Tropical Tea Company

The provided image of this is most definitely, as cereal boxes say, enlarged to show texture. That’s not a complaint, but an observation; don’t expect huge chunks of pears as it might seem in the photo.

Anyway, I’m not getting a lot of caramel in this cup — or a lot of rooibos, for that matter. It simply tastes of sweet pears with a touch of honey, something that feels odder to have in liquid form than I would expect. I’m going to try using more leaf (do you still say that when it’s rooibos?) next time, since in the past I’ve had good luck with doing that with flavored rooibos.

A straightforward blend: black tea, peppermint, and peppermint flavoring. It tastes just as you might expect, although the mint provides a lot of coolness and yet a fairly mild flavor.

This would be a solid choice for fellow fans of minty tea, but it doesn’t particularly stand out as anything special.

Picked this up at a little tea shop in Long Grove, IL (Beans and Leaves) during Chocolate Festival (it’s exactly like it sounds). It smelled heavenly in the jar and I was sad they only had an ounce left.

I don’t know if there was something about the bag that smelled but when I got it home it started smelling a bit chemically and I’ve put off trying it because of it. Today when I tried it I got a little of that flavor, not enough for me to write it off completely, but it might be a while before I try it again. Some days I’m just sensitive to chemical flavoring as my Earl Grey Creme tasted off to me as well. Hoping it gets better.

Very fruity aroma. Very perfume-y taste.

This has a little bit of a cinnamony scent. It does taste something of cinnamon but it also has a ‘watery’ taste.

I’m not sure what this tea smells like before & after brewing but it isn’t pina coloda. Something that’s probably pineapple comes out after the tea has been swallowed but that’s the only flavor I get out of this tea. It’s rather harsh. I’m not sure there’s any helping this one.

This tea doesn’t smell like much of anything before brewing. I’m not sure it actually gains much after. Once in a while I will catch a whiff of something that says ‘tea’. But somehow it doesn’t taste too bad. It’s a fairly light, mellow tea sometimes with a little something at the back of the throat.

This tea smells of cinnamon both before and after steeping. And unlike some I’ve tried, it actually tastes like cinnamon. It did need a touch of sweetener. With some milk I bet it would make a great latte type drink.

Before steeping this tea has almost a chocolate aroma. After brewing it definitely has a smooth chocolaty smell & taste. I’m not really getting anything of pumpkin or spice. I added a little Sugar in the Raw and that seemed to help it some. I don’t have any milk at the moment but I think that would help it even more.

Addictive ≻ Delicious = (Maple Syrup + Pancakes) ≻ Tasty = Maple Syrup ≻ Good ≥ Maple Tea ≻ Just Okay ≻ Eh ≻ Retch ≻ Your Mom.

Just kidding. Your Mom ≻ You = Pretty Cool.

Okay, much better. Much, much better. I’m not sure whether this tea simply doesn’t play well with the higher temperature, the longer steep time, or both, but I figured it wasn’t worth wasting the sample on that so I reduced everything on all fronts [including using less tea]. What may have happened was an overcompensation that resulted in a relatively weak brew, but I have a little bit of it left so I’ll play with it later.

First things first, the hue of this tea is really colored like maple syrup. Not that I think that was necessarily on purpose or anything, but it’s a neat tie-through. It has a darting sweetness about it and a slippery, almost oily, mouth feel. There is a hint of malt in it, and when this combines with the, like Auggy said, not-quite-sugary sweetness, it makes for a nice carameled tone [as the description states]. There is quite a bit of watery taste surrounding everything, but I do believe that’s because I wimped out when I made this cup and I’m hoping to Goldilocks the last bit of my sample.

Again, like Auggy said, I’m not positive I would be able to say this tasted of maple syrup, exCEPT on the aftertaste. That is when this tea is most clearly maple for me, and that is when it is best.

For when the mood suits me, this tea could become something I want to keep around if I manage to nail a stronger flavor to it whence next I make it. The only thing that is keeping me from considering a purchase more seriously is, and this is not fault of the tea’s, that scene from Super Troopers where they’re chugging the syrup. Again, not the tea’s fault. And despite having watched that movie several times I still find occasions meow and then when I really just want some damn maple syrup. Meow I want to go watch that movie again. And I was thinking that I’d save the last of this tea for later, but I’m about to make pancakes and meow I’m thinking that I’m going to give this tea one last go with dinner. Three logs on the same tea in one day? If it goes down, I promise the last log will be short. Like one sentence short. Meow.

Picture or it didn’t happen. [Enjoy the syrupy color. It’s quite beautiful.] | http://bit.ly/9IuAcu