Foggy Coconut

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Natural Bergamot Oil, Organic Black Tea, Organic Coconut, Organic Natural Flavors (Vegan), Organic Vanilla Beans
Flavors
Bergamot, Coconut, Cream, Vanilla, Creamy, Earl Grey, Lavender, Marshmallow, Malt, Milk, Smooth, Sweet, Tannic, Citrus, Cake, Lemon
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Not available
Certification
Organic, Vegan
Edit tea info Last updated by 52Teas
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 45 sec 3 g 12 oz / 360 ml

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  • “2023 sipdown no. 47 Thank you Kelmishka for another great cuppa! The coconut made this very creamy with a very true, unsweetened coconut flavour. The bergamot was mellowed out by the coconut and it...” Read full tasting note
  • “I’m really persnickety about coconut flavour. I was a bit sceptical upon reading the packet label, but one whiff raised my expectations. I was pleasantly surprised by the balanced aromas of...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I’m sad to see this one go, but I enjoyed it while it was here. It was creamy, coconuty, and bergamoty all in the right amounts.” Read full tasting note
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  • “I’m super tired of coconut teas, so I was just going to make this cup for a family member, but then I sniffed it and realized it was EG! I love a good EG, and this is a good one. It’s really soft...” Read full tasting note
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From 52teas

Tea of the Week for October 9, 2017!

My inspiration behind this blend is one of my favorite coffee shop drinks: a London Fog Latte! I order mine with coconut milk and half the usual amount of vanilla syrup (otherwise, it’s just too sweet!) One day as I was sipping on this drink, I found myself contemplating the beverage. I love the way the hints of coconut play with the bergamot but I found myself wishing that the coconut notes were stronger. (I do love me some coconut!) I also found myself wishing that the tea notes were stronger – which I felt would be accomplished if it didn’t have so much milk product in it – but then, the coconut notes would not be present. Then the idea hits me: why not make my own version of this drink with these improvements in mind!

And here we have it: I started with a base of Assam and Yunnan for a rich, bold, malty flavor. Something that could hold it’s own even with the strong note of creamy coconut. Then I added bergamot – I didn’t want to go too heavy on the bergamot because I didn’t want the coconut and bergamot competing with each other. I wanted enough bergamot to be tasted but not so much that it would interfere with the coconut flavor. Then I added some vanilla bean. Again, not a heavy vanilla taste – just enough to lend creaminess to the coconut and soften the edge of the bergamot and strong teas.

Then I went coconuts! This is a strongly coconut flavored tea but there’s enough bergamot there to give the cup the flavor that I was going for – this cuppa is my ideal London Fog! It’s got lots of coconut flavor without the milk drowning out the flavor of the tea. No “latte” required here, there’s enough creaminess to the flavor. Of course, if you want to go latte, that’s OK – but I’d recommend trying it without first!

YUM! I love this!

organic ingredients: black teas, coconut, bergamot, vanilla bean & natural flavors

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168 tasting notes

Excellent timing, 52 teas! For my 42nd tasting note, I will honor Douglas Adams. He loved tea and wrote some instructions for Americans new to London, to brew a good pot of earl grey. And he wrote about the number 42 in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books. I’ve heard a lot about this tea from Sara, and my sampler just arrived today!

The leaf smells sweetly of coconut and bergamot.

Brewed, it smells very mild. The coconut and bergamot flavors have a nice, civilized balance going on. I don’t have a lot more to say about it, but it’s very pleasant and tasty. That mug of tea went down very quickly. I want to look up how to make a proper London Fog and try it that way next time.

Flavors: Bergamot, Citrus, Coconut, Sweet

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 2 min, 30 sec 2 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML
52Teas

So glad you enjoyed this. I love Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!

Mastress Alita

Heh, I usually only make London Fogs with my… less reputable EGs. :-P Ones this good don’t need the milk, hahaha! (I’ve got a ton of Adagio EG I can spare if you’d like to learn, I make a pretty sweet London Fog…)

Todd

Oh, that’s the trick is it? :) This one worked pretty well in my attempt at a London Fog.

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(52teas (Anne) 2022: 16)

Hello again, my dear delicious friend Foggy Coconut! I was so excited to see this tea in this (last) year’s 12 teas of Christmas! Anne has a knack for variations on earl grey, and I love many of them, with this one at or near the top. It tastes much like I remember, possibly a touch less harsh/less strong, but that could be a ratios thing too. Flavour is delicious though – light bergamot, creamy coconut. I’ll be savouring this package and the additional pouch I ordered as well.

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249 tasting notes

This has a definite bergamot flavor without being overly present and sharp. I think the coconut softens it immensely. This tea has a lovely fragrance, but since I’m not a huge bergamot lover, it’s not my favorite. If you like bergamot more than I do, then you’d probably really like this one. I’m not going to numerically rate, since I’d personally probably give it around a 60 but I don’t think that’s a fair rating, if that makes sense.

