Mr. Frosty

I was a little frosty towards Mr. Frosty. Or maybe you could say I was hot and cold. Allow me to explain, because it was a whole fun-fair of wackiness and an experience I have no answers for.

Brewing this up, WOW. Talk about a show! I wished a little that I’d steeped it in a glass cup so I could enjoy the show even more – the dark blue was more dramatic than any other butterfly pea flower/blue pea flower teas I’ve tried before (which is only a couple, let’s be honest). This thing was a deep blue in seconds, whereas, say, David’s Tea’s Magic Potion will get to a semi-decent purple eventually, maybe, if you leave it steeping for 8 minutes and onward. … Usually. Assuming you chucked in a lot of tea. And I always thought, “That’s fair; surely it’s an expensive ingredient and sometimes that’s the best you can do.” But wow, this tea was an explosion of colour, so much so that within 1 minute of putting it to steep, I was double checking the ingredients list because I was CONVINCED there was artificial colour in there, possibly smuggled in by my suspicious friend Spearmint. But no, that was just the power of this tea. I was dazzled. I was excited. I was ready to experience a Mr. Frosty that was Toasty.

Or… was I? Because when I took those first few sips… And then subsequent sips… And from beginning to end of this cup, the flavours I got were… Mildly, unnamably fruity, slightly spicy, slightly spearminty… hotdogs. Yep, that’s right. To me, by whatever magic of science, I was tasting watery minty hotdog.

I have no answers; only questions. How did it get there? Where did it come from? What is it trying to tell me? Is our alien overlord to be a spearmint-scented blue hotdog named Mr. Frosty?

The biggest question of all, however, is this: if that’s what I was tasting the whole way through, why in the world did I eeeever so slightly… kinda like it?

Like I said. Only questions.

From the November subscription box.

What a strange tea this is. I get that they were going for a blue slushie concept, but the flavors here make no sense…

I like the blue color, and I do understand the mint as it makes some sense for replicating an ice-based treat. But wtf is with the jasmine? And wouldn’t raspberries have made sense for more of a “blue raspberry” type flavor, which is what I would expect from a blue slushie or snow cone?

It’s not unpleasant, it tastes like a mild mint and jasmine white tea with a hint of stevia. It sort of reminds me of a weaker blue version of their Nearly Nirvana tea. So weird, I like the concept but don’t understand the thought process around the execution…

Adventaggedon Day 6 – Tea 3/6

Oh… No…

I was fascinated by this tea because the ingredients list looks BONKERS level crazy, and the name is super fun and wintery!! As soon as I cracked open the sachet I was very dubious though because it… smelled like ketchup!?

Thankfully it does not taste like ketchup, but it doesn’t really taste great either. It steeped up a deep ink-y blue and smells like jasmine and spearmint. The taste is probably majority spearmint – a very sweet and cloying one though, only made worse by an intense level of stevia. I taste jasmine and orange as well, but nothing really feels cohesive here. A bunch of people in my advent group comparred it to unpleasant bubble gum, and I loosely agree with that. Someone else said the flouride that we used to get in grade school that was supposed to be bubblegum flavour, and I think that’s probably the closest comparison. It’s also sort of like Nearly Nirvana, but way worse.

Sorry Bird & Blend – this was a major miss for me today.

Advent Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIeSOftgdHs/

Bird & Blend Advent Day 6 (6-December 2020)

A and I agree with amandastory516 and Martin: the dry tea smells like mustard.

The tea goes a lovely blue colour from the pea flowers. The spearmint is the most prominent flavour to me, but it’s still subtle. There’s perhaps a hint of jasmine? I can’t say for sure. The stevia isn’t present in the taste. We both feel meh about this tea.

On the plus side, I made espresso rye toast with lingonberry jam and blueberry chocolate jam thanks to all the jam advents I’m seeing.

I am with amandastory516 that it smells like mustard. Spicy and strong mustard.

But after brew it is much, much better. The combination of jasmine and spearmint on white base worked very well, I notice little of orange and clove. Cooling and quite tasty! Maybe I have been expecting something bit different, but certainly not bad blend.

This.smells.like.mustard. I was quite hesitant when I opened the pouch. A minty stevia blend that smells like mustard? Can’t be good. Luckily, this is actually quite nice. The stevia is only noticeable as a cool feeling on the tongue, rather than being an overwhelming flavor…so I’m more okay with it. I also can’t taste the butterfly pea flowers, which is great because I don’t like them. It’s mostly spearmint and jasmine, with a tiny touch of clove. Actually quite liking this, despite the initial trepidation.