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“Mastress Alita’s sipdown challenge Wednesday, May 26th: National Blueberry Cheesecake Day Tea #3 The newest blueberry tea for today! Thanks very much, AJRimmer! I am a little leery after that...” Read full tasting note
“I actually made this last night. Then stupid me attempted to take my pills with the hot tea. I can sip hot tea but taking enough to swallow pills was a bad choice. Anyways, in that one hot...” Read full tasting note
“I remember not enjoying my first cup of this, but I forgot to take notes, so here I go trying it again, this time as a cold brew. It’s very sour and off-putting. Rooibos fruit blends so often end...” Read full tasting note
“Sipping away at a mug of this now and I have some mixed feelings. I really, really wanted a good Blueberry Cheesecake tea and I’m just not getting anything from the flavour that makes me think of...” Read full tasting note
Always a dinner party winner, our smooth blend of vanilla rooibos, blueberries and cream capture the unmistakable sweet and tart taste of homemade blueberry cheesecake.
INGREDIENTS
Vanilla rooibos, apple, hibiscus, rosehip, sweet blackberry leaves, blueberries.
BREWING INSTRUCTIONS
Add 1 teaspoon per cup (2 teaspoons if, like us, you prefer your tea in a mug). Add freshly boiled water and infuse for 3 to 5 minutes.
HOW WE LIKE IT
Best enjoyed as it is!
ALLERGENS
All our tea blends are made in small batches in a kitchen where nuts, gluten, dairy and other allergens may be present.
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Mastress Alita’s sipdown challenge Wednesday, May 26th: National Blueberry Cheesecake Day Tea #3
The newest blueberry tea for today! Thanks very much, AJRimmer! I am a little leery after that Berry Pudding disaster. How could this possibly be cheesecake? Again, the flavor is mostly rooibos. But then a hint of berry, a hint of cream, but also mostly medicinal. But again with the hibiscus. You can’t just throw in hibiscus and call it a blueberry tea. However, by the second steep, I’m mostly noticing strawberry! So this seems more strawberry than blueberry! Not a bad cup, but definitely definitely not what it should be.
Steep #1 // 1 1/2 teaspoons for full mug // 25 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #2 // just boiled // 3 min
I actually made this last night. Then stupid me attempted to take my pills with the hot tea. I can sip hot tea but taking enough to swallow pills was a bad choice. Anyways, in that one hot mouthful, I got a lot of rooibos flavor and not much else – which seems to be consistent for other rooibos based Pudtea blends.
I woke up late today and got stuck in a class. I didn’t get a chance to grab water so I finished the bottle I had by my bed and decided to just finish this off as well since it was here. Cold, its still rooibos heavy but with some tartness that could maybe be blueberry if you try hard enough to picture it as such. Nothing says cheesecake though and really its not a great blueberry either, in my opinion.
I remember not enjoying my first cup of this, but I forgot to take notes, so here I go trying it again, this time as a cold brew. It’s very sour and off-putting. Rooibos fruit blends so often end up being weird like this. These flavors just don’t work together. There’s no hint of cheesecake. I only taste gross, artificial berry. I don’t want another cup.
The issue I always find I have when fruit flavors are paired with (red) rooibos is my palate then tastes a sort of medicinal/cough syrupy sort of taste from the rooibos, that I don’t get when red rooibos is paired with other flavors.
It’s such a shame because I love rooibos, and I love fruit teas, but the fruit should definitely stick with green rooibos!
Ya, I don’t have that issue with fruity green rooibos!
Sipping away at a mug of this now and I have some mixed feelings.
I really, really wanted a good Blueberry Cheesecake tea and I’m just not getting anything from the flavour that makes me think of cheesecake aside from the very forward nutty (hazelnut) flavours of the rooibos base though could pass a bit as the crumb of a nice cheesecake. The blueberry flavour is a really nice somewhat baked/jammy blueberry compote type of note though and doesn’t have too much hibiscus at all. We all know I’m a sucker for a nice blueberry tea!
Plus, I just really enjoy the rooibos that Pudtea is using in their blends – I think it tastes excellent and I really enjoy it with this fruity profile. So, I’m let down by the absence of Cheesecake but the blend itself is still pretty good!
Edit: Just adding that, as it cools, there is a slight creaminess that’s coming out that could conceivably be a mild cheesecake flavour.