Flavors: Bergamot, Coconut

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Twelve Days of Tea 2021 – Day Ten

I was planning to savour this a little longer, but then my EG fiend of a sister came over, took one sniff and proclaimed “that one”! The bag got dumped into the biggest pot I have, and even my 1 1/2 year old nephew managed to gulp down large quantities of a lukewarm cup and loudly exclaim “TEA! TEA!” (He likes to come over and sniff all my tea. While we try not to actually give him anything caffeinated, sometimes when we aren’t looking he acts lightening fast…).

This is simply a hit. Enough said.

Flavors: Bergamot, Citrus, Coconut, Creamy, Malt, Vanilla

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec
Mastress Alita

I pulled one of my old 2019 packets out to have this one this morning as well. Had a hankering.

Evol Ving Ness

Haha, even your one and a half year old nephew is a convert! Well done!

gmathis

Work friend of mine has a two-year-old grandson who already asks for his own cup of “peppa tea” when Grandma makes one.

Crowkettle

yes – seemed like the perfect day to pull out the Foggy Coconut.

@gmathis, That’s beyond adorable!I thought that some hojicha or “Forever Nuts” would be good starters for him; peppermint would be good too! He already seems to have a taste for EG though.. D:

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15006 tasting notes

Working on seeing where i’m at with my cupboard now that it’s August. Man time is just FLYING! figured i should try this one out since i have a few more 52 teas to add to my cupboard. Most know i’m not a fan of blergamot…it’s one of my arch nemeses….however i’m always up for trying blerg based blends in the hopes of finding one i love…someday. This is actually pretty good for an EG type blend. The coconut makes this a creamy cup of tea and helps to smooth out that blaring blerg taste that i dislike. If you’re a fan of the blerg…this is light in taste but it’s still for sure there.

Thanks for the share variaTEA! this was a pleasant surprise…though i certainly don’t love it enough to want more…since it’s still a blerg tea lol

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Yes, yes, ’tis moi!

Oh, how I have missed you all and our steepster world!
(I must say, however, that it has been far easier to temporarily not buy more teas without hanging out with all you enablers though. :)

My wifi has been out for 6 weeks or more now . The first three days I was panicking and I was on the phone with my internet provider who then had to push through a ticket to the phone company. Long story. Is it the electricity? Is it the modem/ router? Buy a new over the top expensive one. Same issue. Essentially no signal. But because I don’t buy the telephone company’s wifi service—but my internet provider buzzes my connection through the phone line—the phone company does not care because the land line is fine. Yes, yes, I know no one else on the planet has a landline.

Anyway, the thing is that one needs a sizeable chunk of time to deal with these people —a four hour window or more wait for their phone calls. And then, another day and another four hour window for the phone company to come look see.

Seven phone calls and my health and I ran out of time and out of patience. For now.

For the next few days, I am house and kitty sitting for a friend, so I am hooked up with wifi, anyway. But I am using her computer, hence, a new account. Because passwords, oh hello. (Likely, if and when my wifi at home gets sorted, I’ll be back to my original account.)

Anyway, today I cracked this tea open for the first time and just yay! Vanilla loveliness gliding over the bergamot and frisky black base. The coconut softens all the edges. Beautiful.

This is just the second black tea I am drinking after a long long stretch of green and oolong. Smooth and lovely.

Flavors: Bergamot, Coconut, Vanilla

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 2 min, 0 sec
ashmanra

We JUST got rid of our landline! We had the same number for 24 years but eventually got almost exclusively spam calls.

evol-ving

I never answer it, or at least rarely. Good to have though—especially when the wifi goes out. I am now considering whether I need wifi at home at all. It’s been so lovely to have my days uncluttered by the urgencies of email and social media. I’ve even read books.

Sil

Glad to hear you’re ok…as you’ll see both Anne and I have been hoping all is well with you.

52Teas

Very good to hear from you! :)

Roswell Strange

Happy to see you back, and hear that you’re alright! Missed you! <3

mrmopar

I still have my landline. Hopefully you can get back running soon!

evol-ving

Thank you, guys. <3

LuckyMe

Welcome back, glad you’re still alive and kicking. 6 weeks without wifi is brutal…hope you get back online soon!

Teatotaler

I was wondering where you were. I missed your posts. It’s really great to have you back with us! :)

evol-ving

Thank you both. It’s great to be back in the groove and see everyone.
And talk about tea and life, of course. <3

Mastress Alita

I still have a landline… and no cellphone! (Yes, I’m going for a Guinness World Record on that one). My landline is Voice-Over-IP through my cable Internet service, though… which I couldn’t live without. 6 weeks!? I’d be going off the deep end after 6 hours! You have amazing grit…

evol-ving

Haahhahaha, after three days, I was fine. I even read complete books. That said, now that I have access as I kittysit, gritwoman hasn’t been offline for a second.

