What’s in Maple Syrup tea?

Maple Syrup tea blend from BRUU is blended with dark oolong tea, walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds and flavourings. Oolong tea is less often used form blending than black tea, but it has definitely a lot to offer. Darker oolongs are a great substitute for black teas, with lighter flavour and warmer roasted notes. This tea is definitely a great base for blending with nuts and maple syrup flavour, as it has a natural deep roasted note.

Unlike black tea, darker oolongs don’t have maltiness or heaviness. They are lighter, fresher, more fruity, and perfect for cool and breezy autumn days. Maple Syrup oolong tea smells super delicious. It’s deep, nutty and syrupy sweet. Walnut and maple scents are both present.

This tea contains caffeine, so it’s best enjoyed daytime. It would be a perfect tea for autumn afternoon tea parties.

What does Maple Syrup tea taste like?

To make a cup of tea, steep one or one and a half teaspoon of tea leaves per cup of water at 80-90 degrees Celsius for 2-3 minutes. Oolong tea can stand higher temperatures but will usually need slightly more tea leaves to offer the best flavour. This is especially true if you want to drink it with milk.  

Brewed tea smells sweet, syrupy, and nutty. It has a warming, slightly sweet nutty flavour, that’s a bit lighter than the scent. It’s lighter than black teas, with no astringency and no mouth drying feeling. Maple Syrup tea is not a super intensely flavoured blend. Instead, it’s flavoured just enough to enhance the natural oolong tea flavour. This tea leaves a warming syrupy aftertaste that leaves you wanting to sip more.

Although this is an oolong tea, you can add milk too. Condensed milk with caramel notes is a great alternative to regular milk for this tea. If you’d rather add milk, choose the one with a higher percentage of fat. It doesn’t need any sweetener, but it would go well with maple syrup or brown sugar.

Who would like this tea? This tea is great for tea drinkers that enjoy nutty, caramel and toasty notes, but would still like to taste the flavour of base tea. Although the scent is intense, the flavour is lighter. It might appeal to tea drinkers that love drinking both pure and flavoured teas, especially if you like dark roast oolongs.

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 maple syrup.

Caffeine? Yes.

What’s the price? Starting from 2.95 GBP.

Where to buy? Get it from BRUU’s website.

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What is Orange Ice Cream tea?

Orange Ice Cream is an herbal/fruit tea blend from the UK based tea company BRUU. Sweet treats inspired many of BRUU’s blends, such as Lemon Waffle or Strawberry Milkshake. Even though Orange Ice Cream is a herbal tea blend, it’s far from a typical herbal tea. Not only it has a unique scent, it also contains a surprising ingredient. Which one? We’ll come to that soon. So, how does Orange Ice Cream tea smell like?

This tea has a very intense and interesting scent – both fruit and herbal. Forget typical mint, herbaceous or fruity notes – Orange Ice Cream tea is unique. Of course, all these scents are there – a herbal touch, undeniable citrusy body and deep freshness, but they all blend well together to create a whole new experience. The scent is sweet, zesty and fresh with hints of creaminess.

Orange Ice Cream tea is blended with apple pieces, sour apple pieces, freeze-dried whole cape gooseberries, spearmint, marigold blossoms, safflowers and flavourings. With so many colourful ingredients, this is a very pretty-looking blend, too. One of the most interesting ingredients and the one you will instantly notice are cape gooseberries. Other name for this fruit is Physalis peruviana, and it’s quite a rare ingredient in tea blends.

Another interesting ingredient in this tea is nana mint, a spearmint from Morocco. Spearmint has a lighter and sweeter, less sharp flavour than peppermint, and it’s less commonly used too. It gives a real icy touch to this blend – not strong, not overpowering, but just enough to make it smell icy.

How to brew this tea

Since this is an herbal/fruit tea, you can brew it with boiling water. One teaspoon will be enough to make a cup of tea. Bruu recommends steeping it for 10-12 minutes.

This tea has a pretty light yellow-orange colour. It has a deep but light sweetness, hints of mint, slight zestiness and a creamy touch, with a light sweet aftertaste. It’s not a sweet tea though, although it has a light natural sweetness. Orange Ice Cream tea is flavourful but light, and strong enough to serve it iced. If you want to make an iced tea, try steeping it with a freshly sliced orange and sweeten with some honey.

