Honey, I'm Comb!

additional notes: Revisiting this one. The B&B sale went QUICK again. I managed to grab a few things. No really big sales like past years. The only 70% off item was the santa tote. I did manage to grab the Strawberry Nutella Pancakes which I’m thrilled about. Having this with cookies because I just read Mastress Alita’s note about cookies. Anyway, probably said if before but this one is much like their Chocolate Digestives tea which is almost the same and I like that one more. (Cardamom instead of only licorice.) I always expect this to have bee pollen but luckily does not! Lowering the rating a couple points because Chocolate Digestives was at 83.

I don’t know why I keep trying to make chocolate teas this week. But, this is another one that is just okay. I love the chocolate covered honeycomb that this tea is trying to replicate, but I’m just not getting that flavor. It’s perfectly fine, but tastes more of a regular thin chocolate tea. My boyfriend is enjoying it, though. So, I’ll probably leave the rest of the bag to him.

Thanks so much to tea-sipper for giving me the chance to try this one! It had a bit too much mineral flavor until I added some sugar and milk. Once I did though, wow it became tasty! So sweet. I’m not sure exactly how to describe the flavor other than that it’s almost like dessert! I didn’t realize that it had chocolate in it until seeing the ingredient list once my cup was finished. That inclusion definitely explains the dessert flavor! Pretty nice for a morning cup.

This is one of those teas that smells so good in the bag, but disappoints me when steeped. The dry leaf has a lovely rich milk chocolatey smell.

The cup is a little oily, probably due to the chocolate chips. The flavor is quite thin, a wisp of chocolate and cream that reminds me of cheap, generic milk chocolate like you would get in chocolate coins or something similar. There’s a little bit of caramel or honey or something sweet.

I find the base tea to be rather cacophonous here, it’s a Ceylon and is quite brisk. It’s a bit overpowering compared to the flavoring.

Anyway, this one is meh for me. The concept sounded so good… :(

I get what they were going for here. I distinctly taste the chocolate covered honeycomb candy taste they set out to emulate. It was harder to taste when it was hot, but I notice more of the flavor come out as it cools and in the finish of each sip. The thing I’m noticing in the B&B teas are the flavors are weak and that is the same with this tea. If they could only turn the dial up on the flavor a bit, it would be so much more delightful.

285/365

This one came to me in my August tea club box from Bird & Blend, and is part of their upcoming Autumn collection. I think it’s released this Sunday. It’s a black tea with honeycomb flavouring – so far, so good.

Taste wise, I’d say it’s sweet but not overly so – certainly not cloying. It contains liquorice root, which is my arch-nemesis, but interestingly I’m not having my usual issues with it. I can’t really taste it at all, in fact, which is a huge bonus! It mostly tastes like liquid Crunchie – lots of milk chocolate, with a decent smack of honey and a touch of caramel.

While nice, I’d not say it’s particularly remarkable. There are, after all, lots of chocolate flavoured teas out there. This one’s a good ‘un, and it’s pretty unique among B & B’s range, but it’s not one I’d go out of my way to drink again. It’s nice, but pretty ordinary. I think the USP here is probably that it’s vegan – I feel like that’s something they’ve been pushing for a while, and it’s interesting to see them add another string to that bow. I’m not vegan, so it’s not something that I really worry about when it comes to my tea choices, but I guess that just means I’m not the intended audience for this blend. If I were vegan, I’m pretty sure I’d find it more surprising since it’s a rarity to find a blend like this that is. For a non-vegan like me, though, this is pretty standard fare, so my rating reflects the flavour rather than anything else.