Birdhouse Tea Company – Bourbon Biscuit
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It’s a very exciting day here at Tea Fancier Towers. We have our first ever guest post! Blogger Get Lippie has kindly reviewed Bird House Tea’s Bourbon Biscuit Tea and has plenty to say on the subject, including segues into boring office meetings, rainy afternoons at Grandma’s house and the extremely controversial subject of adding condensed milk to tea.
If you’re thinking “Wait, Tea Fancier does guest posts? I like tea! I write words good!” then get in touch. Guest reviewers are always welcome to join the Tea Fancier family. Drop me a line at em@teafancier.com.
Allow myself to introduce … myself. Hi, my name is Get Lippie, and I’ll be dropping an occasional review around these parts. Let’s get a few things out of the way: I love tea, and I once wrote a love letter to the Yorkshire Tea people about their Biscuit Brew that was so effusive they sent me a five year supply which I am still drinking my through. Because of this, the ever-fragrant Tea Fancier herself sent me some biscuit-themed brews and I’ve finally got around to trying them.
Before I continue, I feel there are a couple of things I should let you know about me and my tea preferences:
Unlike TF, I love a fruity brew! I’m all in for the “disappointing hot-squash effect” she hates so much.
I’m a chai addict (the spicier the better) and believe it’s better with condensed milk rather than namby-pamby whole milk.
I hate rooibos. There, I said it. I hate it with the passion of a thousand rooibos haters all hopped up on hate.
I also don’t share TF’s love of chocolate in tea. There are a number of reasons for this, but the main one is that after several years of suffering from parosmia (a condition where smells are distorted, and some things smell so bad they can make you physically sick) chocolate and I have an extremely dysfunctional relationship. It no longer smells disgusting to me (thank goodness!), but I have to really be in a chocolate-y frame of mind before I got anywhere near it.
So, naturally I decided to start my reviews here with Birdhouse Tea Company’s Bourbon Biscuit tea! A controversial decision perhaps, especially when you consider that not only do I have a teeny tiny aversion to anything chocolate in the first place, but I also think bourbon biscuits are the devil’s biscuits. The kind of biscuits that taste of depression, dust, and really boring office meetings. It may simply be that they’re a little too exciting for me, I’m more of a Rich Tea girl, tbh.
Given all of that, I was set for Bourbon Biscuit tea to be a huge disappointment, but I was extremely pleasantly surprised. A blend of black tea, hazelnuts and cocoa husk, it has a pleasingly chocolately and creamy scent and definitely smells of bourbon biscuits, which was great. I tried the first sip black, and it tasted more like tea that had recently had a bourbon waved in its general direction (not in itself a bad thing, actually, for me at least), but it was when I added milk that the tea came into its own.
I think it’s the hazelnuts that make it, when milk is added their nutty creaminess comes to the forefront, and the chocolate stays subtly in the background. No dust, or faint whiff of rainy Sunday afternoons at Grandma’s whatsoever! I’ll take this over the real thing any time.
So yeah, my name is Get Lippie, I have a smell disability, and I love tea. See you next time!
