Salted Caramel

I think I wanted to like this tea so I kind of forced myself to say I liked this tea. The rating is far too high, and I don’t think my tastes have changed that much since the fall. The caramel and the salt are there, and they would be delicious if they weren’t buried under the base, which is far too dry for a caramel tea. I want caramel tea to be creamy and buttery, not drying. This definitely does not warrant an 80, seriously lowering the rating.

This tea is really delightful. It’s more burnt caramel (toffee) than salted caramel so I add a pinch of French sea salt to the tea leaves while they’re steeping. I usually add non-dairy milk to the hot tea as well. I also like it as an iced latte. It’s not one of my favorites, but it’s another black tea blend that I intend to keep stocked in my collection.

First sample from the Not My Cuppa Tea TTB. I chose this because it smelled nice but doh! David’s Tea you got me again! Fairly cheap base and I keep forgetting I don’t like coconut in tea. The caramel didn’t pop and I tasted more salt from my skin than from the tea.

So this to me tastes more like a salty broth than tea… sometimes I get more of the caramel flavour peeking through, but this morning it was like having broth with my breakfast. I still drank it but definitely was not what I was expecting, despite the “Salted” part of the name.

Sampled this as a latte in store. I’ve had this before and was very unimpressed. It’s definitely better as a latte, but it still doesn’t have the flavours that I would hope for from a salted caramel tea. Ah well.

I love salted caramel soooo much. I like this tea, but Cococaramel Sea Salt from Teavana does it better for me.

I keep trying this tea, hoping to have a salted caramel experience, and find it to be only a decent black tea. I want to taste more buttery, more sweet, and especially more salt— even when I am careful about how I spoon out the mixture, I get only a hint of salt. I have trouble tasting caramel in David’s Caramel Rooibos as well, which seems to contain the same little “caramel” cubes.

Anyone care to recommend a favorite salted caramel tea or tisane?

Hmmm… I’m not a huge fan of salted desserts. Chocolate is ok caramel…. I don’t know. It has a caramel undertone. I sense just a bit of salt. Which is good. It would be so gross if you could definitely taste the salt. A bit of vanilla now too. The main black tea is earthy. Overall it’s a good tea just not my cuppa.

Eh. It’s almost a strange relief to find a tea I’m really not thrilled about because it means that’s one less to get a larger bag or tin of. Means I can put my student budget back towards food! Huzzah!

Anyway, this just really didn’t leave much of an impression on me. I had it a week ago, wasn’t particularly anything about it, then today kind of forced myself to give it another shot. And I’m still not particularly anything about it. It’s not especially caramel-y as I’d hoped, I do get the salt, but in absence of the caramel it’s a bit lonely. It tastes fine and all, just indistinct to me.

Initially I thought this was a really good tea. As I got to drink it more and more, I realized how much I started to dislike it. After a few brews, the loose leaf started smelling like sweat (ew) to me, and it was just unbearable to drink. I don’t have much to say about this tea but other than the fact that drinking it as a tea latte is the only way to go really.