Tea Review: Mrs. Baird's Blend from Geeky Teas


 My Aunt gifted me this tea earlier this week and this morning I got around to making myself a cup.

That cup was swiftly followed by making myself an entire pot.

This is, quite simply, the BEST cup of tea I've had in years.  This blend of Ceylon, Black Keemun and Assam was a sense memory trip down memory lane.


Years and years ago, I did a homestay stint in England with a Girl Guide family.  As part of my time there, they took me to the Cotswolds on a Sunday visit to their granny in the country.  There, in a home that looked straight out of a BBC tv show about nosey old country ladies discovering dead bodies in their village churchyard, Mrs. Brown poured me a cup of tea.  The pot was solid blue ceramic covered in a floral cozy that had seen better days.  The mug was brown ceramic and after she poured in the tea she added cream and sugar before passing me the cup and a little plate with shortbread biscuits on it.  The flavour of that cup of tea she poured me has been my benchmark and standard for every cup of tea I've had since then.  I came away from that Sunday visit to the country utterly enamored with the taste and culture of tea in all its forms.  Today's cup of tea made with this blend from Geeky Teas..... tasted like Granny Brown's cuppa from my memory.


The package says "to be served with milk and sugar" - FOLLOW DIRECTIONS AND DO SO.  This is NOT a blend made to be drunk straight off the steep.  It needs the sweetness and the cream to be elevated to its full level of absolute divinity.

As a test, I did a second steep on the tea leaves - and while the tea off that second steeping wasn't crap, it didn't hold up as well to the cream or sugar and was a much weaker cup.  It's not worth the severe dip in quality.  Don't do it.

I let some go cool as well and my assumption from smelling the leaves was correct, this is going to make a STUNNING iced milk tea and will be FABULOUS with boba pearls as well.

This is the first blend I've ever had from Geeky Teas.... but I am now SO INTERESTED in exploring their catalog more because their blend master CERTAINLY knows what they're doing.


12 out of 10

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