Movie Night - David's Tea

Where to buy:  David’s Tea

Description:  A NEW TRADITION

This popcorn tea is better than the real thing. First of all, it has no calories. Second of all, it’s sweetened with maple and apple. Third of all, it has green tea, which studies (well, ok, experience) say is the ideal brew for keeping you quietly alert throughout a late-night flick. Great for thrillers, dramas, westerns or comedies. Drink it at home or smuggle it into the theatre.

Ingredients:  Apple, Sencha-style green tea, popped corn, artificial flavouring

My Review:

I recently got a pouch of this tea. I’d been eyeing it for a while because, well, who doesn't love popcorn and movies?

When I opened the pouch I was greeted with pieces of white popcorn blended with a small amount of green tea and tons of apple pieces. At first I was really surprised at how little green tea there was and just how much apple was in it. The dry mixture smelled strongly of apples and I thought to myself that I was going to be overwhelmed by apple and underwhelmed by anything associated with going to see a movie (mainly popcorn and butter).

The recommended brewing is 2 tsp. of Movie Night, water heated to 94 degrees Celsius (or 201 degrees Fahrenheit), steeped for 5-7 minutes. I brewed my standard large cup with 4 teaspoons of tea for 5 minutes and added a little sugar.

Once my tea was finished steeping it turned a beautiful pale yellow (almost light amber) colour and smelled very similar to popcorn. This tea has a wonderfully buttery quality to its taste and a sweet but slightly salty undertone that reminds me of caramel popcorn. The buttery quality adds a thickness to this tea that I found very pleasant. The green tea taste is very, very minimal but mixes well with the ingredients. I really couldn't understand where all of the apple went since it was so prominent in the mixture, but not having the apple flavour there was a really big plus for me.

I really, really like this tea. I wouldn’t drink it all the time because I think that too much of this tea would not be a good thing and you would get tired of the butter taste pretty quickly, but as an occasional tea this is definitely a winner! The only thing that I don’t like about this tea is that you have to use sooo much of it to make a single cup. When you drink huge cups of tea like I do, you can run through a lot of this tea pretty fast.