Foxy Roxy’s Banana Walnut Treat

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Black Tea, Organic Flavours, Organic Lotus Stamens
Flavors
Pastries, Sweet, Walnut, Brown Sugar, Malt, Banana, Creamy, Floral, Nutty, Nuts
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Not available
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 15 sec 7 g 11 oz / 316 ml

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Foxy Roxy’s Banana Walnut Treat utilizes our Congou Keemun as the base which provides an interesting contrast with the sweet banana flavor. We also added a touch of walnut which melds nicely with base without overpowering the banana flavor. One of our customers, Foxy Roxy, contacted us to suggest a banana Keemun blend. Since we were already working on a banana tea, we decided to test it out and we were quite surprised by the deliciousness of this combination.

Ingredients: Congou Keemun (Black Tea), Organic Walnuts, Freeze-Dried Banana Slices, Organic Lotus Stamens, Organic Natural Flavoring (vegan)

Recommended Brew Time: 3 minutes
Recommended Amount: 2 teaspoons of tea for 8oz of water
Recommended Temperature: 212 F (boiling)

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Sample sipdown! (150)

I really didn’t order too much of this, but I was curious to see what it was about. I think what I’ve learned is that I’m not super keen on Keemun teas. Although the banana flavouring was very subtle and pleasant, the Keemun was dark and richer and tried to steal all the attention.

Maybe I’d appreciate it more another day, but there is a darkness lurking inside that I don’t care for today.

TeaLady441

“Maybe I’d appreciate it more another day, but there is a darkness lurking inside that I don’t care for today.”

Who am I, and why do I write such weird notes? :P Just had to laugh at that. Guess I was in a funk.

CHAroma

LOL! Your notes are always entertaining and interesting. I like your perspective.

Terri HarpLady

Yeah, I really liked this review, actually. I love the dark quality to it, the honesty. I like this tea best when I give it a longer steep. The banana flavor becomes more noticeable.

TeaLady441

Thanks guys. :D
And I’ll have to give this one another shot – I do like banana flavours in teas, and I generally like most teas from Butiki.

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I really wanted a banana tea recently, so time to try this one! I also REALLY love any nutty teas — they are some of my favorites: walnut, pistachio, hazelnut, (though I haven’t actually seen any peanut teas yet!) I’ve had the plain keemun base from Butiki before… I liked it but it was tough to discern any flavor profiles. The base here seems a bit subdued even by the bit of banana and walnut flavor. The keemun is very mild flavored as it is. It’s nice to have a naturally flavored tea… no fake banana flavor! In my experience, keemuns are usually smoky, though not as much as a lapsang. This one is not smoky at all, so the sweetness pairs well with the banana and the walnut. I really like this one!
Kittenna

For some reason, peanut tea just doesn’t appeal to me the way that hazelnut, pistachio, or walnut do!

Terri HarpLady

I’m with you, kittenna.

tea-sipper

I agree, I just thought it was interesting there weren’t any peanut teas.

tea-sipper

Actually, I just searched for ‘peanut’ and there are plenty of them. haha.

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6444 tasting notes

Now I am even more confused. This smelled like base and nothing else and though the base is present there are other flavors as well. Banana, of course, is the one I immediately recognize there are also notes of the walnut. However, the base is still the prominent element and I am finding it to be a touch astringent.

Flavors: Nuts

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 4 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML
Roswell Strange

I should pull out my sample of this from you… I’m craving banana/plum so much right now.

Fjellrev I find it hard to harness the base in order to let the other notes sing.

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I can’t remember if this was one of the surprise samples Stacy generously included with my order, or if I asked for it – either way, I’m excited to try a banana tea. This smells so good in the bag – quite like banana bread. I wish I had some dazzling banana bread story about a quaint little bakery in a small town in the South somewhere, but I’m sorry. The best banana bread ever is Honolulu Coffee Company’s. I love you, nice lady who for some entirely unfathomable reason found me delightful and kept treating me to free banana bread last Christmas. Please come live with me. I will knit socks for you. (Also please remember to bring the recipe.)

There is an elusive quality to the scent of the steeped tea. I was working on something as I waited for it to cool a little, and I kept losing my focus when little scent strands found their way to my nose. If this tasted like it smells, it would be one of my favourite things ever. The flavouring is super elusive in this one, though, and the Keemun base tea isn’t my favourite.

All in all, it goes down very smoothly, but doesn’t leave much of an impression on me. I’m happy I got to try it, though – exploring Butiki’s teas has given me a much better insight into what unflavoured teas could work for me, and it’s pretty exciting.

[From my Butiki order to Santa Clara, October 2013.]
[Sample polished off in Rome, January 2014.]

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec

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Six cups later, and a sipdown, and I’m still not sure where I stand with this tea. It has two excellently, distinctive flavours (banana and walnut), yet still loudly goes about with its Keemun base.

A mouthful of this tea transitions something like this: creamy sweet banana, bitter oily walnut, and mellow, earthy-sweet black base. It all pairs nicely and hands out equal does of brisk and creamy, with the continuous backdrop of something sweet.

