Superfood Splash

This tastes like hibiscus and coconut with some cinnamon, but in a combination that’s strange. It’s tart and unpleasant. I only threw this into my cart to get free shipping on a previous order, and I wish I’d chosen something else. I made a cup for my sister, who didn’t like it either. I usually like hibiscus, but all the weird ingredients make it bad – maybe it’s the coffee leaf that I dislike?

I am drinking this hot per Roswell Strange’s recommendation but I can’t get past the sweet cinnamon stop hibiscus flavor. No mango. No pineapple. No coconut. Maybe the slightest bit of banana but I really don’t get much more than cloying cinnamon sweetness with hibiscus flavor. It’s like a weird syrup tbh.

I wasn’t really too sure on this tea – but I got some to try. It smells alright – kinda reminds me of the old tea Kanpe. I made this iced. It steeps a dark red colour and I can taste the hibiscus right away. But this tea is pretty good, actually. I taste the tropical notes of mango/pineapple with a subtle hint of banana.. I added some sugar to this to make the flavour pop out more. It’s pretty good, and quite unique. I’d maybe get 50g of this !

Cold Brew Sipdown (1286)!

This sipdown was a long time coming, but I’ve finally finished off my tin of this tea! I’ve sort of flip flopped over the years on whether I like this blend or not, and I think ultimately my decision is that it’s good, but could be better executed. There’s just a lot of flavours going on in this tea and I think that results in a cup that sometimes tastes busy or “muddy”.

Today I’m getting a lot of tropical, sweet banana mixed with a “baked coconut”/toasty coconut and strong cinnamon flavour – so less “tiki” than it’s been historically and more of a flambeed banana/baked cinnamon banana vibe? It’s not too bad at all, and since on IG we’re currently having a conversation about Banana Houjicha powder these toastier banana notes are actually satisfying my craving/desire to just go and buy that matcha right now… so I’m actually grateful for these flavours, in this moment, from keeping me from breaking my self imposed “no buy”.

However, in a grander scale I’m mostly just wanting a “do over” for this concept. Either something that’s more properly like a banana tiki drink or something that leans more into the caramelized sugar and warming spice flavours of a baked/brulee-d banana. Both of those sound excellent!

This is the right moment to sip this tea down though – DT just released another tea with coffee leaf, which was IMO the coolest part of this tea in the first place, and any longer and the coconut definitely would have gotten weird…

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I smelled cinnamon as soon as I opened the package from my canvas 5 tea sampler. It brews a pretty red wine color. Made this as an iced tea and it is quite interesting…like a tropical drink with cinnamon. I did not think this would taste good but it is amazing! I wish it didn’t have hibiscus in it though because I bet this would be fantastic as an iced tea latte!