Bird & Blend – Bonfire Toffee
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This is the last of my batch of autumnal Bird & Blend tea reviews. And while some of the others promise smokiness in the form of ‘campfires‘ or ‘sweet smoked candy apples‘, Bonfire Toffee is the first truly smoky tea of the set.
Bonfire Toffee contains Sri Lankan black tea, Lapsang Souchong, cinnamon, apple and safflower. And – as is usually the case in these circumstances – it’s the Lapsang Souchong that really makes its presence known.
I am not – to put it mildly – a fan of Lapsang Souchong and, sadly, Bonfire Toffee is not the tea to persuade me otherwise. The apple and cinnamon might be putting in their best work here, but they’re never going to be a match for the overriding taste of cigarette butts. If however, you’re a big fan of teas that smell like ashtrays, you might want to check this one out.
I do though have to commend Bird & Blend on their commitment to holiday-inspired teas. Whatever the occasion – Good Friday, Easter, Halloween, Shrove Tuesday, Christmas – Bird & Blend are always there with a well-matched tea blend.
Still to come in November, we have Hannukah, St Andrew’s Day, Thanksgiving and the Feast of Hecate. I feel confident that there’s an appropriate Bird & Blend tea for each one of them.
Actually Bird & Blend, can I make a request for next year’s Guy Fawkes Night tea? Can we have a hot chestnut one? Fireworks Night is always enhanced by buying a small bag of overpriced, salted chestnuts, still in their shells. So if you could incorporate that into a tea blend, that’d be grand.
Incidentally, I once asked a street seller who was bellowing “Hot chestnuts! Get your roasted hot chestnuts here!” what he did in the summer months. He immediately replied “Cold chestnuts! Freezing cold chestnuts!” So now you know.
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