What’s in Salted Caramel tea?

Salted Caramel tea from Biscuit & Brew is blended with Sri Lankan black tea, coarse pink Himalayan salt and natural caramel flavouring. It looks simple but pretty, with dark matte leaves sprinkled with coarse salt crystals. Biscuit & Brew teas are definitely worth trying if you love flavours and interesting ingredients. This tea has a beautiful caramel scent, with pieces of salt sprinkled among pretty looking black tea leaves.

What does Salted Caramel taste like?  

To make a cup of Salted Caramel tea, steep 1 teaspoon of tea leaves in a cup of freshly boiled water for 3 minutes. It brews into a lighter but intense red coloured tea with the same caramel scent. Don’t over-steep it, as it may become bitter.

Salted Caramel has deep black tea notes blended with a soft and sweet caramel touch. If you like to drink your tea with milk, this is a perfect blend to do so. Add condensed milk, rather than regular milk, as it also has natural caramel notes. Condensed milk goes really well with this tea, and it will enhance the flavour further. It’s actually quite delightful to find a tea that can taste exactly as the name promises. While it’s undeniably a black tea, together with milk, those stronger black tea notes become incredibly soft, leaving caramel notes to shine. If you want to experience the salty caramel flavour, pay attention when scooping out tea leaves, to scoop out salt crystals too. A perfect sweetener for this tea would be a light or dark brown sugar.

Salted Caramel tea is an amazing choice for making a proper milk tea or a tea latte. To really intensify the flavour, add two teaspoons of tea leaves rather than one. Served with milk, it’s the ultimate afternoon dessert tea for any tea lover that loves caramel too.

Who would like this tea? This is a perfect blend for anyone who likes caramel, regardless of if you love black teas or not. There’s no bitterness, no harsh notes, only delightful caramel scent and flavour, beautifully incorporated into a mellow black tea base. If you love more natural flavours that are strong but not overpowering, this tea is for you.

Tea Recap

Water or milk? Water or milk.

Day or night? Day.

Hot or iced? Hot.

Sweetened or pure? Pure or with a teaspoon of brown sugar or caramel sauce.

Caffeine? Yes.

What’s the price? Starting from 4.75 GBP.

Where to buy? Get it from the Biscuit & Brew website.

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What’s in Sobre?

Sobre is hard to define. It’s a green tea with mint, but then again, it has nothing in common with other green teas with mint. It’s a rooibos tea with eucalyptus, but it also has nothing to do with regular rooibos teas. Sobre is blended with red rooibos tea, Chinese jasmine green tea, peppermint, eucalyptus, freeze-dried strawberries, mallow flowers, blue cornflowers and natural flavouring.

It’s a colourful blend that smells unique. Scent is very intense, deep, sweet, with hints of earthy rooibos and incredible eucalyptus freshness. If you love the scent of eucalyptus, you’ll love the scent of this tea, too. Eucalyptus is not that common in tea blends, which is quite a shame, as it smells incredibly uplifting and soothing. It’s mostly used for respiratory problems, but it may provide many other benefits, including antimicrobial and antioxidant properties (1).

What does Sobre taste like?

Even though this blend contains green tea, it mostly a herbal blend with ingredients that can be steeped in boiling water. Use one teaspoon of tea leaves and steep in freshly boiled water for 2-3 minutes. It won’t become bitter even if you over-steep it.

Although the scent of dry leaves is intense, the flavour of this tea is quite the opposite. Flavour is light, earthy, with a touch of jasmine green tea, and a subtle and delicate fruitiness lingering in the background. There’s also an incredibly fresh aftertaste from the eucalyptus. Red rooibos is a wonderful choice for all these flavours, as it gives a strong and deep base for layering all other flavours.

This is not a peppermint tea even though it has a minty freshness. It’s not a fruit tea even though it has a light fruity sweetness. It’s not a jasmine tea, and it’s not a rooibos tea. It’s a wonderfully refreshing, deep but light herbal blend. Sobre is a very light, very easy to drink tea that offers an instant refreshment.

