Chocolate Digestives

Thank you Cameron B. for the sample. :D

Quick note.

This was good but I didn’t taste any cocoa/chocolate though. It was more like caramel, maple, brown sugar, cookie/biscuit taste with cardamon. I thought the best part was the biscuit taste. ^^

Advent Day 4

I oversteeped and drank this on the go yesterday. It was okay and easy to drink. I’m having it again today although instead of forgetting it while steeping I forgot it after I steeped it and it’s almost cold now. It has a bit of a flat taste that I’m attributing to the temperature. It smells very malty. I get chocolate first on the sip and then some malt. I tried reheating it and then got distracted by earthquake alerts two minutes before I felt a slight rumble from a 7.3 a few hours north of me. Microwaving seems to have killed some of the flavor of this tea. What is the science behind that?! It was an okay cup before I nuked it. I think the combo of me and this tea are doomed to distraction.

Bird & Blend Advent Calendar 2021 – Day 19

Ooh, a favorite from B&B today! I’m not a chocolate tea lover, but this one is an exception, and it really does taste like a chocolate Digestive biscuit.

This is a lovely tea – creamy chocolate with a nice wheat-y sort of graham cracker undertone that really emulates the flavor of the biscuit well. It also tastes a bit caramelly to me, which is not part of the namesake but is really delicious with the chocolate.

I actually have this one in my cupboard, but as most of my teas are 2-3 years old, it’s always nice to taste a fresher version ha ha! Really enjoying this mug of chocolate caramel biscuit goodness this morning. :D

This tea is absolute perfection, it’s like a biscuit in a mug. Both the leaves and the infusion smell like freshly baked biscuits, and all the ingredients are balanced masterfully.
I drink it with half a teaspoon of Stevia, and it’s the perfect guilty pleasure, just without guilt!

213/365

I bought this one a couple of orders ago, and intended to drink it while the weather was still cold. I didn’t get around to it for some reason, but last night was chilly and I’d had a bad day at work, so I was glad to be able to pull this one out and create some comfort in a mug.

My main reason for wanting to try this one (apart from the fact that I love chocolate digestives) was Bird & Blend’s latte recipe, which involves adding 1 tsp of hot chocolate powder to 150ml hot milk, along with 1 tsp honey and 1/2 tsp vanilla essence. I made the tea concentrate using 4 tsp of leaf in 200ml water, gave it 4 minutes, and then combined the two. The result is delightful. I did wonder whether the hot chocolate powder (I used Options Belgian Chocolate) would drown out the tea, but it seems not to. Instead, it adds an extra richness and amplifies the chocolate flavour, but it isn’t overpowering. Instead, they seem to work together pretty well. Or, more than pretty well, really. It’s a sweet, liquid-biscuit delight.

For the sake of objectivity, I’m trying this one on its own this morning (1 tsp in boiling water for 3m) as well; that’s how I know the tea wasn’t overpowered. The tea itself is like any chocolate tea, really; a little thin and watery tasting. You can tell it’s trying hard, but cocoa shells and cocoa nibs in water are never going to taste exactly like actual chocolate. What it really provides in spades is biscuit flavour, and I’m still not entirely sure how that is – some kind of magical tea alchemy? I feel like it has something to do with the fenugreek, but I can’t swear to it. One thing I will say is that although this blend contains liquorice, my nemesis, I can’t really taste it. Neither does it leave a throat-coating uber-sweet stickiness at the back of my throat, which is a real bonus.

On its own, this is a decent blend. It’s more biscuit than chocolate, but both are represented. As a latte, and especially with the added hot chocolate, honey, and vanilla it’s a real treat. I would buy more of this just so that I can continue making them, because it was that good.

Winner, winner!