Butterbeer

Huh, I didn’t log this one either. This one I was so excited about but unfortunately I just couldn’t keep it. If I kept the taste of what it should taste like in my mind it did taste like it. It just wasn’t the treat I thought it would be. At the store, there was a butterbeer soda – very sweet, creamy and butterscotchy…. I think I thought it’d taste like that. Like someone said, the rootbeer is strong and not like the normal rootbeer you might normally drink but the real, crafted ones. The bite was too strong on this one so the rest after I tried it hot and cold went out for swaps. I do hate licorice so that may have contributed. Oh well, I had good swaps!

Well, gotta hand it to Frank, this does indeed taste like rootbeer. I can’t differentiate the butter so much because it’s been forever and a day since I’ve had an actual rootbeer but this brings back memories.

I don’t dislike it exactly. I can see myself drinking more of it. If I were constrained by my choices of tea. I’m not sure I like this enough to drink my whole pack up.

This morning’s cup of this one is really good, unexpectedly because I kind of threw it together without paying a great deal of attention as soon as I got to work. I think I underleafed at least a little, and added no milk or sugar. It got a reasonably long brew time – maybe 4 minutes? I went downstairs and back up before I returned to the kitchen, so probably at least that long. All I really know for sure is that the water was boiling.

Anyway, it’s great and now I’m kicking myself because I don’t really know how to recreate it. It’s so, so buttery with just an undertone of chicory and black liquorice. Delicious! If only ever cup of this was as good…

Oh man this is delish! I just love that Frank can come up with these delicious crazy blends and actually do it successfully. This is so buttery and yummy. I really like the root beer flavor of it. I loved it hot but I think it is even better iced. Next I think I’ll have it iced with ice cream and make it a Butterbeer float! :-)

Peppermintplant shared this one with me. Out of the package it smelled something like a root beer float. Only better. Brewed, I found the scent to be heavenly, intriguing. I was so excited to taste this one I almost couldn’t sleep the night I got it. Why didn’t I try it the night before you say? I was afraid the caffeine would keep me up. That was an awesome plan.

Oh, the tea! It tastes like childhood memories of rootbeer floats on a hot summer night. It is a tricky tea, first fooling you into thinking it is a mere black tea. Until the magic starts. The sharp rootbeer flavor took me by surprise until the subtle vanilla notes made the entire experience worth the sleepless night. All of that was from the first sip! This tea is going to be fun to try iced and sweetened.

Yum! I have only had a few of the 52 Tea’s sampler pack, but this is by far my favorite. I love root-beer and this is like drinking hot root-beer. I am going to have to chill a cup and try it cold. Who would have thought, tea that taste like root-beer.

Ooh la la!

I’m starting to think this tea probably wasn’t the best choice before bed (due to the chicory), but I just got my 52Teas order and couldn’t wait to brew a cuppa of this one! I’ll just start by mentioning that I’m not a Harry Potter fan by any stretch – in fact the first time I had heard about Butterbeer was at Universal Studios Orlando thanks to Harry Potter Land. So no bias there.

I do love root beer though, and that’s what attracted me to this tea. I never had a chance to try the root beer float tea from DT, so this is also my first root beer styled tea.

It’s actually pretty good! The root beer flavour is prominent and the underlying hints are quite buttery and mix well with the black tea base. I added a splash of milk, which has really enhanced the creaminess of the blend.

To me this is an oddly comforting blend. I dig.

Typically I tend to stay clear of black teas since I typically end up disappointed but this is a rare exception to this generality. Combining chichory and licorice root make for an enchanting brew. Interesting enough, I found that the subtle notes of this tea were best enjoyed as the tea cooled to slightly above room temperature and is likely even better chilled.

Just brewed my first ever cup of this. At first it’s very rootbeery. Like hot rootbeer…then a cream soda taste comes through. Then more flavors, but I don’t know what they are, good though. Probably not something I’d buy again, but still enjoyable. Another user mentioned butter schnapps in their review, I will be putting some in next time I have this tea. I think it will be a PERFECT addition to it.

For the May prompt “a soda tea.” This is a 2018 reblend.

I’ve pretty much already sipped down my soda-flavored teas because I’m such a fan of them, but I still had this 15g packet. Which will only get me two litres worth of ice tea and feels like a waste, but I want to drink my soda tea like I drink soda… namely, ice cold and carbonated.

Dry leaf smelled strongly like rootbeer, with a sort of creamy vanilla undertone. I brewed hot and then chilled overnight, and once cold, I added carbonation with my DrinkMate C02 infuser. And now I basically have delicious rootbeer soda, sans all the sugar, in my water bottle. It’s still plenty sweet in my opinion, and I love the extra brisk bite the carbonation adds.

Not really what my mind goes to when it thinks of “butterbeer,” but since I really like rootbeer teas and they are hard to come by, I’m never disappointed with those interpretations, either. Maybe it has more of a butterscotchy element when brewed warm, but I am very happy with my bubbly iced tea.