My day started with a debacle. Classic ‘lock yourself out of the house you’re housesitting and climb in through a window with 2 neighbors eyeing you suspiciously.’ Thus began Day 2 of a 12-day house-sitting spree. I’m no too thrilled but there’s a dog that needs me. While I’m here, I’m aiming to sample all of the teas that Martin sent in a swap which is a lot!
I generally despise banana. Like, I gag at the smell, taste and texture. And I suck at getting a good feel for flavored teas. This smelled so good in the bag, though, that no trepidation arose within me and I got to steeping this nighttime caffeine-free cup.
The aroma is moderate strength and smells deep and sweet with rummy vanilla banana chips. The sip has the same flavor with less intensity and opens up into the red rooibos taste with a woody, rum cask profile. The finish is drying but the aftertaste is intriguing, like smokey, rum-soaked and flamed sweet plantains that have lightly caramelized. I’m soooo into this flavor profile right now. I even want to add sugar. What is this tea doing to me.
WTF.
Flavors: Banana, Caramel, Rooibos, Rum, Smoked, Toffee, Vanilla, Wood
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Well. I haven’t expected that I will laugh on first tasting note you wrote about tea I sent :D
Oh, to be agile enough to shimmy through ANY window!
Glad you got a laugh from that, Martin.
Lol gmathis. If you saw what I get up to on a daily basis… I’m a monkey and former child gymnast with some kind of physical, low-level anxiety that is assuaged by movement.
Finished the sample tonight. I never thought I’d be sad to say goodbye to a flavored rooibos blend, much less one with banana in it.
derk, it’s still available on B&B’s VIP link, but only if you want to stock up on 150 or 300 grams. I think it only popped up recently: https://birdandblendtea.com/us_en/secretwebsite.html?p=2
Tea-sipper: how you dare to share “secret website”? :D
Martin, if I remember correctly, I saw the secret website after you posted it! Your fault. haha
I know, I am just joking :) Certainly a good way to spread the word!
Thanks for the link, tea-sipper
My banana aversion is so strong that I can’t even handle banana-flavored teas, candies, you-name-it, let alone the actual fruit like you mentioned (having to watch someone else eat a peeled banana, or even a peel being left in a breakroom garbage can makes me retch! It’s that bad). No other food does that to me!
Oddly enough, I have eaten dried plantains (the chip sort) and been okay with those… but they tasted more like sweet potato to me…?
Well. I haven’t expected that I will laugh on first tasting note you wrote about tea I sent :D
Oh, to be agile enough to shimmy through ANY window!
Glad you got a laugh from that, Martin.
Lol gmathis. If you saw what I get up to on a daily basis… I’m a monkey and former child gymnast with some kind of physical, low-level anxiety that is assuaged by movement.
Finished the sample tonight. I never thought I’d be sad to say goodbye to a flavored rooibos blend, much less one with banana in it.
derk, it’s still available on B&B’s VIP link, but only if you want to stock up on 150 or 300 grams. I think it only popped up recently: https://birdandblendtea.com/us_en/secretwebsite.html?p=2
Tea-sipper: how you dare to share “secret website”? :D
Martin, if I remember correctly, I saw the secret website after you posted it! Your fault. haha
I know, I am just joking :) Certainly a good way to spread the word!
Thanks for the link, tea-sipper
My banana aversion is so strong that I can’t even handle banana-flavored teas, candies, you-name-it, let alone the actual fruit like you mentioned (having to watch someone else eat a peeled banana, or even a peel being left in a breakroom garbage can makes me retch! It’s that bad). No other food does that to me!
Oddly enough, I have eaten dried plantains (the chip sort) and been okay with those… but they tasted more like sweet potato to me…?