I found I enjoyed this tea the most when I was generous with the leaf and steep time. I also enjoyed the second steep as some of the sharpness was cut back, allowing for a more mellow and soft, albeit a less sweet and flavorful, banana taste.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec

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I enjoy banana teas, but haven’t really managed to find one that I adore. The best one I’ve had is the banana oolong from Davids, but it’s still not perfect! I saw this and knew that I had to try… The scent of this tea is very subtle. I don’t get much of a banana scent, but mostly a woodsy tea base.

Sipping… I’m really surprised by the banana! It truly pops on your tongue. It’s not at all like banana runts, but more like dried banana chips. The banana and walnut go so well with the tea base. There is a little bit of a drying sensation, but I think it’s from the walnut and the tea base. It reminds me a bit of a banana nut muffin without the pastry/muffin flavors. It’s smooth and rich and doesn’t taste artificial. I’d like to see this have a more buttery/banana bread-like flavor, but I’m very happy with this blend.

Ysaurella

I definitively need to try this one. Walnut and banana together sound attractive and the woody base as well

Sil

It’s a subtle tea, it’s not in your face omg banana! Tea, which is what I like best :)

Ysaurella

I see – I think I never had any banana tea and I’m curious about this. Not sure I would like a too much in your face banana tea.I’ll keep this in mind for my future BT order

Sil

Ysaurella – if we do another swap I can always send you some! I’ll be ordering more once MY tea arrives lol

QueenOfTarts

Ysaurella – I think that you would enjoy this. It’s definitely worth trying especially if you haven’t had a banana tea before! :)

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300 tasting notes

So two weekends ago I went to my cousin’s wedding in Michigan then drove down to visit my in-laws for a week in Indiana. There were only two or three nice days at the very beginning and end of our stay. Rowan got to ride one of their new miniature horses but I didn’t get to ride one of the big ones due to allergies, rain and cold of doom that every one had (father-in-law actually got a pneumonia).

However I did get to sit down and order tea for my mother-in-law from Butiki and 52Teas and the Butiki box arrived the morning I was leaving so we brewed this up with breakfast. I probably would never order a banana tea for myself, I’m weird about banana flavors. Ripe bananas are great, bananas in homemade smoothies and banana walnut bread all good, but anything flavored banana, no thank you. This however was like drinking wonderful warm fresh banana bread, quite scrumptious! Hope she enjoys all her teas as much as we enjoyed this one, we brewed two pots!

Fjellrev

I normally don’t like banana teas but you make this sound wonderful.

TheTeaFairy

yay, glad you like it :-)

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Sipdown (210/213)!

Thank you VariaTEA for the sample of this. Since I first noticed Butiki as a company, I’ve been flipping back and forth between trying this one out and I almost added to my order, twice. I think eventually I would have requested it as one of the two samples, but it was really nice not having to – this way I can get one of the many other interesting blends as a sample instead.

The whole sample was used for a mug of this, which I made sure to carefully steep since I was only going to get “one shot” at doing it right. Dry, the leaf smelled almost completely of the base, and steeped up this was much the same but with hints of banana.

I had to let this cool awhile before I was picking up anything significant in the taste – but what I got was a very realistic and natural tasting banana tea with a black base (would you really expect anything else from Butiki, though?). Unfortunately, what I didn’t get throughout the whole mug was any walnut. Because of that, I felt the flavour of this tea was incomplete – and judging it just as a banana tea, I think I prefer the way that Frank does his banana flavourings.

This was still really quite good though, and I was very happy to try it and cross it off the vast list of Butiki blends I “need to try”.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 15 sec 2 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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I requested a sample of this with my order and Stacy was kind enough to oblige. I made this first thing this morning and was quite excited because the dry leaf smells so good and the reviews on here were so favourable. Which is maybe what set me up…

The smell of the brewed tea is mostly black tea, followed by banana. For the taste I expected out of the ball park banana but I didn’t get that. It’s a muted flavour, more like banana walnut bread or some baked good featuring banana. Once you get past the juicy banana expectation — which I shouldn’t have had, not even given the name, I know! — the tea is quite enjoyable. You can smell it as it sits there on the table. I allowed it to cool and the flavour does come out a little more.

For the resteep I sweetened with maple syrup. I was itching to see what would happen. Sorry Stacy, hope you don’t think less of me for ruining perfectly good tea. But it was oh so delicious with the maple syrup, as I knew it would be, and I couldn’t resist. Yummy!!

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 45 sec
High Adventure

Maple syrup in tea? What whaat? You’re an innovator!

Nxtdoor

It’s a Canadian thing :)

High Adventure

That makes perfect sense. :)

Sil

maple syrup in smokey wonderful teas = the best time ever. I also love maple syrup in keemuns…. mmmm

Sil

i don’t often add sweetner to teas but maple syrup to straight blacks is wonderful!

TheTeaFairy

Glad you like this one :-)

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Backlog:

LOVED this! YUM! I love banana teas … and I think that Butiki does banana the best of all that I’ve tried thus far! I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, Stacy is a genius! Brilliant, I tell ya!

Anyway, the banana here doesn’t taste candy-ish. It tastes like true to the fruit banana. YAY! But the best part of this tea is the Keemun. A very rich and flavorful background of flavor.

Here’s my full-length review: http://sororiteasisters.com/2013/08/18/foxy-roxys-banana-walnut-treat-black-tea-blend-from-butiki-teas/

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