Root Beer Float (Organic)

I went in with my tumbler for tea of the day when it was first released. The worker said it was really good and surprisingly tasted just like root beer, and it did! I was really impressed since I absolutely love root beer (and tea!) and perfect combination, right? I personally think it tastes good both hot and iced! Fun summer tea :)

im sorry, david. But I really hate this tea. It just tastes like fake root beer and its just not good. I love David’s Tea but I really, really dislike this tea.
-Its a good thing I only bought 15 grams

I love how this tea smells.

I brewed it up last night for some iced tea and it’s got a pretty good flavor overall. Am I slightly disappointed that it doesn’t taste like an actual root beer float? Yeah, I am. But looking at it realistically, it’s tea.

And as a tea, it’s pretty darned tasty.

I am considering adding either whipped cream or root beer flavored vodka to it. Probably the whipped because it seemed to lack that super creamy flavor I expected.

I tried this Tea again a few days after writing this review and I have decided that I do not like it all. In addition to that I also can not find it on the website anymore. So I guess I wasn’t the only one who didn’t like it. Anyone want to try From Root Beer Float Tea? I have half a bag or so up for grabs!

This smells SUPER rootbeery. Totally not a word, but I’m using it anyway. I stepped out of the house after brewing this and when I came back in the whole place smelled like rootbeer! It is an odd flavor without sweetener. I can taste the rootbeer, but it has this cardboard flatness to it. Much better after sugar! I love the idea of rootbeer tea, but actually drinking something that tastes like hot rootbeer throws me off a bit, like I found a forgotten half drunk bottle in the car on a hot day and decided to take a swig. It is a very well done tea, has a creaminess to it and is right on the nose with the flavor it is trying to replicate. I want to love it, but it strikes me as strange. Still it doesn’t stop me from resteeping it for all it is worth!

Tea #4 (last one) from my “two trips in two days to David’s to try all the carnival collection teas” outings.

Preface: I love root beer. I love ice cream. I love root beer floats. I loved version #1 of David’s Root Beer Float tea. I’ve been begging for this one back on Twitter for almost 6 months. I AM SO HAPPY IT’S BACK. But…it’s not really. The ingredients are different. Aaaaaawwwwwww, shit. Last time they did this with Mom’s Apple Pie I was so disappointed with my re-purchase that it took me nearly 12 months to finish the tin. If they screwed up Root Beer Float, I’m going to be angry. VERY ANGRY.

And…it’s better. IT’S BETTER. HOW CAN IT BE BETTER THAN BEFORE?! It tastes exactly like a root beer float. It even makes my mouth feel a bit fizzy. Now I have two things to try in-store: an iced root beer float latte (recommended by the Tea Guide in-store as tha bomb-diggity and he’s never been wrong before so I hold his opinion in high regard), and a root beer float tea pop. Oh, and a root beer float iced tea with vodka. I mean…alcohol in tea? Never done it. Not this girl. *cough

Verdict: will buy a kilogram of it before it’s gone. You will not take this away from me again!!!

I think I need to try this stronger. I steeped it as I do all my black teas, and added milk and sugar. Unfortunately, it’s kind of weak and while it has the potential to be a lovely spicy tea with some vanilla, it falls flat.

It tastes like someone accidentally spit their root beer candy out into the water and now I’m drinking it

This is two years old now, so I guess it’s time for a (sad) sipdown. If it comes back this summer, I might repurchase. This is VERY well done. Honestly, I believe it to be DT’s only good flavoured blacks with a tasty black base; many of the blacks are not great compared to the quality of their whites/greens/oolongs and unflavoured blacks. I don’t know why, but I find many of the black teas they source for the other blends taste like generic artificial flavour.

Lots of vanilla, warm caramel sweetness, wintergreen, cream, malty/thick black base with only a tad of astringency (only in longer hot brews, never present for short steeps or cold brews). Notes of minerals, A&W rootbeer, and sarsaparilla.

I have a peculiar relationship with this tea because its one of the first teas that I had when I got into tea. I think I’m a bit partial to this tea because I have such fond memories of it even if I never brewed it right when I was starting out. I hope they bring it back sometime, even if this tea wasn’t the most well received.

The dry leaf smells strongly of cinnamon and the sarsaparilla, not necessarily a root beer float smell to me, but its not not a root beer smell. It brewed up nicely but it sure made my steeper smell like it. That aside, I think that with sugar this tea works pretty well. The sarsaparilla comes out a bit more, and the spicy hit of cinnamon accents it well. Sadly the flavors are pretty strong so it’s hard for me to get much of the black tea base, or the vanilla/white chocolate. Overall I enjoyed having this around to make iced, and I’m sad to see it gone.