This is not a regular mint tea or a regular orange tea. It’s not a regular herbal tea or a regular fruit tea. It’s right in between. Because of its unique flavour, you may like it even if you don’t like mint teas or orange teas. This tea would be great for tea drinkers that like to drink flavourful herbal caffeine-free iced teas.

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Some teas can bring out the widest smiles. And with some teas, even your personal flavour or type preferences don’t matter. Is Lemon Waffle tea from Bruu one of them?

What is Lemon Waffle?

Lemon Waffle is an herbal and fruity tea from a UK based tea subscription company Bruu. It comes in a beautiful packaging, with a little card with simple brewing instructions and details attached with a small clip. Bruu has been around for quite a few years, with a mission to offer a better tasting tea. Lemon Waffle is indeed, different.

Let’s start with the ingredients. Packaging states that ingredients in this blend are sourced from Costa Rica. They include apple pieces, pineapple pieces, lemon verbena, cream caramel pieces, freeze-dried lemon granules, sweet blackberry leaves, marigold blossoms and flavouring.

Lemon Waffle is caffeine free, but it does contain milk and sugar. Something to keep in mind if you want or need to avoid them because of allergies or personal preferences.

This herbal tea is a very pretty blend. It looks playful and colourful, lemony and cheerful. If you love lemony sweets, this blend will win you over as soon as you open a pouch. It’s sweet and intense and reminds incredibly of lemony caramels.

Usually, intense scents don’t always imply intense flavours, and that’s ok. So how does Lemon Waffle taste like?

 

How to brew this blend?

To brew it, use one heaped teaspoon of leaves per cup of water, steeped at 98 degrees Celsius. The colour of brewed tea is as nice and the blend itself – beautiful yellow. You don’t feel any of the ingredients separately, there’s no intense apple, there’s no intense lemon, there’s no intense pineapple. Lemon Waffle is slightly sweet, with a buttery undertone, and a lemony touch. It offers a well rounded flavour, and a desire to have a cup more.

Although this tea is great hot, try it iced. You can add a tiny bit of honey and a few sliced fresh lemons too.

Who is likely to love this tea? Tea drinkers that enjoy strong flavours, lemony and fruity blends and don’t mind their tea being sweet and intense. It would be great for summer tea parties when you need a flavourful, caffeine free tea that’s easy to brew and tastes good even when it cools down.

 

Tea Recap

Water or Milk? Water

Day or night? Day

Hot or Iced? Both

Caffeine? No

Sweetened or Pure? Pure

What’s the price? Starting from 2.95 GBP for a 14-gram pouch

Where to buy? Get Lemon Waffle from BRUU website.

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What is Strawberry Milkshake?

Strawberry Milkshake is an organic rooibos tea blend. Rooibos has been around for a while, but it wasn’t until a decade when it became one of the top herbal teas for creating tea blends. It turns out, for a good reason. While many tea drinkers are not super excited about pure rooibos, flavoured ones could be everyone’s cup of tea. Rooibos is caffeine free and gives a great base for almost any ingredient – flowers, citruses, fruits, nuts and chocolate, and even smoky and spicy ingredients. Rooibos grows in South Africa, and you won’t find it anywhere else in the world.

Strawberry Milkshake tea comes from BRUU, a UK based tea subscription company. It contains red rooibos tea, free-fried strawberries, raspberry leaves and natural flavours. Both strawberries and raspberry leaves are sparingly used though, so this is mostly rooibos tea with flavourings. This tea has an intense, sweet, creamy scent, with hints of strawberries layered on a deep earthy rooibos base.

How to brew this blend?

We brewed this tea using 1 cup of freshly boiled water for 8 minutes. Rooibos will never get bitter, so you don’t need to worry if you brew it too long.

So, does it taste like a strawberry milkshake? When hot, it has a more pronounced rooibos note than a strawberry note, but there certainly is creaminess. We tried adding a splash of milk and just a bit of honey to make it sweeter and milkier. Flavour is light though, similar to a gentle, pure rooibos, rather than a strawberry milkshake.

BUT drink it iced, and even with no condiments the whole flavour profile changes. There are strawberries, there’s a milky note, and rooibos blends in so well that it only gives texture, rather than an intense earthy note. After all, milkshakes should be cold.

This tea would be great for making a homemade boba tea or simple iced tea. If you don’t want strongly flavoured teas or want a light caffeine-free tea and like red rooibos blends, you may like this blend too.

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