Polyjuice — Adagio Teas


Why Brew for 21 days when you have instant polyjuice? Polyjuice Potion is a very complicated potion that allows the drinker to assume the form of someone else. WARNING cannot change into an Animal.




Ingredients: black tea, cinnamon bark, ginger root, rooibos tea, cardamom, dried coconut, lemon grass, cloves, orange peels, cocoa nibs, natural coconut flavour, natural chocolate flavour, natural vanilla flavour, natural cinnamon flavour

The teas used to create this blend are: thai chai, chocolate chai and rooibos vanilla chai.

Polyjuice is one of the blends in the Magic Potions sampler box by Adagio Teas. It smells absolutely amazing, just as you’d expect from something that blends three different types of chai — and you can definitely smell the chocolate (always a favourite with me).

It also tastes pretty good, even considering the coconut (which I absolutely detest). I suspect this is because it’s fairly subtle and I can’t taste it and the spiciness masks the smell (I can’t stand the smell of coconut either) and the chocolate adds a sweetness which means I could, if pushed, drink it on its own without sugar.

With a teaspoon of demerara, the tea imparts more of its chocolate flavour making it more rounded and I love drinking it this way and almost didn’t bother trying it with milk (I have no cream at the moment). I’m really glad I did add a dash of milk though because it turns it into a beautifully creamy. spicy concoction — the classic chai drink — as some of the chocolate notes depart and the spice really starts to shine through.  

Adagio recommend brewing this tea for 3 minutes and I would agree with that, or maybe just a little longer. If you leave it for too long it can make it quite bitter, but adding milk diminishes that bitterness considerably.

This tea would probably be on my Top 10 list if I could only get hold of more of it. Unfortunately, it has been sold out every time I look at the website so I may have to consider attempting to blend it myself.



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