Bavarian Chocolate Cream

Sipdown (171/177)!

Thank you VariaTEA for the sample! It’s not something I would have picked out for myself, so it was cool receiving it. That’s one of my favourite thing about swapping with you; you always send me so many things to try that I’d have never shown an interest in otherwise. Of course there are many pros to swapping with you!

Prepared this in my timolino for work since the sample you sent was perfect timolino size. The only other Bavarian Cream tea I’ve tried is Red Leaf’s matcha version in cold milk and I have to say that I’m not impressed by that take on it. I don’t know what it was about this one (maybe the base or perhaps the inclusion of chocolate) but this was much more accurate to the Bavarian Cream flavour I’m familiar with in things like donuts or other pastries.

The black base was noticeable, especially near the end of the timolino (I kinda felt like the strength of the base built the more I drank) but the richness of the Bavarian Cream and a milky chocolate were also strong and distinct. There was subtle notes of pastry, but it’s also possible that was a psychological tie in because I do heavily associate Bavarian Cream with pasties.

It was pretty solidly good and I’d drink it again if I got the chance, but I wouldn’t stock it.

This tea is incredibly similar to Adagio’s Chocolate Chip. Seriously, the two are one in the same. Smooth black base coated in rich chocolate flavor. A nice tea but something I would prefer to have mixed with something else to give it a more rounded flavor. Thank you Dustin for the chance to try this tea. Perhaps I will do some experimenting with the rest of the sample and see what interesting blends I can make :)