London Borough | Tea Blending Workshop

Name: London Borough | Tea Blending Workshop
Brand: Bird & Blend Tea Co.
Price: 45.0 GBP
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)

Tea Blending and Tasting Classes, what to expect

Join us for a fun, hands-on Tea Blending & Tasting Workshop, where you'll sniff, swirl and sip your way through the world of tea! From fascinating history to bold flavours, this interactive session will level up your tea knowledge, fine-tune your taste buds, and spark your creativity as you craft your own custom blends.

What to Expect:

🍹 Welcome Drink - Kick things off with a seasonal cocktail or mocktail - because every great tea adventure starts with a little sip of something special!

🙋‍♀️ Break The Ice - Get to know your fellow tea lovers with a fun, interactive tea matching game - a little friendly competition never hurt, right?

📜 Tea Origins & History - Travel back in time (no time machine needed!) as we uncover the fascinating journey of tea - from ancient traditions to your modern-day cuppa.

🍵 Guided Tea Tasting - Prepare your taste buds! You'll sample nine unique teas, each showcasing a different blending style to spark inspiration for your own creations.

🫖 Group Blending Activity - Team up and put your tea blending skills to the test as we create a one-of-a-kind signature blend together - then sip and see how we did!

☕ Sticky Chai & Personal Blending - Get cosy with a warming sticky chai while crafting three personalised blends to take home and enjoy.

🍵 Matcha Demo & Tasting - Watch and learn as we whisk up the perfect matcha - then taste both a classic and a flavoured matcha to see which one steals your heart.

🛍️ Goody Bag & Shopping Time - Take home a tea tasting journal to jot down your flavour discoveries, plus time to browse and treat yourself to more tea goodies with an exclusive 10% off!

Whether you're a total tea nerd or just dipping your toes into the world of blending, this workshop is all about fun, flavour, and hands-on tea magic! Get ready for an interactive, inspiring experience that’ll leave you steeped in knowledge (and plenty of tasty sips!)

Who can attend?

Hosted in our London Borough store, come along alone or with a group, all are welcome. A perfect gift for a friend who wants to learn all about tea blending, as corporate entertainment or with your team at work and unique hen parties too!

Our Borough store is accessible to wheelchairs with portable a ramp, please ring the bell at door & our Teabirds will pop out to help. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. If customers in wheelchairs are attending a workshop, please contact 01273 092413 in advance so we can make your event as smooth as possible.

We can tailor our experience to most disabilities, just let us know when booking.

Please note that you must be over 18 to attend the class alone, or be over 14 if accompanied by an adult.

When?

We run our London Borough workshops most Friday nights and Sunday evenings.

It's worth mentioning that London Bridge is the closest tube, follow signs for Borough Market when exiting.

Something Extra Special

If you're celebrating something, or giving a gift experience why not select one of our wonderful gifting upgrades. A deluxe goodie bag includes all of the items in our complimentary goodie bag plus a Perfect Teaspoon, Loose Leaf Tea Infuser Basket, Brew, Bake, Sip & Savour Recipe Book and a 20g pouch of our, London Fog Tea.

Or, add a gift voucher for them to spend on the night!

Booking & Changing Dates

If you are gifting this experience, please choose a date that you think will work, but don't worry if your recipient wants to change the date they can do this easily by contacting our customer experience team via info@birdandblendtea.com or on 01273 325523.

Please Note:

Once booked you will receive an email confirmation and will not receive a ticket through the post.

Due to the popularity of the workshop and the fact they sell out, any changes to your booking must be made 14 days prior to the workshop date.

Unfortunately, if you don’t show up to your workshop and fail to contact us in the 14 days before, we will be unable to re-book you for another date and you will lose your workshop space and your pennies! (which we really don’t want!).

Sustainability & Ethics

B Corp

We are proud to be part of a group who believes in doing business the right way!
Carbon Conscious

We're working hard to reduce our footprint, from installing solar panels to partnering with zero emissions delivery partners.
Recyclable

100% of our product packaging is plastic-free and is either recyclable or compostable.
Teas For Trees

318,583 trees planted from every time someone has used a disposable cup. All cups, straws & lids in store are plastic free.
Charity

£355,248 raised for over 30 good causes with our ChariTEA programme

Overall rating: 3.2 / 5 from 5 reviews.

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Reviews

Awful experience to avoid

"We arrived at 5:25 as told by the confirmation email. The staff told us they were not going to close the store until 6:00 and therefore the workshop won’t start before 6:30. We were told to go away for one hour and to come back. We explained that the booking is at 5:30, they checked on their system and confirm that it was at 5:30, the other participants arrived as well. The staffs still refused to close the store for the workshop to start on time. After we were asked to leave again, we said that we will not come back and requested a refund. we were told we will received a full refund as it was their fault, instead we received a voucher of £80 (we paid £90)."

— Mag (1/5)

Fun evening

"We enjoyed the evening very much! Lots of different tea to try, and we learned a lot about different teas and types of brewing. Also had the chance to try some of the blends we were interested in buying. Had fun mixing our own blends towards the end. Kiana and Sophie were very friendly and passionate about tea!"

— Jinni (5/5)

Great

"Great, but not having a working toilet at an event with that much to drink isn't ideal. I also think spacing out the drinks would be better. The Ankara apple was completely overtaken by the Jasmine in the tea before."

— Barbara S. (4/5)

The lock-ins are much better value for money, left disappointed but lovely staff

"We didn’t think it was good value for money and would hesitate to recommend this - although we love the teas themselves. What we learned about tea was great, the staff were very nice, funny and knowledgeable. It was great to try lots of different flavours of tea, and learn how to brew them properly and why. This was a great first hour and a half that we thoroughly enjoyed. In terms of tasting, there was the same amount of tasting as a lock-in event, about 8 teas (20-30ml each) and one sized tea cocktail/mocktail. However, the tea blending part felt very disorganised and not value for money. After sampling multiple teas during the first part of the session, we were disappointed for the yerba mate and oolong tea base to not be available for the blending, as well as the white tea having run out quickly. The ingredients were not as extensive as the options in the standard bird and blend teas, it seemed very basic and limited to only 10 additions, that it was not possible to be creative or recreate any of the flavours we tried. Quite a few of the ‘additions’ ran out as well - cacao nibs, lemon and orange peel, so we could only take away green/black/hibiscus tea with some cinnamon or coconut. After the high of the first hour, this really brought the mood down. We also were not told about any flavour combinations or anything about what works or doesn’t work for tea blending - it would have been interesting to understand more about how the company comes up with its flavour combinations. I would recommend the tea lock-ins instead - which I have attended many times - as they are significantly better value for money. At almost three times the price, with the same amount of drinks to try, and a very limited and basic ‘blending’ session and options, we would unfortunately not recommend the Tea Blending Workshop."

— Natalia (2/5)

Underwhelmed by the blending

"I had a wonderful evening with Frankie and Sophie. They were truely fantastic. I also enjoyed the free tea, as I could try a lot and decide which ones to buy. As for the content I was kind of disappointed about the content. Very much basic tea knowledge I already knew. Not much about blending, developing of flavors; how the flavorings and natural aromas are created. Also the hands on blending was not what I was expected. There were black, green, white, mate, roibos, fruit and herbal tea bases and some basic additions like coconut, cloves, hibiscus, chai, orange peel, lemon peel, … but no aromas or special ingredients. So nothing I couldn‘t have done at home with stuff from my store cupboard. So if you are just looking for a nice evening with lots of tea and shopping, or if you don‘t know that much about tea, then this is for you. But if you are expecting to dive into the topping of tea blending you will be underwhelmed."

— Sonja B. (4/5)