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1216 tasting notes

Since I was able to restock this recently, I’m working on sipping down my two older (2019, perhaps?) packets while the coconut is still drinkable. Using this as the February sipdown prompt, “A tea you could happily drink every day.” (I’m also working on Bird & Blend’s Lazy Boy, another coconut tea that falls into the “could happily drink every day” category). Seems so many of my personal favorites are coconut teas, which leads me to want to horde them, when hording coconut is never a good idea. I need to enjoy them before they turn rancid!

There is nothing more I can say about this tea that I haven’t said before. Everyone knows how much I love it. The flavors of creamy coconut and tangy bergamot citrus just work together in a beautiful way.

Flavors: Bergamot, Citrus, Coconut, Creamy, Smooth, Sweet

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 g 12 OZ / 350 ML
Martin Bednář

I am surprised that coconut held that long! Good for you :)

derk

Mastress Alita, do you know if Foggy Coconut is reblended frequently?

Mastress Alita

I’ve only seen it reblended if it gets enough votes for the 12 Teas of Christmas box (hense why I get into bad hording habits…)

52Teas

@derk: I reblend it when I get enough requests for it. I don’t want to be in the habit of keeping coconut teas as part of my permanent collection because of the tendency for coconut to get funky.

@Mastress Alita: The first batch I crafted of this blend was in 2017 – it was a Tea of the Week for October 9. 2017. I reblended it the following year as part of our 12 Teas of Christmas. This past Christmas was the second time it was reblended. :)

derk

Thank you both :)

52Tea, I totally understand why this isn’t in the permanent collection. I’ll keep my eye out for it later this year, hoping that your fans will vote it back!

Mastress Alita

@derk: I still have one unopened 15g packet from the 2018 12 Teas of Christmas reblend. The packet I just opened today was from the same reblend and the coconut was still okay. Would you like me to send you the packet that is still sealed?

Kittenna

Hoarding coconut is definitely a bad idea.

Luckily, with this tea, the coconut flakes are large, which seem to be a bit more resistant to going rancid than shredded coconut!

Mastress Alita

True, I have much better luck with large, toasted coconut compared to the little shredded bits!

derk

Mastress Alita, if you could manage to fit a single serving in a card without having to apply extra postage, I’ll try it. I’d rather you enjoy what you have while you have it :) than for you to send the whole packet.

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Adventaggedon Day 22: Tea 6/8

This definitely feels like a ‘cult favourite’ among 52Teas blends and I’d be lying if I said that my first thought upon scratching off the sticker was anything other than “Oh wow, other people are going to be very excited about this!”. However, then I opened up the bag and I remembered very quickly… I am other people.

I just don’t tend to love Earl Grey blends a whole lot and in my memory this was something that I thought was pretty good but not “wow” levels of good. The dry leaf aroma was awesome though; super creamy and rich with equal parts coconut and vanilla custard and just a hint of bergamot. Even my current rating here on Steepster, based on a past tasting, reinforces that I loved it even then!

And it’s good! Definitely the 52Teas version of a ‘Coconut London Fog’ as the name seems to imply; and worthy of all the love it gets. Rich, smooth, buttery, creamy, a little floral. All the things and just quite pleasantly balanced. Now I just have to remember to remember that I do love it.

Crowkettle

I’m also “other people” and part of that cult lol

Mastress Alita

I’m definitely in the cult… I think I put it on the poll and vote for it every year, heh. Wonder if any baggies will be left after advent so I can snatch something more fresh than the 2019s I’ve been hording…

Crowkettle

Definitely voted for it too… Imho, 52teas should consider a permanent earl grey slot so I can throw all my money at it all the time. XD

52Teas

I am currently considering a permanent “cola” slot – should I instead be considering a permanent earl grey slot? (not saying that I won’t eventually have both – but saying that I am of limited thought capacity to consider more than one at a time.) Which one should I consider first?

AJRimmer

Soda! But I certainly wouldn’t mind both eventually!

Evol Ving Ness

<—-cult member

Earl Grey slot if it is either this one OR one of your marshmallow vanilla cupcake-like creations.

Evol Ving Ness

And yes, what CrowKettle said.

Mastress Alita

That is a very difficult pick for me! I am a huge fan of soda teas and find they really aren’t available anywhere else. But I get they probably don’t have the same “reach” as the tried-and-true EG. “Foggy Coconut” is not only one of my favorite EGs EVER, but one of my favorite 52Teas blends ever, and I tend to horde it beyond the proper limits of coconut as a result of not being able to have easy availability to it, so I’d love knowing I could get it more regularly (which would in turn likely fix the hording issue, too, so the coconut is always perfect ). Not sure if I could chose between the two, but either way I certainly wouldn’t be disappointed!

