Black Cherries in Sweet Cream from A Quarter to Tea

Black Cherries in Sweet Cream

Tea type
Black Fruit Herbal Blend
Ingredients
Darjeeling Tea, Dried Cherries, Mallow Flowers, Natural Flavours, Raspberry Leaves
Flavors
Astringent, Bitter, Cherry, Muscatel, Sweet, Cream, Vanilla, Cake, Raspberry, Artificial, Fruity, Tannic, Tannin, Tea
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Caffeine
High
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Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 30 sec 17 oz / 502 ml

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From A Quarter to Tea

“Illyrio smiled as his serving men spooned out bowls of black cherries in sweet cream for them both.” (Dance with Dragons)

Luscious black cherries with a medium body darjeeling base, paired with heavy notes of cream and vanilla. Decadent enough to make a magister proud.

Ingredients:
darjeeling tea, raspberry leaves, mallow flowers, dried door county cherries, natural flavors

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Reading the ingredients, this sounded much better than it tasted. Very strong artificial cherry flavour and the black base was too strong for me. Lots of delicious oxidised tea flavours and some malty notes that I loved. That being said, I wouldn’t say the cream came through. I didn’t get any of the mallow root, unfortunately.

Will try this cold brewed next, because I think that will bring out the vanilla/cream and subdue the black base a bit.

Flavors: Artificial, Cherry, Fruity, Sweet, Tannic, Tannin, Tea

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 5 min, 15 sec 1 tsp 22 OZ / 650 ML
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Indigobloom
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With two of the Q2T blends I’ve tried, adding milk or a bit of sugar has made a huge difference for me. May be worth a shot

Lauren | A Quarter to Tea
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Turning down the heat will definitely help the Darjeeling base. Most do best with temps around 185-195. This tea does best around 3 minutes @ 190.

Arby
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I’ll try a different temperature! When I brew tea on campus I’m stuck with whatever temperature the hot water dispenser is at (just under boiling), but I will try a more controlled brewing at home. I’ll also give adding soy milk a try, I find many black teas go excellent with milk. Thank you for the suggestions!

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I really enjoyed this tea. The cream aspect was really nice. I did find that it was a bit finicky with steep times and getting cold. It got astringent quite quickly. But, if you paid attention, it was delicious..just drink it while it is hot!
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gmathis
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Interesting! Love cherry teas, but as many of us have mentioned, it’s hard to find one that gets the flavor right.

tigress_al
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It isn definitely a tricky flavour

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It was not a good night for sleep. I had two major interruptions, both of which made it difficult to get back to sleep, after the sleep had been interrupted. So I am running on truncated sleep, and am dragging like hell this morning.
I brewed this as my first cup of the day.
The dry leaf smells wonderful, exactly like I would hope that something called Black Cherries in Sweet Cream would.
It brews up differently, though. The scents become a pale imitation, and the flavor is not as strong as I’d like. I’m going to try for a longer steep time next, and see what that does.
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Evol Ving Ness
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I feel ya with the sleep interruptions and difficulty returning to slumber thing.

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