Even if you are not a fan of strong mint teas, strong rooibos teas, strong jasmine teas, you will probably like this blend. It’s one of those teas you’d imagine sipping on a spa day to freshen up and relax. There’s no bitterness either. It’s not a sweet tea, but it feels sweet. It doesn’t need any sweeteners, and in fact, if feels like adding some may actually ruin the tea.If you do need to make it sweeter, try it with a lighter honey.

Tea Recap

Water or milk? Water.

Day or night? Day or night.

Hot or iced? Hot or iced.

Sweetened or pure? Pure or with a teaspoon of honey.

Caffeine? Yes, but very little.

What’s the price? Starting from 4.75 GBP.

Where to buy? Get it from Biscuit & Brew website.

Sources

(1) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667031321000713

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What is Plum Tart?

Plum Tart tea blend from Biscuit & Brew Tea House (formerly Arthur Dove), is a caffeine-free herbal tea blend inspired by a delicious sweet and zesty plum tart with a hint of cinnamon. The base of this tea is rich and earthy red rooibos tea (Aspalathus linearis). Red rooibos comes from South Africa, and unlike other teas, it’s not grown on other continents or even in other countries. With its rich, earthy, and full-bodied flavour, red rooibos tea makes a perfect base for Plum Tart blend.

This blend also contains elderberries, cinnamon, hibiscus, apple pieces, rosehip and natural flavouring. Plum Tart smells delicious – deep, fruity, intense, with prominent red rooibos base mixed with fruity richness, hints of cinnamon and juicy zestiness.

How does it taste?

One of the great things about rooibos tea is that it’s perfect for busy tea drinkers because it will never become bitter, even if you steep it for 30 minutes or longer. The flavour profile won’t change either, and it will taste delicious cold too.

To make a perfect cup of Plum Tart tea, steep 2 teaspoons of tea leaves in a cup of freshly boiled water for 5-10 minutes. It steeps into a deep red-brown tea, with a delicious intense scent of a sweet and juicy fruit tart. It’s extremely flavourful and rich, with notes of cinnamon and hibiscus. There’s enough of natural sweetness and flavour, so it’s great without a sweetener. If you want to make it sweeter, brown sugar would be a perfect choice. This tea is best without milk.

If you are looking for a delicious late evening tea, Plum Tart is naturally caffeine free and won’t interfere with your sleep. This tea blend is great for tea lovers that enjoy rich and sweet fruity and berry blends and want to enjoy the benefits of red rooibos tea. If you love intense fruity flavours and hibiscus and rosehips teas, this blend is an amazing choice.

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What is Pear and Pistachio green tea?

Pear and pistachio are two common ingredients, not so commonly found together in a tea blend. Unlike apples, pears are often quite a delicate fruit, and the flavour may easily be lost among other ingredients.

This Pear and Pistachio tea blend from Biscuit & Brew Tea House (formerly Arthur Dove) contains Chun mei green tea, white tea, rosehips, apple pieces, pear pieces, orange peel, calendula petals, whole pistachios, flavourings and stevia as a sweetener. A lot of ingredients that create a visually pretty blend with a sweet scent and light pear and orange notes.

Sounds like a fresh cake, doesn’t it? If you love baking, you already know pears and pistachios fit together perfectly, but how do they taste in a tea blend?

How to brew this tea?

Pear and Pistachio is a green tea blend, so pay attention to the water temperature. Many green teas, including Chinese Chun Mei tea, may become bitter if over-brewed or if the water is too hot. Steep one teaspoon of tea leaves per cup of water at 75 degrees Celsius for 2-3 minutes. This tea contains lots of different ingredients, so try to scoop out all of them when making tea.

Pear and Pistachio brews into a refreshing, sweet dessert cuppa with light pear notes. If a light moist pear cake dusted with icing sugar had a liquid pair, it would be this tea. It doesn’t need any sweetener, as stevia gives enough natural sweetness without adding calories and blends really well with other ingredients. None of them are taking over the blend, but create a perfectly balanced flavour instead. Pear and Pistachio tea is light, sweet and reminiscent of a light autumn pear cake. Chun Mei tea has a stronger, slightly smoky flavour, and may become bitter if over-brewed, but in this blend, it offers depth, with no bitterness at all.