Crowkettle

Depends on when you are planning to launch it, maybe? Soda would be a unique permanent staple to introduce for spring/summer (I often like to ice yours). Around this time of the year though I want to drown in EG; your treatment of them is also distinctive and fun… but, I’m super biased in favour of a good EG at the best of times.

I support both :P

52Teas

The EG slot would be similar to the vanilla/marshmallow black slot – where I would change the EG every time – it would not be a guaranteed thing that it would always be this tea – or even one of the cupcake-ish or vanilla-ish ones. It would be an EG creation – and this one would definitely be on the roster for a frequent appearance as it IS one of my all-time favorites as well. But, this wouldn’t be a permanent staple.

The same is true of a cola-ish (and root beer-ish) blend. It wouldn’t always be – say – ginger cola or root beer float. It would occasionally be those because I also enjoy those but they wouldn’t be constant.

I’m not sure when I’ll be announcing a new “D’s tea” – sometime next year? I am getting caught up and I want to wait until I am much more consistently getting the subscriptions on their way at least within the first 10 days of the month that they’re part of. Once I’m comfortably doing that on a fairly consistent basis, then I will be more comfortable having five teas in the D’s Teas line.

52Teas

THANK YOU to everyone for commenting though – it definitely does help to know what kind of demand either category would have. (Also, please feel free to continue to comment – it does help!) Eventually, perhaps, I’ll work my way up to a sixth D’s Tea – but I probably will not do that until I have plans for a seventh because I don’t like even numbers. So, you guys will need to come up with another idea for the seventh category – one that will sell consistently – if I’m going to add both an EG & a “cola” blend to the D’s Teas line.

Mastress Alita

7th slot? Ya’ll probably be shocked to have me be the one saying this, but probably a rotating banana blend. Those are always consistently in demand and loved (by everyone except banana-aversive me :-)

Crowkettle

Bananas…

If this was just Frank’s old line up, I’d go with a Danish (any base). But Banana is now the first thing I think about when I hear or see 52teas lol.

And I like the idea of rotating D blend’s, even though Foggy Coconut is life. Coconut doesn’t seem to respond well to attempts at permanency, at least in my stash.

52Teas

Well – how did I not have that idea? I love my banana teas.

Roswell Strange

Personally I would ‘rank’ my interest level for a rotating permanent blend in the following order: Banana tea, cola/soda tea, EG…

Roswell Strange

Also, while we’re throwing out suggestions… while I LOVE the 12 Tea countdown (and will continue to support it) I would also be FIRST in line for a full/proper 24 day advent if ever that’s a road you’d want to go down! I think more ‘slots’ would give you a lot more freedom to play around with creating new blends/concepts and would also probably open up more vote back options since there are some teas seems to always get the most votes year after year or that just slightly miss the cut off – or you only have one oolong spot or one honeybush spot, for example. Also with 24 days I wouldn’t be upset with having repeats on some of the broader categories (ex. 2 genmaicha, 2 chai, etc). Just food for thought ;)

52Teas

I have considered it – but I need to first catch up and be able to actually blend 24 teas in addition to the 5 teas for october, november & december (save for the 1 that is usually in both the advent and the december subscription) It’s not so big a deal for larger companies or even the smaller guys who repackage/relabel the teas – but creating an additional 12 teas beyond what I currently do is a large undertaking. So, I would need to be caught up and comfortable with what I do. A lot of work goes into the 12 Teas, so we’re looking at double the work. I would need to feel very confident that I could pull that off and get the boxes out by mid-november.

52Teas

I’ve also thought about doing a “christmas in summer” type of thing – where I do a 12 tea box in June or July – as those two months are my slowest months – I thought maybe some kind of promotion might enhance those months, but it would also add more tea to the inventory that is already slowed – so I don’t know about that.

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1792 tasting notes

It’s about time I opened this. The dry leaf is generously laced with chipped coconut and thankfully doesn’t smell soapy at all. No one needs rancid, soapy coconut in their lives. And then there’s the bergamot but it’s quite mellow. Not nearly as in-your-face as some straight EG and even some EGC blends can be.

I agree with VariaTEA that this is very similar to Herbal Infusion’s Marshmallow Snowflake Earl Grey, which was softer and more well-rounded with the vanilla marshmallow. In essence, this is like a cross between that and the original 52teas Coconut Cream Pie.

Smooth black base, fresh coconut, warm vanilla, and mellow bergamot all rolled into one. I’m having it with a splash of 2% milk but I’m itching to try it as a true latte. Maybe next time!

VariaTEA

Yeah, that’s my plan as well

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6444 tasting notes

This. As a latte. With vanilla syrup. Sooooooooo goooood!!! Also I’ve been terrible at posting about my teas so sorry for the delayed notes.

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