By Hannah Powling
T2 is an Australian tea retailer that has been around for 18 years with over 50 stores around the globe. Their aim – simple. To satisfy the tea-lovers of the world (lucky for us) with their huge range of gorgeous teas and, yep it’s working! We had a special T2 delivery to our office, and as we are avid fans of the brand we were pretty excited…
Offering beautifully packaged and captivating teas, not to mention their humungous choice, T2 lovingly give us the opportunity to step out of our comfort zones and taste something new and innovative. And we got to do just that here at BATD. Their flavours will certainly intrigue you too – with flavours such as Toasty Nougat, Banana Bake and Pumping Pomegranate as well as all of the classics and combinations you can imagine. Another tasty tea you can make at home is bubble tea, see how to make bubble milk tea
OUR FAVOURITES
We are constantly finding new flavours that we like from T2, so here are a couple of latest discoveries that made our top favourites. Here’s the teas that are filling our mugs in the office at the moment…
Ayurvedic Chai Tea is a white and green tea, with cinnamon, lemongrass, coconut chips with a hint of pineapple with star anise to spice it up a bit. It is clovey, warm and perfect alone.
Green Rose – adds currants and papaya as well as fragrant and floral rose petals to green tea to sweeten it up a bit!
T2 RECIPE
Tea doesn’t have to be simply adding hot water, T2 have some creative ways of making your teas even more special; by adding extra ingredients and even mixing up the leaves together. Here’s a recipe for their Brick Lane Chai tea which is inspired by our favourite capital…
Brick Lane Chai
Reminiscent of the old streets in London town, this blend is a mecca of sweet, savoury and spice.
Ingredients
• 4 scoops of Chai
• 4 scoops of Toasty Nougat
• 2 scoops of Cocoa Loco
• 1 scoop of Indian Spice
• honey to taste
• Chocolate powder for garnish
Method
In an infuser basket of a 1L teapot add the all the teas and honey. Pour over 500ml of boiling water and allow to brew for 5 minutes. Remove the infuser and discard the leaves. Add 500ml of hot Vanilla Soy to the teapot, mix well, garnish with chocolate powder and serve.
TEAWARE
Their teaware is to die for; with ornate and intricately patterned teapots, teacups, mugs, the lot. Everything and anything you need to make the best teas – as they specialise in loose tea, they cater for that with their range of infusing mugs and pots too. I fell in love with their Babylon Blossoms collection in particular; just for its totally glamorous see-through glass and etched golden patterns..
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T2 look after us tea devotees around the world by making the art of tea just that little bit more exciting… Visit T2 at their Regent Street store, meet the friendly staff and discover your new favourite tea.
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