Because of its base tea and ingredients, this blend is perfect for cold brewing in the fridge and making iced teas. It leaves a long and sweet aftertaste, with all the flavour notes present. This tea would be great for tea drinkers that enjoy sweet teas with lighter and fresher notes. It tastes great both hot and cold, so it’s the blend you can drink in different ways, depending on your mood. Since this is a green tea blend, it contains caffeine.

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What is Caramel Apple Betty?

Caramel Apple Betty is an apple dessert topped with caramel custard. All apple desserts will have an apple flavour, but it’s the little things that make them unique. While apple teas are not at all uncommon, liquid apple desserts still are.

Apple Caramel Betty tea is indeed a real treat. It’s made with Ceylon black tea, freeze-dried apples, cinnamon, fenugreek and natural flavourings. This tea smells utterly delicious, like a scrumptious warming autumnal apple pie with nutty and caramel notes. Fenugreek is not a typical ingredient in apple teas, but once you try this tea, you will want to expect it in every apple pie tea – it gives a warming, slightly nutty, sugary notes that makes this tea truly stand out.

How to brew this tea?

This tea is best prepared in the standard way – by steeping one heaped teaspoon of tea leaves in a cup of boiling water for 3-5 minutes. It won’t get bitter even if you over-steep it, which is a significant benefit for tea drinkers that tend to forget they were making a cup of tea. This tea is delicious on its own. Flavour feels incredibly simple, effortless, but rich and incredibly true to a real apple pie.

Another great thing about this tea is that the Ceylon tea really shines through, with all other ingredients only enriching it, and not covering the base flavour. All of them accompany a light Ceylon black tea base perfectly. It’s lighter than a typical breakfast blend as Ceylon teas is often lighter and fresher than Assam teas, but if you like adding condiments, both sugar and milk are a brilliant choice. Or, even better, sweeten it with some caramel syrup.

Caramel Apple Betty is great for mornings and afternoons. It would be perfect for an autumnal afternoon tea party. This is a very forgiving tea. You can over-steep it, serve with different condiments or no condiments at all. Because of its natural flavour, its great for tea drink that love both flavoured and pure teas.

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What is Watermelon sugar?

Watermelon sugar is a blend of Chinese sencha green tea, Chinese black tea, apple pieces, rosehips, hibiscus, elderberries, rose petals, orange peel, freeze-dried strawberries, and natural flavouring. A whole lot of ingredients in one blend! But then again, summer is always eventful, and this is a summer tea after all.

If you just stumble upon this tea and don’t mind reading a description, the name may be confusing. This tea is not a watermelon tea. It’s a tea blended, as the description says, to the taste of “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry Styles.

That said, this blend does smell sugary. It has an intense, sugary, sweet scent with a slight zestiness. It’s a pretty blend, with a lot of colourful ingredients.

How to brew this tea?

What’s important to say about blends with so many ingredients, and especially those with both green and black tea, that you will never quite know what the colour will be like. The colour of brewed tea will depend on which ingredients you scoop out. This blend contains so many different colours, and 3 ingredients lead – green tea, black tea and hibiscus. Black and green tea usually blend amazingly well, but don’t expect green tea to be predominant, even though it contains more green than black tea.

Brew Watermelon Sugar one using 1 teaspoon of tea leaves at 80 degrees Celsius for 3 minutes. It has a summery scent, quite similar to the scent of dry leaves but less intense. There are more strawberry and less sugar notes. Flavour is quite light, with lingering rose and a deeper but light black tea body. This tea is light. It’s not sweet, but it’s not bitter either. This tea is great for serving over ice. You can use one or two teaspoons of tea leaves per cup of water and steep it for 3 minutes together with some fresh strawberries.

Biscuit & Brew Tea House says this tea is great for cold brewing, so we tried that, too. It’s lighter on the rose, has an interesting velvety and sugary touch and sencha is much more noticeable than when using the regular brewing method. It also has a greener and more appealing colour and a very long aftertaste.

Watermelon sugar would be a good tea for tea drinkers that like rose teas but prefer lighter flavours. It’s not a black tea, it’s not a green tea, it’s not a fruit tea, and it’s not a sweet tea. It’s light and refreshing tea with hints of rose that’s best served over ice or cold-brewed.

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