Frosted Cereal

Day 5 of DavidsTea herbal advent calendar. I expected to hate this one based on the reviews, but I don’t totally hate it. The dry leaf smells like coconut and sugar. I overleafed and steeped it for a long time in order to extract as much flavor as possible. Brewed up, it smells like coconut, marshmallow, and goji berries. I don’t love that it’s rather cloudy, though, and I think that speaks to this being a particularly sugary blend. It does taste, to me, like cereal milk in tea form – lots of sugar, marshmallow, and coconut flavor. What I don’t love is the lingering feeling of sugar coating my teeth after the sip. It’s pretty unpleasant. Ultimately this blend isn’t something I’d revisit given how sweet it is, but glad I got to try it! Gonna go brush my teeth now.

This was… this was bad.

I can kind of see where they were going for frosted cereal, like maybe there are some lucky charms that once floated in this hot water? But it’s mostly just a cloying, artificial vanilla or caramel water. It doesn’t even manage to overwhelm the taste of water, and yet it’s too much. I tried to let it cool a little, but I was just as disgusted when it reached room temp. It just gives off a weird, almost butter/jellybean aftertaste.

My partner recoiled and has now declared he won’t taste my tea again because he doesn’t know when I might be trying to poison him.

DAVIDsTEA caffeine free advent, day 5

So turns out, Cereal isn’t yet a flavor on Steepster!
Anyways, I absolutely love this tea. I usually make it iced, sweetened, and with 2 tbsp of half and half (basically like a latte without making a concentrate). And….Yeah, it tastes like Frosted Flakes and cereal milk. Which, I love for some odd reason. It has a nice strong flavor on its own, but somehow doesn’t play well with others. Tried adding a little black tea for some caffeine in the morning and then, that was all I could taste. I now take my cereal tea after dinner!

Cold Steep!

I was intrigued by this tea as cereal milk used to one of my favorite things. I would run home from school and get a bowl of frosted flakes, special K ,pops and pour in more milk than necessary. It was like I was having cereal with milk. I would wait for the flavor to infused with the milk and get thicker then I would quickly finish off the cereal and slowly spoon the cereal milk. It is weird thinking back to those days. I still cannot believe I ate that much sugary cereal or drank that much milk. The idea of those cereals or even milk is disgusting to me now so I have not had it in a long time. This tea transported me back to the old days and now I remember why I changed :)

I tried it hot and it was watery to me. I could taste the cereal but it was weird. I experimented with hot brewing and making it iced, still it was watery. I then decided to cold brew it and I forgot about it for a few days. I tried it without any milk and it was good. I decided to add some oat milk and it was just like cereal milk. The disgustingly sweet and thick milk. I cannot drink more than half a cup of this as it is too sweet! I wish I could make the decision on the sweetness I prefer.

This is the last of this tea and while it brought back memories, it was nauseatingly sweet .

I thought I’d either love this or hate it.  Such an odd blend. Cereal?! I made sure to get at least one frosted flake looking piece of the cereal in there.  But there is a ton of huge pieces of coconut.  I MUST make sure to get one of these huge pillowy marshmallows in each mug… but they hardly melted at all in the first steep.  This actually tastes like the sugariest of cereal milks at the bottom of the bowl.  And WHOA this is very sugary.  I guess I don’t really have too many issues with stevia, if it’s FRESH stevia but I think it tends to age very quickly and ruin any blend it’s in.  This is one of those blends I will have to sip down faster between the coconut, cereal, stevia.   It will certainly help sugar cravings, but I do wish there had more elements here than just sugar milk, maybe a toastier cereal flavor.
Steep #1  // 1 1/2 teaspoons for full mug // 10 minutes after boiling // 2 1/2 minute steep
Steep #2  // just boiled //  20 min steep

Sweet and fruity

I absolutely had to try this one. What a whacky flavor. The fake cream flavoring they’re using totally does give me the impression of cereal milk. I don’t know that I love this, but it’s interesting to try! It probably tastes best cold. I taste frosted flakes! How fun. Thanks to amandastory516 for the share!

Sip down.

It’s too sweet but as I do with the other ones, I do a flash rinse to get the sweet taste out, and then I can enjoy it. It does taste like cereal albeit a very sweet cereal hehe. I think I got this when my nephew stayed with me. He enjoyed it.

Some marshmallow notes along with apple, oats. coconut, cornflakes, vanilla, and cream. It’s a really chunky type of tea, you can see big pieces of all kinds of things, even raisins, goji berries, vanilla pieces, and quinoa too. I may get it again for my nephew but it’s far too sweet (stevia) for me. If you don’t mind sweet tea, you may like this one. It would probably taste good as a latte.

This tea is weird. I was initially most looking forward to it, but after reading reviews, seeing it, and smelling it, I’m actually pretty apprehensive. The brewed aroma is actually not particularly pleasant… I can’t place it, but it’s weird. The aftertaste reminds me of another DT that (again), I can’t place (Mango Madness is coming to mind? Or Midsummer Night’s Dream?), but I’m having trouble getting over the smell. Smell is a key part of the tea experience, for me, so it makes it difficult to enjoy a tea if it smells funky, even if that doesn’t translate to the flavour.

Ok, I added milk (same as the other teas, 4:1 tea:2% cow’s milk), and I suddenly realized that drinking this warm is a bad idea. I actually gagged slightly, to be honest, so this is going into the fridge to chill and I’ll try it again tomorrow.

ETA: Chilled, it’s no better. I suppose it does have a sort of watered-down cereal ish taste… but something about it turns me off, I don’t know.

Adventaggedon Day 5: Tea 7/7

It’s marshmallow-y. It’s creamy. It’s a little starchy. I mean, it tastes like cereal milk which is definitely the point. I don’t dislike this tea, but it’s one of those blends that I definitely have to be in a specific mood to reach for and ultimately today I just wasn’t quite in that mood.

Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.