Bard's Blend

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Black Tea
Ingredients
Black Tea, Ginger, Natural Vanilla Flavor, Sugar
Flavors
Ginger, Sugar, Vanilla
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Are you the performer of your group? The vocal, expressive, artistic, and passionate one? The one who’s always singing and making musical references? The one with all the bright ideas? If so, pick up your musical instrument (or writing instrument or painting instrument, etc.), brew yourself a cup of this spicy & sweet black tea, and go forth to Bard your lil’ heart out!

Ingredients: Black tea, ginger root, sparkle sugar, natural vanilla flavoring

https://fridaytea.com/products/bards-blend?pos=1&_sid=a92fbe789&ss=r

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So, I just couldn’t resist adding a bunch of Friday Tea’s Dungeons & Dragons/Critical Role inspired teas to my last order. I even tossed this one in, even though ginger forward blends aren’t usually my forte. I just thought the idea of a ginger tea (good for sore throats/upset stomachs) for a Bard was too fun and clever!

I find myself sort of just ‘whelmed’ by the blend though – neither over or under. The black tea base is medium to full bodied and malty, but honestly just a bit flat. I wouldn’t mind a more neutral base as a canvas though, were the rest of the flavours a bit more lively and strong. I do taste ginger, but it’s more of a subtle earthy ginger and there’s not the intensity or heat that I was expecting to get – especially considering there’s actually quite a lot of larger cut ginger pieces in the tea. I also don’t taste the vanilla flavouring at all, not that I necessarily feel like it should have been super strong.

It really does feel like ginger was supposed to be the star here, but there’s some “razzle dazzle” missing overall. I would be interesting in seeing if additions like honey might perk up some of those flavours, or if longer steep times could coax out more spice without also producing a bitter cup…

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Another tea from my recent Friday Afternoon Black Friday order.

I wanted a tea to go with my PB & J for lunch and this one sounded like it would work. Black tea, ginger, sugar, natural vanilla flavoring. Sadly, I think this blend is just too sweet for me. I really dig the pops of ginger and vanilla I’m getting but this has almost a southern sweet tea vibe going on. I have a feeling this might be one to keep until spring and enjoy as a cold brew.

Flavors: Ginger, Sugar, Vanilla

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