Strawberry Shake

I grabbed the Malt Shop Collection the day it came out and of the three, this was by far my favorite. Probably because of the three, it is the only one not presweetened with stevia. However, even being my favorite, this tea was merely just okay. It was light in flavor and I found, for once, DAVIDs went too light with the flavoring.

Check out my review of the entire Malt Shop Collection (including the Strawberry Shake-infused white chocolate bar) here: http://sororiteasisters.com/2017/03/16/the-malt-shop-collection-from-davidstea/

Finally – a flavoured green tea by DT where you can taste the actual green tea!

Okay, firstly, the scent is EXACTLY a strawberry yogurt/smoothie. YUM. Just delicious. The scent filled my whole cabinet! The taste, happily enough, is just as it smells (not always the case with DT, like their caramel corn tea which smelled great but tasted bleh to me). It’s a smooth, strawberry flavour – not tangy, but strawberry milk-y… (think strawberry Campino hard candies) and it isn’t overpowering like many of DT’s flavoured teas. You still taste the base of green tea.

Also noteworthy is the lack of added sweetener which IMO is only a bonus as it makes it refreshing rather than sickly ( I am of the mind that if you want sweetener, you can add it yourself to your liking. I detest sugar/sugar substitutes added to the teas themselves).

Lovely addition – the only one of the three “milkshake” teas that I enjoyed enough to buy 100g of (and maybe more later!) <:

I picked some of this up today (it is the only one of the ice cram shop ones I can do because there’s no stevia or blackberry leaves or anything else I am allergic to or dislike) along with Lemon Pound Cake and the new mw matchas (minus the genmaicha, since I can mix my own at home if I choose to).

In a word, this smells HEAVENLY. If you like sweet stuff. I brewed this up tonight and was surprised that I was able to drink this straight, with no additives. Though, the thought did cross my mind of making this into a latte with a little organic cane sugar for indulgence. But then I think, a green tea latte? Really? But then I think back to the white teas I have latted before, where it works (Buttercream and Gold Rush, both gone now, sadly). And then there is matcha. Soooo..I may give this a latte treatment in the future.

For starers, I really do love a good strawberry green tea. I don’t know what it is about the pairing, but it really suits me somehow. This one is creamy feeling, probably from the your chips, and the papaya adds a sweetness that I think pushes it into that milkshake territory. Under it all, there is the green base, not bitter or astringent, or missing. It is there.

Although this preparation was hot, I would like to see how it is iced. Perhaps with sweetened condensed milk, for a real milkshake feel. I will not cold brew, as I think the yogurt chips will go funny like with Raspberry Pie. I got 20g of this and feel like I will get more. Especially as the weather warms.

Now I wasn’t really planning on trying this one but I actually ended up getting this as one of my free 50g of tea after I had a sample in store because it is surprisingly good.

It hits the whole “strawberry shake” thing bang on. It’s creamy and strawberry-y and impressively good. The green tea base is rather nice and not totally missing too.

Not much else to say, honestly.

Not a tea I would usually buy, but I chose it for my free cup of tea at David’s today. Surprisingly good.

Uh.. Yum! I smelled it in the store tonight and it smelled so good I had to get 50g – and I was right about liking it! It’s really good. You can clearly smell the yogurt bits and the strawberry – which stands out more so with a bit of sugar. So it actually kinda tastes like a strawberry milkshake – so nice. The green tea adds a nice base to it as well, you wouldn’t think it would -but it does. I’m impressed.

I was not overly fond of this one. I was able to sample it in store today. Tastes too much like green tea and not enough strawberry flavor-it was so subtle in this tea.

This is a regular staple of my cupboard that I drink every now and then whenever I want a flavoured green tea. I was reading the product page again and was surprised to see yogurt listed as an ingredient, because I’ve never tasted a hint of it. As always, I just get a nice grassy flavour with a subtle hint of sweetness from the strawberry.

Second up from the Malt Shop collection.

Of the three, I was the most impartial to this one. Like, it didn’t sound particularly bad and none of the ingredients set off red flags but nothing jumped out to me either. Unlike Vanilla Swirl, I got a chance to drink this one hot and iced.

Overall, this still ranks in the middle of the three teas for me. I thought it would be better iced, but actually I liked this one better hot! As an iced tea, it did have some lovely creamy strawberry notes but also a lot of underlying grassiness and bitterness that made the overall brew pretty harsh. The hot tea, however, was free of this bitterness and instead was a much more light hearted, creamy and ripe strawberry note with fruity undertones of the papaya and subtle, soft grassyness. It tasted more like a milkshake to me that way, honestly.

Still overall I think this one is relatively forgettable – though I’m sure I’ll enjoy several cups of it on shift before this collection departs.

Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts regarding the teas, and not the company’s.