Let It Snow

Green tea with quite a few additions, it’s probably 1/3 to 1/2 green tea. It’s quite pale and after brewing had a sheen to the surface of the tea, maybe from the candied bits of pineapple. The tea is sweetened with stevia. Unfortunately I think I’d like it better without that added sweetness and would prefer to add honey as needed.

brewed with 1.5 tsp and 8oz – the scale won’t recognize the measurement.
Tried as part of the Davids Tea 24 Days of Tea Advent calendar – Day 1
I’ll finish my sample but I’m unlikely to buy this one to keep on hand.

In ‘flavors’ here it lists peppermint – please note there is NO mint of any kind in this tea. I hate mint and it also irritates acid reflux and GERD.

Well it says green tea but it’s more like a fruit tea with a bit of green tea. You can’t even taste the green tea. If you prefer it sweet you will enjoy this but honestly it was too sweet for me. It has good flavor but not one that I would get again. I also need to point out that because of some of the ingredients it makes the steeped liquid look kinda gross.

Today is December 1st, so I am pretty excited to get started on my 24 Days of Tea from David’s. This is the one for 12/1. It is very pretty in the little jar. It brewed up quite pale. I wasn’t sure if I under leafed it or if this is a normal result for green teas. I rarely drink green teas because I don’t care for them, so I wasnt’ sure. Green teas can taste like lawn clippings to me and that was a concern with this one.

I shouldn’t have worried. I couldn’t taste anything besides the sickening sweetness of the stevia. I forced half a cup down, but that was all I could take. I’m sure there are many tea drinkers who will enjoy this one. I however, will pass.

Day 1 DavidsTea 24 Days of Tea advent calendar - Let It Snow. Here we go! I have shied away from a lot of the DavidsTea offerings in the past as I tend to prefer tea that tastes like tea, not like a dessert concoction. I’m the same way with coffee (no flavoured syrups, no PSL) & even cocktails (if they have more than 3 ingredients aside from ice and if any of those ingredients are sweetened, I’m usually tapping out unless I know I am in the hands of a master mixologist). So, I surprised myself by buying the DavidsTea advent calendar for this year. But I figure it’s the holiday season, the one time of year that I tend to indulge in sweets, so why not have it be daily calorie and carb-free tea sweets instead of baked goods or candy?

This tea basically embodies everything that has made me avoid DavidsTea in the past: added sweeteners, stevia (which I am not a fan of ever), a potpourri-ish mish-mash of ingredients, a flavour profile that is basically the equivalent of someone driving a fruity, white-chocolate Mack truck into your face. But, I gotta say (and this is why I just clicked Yes on Recommended below), going into this experience expecting a ‘dessert tea’ not a ‘tea lover’s tea’ I found myself enjoying it. The cinnamon and clove rescued it, IMO. I could 100% do without the stevia. That stuff always makes everything taste a bit fake-y (ironically). With the otherwise tasty pile-on of fruits/candied fruits and white chocolate, it really did not need stevia in there mucking up the flavour, would have rated higher without it. I barely even discerned any green tea-ness to this tea. Good for people who like dessert tea, sweets lovers, people who want to drink fun tea but maybe do not actually like the tea part itself. All-in-all I’ll give it a Pretty Good, which is much better than I was expecting!

Day 1 of David’s Tea’s 24 Days of Tea 2017

I added a little bit of honey and found it quite enjoyable. Not a staple of my tea cupboard, but I wouldn’t decline a cup.

Slightly sweet with an undertone of cinnamon and clove. I really liked it as a festive holiday tea. Day 1 of David’s Tea 24 Das of Tea – definitely off to a good start!

It is really sweet. Almost a fake sweet taste. While I do like the idea of the flavors, I’m not a huge fan of the final product.

Too sweet for me. Definitely elicits a winter vibe, but it would work better as potpourri than tea.

It has a soft flavor of different spices that make you feel warm inside. Its light but not over powering and does not leave any after taste

Stopped in to a DTs shop to try samples today and was handed this. The flavour was not bad and then, boom, the stevia kicked in. Ouf! Nasty.