Tea Blending Workshop for Two with Bird and Blend Tea Co.
Overview
Discover the perfect cuppa with a fascinating Tea Blending Workshop for Two with Bird and Blend Tea Co.
Led by the UK’s leading tea mixologist, you’ll start by learning the ins and outs of teas: how they’re made, how they’re best enjoyed and their various health benefits. You’ll sample an array of award-winning teas and get a feel for the flavours before you set about some blending of your own. Create three of your own blends, designed, named and packed by your very hands.
There’s unlimited tea and tea cocktails throughout the workshop to help inspire you. Take home your blends to make delicious tea at home.
- SKU
- PTBWS2
- Locations
- 10 in the UK
- People
- For 2
- Validity
- 12 Months
- Rating
- 4.8 (34)
What's Included
- Learn the art of tea blending from an expert mixologist
- Sample award-winning blends and sip tea cocktails
- Create three of your own signature blends
- Experience gift pack including personalised voucher and message card
What happens on the day?
On arrival at your pre-booked session you’ll meet your expert tea mixologist, who’ll chat to you about the ingredients you’ll be using on the day.
You’ll sample a few of the award-winning blends before creating three of your own signature blends to take home. There’ll be tea and tea cocktails throughout to inspire you as you go.
Participant guidelines
- Under 16s must be accompanied by a paying adult
- All workshops can be made wheelchair accessible with prior warning
- The experience content, equipment used and restrictions may vary
Availability
The experience runs on selected dates through the year.
Workshops in Brighton, Bristol, Angel, Borough Market, Manchester, Oxford, Portobello, and Nottingham are held on selected Friday and Sunday evenings.
Cardiff workshops are held Friday evenings from 18.00 to 20.30.
Tunbridge Wells workshops are held once a month on Thursday evenings from 18.00 to 20.30.
There are 10 spaces available on each workshop
We recommend you book at least four weeks in advance to ensure that dates are available. All bookings are subject to availability.
Please allow 2 hours 30 minutes for the full experience (including time to browse in the shop) . Please arrive on time as the workshop starts at the advertised time.
What about insurance?
The centres contracted with us hold public liability insurance. We also hold contingency liability cover. You will not be liable for accidental damage to equipment, except where damage has been caused as a result of recklessness or wilful negligence.
Please ensure you are familiar with the terms and conditions of the experience.
How it works
Customer Reviews
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5
Joanne
04/09/2021
A whole new world of tea!
My eyes have been opened to a whole new world of tea! Josh led the session, sharing his knowledge, passion and creativity with us all. I have been won round to the delights of green tea (though rooibos might take a little longer...) Amy provided fantastic tasters for each, and help with blending our own. Thank you for a great evening both!
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Matthew Geisler
27/08/2021
Lovely experience, very friendly team!
Had a great time on this experience. I booked this as a birthday surprise for the other half (tea lover) we both really enjoyed it. Great talk about tea, got to taste loads of types and had a great time making our different blends.
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Laura
09/08/2021
Tea-riffic
Fantastic workshop with friendly and knowledgeable staff. The whole experience far exceeded my expectations, we got to sample a number of different types of tea, had unlimited tea cocktails and the chance to make our own blends. It was fun and something a little different and would definitely do it again
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Hannah
09/03/2020
Best tea workshop!
Would totally recommend this. A friend bought it as a gift for me and my fiancé. It was great to see so many types of tea and we got to make 3 blends to take away with us. We were also served endless tea cocktails and the staff couldn’t have been more friendly. We’ll be going back for more!
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Dusty and Ros
09/03/2020
A good brew up
A well prepared and organised event with very enthusiastic staff. Lots if information and samples to try, ending with the opportunity to create your own blends of tea to take home. We would have found a handout useful, and note pad when creating our own blends - easy to forget what you’ve added to your creations. A great evening - thank you.
