Black Tea version of The Alley’s “bubble tea popcorn” series…
See the other tasting note, Golden Oolong Popcorn, for more context.
Visually, this looks distinctly different from the other flavour – more of a brown powder coating to the popcorn with some speckles of a darker brown/black within the powder. It matches the colouring of black tea powders I’ve seen/own.
In terms of taste, it’s obviously not grassy like the oolong was – more of a flatter, malty flavour with a hint of cocoa powder type quality to it. Still sweet and buttery in the same way the other option was, and that brings some layering of flavour to the experience. It’s tasty/snackable, but without that buttery sweetness I think just the black tea powder/popcorn would feel a little dull as a combination.
The oolong works better, IMO.
Oh, fun!