortilla egg bake and it goes so well with food. After breakfast I made a third steep to sip as we do some work this morning and while it is lighter, it is still worthwhile to sip on.
This is a nice Yunnan profile. I had one or two years ago from another company that were so peppery and they gave me a bit of a tummy ache. This one is classic Yunnan without ache and not peppery.
I think the vanilla is fairly subtle, and oddly enough I noticed it more in the third steep. Perhaps that is because we were sipping and not eating.
Delicious tea!
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I made a huge pot of this to share with a friend today and I knew it was far more than we would drink, so I had plans to sweeten and refrigerate whatever was left.
The first time I ever drank this, I got peach with a little ginger. The second time I tasted the ginger more but it wasn’t too strong for me. This morning once again it was a very pale steep with nice peach flavor and the most cake flavor to it that I have noticed so far. The ginger was quite mild this morning.
I have now also tried the iced sweet version and it is very good. I would say it is almost silky from the cake flavor and the peach is so fresh and light. Good every which way it turns out!
March Sipdown Prompt – your freshest green tea
This qualifies as freshest because I just got it this morning! There is a tiny, sparkly pink gift bag that appears every few days with a gift from my daughter inside ever since my second surgery of recent months and this was today’s gift. I am glad I saw it as I was making breakfast because sometimes I don’t see it until later in the day.
The peach aroma is soooo nice in this. Even though I do like many peach teas, I confess that some punch you in the nose and sometimes have a sharp boozy aroma. This was more a nice, strong, natural peach aroma. There was a swirl of other scents as well and a really deep inhale told me there was some ginger here. I can tell it will be just right and not spciy hot.
As I pour the tea in my breakfast cup it is almost clear but builds up in the cup to a soft yellow. The taste is smooth, sweet, divine, and didn’t get overpowered by my breakfast food.
I am really torn as to whether I want to try it cold steeped or iced because I really love it hot.
Edited to add: had it again at lunch with Ashman and the ginger is more noticeable in this pot, but still well within my range of ginger preference.
2025 TTB #22
After the aggressive “berry” chai this morning, this one is a welcome reprieve! Mostly, this is a beautiful fluffy white tea, almost effervescent on the palate with sweet notes of warm hay. I get just a whisper of strawberry in the sip and then a hint of marshmallow in the aftertaste. I’m enjoying it hot, but I think it would also be lovely iced!
Flavors: Hay, Marshmallow, Smooth, Strawberry, Sweet
Preparation
2025 TTB #20
I definitely tasted both the lemon and the lime, but nothing about this blend was saying “cheesecake” for me. The honeybush did add a bit of natural sweetness, but nothing tangy or rich or creamy. But once I got over my disappointment about the missing cheesecake note, it was a lovely bright, fruity cuppa! I think it would be even better iced.
Flavors: Fruity, Lemon, Lime, Sweet
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2025 TTB #13
Had to look at the tea description to see what the “cloud” in the name meant…marshmallow, apparently? Unfortunately, I didn’t really taste any marshmallow in the blend. The cherry flavor was quite mild and natural-tasting (which I appreciated, because I do NOT enjoy that overly artificial cherry flavor that reminds me of childhood Triaminic!) and the base tea came through clearly with a nice chocolatey note. Would have called this one something like “chocolate-covered cherry”, personally.
Flavors: Cherry, Dark Chocolate
Preparation
My first cup of this was quite marshmallowy! I liked it sweetened with milk. The marshmallow comes out the best when it cools to room temperature. The next time I had this, I felt much more neutral toward it. The white tea came out a little more than I prefer, but it was okay – it’s just a little light on the flavoring for me.
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March 8 Sipdown Challenge Prompt – International Women’s Day: drink tea from a woman- owned company
This is another post-surgery gift tea from my daughter!
I have tried this three ways and I am kicking myself that it is all gone because I thought of a fourth way that I wish I had made it!
We had it hot with breakfast and Ashman said the cola part was NAILED. I agree! It is uncanny how much it smells like a cola, which led to a conversation about what the smell of cola actually is. I have made herbal “cola” syrups in the past and will probably do so again this summer. I didn’t get a lot of cherry or almond, and as a breakfast tea the base could have been stronger.
Next up was cold steeped. Now it really, really smells like cola! So much so that I decided to add simple syrup. This amped up the cola vibe quite a bit. I still mostly just taste and smell cola, and I am not really getting the cherry almond part.
Now I am wishing I had thought to make a tea simple syrup with it to add to sparkling water. It would have been indistinguishable from an actual soda, but much better for us!
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I am shocked this is a sipdown. I think I had two or three packs but I guess I have been drinking it more than I realized.
Maple maple maple. I almost changed my mind and had waffles for breakfast this morning after smelling it because it smelled that yummy, but I am trying not to go with a sugary breakfast much and remembered how even yesterday the contrast pairing of another tea was better than the similar flavors pairing. So I had my more savory breakfast and let the tea satisfy that sweet craving, which was certainly healthier.
This tea lives up to its name. It is lovely, Anne!
2025 TTB #1
This one caught my eye right away, as coconut and raspberry are both favorite flavor profiles for me. Sipping it straight, I got a light natural-tasting raspberry flavor but not much coconut. The Assam base was also leaving me with a slightly bitter aftertaste. However, with the addition of a splash of milk, everything smoothed out and the creaminess of the coconut started coming through. A pleasant start to this box!
Flavors: Bitter, Coconut, Creamy, Raspberry
