Beer Tea

My 1ST MAN TEA! Well if you don’t count Mayan Chocolate Chai, because that’s a cross over. Emeric from Harney & Son’s ordered it and decided it just wasn’t his cuppa, so he passed it along to me. I really think that our tastebuds are created differently so we can bless others by giving them things we don’t care for.

I’m prefacing this by saying that, save chai, I’m just not a black tea person. And I hate beer. That being said, when it comes to tea- I have to try pretty much everything. The weirder it sounds, the more I want to try it. And if beer tea doesn’t sound weird enough, how’s hot beer tea for ya? Ummm… Yeah…

So anyway, 2.25g tea in 6oz water just below boiling. This is too funny… now this may be because I microwaved my water (microwaving does funky things to water), but as soon as the water hit the tea leaves, it foamed like beer! I’ve seen that occassionally, but unlike other times, when I ran my finger over the foam after decanting it was much thicker. My finger wiped away the foam where my finger had been but left the surrounding foam unaffected. Strange…

The liquor is a basic dark brown that you’d expect from a black tea, no reddish tones. The aroma is mostly of the black tea w/ a very faint hint of beer.

When I taste it, I’m surprised. The flavor profile is exactly like the aroma- mostly black tea w/ a hint of beer. There’s also a lot of dryness to the mouth feel. It reminds me of a very dry wine. It almost makes me feel like there’s sandpaper on my tongue or that I need to brush my teeth.

Conclusions: Very good dry black tea w/ a hint of beer. I don’t think the flavor of beer is strong enough as I’m not sure I could define this as tasting of beer if I didn’t know it was supposed to be.

This one has been on my shopping list since Frank created it! Thanks to Rachel I was able to sample it! This is a fun tea! It smells like warm beer…some people may not think that is very fun but stay with me!!! Then…the taste is quite good! There is a nice non-bitter beer type taste to it. Quite amazing! Mission Accomplished, eh!? The aftertaste is just as beer-like if not more beer-like than the actual sip! It has a malty quality to it that I love. The more I sip this the more I like it! Great job on this NovelTEA, Frank!

There certainly is a hint of beer flavor here. Basically I would call it a decent, strong black tea with a certain creaminess and a bit of maltiness. But I’ve had maltier blacks and creamier blacks and yeastier blacks. I don’t regret the purchase, however, but it just did not rock my socks off (on this barefoot day).

It’s a better than average black tea but not an astounding one.

Thank you Doulton for this tea. I have been curious about it for some time. :-)

This one really scared me. If you smelled it you would have been scared too. However, it isn’t bad. As a matter of fact this was a little sweet and the beer flavor was slight and mellow. Not bad, nothing I would purchased but definaetly happy to have tried and surprised to find it was better than expected.

I’m not a beer drinker, so I may not be the best qualified to review this one, but it definitely has a hint of beer flavor to it. We also used a nice Nilgiri base for this one, so it is definitely a refreshing iced tea with just a hint of beerishness. Interesting for sure.

Just got home from being at the doctors offices and dialysis clinic since 8 this morning, open the mail box and yay! I had recieved some of my tea swaps this one came from DjBooth. I like it alot, i’d been wanting to try a Man Tea and this is my first Beer Tea! its a nice dark tea that reminds of a Porter beer, I’ll prolly end up buying some of this tea soon :) thank you Josh.

So I was ecstatic when a friend told me this was reblended. I’ve been wanting to try it for a while now. I’m an avid beer enthusiast. So I had to buy it. It was also the first mail that came to the new place :) So I opened up the package and a very strong aroma comes out of the pouch. However it’s not one of beer. It’s more like wiskey. So brewed it five minutes. Tastes….like whiskey. So it doesn’t really taste like beer to me, but the fact that a tea tastes like whiskey or another alcoholic beverage is brilliant in my opinion. I will continue to enjoy this and maybe combine it with a little Glenlivet.

I love the idea of the tea. It was cool that it bubbled when you poured it. The taste was a pretty average assam and since I was expecting a beer flavor I thought it really lacked. If you tried hard to get the taste then it was subtle, but it was not a strong beer flavor.