Yawn Advent Calendar Day 1 – Pancake Stack
It’s Advent, gentlepeople! And after a calendar-less December last year, I am back in the game. This year’s advent calendar was carefully sourced to meet Tea Fancier requirements. (I say ‘carefully sourced’. However, I did make my purchase in a rush at the end of November when I suddenly decided that I needed a tea-based advent calendar in my life.)
I wanted a selection of interestingly flavoured teas with non-tea herbally nonsenses kept to a minimum. This meant reading the full contents list of a dozen of so different brands to get an idea of ratios of black teas, other teas, rooiboses, and fruit-scented-hot-water-blends, while simultaneously trying not to retain any specific details so that I could be as unspoilered as possible.
The Yawn Tea Explorer came out on top, with only four of the lineup being pointless apple pieces and rosehip-type affairs and over half of the teabags being black tea blends. There’s a strong focus on wacky and whimsical teas-pretending-to-be-bakery-products, which is a smashing tea genre at any time of year, but even more so at Christmas.
The ‘remaining unspoilered’ plan is going to be a challenge, mind. Yawn don’t include tea details on the individual tea bag sachets, so I’m going to have to consult the big ol’ list of all the tea blends on the back on a daily basis to find out what I’m actually drinking.
Today’s tea was Pancake Stack, a blend of black tea, calendula, sunflower, jasmine petals, natural flavourings and maple syrup, and, honestly, this was a fantastic start. The maple syrup was very maply without making the tea too sweet, and the whole thing really did taste very pancakey, despite a distinct lack of eggs or flour in the ingredient line-up. There was quite a noticeable vanilla vibe, presumably by way of the ‘natural flavourings’. I would happily drink this one again and again.
Yawn include a handy 1-5 scoring system on the side of the box. I’ve given this one a 4 because I don’t want to peak too early.
Before today, the only Yawn brew I’d encountered was their perfectly satisfactory Northern-inspired ‘Ya Brews Mashin’. By Christmas, I will be a Yawn tea expert.
