Yawn Advent Calendar Day 5: Candy Cane Popcorn
Day Five of the Yawn Brew advent calendar, and today’s tea is Candy Cane Popcorn, a mixture of black tea, popped rice, apple pieces, chamomile, safflower and natural flavourings. This tea is a bit of an odd fish. It isn’t actively unpleasant but it’s not great either.
There’s something a bit off-tasting about it, probably due to the chamomile petals which are never a pleasant experience. They’re not plentiful enough to imbue a full chamomiley takeover but it’s enough to give the brew a vague whiff of compost heap.
The popped rice isn’t doing much to jolly up the affair either. I usually like a bit of rice in my tea but here any toasty rice flavour is overwhelmed by the other ingredients. I guess that’s why genmaicha is made with green tea instead of black and why genmaicha producers don’t customarily bung apple pieces in it.
Also, why doesn’t this tea have peppermint in it? Isn’t that the usual flavour of candy canes? I’m not saying I would like it more if it had peppermint in it, I’m just saying it would make more sense thematically.
So, all in all, Candy Cane Popcorn was a bit of a damp squib. It wasn’t – to overextend a metaphor – a soaring rocket like Pancake Stack or a fizzing Catherine Wheel like Santa’s Milk & Cookies.
Yawn Advent Tea Ranking
- Pancake Stack (1st Dec)
- Santa’s Milk & Cookies (3rd Dec)
- Sweet Ginger (4th Dec)
- Candy Cane Popcorn (5th Dec)
- Toffee Apple (2nd Dec)
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