Lights on the Bayou from Trader Nicks Tea Company

Lights on the Bayou

Tea type
Black Green Blend
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Artificial, Banana, Bubblegum, Candy, Chamomile, Cinnamon, Dry Grass, Medicinal, Muddled, Murky, Pollen, Tannic, Watery
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Caffeine
Medium
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Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
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175 °F / 79 °C 2 min, 0 sec 12 oz / 354 ml

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The sky is filled with fireflies, jazz music is in the air, and you are sipping tea on this lovely evening on the bayou.

Tasting Notes: bananas foster | caramel rum-glaze | chamomile

Come float down the bayou under the warm glow of the fireflies. Make a wish on the evening star and listen to the sweet melodic notes of jazz in the air. The only thing that could make this New Orleans night even sweeter is a locally made rum-glazed dessert. Originating from New Orleans, the sticky-sweet famous Bananas Foster is a perfect bayou flavor profile for our bayou tea.

When you are in the bayou, take your directions from the fireflies and don’t trust the gators. Following that warm glow gave us the idea for this tea. We wanted a bright yellow flavor with a dark green and brown swamp leaf appearance. Leaning towards the New Orleans roots and going with a Bananas Foster taste told the story best. For the base, we used a bold black tea decorated with swampy green tea sprinkled with yellow chamomile fireflies.

The fireflies are not only represented in the yellow banana and the yellow chamomile flowers, but also in the famous rum glaze of the Bananas Foster. To create the glaze, the dish is flambéed, and the fire imagery comes back to the fireflies.

The overall taste is a glorious dessert blend with a sticky caramelized rum taste and sweet banana. It is not overly sweet though and is perfectly balanced. Add a little sweetener or even some oat milk foam for a full dessert tea latte experience.

Ingredients: black tea, green tea, coconut chips, banana chips, banana flavor, cinnamon, strawberry leaves, safflowers, chamomile

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4501 tasting notes

Dry, this smells like full-on banana Runts.

Hmm… This is an odd one. I definitely taste banana, and it is decidedly Runt-y. But then there’s chamomile? Which makes for a strange combination with the very artificial and almost medicinal banana flavor. There’s a hint of cinnamon, and bubblegum for some reason. Overall it tastes quite muddled, and the mixed base isn’t helping things.

Very strange, definitely going into the rehoming box.

Flavors: Artificial, Banana, Bubblegum, Candy, Chamomile, Cinnamon, Dry Grass, Medicinal, Muddled, Murky, Pollen

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 2 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
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Cold Brew!

Trying this one tonight while I work on catching up on tasting notes. I love banana teas so much so when I was placing my order this was top of the list out of the newer blends for me to add – even with the green tea and chamomile inclusions.

The dry leaf smelled very good – super intense and sweet banana in that way that rides the line of banana taffy and the delicious banana flavoured medicine you’d get as a kid. For sure not for everyone, but it had me salivating!

The cold brew is… interesting. It does start off with that banana medicine sort of flavour albeit a lot less sweet than you’d think it would be, and there’s even an undertone that’s a bit chocolate-like. However, the finish is, like, actually medicinal. Not in the fun penicillin way, but in the more bitter and unpleasant.It’s not as bad as it could be (I’m drinking through it), but I wonder how much of that is because this is a cold brew and this style of brewing tends to really scale back bitterness and astringency. I also really hate the inclusion of chamomile. In general I feel like it’s a dumb ingredient to add to caffeinated teas, but it’s musty floral note also isn’t helping with this finishing flavour IMO…

I think I need to try this again hot to really decide how I feel. As of right now, it’s not living up to my expectations but I have this sneaking suspicion it might be one of those teas with a learning curve where you have to get your brewing just right.
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Honestly, this blend was kind of lackluster for me. It smells heavily like banana but its more of an aftertaste to me. I didn’t get the desserty aspect either so it tasted like mushy bananas and black tea watered down with green tea.

Flavors: Banana, Tannic, Watery

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Black and green blends rarely work for me either.

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