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I don’t think I like the phrase “hot jam” in this tea’s name. It sounds dangerous. Have you any idea how hot hot jam can get? It can reach temperatures of literally a squillion degrees.
Of course there isn’t any actual jam in T2’s Hot Jam Brownie tea so the whole thing can be safely enjoyed without the need for an asbestos overall or safety goggles.
This tea contains black tea, cocoa husks, blackberry leaves, chocolate drops and raspberry pieces. (It also contains ‘carob fruit pieces’ whatever they might be. Is there a comma missing in the ingredients list, do you think?) There are also the obligatory natural and artificial flavours that T2 are so fond of.
Together they produce a pleasingly dark chocolate tea, in which you can really really taste the jam or ‘JAM!’ as I will refer to it for the rest of my review. Because, honestly, the JAM! flavour here is amazingly strident and difficult to ignore. Imagine I am bellowing “JAM!” in Brian Blessed‘s voice every time I say it.
As with the other teas in the Baxter’s Bakery collection, there is an artificiality to the taste of Hot JAM! brownie and, weirdly, I don’t mind at all. While other teamongers might strive to produce organic, all natural, subtly nuanced brews, T2 have cheerfully gone ahead and put together a bunch of teas which tastes like Mr Kipling’s cake range.
And, fuck it, why not? Sometimes you want the delicate flavour of something slightly fruity, and other times you just want JAM!
Today’s guest book is Preserving by Carol Wilson In case you are inspired to make your own JAM!
