Frankenberry

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Black Teas, Freeze Dried Strawberries, Organic Marshmallow Root, Organic Natural Flavors (Vegan)
Flavors
Artificial, Strawberry, Malt, Marshmallow, Astringent
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Not available
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Southern Boy Teas
Average preparation
Boiling 2 min, 30 sec 5 g 16 oz / 463 ml

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  • “Backlog: In case Frank didn’t catch my full-length review of this tea back when I wrote it (see it here: http://sororiteasisters.com/2013/11/26/frankenberry-black-tea-from-52teas/ ) HEY FRANK! I...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Woot! First review :D this treat is ammmaaazziiinggg. The berry flavor is juicy but yet candy-like. I can catch marshmallow and malt. It’s like drinking liquid hot cereal. But in a good way of...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Arby Advent Day 2 This tea is rather lovely. The strawberry goes very nicely with the light black tea. It looks like it’s flavored through dried strawberries, which I love in tea. It has a familiar...” Read full tasting note
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  • “The strawberry flavour isn’t perfect – it has faded and is a bit artificial. The marshmallow is nice. I think a fresher version with freeze-dried strawberries would be amazing, but for a fairly old...” Read full tasting note
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Our Tea of the Week for the Week of
October 21, 2013

If anyone from General Mills is reading this, please don’t sue us. My wife suggested we rename this tea Frank’s Berries so as not to get in trouble with the cereal company, but (and maybe this is just my dirty old man mind, but) “Frank’s Berries” just doesn’t sound right to me. ‘I like Frank’s Berries hot with a drizzle of honey…’ Uh, yeah, just doesn’t sound right.

This tea, on the other hand, is nothing but right. We’ve paired our premium black teas with freeze-dried strawberries, marshmallow root and organic flavors, including a touch of malt to give it a cerealistic (ie realistic cereal-like) flavor.

This fun and yummy blend is available at zoomdweebies.com for just $8.99 for a 1.75oz pouch. It won’t be around for long, so get yours today!

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Backlog:

In case Frank didn’t catch my full-length review of this tea back when I wrote it (see it here: http://sororiteasisters.com/2013/11/26/frankenberry-black-tea-from-52teas/ ) HEY FRANK! I WANT COUNT CHOCULA NEXT YEAR. And it should be super chocolate-y. Like … however much chocolate you usually put in a blend and then … double that … and then … go ahead and double it again.

I love the addition of malt flavor to this … it is just what these cereal blends have needed to give it that cereal-ish taste. I love the flavors of this tea. It made me smile.

tea-sipper

Aw, I knew I should have got this one!

tea-sipper

I’m glad you appreciate the malt in this. I’m sipping Frank’s old blend now and it is still lovely. A reblend perhaps?

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Woot! First review :D this treat is ammmaaazziiinggg. The berry flavor is juicy but yet candy-like. I can catch marshmallow and malt. It’s like drinking liquid hot cereal. But in a good way of course. :)

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Arby Advent Day 2
This tea is rather lovely. The strawberry goes very nicely with the light black tea. It looks like it’s flavored through dried strawberries, which I love in tea. It has a familiar flavor, like maybe I had a Teavana tea once that was similar? I’m not sure, but I’m quite a fan of this one! I don’t get the marshmallow flavor at all, but that’s okay. I drank this slowly over several hours and really enjoyed the depth of the flavor as it cooled to room temperature.

Dustin

You are jogging my memory… was it Strawberry Slender Puerh by Teavana?

AJRimmer

It might have been Weight to Go? I drank a lot of strawberry teas from them, so I don’t quite remember!

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The strawberry flavour isn’t perfect – it has faded and is a bit artificial. The marshmallow is nice. I think a fresher version with freeze-dried strawberries would be amazing, but for a fairly old tea, this is a nice cup.

Flavors: Artificial, Strawberry

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additional notes: The actual cereals are ridiculously priced at this point, but at least I have this still delicious tea. It’s still uncannily balanced in flavor of oats, strawberry, and marshmallow. How how how? I also had an Apple Jacks pop tart this morning. NOT AS GOOD. It’s a cereal inspired day, I guess.

Mastress Alita

I’ve been curious about those cereal-flavored Poptarts…

tea-sipper

I wasn’t JUMPING at the chance to try Apple Jacks Poptarts… but I do like to try as many of them as I can. Interestingly, I keep thinking the texture of Apple Jacks cereal is somehow maintained in the Poptarts? It’s very odd and I’m probably not explaining it well.

gmathis

There a Crisp Apple Pop-Tart that we really liked—had a nice Granny Smith vibe—but I think it was one those buy-it-before-it’s-gone seasonal things.

tea-sipper

yeah, the sad sad seasonal Poptarts situation!

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Tea no. 5 from the 12 Teas of Christmas set.

