This one made my brain hurt a little.
Firstly, I love the name/concept. A few year ago DAVIDsTEA released a Cereal Milk inspired blend, but it was more like Frosted Flakes instead of the Froot Loops/Fruity Pebbles route. I actually think this direction is actually way more on point for the whole cereal milk trend. It’s crazy how much the dry leaf aroma smells like Froot Loops too. Like, it’s dead on in a sort of eerily close way.
I 100% over steeped this which brought out a lot of bitterness and that’s fully on me. Not the fault of the tea at all. Despite the over steeping, there were elements I loved and some that just confused me. For starters, it tastes so much like Froot Loops with that kind of generic and slightly starchy mixed fruit note that ever so slightly tastes citrus-y. Sometimes bergamot tastes like this, and I wouldn’t at all be surprised to learn that one of the flavourings used to create this combination was a bergamot flavouring or oil.
Where Almost loses me is the inclusion of chocolate. I don’t know what their deal is with forcing chocolate into things, but it doesn’t work here. I mean, it really breaks the illusion that the fruitier notes was settling up so, so well. Like, you can 100% taste the undertone of chocolate and it fully just doesn’t work and it’s so out of place for the description/imagery used.
Like, make it make sense Almost! Make it make sense!
I’ve been curious about this company since I first heard about them. I really like their packaging here!
Their teas have been very miss, miss, hit for me. It’s been fun having a few new teas arrive each month tho. Last time I checked they weren’t offering the 12 teabags a month subscription any more and I don’t know that I’d feel the larger subscription would be worth the cost.