This is the other new Halloween tea and another gummy candy feature!
I know some people have found this flavour to be a little weird for Halloween but it just feeds perfectly into this idea of nostalgic childhood Halloween’s for me – I elaborated more in my initial note of Strawbearry Gummy, if anyone reading this in the future is curious what I mean by that.
Of the two new teas this year, I prefer this one over the Strawbearry Gummy. There are a million strawberry teas out there, and I just personally am more intrigued (almost always) by teas that are a little more weird/out there and less commonly found. I mean, this is by far not a unique tea in the sense that it’s the first cola tea I’ve had. I currently own other cola blends from other companies and, heck, DT has even had another cola blend before – Cherry Cola.
This tea is actually also loosely based around a cherry cola flavour, but more emphasis on the cola and less on the cherry. To be honest, the “OG” Cherry Cola may actually be the worst tea I’ve ever tried from DT so for me this blend tastes like sweet, sweet redemption more than anything else. Also a lot like cola though, obviously. When you brew it hot, more acidity comes out of the hibiscus during infusion and they slight cherry cola flavour becomes more evident. Steeped iced, it’s more of a pure cola flavour.
The cola comes from the combination of citrus and spices, something I’ve talked about in other cola tea blends before. You can even recreate a messy/loose cola flavoured tea at home by mixing a more cinnamon heavy Chai blend with a more acidic lime one, if you have both flavour profiles in your stash. It’s obviously supported, though, through the cola flavouring and gummy candies in the blend. Honestly though you can pick out the gummies and it’s still going to taste like coke. I also appreciate the subtle inclusion of vanilla, which is a nice “tethering” flavour!
Compared to the Strawbearry blend, there are a lot less gummies in this blend – maybe two or three for your average 50g pouch? You can pick them out if you want, though they’re pretty tough so eating them might not be the most advisable. I’ve certainly tried – I kind of eat everything in my tea, at least once. Since they’re much larger than the gummy bears, they definitely don’t dissolve as easily so you kind of have to commit to a longer steep time or I would recommend using a fill your own tea bag to prevent steeper clogging or just washing your steeper immediately after brewing before they have a chance to re-solidify.
I know this is definitely going to be a polarizing tea blend but if you like cola flavours at all then I think it’s one worth checking out!
Photo: https://www.instagram.com/p/CFr_zndg3sA/
I drank this one as part of #SeptemberSipdown on the dessert tea themed day. Is cola a dessert tea!? I don’t know – but it gave me an excuse to take this pretty picture and highlight one of my all time favourite Halloween mug designs!
EDIT: I forgot to mention, and I really wanted to because I’ve seen a lot of people assume this, the gummy candies in this blend don’t come from Squish! I think it’s completely fair people are assuming so, since the Strawbearry Gummy bears do but this one does not!
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