I wish these teas came with brewing instructions. Each cup I’ve had from the box has been guesswork, so I’m not sure I’ve gotten the best out of them that I could have. I had no idea what Frankenberry was until I read some of the other tasting notes on this tea – we are deprived of so much here in England, cereal-wise. Regardless, it was obvious from the smell (and of course the little bits of freeze-dried strawberries) that this was a strawberry tea. At first I though there were bits of ginger in the blend, and was super happy to find out that it was marshmallow root instead. Flavour-wise, this tea is 100% strawberry marshmallow fluff to me. The malty black base has a strong presence in the initial sip, so I initially wished for a more mellow base to allow the yummy fruity sweetness to shine more. However, after learning that this tea is based on a cereal, I think the combination is inspired. It might dominate at the front of the sip, but the other flavours do come through towards the back, and then the maltiness lingers in the aftertaste with the creamy marshmallow and strong strawberry, much more reminiscent of cereal. I am now satisfied with the base Frank has used, but I still can’t help imagining what these flavours might be like with a milk oolong base. I bet it would be delicious.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 250 ML
KittyLovesTea

A milk oolong base would have been delicious with this, strawberry and oolong go together very well. More so than a black tea base anyway.

Nattie

I agree. I’m hoping Frank will do a reblend with an oolong base at some point.

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Today’s Christmas tea from the box.

Boy this is strong! It smells so sweet and strawberry, like gummy sweets.

Steeped scent smells much like black tea, strong malt scent with some berry sweetness in the background, albeit more subtle than the malt tones.

Flavour is sweet, very sweet in-fact….it reminds me of those syrups you get for coffee only it’s in tea. It tastes chemical, sure it’s sweet but that chemical flavour is just strange…plastic like. On top of that it’s a very rich and malted black tea base with some sourness and astringency.

It’s drinkable but not pleasant. Such a shame since I noticed it’s organic ingredients. What’s more the plastic flavour lingers in the mouth during the after taste which is not very nice. Oh well, still drinkable and at least it’s a new one for me to try.

Flavors: Malt, Strawberry

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 5 g 20 OZ / 600 ML

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Steep Information:
Amount: 5 tsp
Water: 1200ml at 205°F
Tool: Breville One-Touch Tea Maker BTM800XL
Steep Time: 3 minutes
Served: Hot

Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: alcohol, sweet
Steeped Tea Smell: sour, berry
Flavor: bitter, astringent, sour
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: bitter berry
Liquor: translucent dark orange brown

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5th day of the 52teas 12 teas of Christmas

Steep Information:
Amount: 3 tsp
Water: 750ml at 200°F
Tool: Breville One-Touch Tea Maker BTM800XL
Steep Time: 2 minutes
Served: Hot

Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: alcohol, sweet
Steeped Tea Smell: sour, berry
Flavor: astringent, sour, a little bitter
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: bitter berry
Liquor: translucent dark orange brown

better at 2 minutes, but still a bit too astringent and bitter without sugar etc

Rating: 2/4 leaves

blog http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2014/12/52teas-loose-leaf-black-tea.html

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 2 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 25 OZ / 750 ML

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Kicking myself so hard right now. Bang – another winner! Love the pillowy soft strawberry fruitiness in this black. Reminiscent of Raspberry Cream, but even better because I prefer strawberry flavouring (although I imagine it’s a berry mix here, I’m mostly tasting strawberry). There’s more creaminess here too, with the marshmallow root (I was briefly worried that it was ginger. Thankfully not.) Quite tasty. Thanks for sharing, mystery swapper! (I’m now convinced I’m referring to *Rachel*…)

VariaTEA

haha yeah this was from me. I suppose I am your mystery swapper :P. I am glad you liked this one. I actually ended up giving away the bag because I hoped I would like it far more than I did.

Kittenna

Hahahaha, I did some sleuthing and yup, it was you! Really glad I can clearly reference you now (and also add teas to my swap sheet). Maybe we communicated about this swap on Facebook and that’s why I couldn’t figure it out. Anyways, I just had a second infusion of this one and was very disappointed – totally flavourless. So probably not as big a fan as I would have been otherwise, since I usually get at least 2, sometimes 3 infusions from 52teas’ blacks. Still quite tasty the first time around though!

VariaTEA

I think we did talk over Facebook so that would explain it. And at least the first infusion was good. For me, even the first infusion was underwhelming so I am happy you are enjoying it more than I did

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I was afraid of this tea because of the name, I mean really Frankenberry? I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. It does seem to taste like a lot of other berry teas I’ve had lately. That’s not a bad thing.

SarsyPie

Were you not a fan of the Frankenberry cereal? I liked Count Chocula, myself :)

carol who

My kids didn’t mind Frankenberry but I was a little old even then. (They are in their 30’s) To me, it’s just the idea of drinking an overly sweet cereal. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, I have tried Fruity Pebbles and Froot Hoops tea. :-)

Ost

Count Chocula cereal was always the best! :P

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