Pancake Breakfast Black Tea

Like the Banana Pancake Breakfast, I put 3 g in my thermos, added 12 oz of 205°F water. It smelled good, like maple syrup. The flavor was nice, with maple syrup, pancake-y, butter, and malt.

I miss the bananas in it though. With the Banana Pancake Breakfast, the aftertaste and banana finish was really good to me. Maybe if there was any type of good fruit taste, this would’ve been much better to me. I still liked it though. It tastes good. :) There isn’t that artificial taste in this and that is a big plus. It also wasn’t oversweet. As far as sweetness vs the pancake-y balance, it was pretty much spot-on the way I like my pancakes.

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Didn’t love this like I thought I would, given I adore pancakes.

The base is nice enough, flavorful with malty and raisiny notes. But the maple kind of tastes like it’s just sitting on top to me, and not integrating? I don’t know how else to explain it, or why that is. I also don’t really get pancake from it, just maple flavoring. Also in this cup, the base is a bit too strong so I don’t taste much maple. Not sure if I overleafed or what.

Anyway, it’s just okay for me unfortunately! But there are plenty of others who love this tea.

Still away from home and this is one of the teas I brought with me as I made my transition from drinking only greens and oolongs for months and months to the sudden craving for black teas with half and half. Stellar blend—both base and finely crafted flavourings.

So, I hope that I found the new scavenger hunt list? Item #6 is “A tea flavored like your favorite pancake/waffle topping” & so I think this tea should be the obvious choice, right? And happily enough, I just reblended a small batch of this tea – a very small batch this time, because I want to actually test using the maple syrup crystals that I get from the maple cotton candy – so I plan to use some of this as my test before I actually release it to the website . . . in the meantime, some of the small batch is now available on the website – in other words, Pancake Breakfast is once again available – but in very small quantities!

So, this isn’t actually a sipdown because this is a “D’s Tea” but despite the well-meaning intention of the idea of a sipdown, as the purveyor of this particular tea, I think it’s one that you should keep in stock because it’s that good.

Also, this restock just so happened to happen on National Pancake Day. It’s actually just a crazy coincidence because I don’t keep up with those days, mostly because I don’t have the time or the organization within my chaotical mind to keep track of stuff like that. Maybe someday I’ll be all organized and up with stuff to be able to do that. But today isn’t that day. (I’m actually incredibly impressed with myself that I was able to get the Irish Cream tea out a month before St. Patrick’s day because usually, I’m like a month behind with stuff like that.)

So, anyway – I’m having fun with the scavenger hunt, even though I’m not actually doing a sipdown all the time. Thanks to Mastress Alita for the scavenger hunt prompts. :)

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Has this one been reblended? I hope it gets reblended. Maybe with pecan. 52Teas if you see this a Pecan Pancake tea would be amaaaazing and I would buy a lot of it. Just sayin’.

I liked this one a whole lot, and if Anne’s new 52teas were to reblend it I think it would probably get an even higher rating, because Frank’s black base tea wasn’t one I loved. It’s great as a breakfast tea, it takes milk and sugar really well, and I think it would make a great dessert replacement treat, too. Good stuff.

My first cup was awesome because I used the rest of my pouch (2-3 tsp) in a large travel mug with some vanilla soy milk. My second cup was hot water but no milk except the residue in the cup from before and it was a bit too brisk for me. Most of the maple flavor was gone and the black tea was malty without being smooth. I think milk is the key to a good second steep.

But in other news, I’m only two teas away from my sipdown goal now that I’m finished this one!

I had this one… yesterday morning? So this is from memory. One thing I thought was interesting about this is that it seems to me like a classic “breakfast tea”, in the sense that the base is a fairly robust, malty, wake-up-your-tastebuds kind of black tea. It’s smooth though, I didn’t have to add milk or anything. The maple in this tea is very nice, and apparently I’m picky about maple in things. The pancakes… well, if I really concentrate I can imagine some pancake flavour there, but I think if you had just handed me a mug of this tea I wouldn’t have picked up on it. Good tea though, I’m looking forward to having it again.

I’m finally on the uptick of a nasty sinus infection, and am more or less coherent again if not completely rid of the laryngitis (also got tested for safety, and it’s not covid, so hurrah!). Since yesterday though I’ve been too stuffed up to smell much of anything. But at this point I need. Crave. Caffeine. I apparently lack “builder’s tea,” which is what I truly want right now, so I fell back on old favourites, like Pancake Breakfast.

There’s enough sweet syrup and bitter tea leaf here to make this interesting. Add milk and there’s a bit more “something” (extra protein and sugars? An acid that adds “sour”?). I can still pick up that this is maple syrup despite not being able to smell my cup, so that makes me super happy. Some of the other (favourite) teas I tried were pretty limp and indistinguishable without my nose. I hope I get that back soon; otherwise, I have a decent amount of Pancake Breakfast!

Last night my father appeared over my shoulder, “You’re looking at tea?! You have tea all over the place!” If only he knew how I envied the stash of many of them members of this site ;)

I am off to a late start to this labor day weekend. I have a list I made of teas to drink this weekend, I don’t know now if I’ll get to all of them with waking up three hours later than planned. This one was at the top of said list as I made it for a work morning and wanted to be sure to fully review and appreciate it. I liked this better at the 2 minute steep time, today was 3 minutes and the black tea taste took over the cup a bit too much for my true liking. I still finished the cup, but I would have preferred to have more of a balance with the maple flavor.

Ah… What a wonderfully scented tea. My sense of smell kicked in early this morning so I went through my teas, inhaling to find the one I wanted this morning. This one won. I swear, there is a hot pancake inside the pouch, drenched in butter and maple syrup. An excellent tea.