Salted Caramel

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Black Tea, Chicory Root, Natural Flavours, Rose Hips
Flavors
Caramel, Chemical, Chicory, Artificial, Chocolate, Coconut, Metallic, Mineral, Tangy, Tea, Toffee, Alcohol, Bitter, Burnt, Butterscotch, Salt, Astringent, Maple Syrup, Sweet, Burnt Sugar, Vanilla, Brown Sugar, Butter, Cocoa
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Caffeine
High
Certification
Kosher
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 30 sec 9 oz / 264 ml

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  • “Pros: Affordable, convenient, not bad when piping hot. Bigelow says this is black tea, but the chicory is prominent. It does have a decent but quite sharp caramel flavour when hot, but after this...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I can definitely taste the caramel here, but the black base isn’t very good. Once it cools, the caramel flavor becomes quite strong and tasty at first, but then it settles into a sort of weird fake...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Easy to drink while hot and leans into that chicory taste pretty hard. It reminds me of artificially flavored brownies with artificially flavored caramel, also toffee-ish? Pretty mineral, too. ...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This tea I received a teabag of in a Swapbot Tea Bag Swap she said it was one of her favorites. I’ve never rated this one though I do believe I have tried this one before several years ago. I...” Read full tasting note
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From Bigelow

Beautifully balanced tea with creamy rich caramel flavor and just a hint of salt as an undertone

Enjoy this popular combination of sweet and salty, now in a teacup. Our all natural blend of hand-picked black tea and succulent caramel with just a hint of salt flavor is the perfect treat. Add a splash of milk and a little sweetener for a sublime guilt-free indulgence.

Ingredients

Black Tea, Natural Flavors (Soy Lecithin), Rose Hips, Chicory Root

STEEPING INSTRUCTIONS

Be sure to start with fresh cold water and bring to a rolling boil.

Pour over tea bag, steep for 4 minutes (or whatever time you like), remove bag (but no squeezing please!).

For Iced Tea by the Glass: Steep a little longer. Pour over ice.

https://www.bigelowtea.com/Teas/Tea-Type/Black-Tea/Salted-Caramel-Black-Tea-Case-of-6-boxes-total

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103 tasting notes

Pros: Affordable, convenient, not bad when piping hot.

Bigelow says this is black tea, but the chicory is prominent. It does have a decent but quite sharp caramel flavour when hot, but after this cools down, it’s a tosser. The caramel becomes quite chemical-tasting the cooler it gets. Served iced, this could probably be used as a torture device. Is it more humane than waterboarding? Not sure.

As always, I drank it black but I suspect some milk/sugar would improve this a good deal.

This was nice for a grab and go in the office. You know- when there’s a sad, lonely teabag at the bottom of the communal tea basket, and you just want something to drink before a meeting? Yup. This is it.

For the price, it’s not the worst tea I’ve ever had. I wouldn’t seek it out but it’s a decent sip whilst hot.

Flavors: Caramel, Chemical, Chicory

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 15 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
gmathis

Milk does improve this one a lot.

blueeyedsurprise

Good to know, I figured it’d be an improvement.

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2438 tasting notes

I can definitely taste the caramel here, but the black base isn’t very good. Once it cools, the caramel flavor becomes quite strong and tasty at first, but then it settles into a sort of weird fake tang. It’s still decent with milk, and it genuinely tastes like salted caramel. Thanks tea-and-cats!

gmathis

That’s about how I would describe this one, too. Milk definitely helps.

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1597 tasting notes

Easy to drink while hot and leans into that chicory taste pretty hard. It reminds me of artificially flavored brownies with artificially flavored caramel, also toffee-ish? Pretty mineral, too. Once it starts to cool, the mineral turns metallic and what might be perceived as a grain of salt turns into rosehip tang. The black tea doesn’t have much life.

Serviceable, barely

But If I want salted caramel, I will eat salted caramel

Because no flavored tea will ever taste like salted caramel.

Flavors: Artificial, Caramel, Chicory, Chocolate, Coconut, Metallic, Mineral, Tangy, Tea, Toffee

Leafhopper

You’ve just described why I don’t gravitate toward dessert teas. :)

gmathis

Well said. Not my favorite either but I have a few bags to power through. Milk, maybe.

derk

Some things a tea can’t replicate. Similarly, I have a lack of desire for fake meat. Meanwhile, my roommate can’t get enough of it. We all like different things.

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This tea I received a teabag of in a Swapbot Tea Bag Swap she said it was one of her favorites.
I’ve never rated this one though I do believe I have tried this one before several years ago.

