Where to buy: David’s Tea
Description: Our deliciously
fruity blend has its roots in the 1960s, when every cool hippie was growing
kombucha. Today, hipsters are again promoting this fermented tea for its
delicious taste and good vibes. We’ve combined it with oolong, mango, pineapple
and safflowers to make it taste like a golden ray of psychedelic sunshine. Yeah.
Ingredients: Oolong tea, mango, pineapple, Kombucha Powder, safflower petals, artificial flavouring.
Contains gluten-free wheat starch
My Review:
When I saw that Happy Kombucha
contained mango and pineapple I really wanted to try this tea. 2 of my favourite
fruits in a tea? OH HECK YEAH!
This tea smells very, very fruity in
the bag. The mango and pineapple scents are very prominent. The dark oolong is
mixed with vanilla coloured pineapple pieces and bright mango pieces with a
splash of tiny orangey-yellow safflower petals.
The recommended brewing is 1.5 tsp. of
Happy Kombucha, water heated to 94 degrees Celsius (or 201 degrees Fahrenheit),
steeped for 4-7 minutes. I brewed a standard cup for 7 minutes and drank it
straight (no milk, no sugar).
When steeped, this tea has a very
fruity but tart scent. You can definitely smell hints of pineapple and mango,
but the overwhelming scent that came to my nose was peach. The taste is heavily
dominated by the fermenty-ness of the Kombucha and the earthy flavour of the
oolong, but has subtle juicy tones of the pineapple, mango and peach (although
there’s not peach in this mix).
This was a nice tea, but I can say
that it’s far from being one of my favourites. I wanted to love it, I really
did! I just wish that the taste of pineapple and mango (ok, and the
non-existent peach --Really? Where does the peach come from??) were stronger.
Their scent is so strong when steeped that the subtle taste is a bit of a
letdown. I think Content Kombucha would have been a better name.
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