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Nanda
07/03/2020
Heaven for tea lovers
Have just enjoyed a lovely evening here learning all about teas and sampling loads of flavours. Niamh, Dan and the lovely lady who made us tea cocktails were all very welcoming and passionate about their topic. Not lost on a tea lover like me. Really enjoyed our evening tasting and mixing, a Iovely gift from my husband. Thoroughly recommend, thank you
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Paul
29/02/2020
Great evening
Great hosts, detailed explanations, enough tasting samples and some gorgeous alcoholic teas too! Group of 8 last night, all went smoothly, with a chance to mix your own samples at the end.
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Freddie
15/02/2020
Excellent time at tea blending workshop
Tom was such a good host for the group, very informative and helpful throughout, as well us getting us all talking and contributing. Very interesting day. Lovely selection of drinks on offer too
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Barbara
10/02/2020
Who knew we knew so little about tea?!
I would not be exaggerating when I claim that this Workshop was transformation. You will nerve serve green/white/oolong etc again but will insist that the water is at the correct temperature. HUGE fun, very informative, lovely hosts and masses of participation. Great present or just go yourself.
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Karen
02/12/2019
Educational and fun!
Very friendly and informative. I really enjoyed finding out more about tea, trying out many blends and even making my own.
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Gem
16/11/2019
Lovely
A lovely evening we learned and tasted lots and came away with our own special blends. Would definitely recommend this.
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Sarah
09/09/2019
Very fun! Learnt lots and got lots of tea!
We were treated to unlimited tea cocktails and hot drinks. We tried so many types of tea and even got to blend our own - taking away three samples! Really fun experience - I now appreciate and understand tea more! the staff were lovely too.
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John
09/09/2019
Much better than expected
Not entirely sure we knew what we would get but oh boy it was fantastic. Knowledgeable staff, friendly guests, quirky and interesting experience. Really worth it. Recommended.
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Kathy
22/05/2019
Who knew there was so much to know
Was a great experience, lots of good advice and tips about tea. Some interesting blends and a great choice to purchase after for those who wanted to.
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Eloise
14/04/2019
Different experience
We booked this as something different to do on a Friday evening. Sophie and Wesley were great hosts, we left having tried many different teas, a better understanding of the different teas, drank a different array of drinks throughout the night (who knew we wouldn’t mind matcha!) and were left to our own devices when blending our own tea. There was no pressure to buy products at all so it felt like a really chilled, laid back evening. Would recommend.
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S & M Jenkins
25/02/2019
Fantastic evening
Really intriguing evening learning and mixing new tea blends and their health benefits. The instructors were enthusiastic, knowledgeable & very attentive to our needs. Thank you!
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Louise Hardwick
09/02/2019
Brilliant evening
It was a fantastic evening, and brilliant value. The hosts were great fun and very knowledgable. We had unlimited tea-based cocktails all evening. We sampled lots of different teas and learnt about them. Then we made our own! We were given goody bags as well. Couldn’t recommend it enough.
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Russell
26/01/2019
Tea blending
Great trip out to make our own tea and enjoy some tea inspired cocktails.
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Toni
25/01/2019
Highly recommend
Staff were lovely- warm, friendly and knowledgeable. Opens your mind to the possibilities of tea, and it being a competitor to coffee. Alcohol with tea to make cocktails, and oat milk with green tea were new to me. So many flavour possibilities too, with the provision of lots of samples to help you learn more about tea and what to buy in future.
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Alison
19/01/2019
Tea Blending
A thoroughly enjoyable evening. Enthusiastic staff shared their expertise in tea blending and there were lots of teas to taste along with tea cocktails. We enjoyed creating our own blends and were impressed with the quality of the ingredients used. Will definitely be buying tea from Bird & Blend in the future.
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Alan
02/12/2018
An interesting evening
I learnt far more about tea than I did not know I did not know.
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Laura
11/11/2018
Briliant
It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening and the knowledge and enthusiasm from the staff was great,
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Alison
03/11/2018
Fabulously surprising evening!
