Bird & Blend Tea Advent Calendar – Day 23
Catching up on a couple of missed advent calendar teas today since I’ve been sick for the past few days. I’m still not completely better, but at least I can taste again (mostly). This is described as B&B’s strongest breakfast tea, plus I could see that it was all CTC leaf, so I only steeped it for 2 minutes instead of my usual 3.
For me, this doesn’t have enough character. It mostly tastes tannic, with some malt and dry leaf notes. There’s perhaps a little bit of dark pumpernickel bread flavor.
I think this one is likely meant to be taken with milk and sugar, which is not something I’m in the habit of doing. So it’s really not my sort of tea. But that’s okay!
Flavors: Astringent, Autumn Leaf Pile, Bitter, Bread, Malt, Rye, Tannic
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Cameron, reading all your reviews on these, I’m thinking Lupicia > Bird&Blend Tea. Am I wrong?
I guess I do love more of Lupicia’s teas. But there are some from B&B that I love, too!
hehe ok. I tried adagio flavored, thought they were decent, then I tried Lupicia and they knocked it out of the ballpark for me. I will keep an eye out on which B&B looks good. :D
To be fair, there are some awesome B&B blends that haven’t been in the advent.
@tea-sipper kk ^^
@Kawaii – Yeah, I’m not a fan of Adagio. I can send you some B&B samples to try!
@tea-sipper To be honest, I didn’t like flavored tea at all until Lupicia. I think because most of them are a natural flavored taste. If B&B have some good ones that taste natural, I’m all for trying them. I have very little experience in flavored teas (virtually zero).
@Cameron I’ll PM you when I get caught up. I have like 21 YS coming, and a bunch of TeaVivre but thank you so much. <3
Kawaii – Oh okay. If you know you love Lupicia. I’m generally not too picky with flavored teas, so I can’t really say if B&B will taste natural enough for you.
Tea-sipper, some time down the road, I won’t be able to resist to try some of all of your B&B favorites and we shall see. :D Thanks both of you for your input.
Cameron, reading all your reviews on these, I’m thinking Lupicia > Bird&Blend Tea. Am I wrong?
I guess I do love more of Lupicia’s teas. But there are some from B&B that I love, too!
hehe ok. I tried adagio flavored, thought they were decent, then I tried Lupicia and they knocked it out of the ballpark for me. I will keep an eye out on which B&B looks good. :D
To be fair, there are some awesome B&B blends that haven’t been in the advent.
@tea-sipper kk ^^
@Kawaii – Yeah, I’m not a fan of Adagio. I can send you some B&B samples to try!
@tea-sipper To be honest, I didn’t like flavored tea at all until Lupicia. I think because most of them are a natural flavored taste. If B&B have some good ones that taste natural, I’m all for trying them. I have very little experience in flavored teas (virtually zero).
@Cameron I’ll PM you when I get caught up. I have like 21 YS coming, and a bunch of TeaVivre but thank you so much. <3
Kawaii – Oh okay. If you know you love Lupicia. I’m generally not too picky with flavored teas, so I can’t really say if B&B will taste natural enough for you.
Tea-sipper, some time down the road, I won’t be able to resist to try some of all of your B&B favorites and we shall see. :D Thanks both of you for your input.