No. 721 Hunky Dory Breakfast

2022 sipdown no. 47

I found this tea to have a full mouthfeel and a fair amount of complexity. The mix of black teas in the base is really lovely and ‘soft’, while completely lacking astringency. The flavours are subtle, but add to the tea with almond creating hints of sweetness and pastry-like flavour. I would order this one in the future.

Adventaggedon Day 19: Tea 3/8

This was one of my favourites from the first half of the Paper and Tea advent so I was thrilled to just jump right back into a teacup of it. Their black teas have honestly all been so good but this essentially a “Honey Nut Cheerios” type of breakfast blend which feels familiar and quite complimentary to the bold black tea base and honestly just appropriate for a breakfast tea. With a splash of cream that just strengthened the comparison for me and overall it was a very good revisit of this blend I was introduced to earlier this month!

I have ordered myself a P&T Advent Calendar as, honestly, a sampler of this Berliner company. But I couldn’t order just that, so I took one variety box as well (Good Day Variety Box). They have decided to send it in two packages and although they were scanned very same time on courier service; they decided to deliver variety box only. And with wrong weight… no, the box wasn’t 10.15 kilos heavy. Probably extra zero…

Anyway, I took another new tea today and I had no mood to brew gongfu, I took a bold black tea. At least that were my expectations.

They weren’t met. Sadly, it is pretty simple base (how weird, when there are black teas from India and China; and Chinese pu-erh) and flavouring wasn’t great as well. It contains pure barley malt, which is something I have tried and well, it is pronounced in taste as well in the aroma. But I expected that brisk tea maltiness and unfortunately, nope. It was mediocre in almonds, which are in as well; it was like a bit of marzipan (in the first steep), while in the second steep it was a bit more nutty.

Maybe you now just wonder, why I tried brewing the sachet two times — simply, they suggest doing it.

The base is reminding me rather caramel, but sadly very one-dimensional and very simple. Way too much, especially when there is pu-erh, which can be dark and robust… which I would enjoy with the other notes I have noticed.

For the price I have been expecting more interesting flavour profile.

I searched what “Hunky Dory” means and found out it is name of the Bowie’s album name. Sorry for being so ignorant and not knowing it.