Toffee Chai

Advent Sipdown

A well balanced spiced chai. I could really taste the cardamom, cinnamon, and ginger; the rooibos was hardly present, which was surprising on the account that rooibos is a fairly strong taste.

Pulled from TTB 2022, shared by Martin Bednář.

Enjoying this beautiful day with lots of tea! Started some new medicine yesterday that makes me lightheaded after taking it, so I thought it might be best to switch to something without caffeine. I don’t want to make things worse, though I really wanted to keep going with my black teas today.

This is a nice chai, lightly spiced, and I can taste the rooibos. It’s not the best rooibos chai I’ve had, so I won’t be keeping it, but it’s been enjoyable for the afternoon.

TeaTiff TTB #16

Bird & Blend does chai well and this one’s no exception! I added milk to my cup and it’s exactly the sweet, spicy, caffeine-free treat I was hoping for. The rooibos base is totally submerged under layers of sweet toffee, cinnamon, cardamom, and just a hint of warming ginger. It’s not quite as amazing as their gingerbread chai (an all-time favorite) but still delicious!

We’ve been doing the caffeine-free B&B calendar since 26-December, but I decided I’m only going to do notes for teas that are new to me. This one is (Day 4)!

The scent coming off the steeped tea is delightful! Very liquified toffee! Excellent start.

The chai spices are slightly muted. I’d say a get a sweet cinnamon coming forward the most, which seems to complement the toffee flavour nicely.

I much prefer this to B&B’s Gingerbread Chai, not that it really matters, but this one I would happily have again! Lexa really enjoyed it too!

Martin Advent Day 9
This is another one I was very excited to see! I’d say it’s more of a mild chai with molasses, but it’s nice with milk. I also might guess caramel before toffee. Though the flavors aren’t as in your face as they could be with a name like this, the flavor is still pretty decadent and tasty. I’d definitely drink this one again.

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Among two other teas I was lucky to try last year, this is a new for me

I needed to coat my nerves with sugar a bit, as driving in rush hour even in my small town is getting more and more tricky, grandma who I drove to shops and hairdresser was sad that everything it getting more and more pricey, she needed to buy milk in other shop which is almost inacessible by car now, because it was in sale; people using direction signals in last second; just too many things that annoyed me greatly today.

The tea was, well, pretty sweet. But it wasn’t typical sweet as from sugar, just it was the caramel sweetness. It is interesting that there is not toffee (what’s the difference, can anyone explain, please?) in the blend, nor sugar and yet it is so sweet. There were as well chai notes which were pretty interesting and mild — but pronounced, mostly cinnamon and bit heat from ginger and that typical cardamom notes was there pretty much noticeable as well. The rooibos base wasn’t noticeable though, all covered with the sweet notes.

Interesting tea, I think I will keep that for moments like those, when I would like something sweet, but actually without sugar.

Tastes just like churro toffee from Disneyland!