I accidentally oversteeped this by a lot :/ Whoops
This tea smells really good very dessert like and reminiscent of caramel
I know I oversteeped this by a lot but It’s tasting Burnt with a very artificial almost alcohol like butterscotch flavor. I do believe that this tea was also somewhat similar tasting when I have previously tried it and not oversteeped it.

Flavors: Alcohol, Artificial, Bitter, Burnt, Butterscotch

Preparation
Boiling 8 OZ / 236 ML

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1843 tasting notes

I’m giving mugs and tea to my staff this holiday, and bought an assortment of Bigelow and Twinings teabags to include. I’m tasting all of the blends before giving them out…for science.
Not a fan of this one. It’s sickeningly sweet and the chicory is extremely strong, which is a really odd combination.

Martin Bednář

I feel wrong liking it :D Well, maybe… maybe I wouldn’t anymore?

Dustin

Martin, I still like a couple of Celestial Seasonings herbal blends. We like what we like. :)

Mastress Alita

I remember this being one of the first teas I ever tried when I was “getting into” tea back in… 2016? (Yes, I’m still relatively “new” to the game compared to the rest of you!) and didn’t like it either! But I usually struck out with Bigelow and my palate. Twinings and my palate, on the other hand, tend to always be a home run!

Inkling

“For science”…haha! :D

amandastory516

Martin- Don’t feel wrong liking it! We all have different tastes!

Martin Bednář

Well, there are so much things that affect final “enjoyment”, from water to actual ratio of ingredients in the tea; counting as well actual mood. And i do like salted caramel, soo… :)

amandastory516

Martin- That’s very true!

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39 tasting notes

This is a good tea year-round, but it seems to only be sold in the Fall where I have bought it. It’s great for anyone who isn’t a fan of pumpkin spice or chai. It would probably be good with a touch of cocoa in it.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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I grabbed this tea because I was feeling a little nostalgic for the Eggnog tea that Bigelow used to have…also I’m a sucker for anything that says Salted Caramel. It’s not that good. It kind has a sweet scent…but not salted caramel and certainly doesn’t taste like salted caramel. I don’t like the scent. And I don’t like the tea. I’m not sure how to really describe except…YUCK. I even let a friend at work try some and my mom and they thought it was nasty too. Can’t even be saved with milk and sugar.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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Received via postcrossing.
I do not have mood for gong-fu. I do not have mood even for tea, but otherwise the morning would not work.

Need tea. Which one? Why not freshest one I have?
Okay, took this one. It smells heavily after caramel. Aroma when boiled is rather salty + mineral. But this is Salted Caramel, so both scents are reasonable.

Liquor is cloudy, darker copper.

But taste? It is not so bad actually! I expected it much sweeter, but it taste actually like liquid salted caramel. It is not even too bitter (okay, I steeped just for 3.5 minutes).

Not my favourite, DF oolong is bit better. But certainly not totally bad.

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Flavors: Caramel, Mineral, Salt

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec 10 OZ / 300 ML
ashmanra

Is postcrossing a person?

Martin Bednář

Nope. Postcrossing is a movement where you have to send postcards and you receive some. It’s cool.

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26 tasting notes

This tea has a surprisingly good caramel flavor for a grocery store brand and has become a mainstay in my household, at least until/unless it goes away when out of season. It’s not cloying or obviously fake-tasting. (I mean, clearly it hasn’t got real caramel in it, but I don’t sip it and go “wow, this sure is some Artificial Caramel Flavor” like I do with Bigelow’s vanilla tea.) With a little milk it’s a nice, creamy, sweet-but-not-overpoweringly-so black tea. It really isn’t salty at all, though; calling it “salted caramel” is clearly a trend-hopping marketing tactic more than an accurate description. But it’s still good!

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This tea put me off immediately by smelling sickeningly sweet. I made it at work, and my coworker seated on the other side of the cube kitty-corner to me could smell the cup, it was just so syrupy-sweet smelling! I enjoy sweet teas, and it took me a long time to wean myself off adding sugar to my cuppa, and even I thought, “Ugh, that looks way too sweet!”

The taste was far too syrupy to me. There was certainly a caramely flavor to it, but it came off as a caramel-infusion of maple syrup rather than a caramel-flavored tea. I thought that adding sweetener was throwing fuel onto the fire, but trying to drink it plain, it somehow came off as far too astringent, despite having such a sweet flavor. The whole taste was just off-putting to me. I found it drinkable when I sweetened it, but it was so sweet I didn’t particularly like it. I couldn’t seem to find any happy medium where it came off right. The flavor and the blend just wasn’t my cup of tea.

Full review: https://teatimetuesdayreviews.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/tea06/

Flavors: Astringent, Caramel, Maple Syrup, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 10 OZ / 295 ML

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