Excellent evening. Host very accommodating. Would recommend to others!!
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Jackie
26/10/2018
Who knew there was so much to tea
A very informative and fun evening. I knew very little about tea but came away knowing alot of information. There was a good tasting along with a demonstration of macha (which I hadn't heard of before) There was then an opportunity to blend our own teas. All in all a very enjoyable evening.
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Ian
13/10/2018
Fantastic way to spend an evening.
George and Grace did a wonderful job of explaining how different teas are made and blended. We made our own blends and bought some discounted blends that we'd tried during the workshop. The venue was really central and Borough Market was well worth visiting. All in all an excellent experience.
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Km
04/10/2018
Fun with mixing tea
Really enjoyed the tea making workshop. Passionate and friendly staff made a great evening.
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Katerina and Tony
05/09/2018
Interesting and delicious
My husband and I had a great time during the session of the tea experience. A lot of interesting facts about tea, a lot of ideas how to make mixed tea, how to use other plants and fruits making tea and delicious drinks.
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Tamsin
03/09/2018
Tea-riffic!
I bought these experience vouchers as a gift for my husband. We had to wait a long time to get booked in because the workshops fill up so quickly...and I can see why! We had such a great time and would highly recommend it. Our experience was at the Angel store for Bird & Blend Tea Co. We had the opportunity to try so many different tea drinks. Our personal favourite was the Tumeric Matcha Golden Latte. The staff were so lovely, knowledgeable and helpful. Amazing!
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Sophie
21/04/2018
Tasty teas, lots of laughs, great value
We were extremely impressed by our experience. The staff were not only great hosts, they were extremely knowledgable and passionate about tea. I will never think about tea in the same way again. I loved all of it! Thank you.
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Clare
13/10/2019
Interesting but fell flat at the end
Got this as a gift but it was overall pleasant. The hosts were nice & helpful. Drinks even alcoholic cocktails were included all evening. The 1st bit was about the company. The 2nd bit was how tea is grown & made, how it becomes all the types, decaf, different ways to drink tea. Then a tasting session of a variety of teas blended by them. Finally we got to blend our own teas. The space was too tight for 10 & you had a limited choice to blend with & no guidance given. Felt a bit like a sell.
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Sue
02/02/2019
Interesting cup of Char!
Good evening tasting and learning about teas. Got to blend some to take away. Nice cheery girls leading evening. Could have done with a biscuit or two to aid tea drinking.
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Heather
30/07/2019
Interesting
Attended a Bird and Blend workshop last weekend. Friendly staff..Sam and Dane. Sam ran the workshop and was knowledgeable..The space was very tight for a group of ten which caused issues at times (a group of six would work better. Also the session could easily have finished after 90 minutes as it felt a bit too long
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Gail
30/06/2019
All about selling their products
People were very, and had free drinks but..... I didn't really learn much about tea blending. We got to taste several already blended teas (probably to see which we would want to buy later....). We had to share one cup between 10 people. Sharing strangers' saliva is not what I had in mind.... At the last part we got to make our own blend, they only had 2 fruit teas to blend which was disappointing. Save your money. Not recommended.
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Ibster
02/02/2019
A bit dull
I think I learned more from watching a segment about tea on Gardener's World. Just not enough content. The tea tasting was okay, if unhygienic. I didn't really enjoy sampling tea from a cup that was shared between eight of us. The blending was fun, but I didn't learn enough to feel comfortable being left to make my blends. We had a lot of free drinks, but the smells and tastes were a bit overwhelming by the end. Was about 1/2 hour too long. Facilitators were lovely though, hence 2 stars not 1.
Locations
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South East
- Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Brighton, East Sussex
- Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
London
- Borough Market, London
- Angel, London
- Portobello, London
East Midlands
- Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Wales
- Cardiff, Wales
South West
- Bristol, Avon
North West
- Manchester, Greater Manchester