294/365
This is another from Bird & Blend’s recently released Autumn collection, and one I was pretty intrigued about. It’s a blend of three black teas – Assam, Kenyan, and Sri Lankan – and cream/honey flavouring. I looked at the ingredients list, and decided to add milk to my first cup since there was nothing that really suggested milk/cream already in there, but that was a mistake. Upon trying it, I figured adding milk had washed it out, but it still came across as a decent breakfast blend – very similar to B&B’s Great British Cuppa, if you’ve tried that one.
I made up a second cup shortly after without milk, but sadly it wasn’t much of an improvement. It’s slightly sweeter than you’re average breakfast blend, perhaps, but not in a way that would make me think it was flavoured if I didn’t know that to be the case. It’s malty, as you might expect, but also slightly astringent. There were no real honey and/or milk/cream flavours to speak of.
I’ve got enough left for a few more cups, so I’ll fiddle around with my parameters to see whether I can coax a better cup out of the leaf I have left. I’m kinda disappointed with this one, though.
