Yep, it’s a breakfast tea! We all know what a breakfast tea is supposed to be: robust, strong, dark, and it should have some Assam in the blend. This meets all of those.
The Assam gives it a rich, strong flavor; the Ceylon tea used in the blend is apparently one of those ones I’ve mentioned that can taste a lot like Darjeelings, because there’s a distinct wine-like note similar to Darjeeling in this, as well as the Assam flavor. I can’t detect any special distinct flavor from the Rwandan tea in the blend, but that just means that it’s something that blends well!
Teapigs describes this tea as:
For those of you who have bought our Morning Glory tea before, this is the same great blend except we’ve added even more tea to our temple. We renamed it English Breakfast as some people didn’t recognise that this is our everyday blend of tea.
Our signature blend – the Teapigs version of builders’ tea, if you will. Far from ordinary, it’s a skillful balancing act between three glorious teas: a gutsy Assam, a mellow little Ceylon and a powerful newcomer from Rwanda.We’ve picked the very finest tea estates for this blend and worked with the owners to make sure every cup of english breakfast is perfect. We love all our teas but we can’t start the day without a cup of our Morning Glory, particularly on a Monday.
Compare the large leaf in our tea temples to the dust in your regular tea bag; whole leaf is best.
Taste:
A gutsy tea. A perfectly balanced blend with a malty, zesty, rich strength.Try it:
With milk. Add sugar if hungover.Good if you’re feeling:
Anything ranging from slightly sluggish to utterly grizzly. If you’re in a brilliant mood, it will make you feel even better – hurrah.
Teapigs’ “tea temples” are mesh tea bags, with good flow-through for the hot water. Use boiling water for this one – with larger leaves than the usual bagged breakfast teas, it needs boiling water and won’t turn bitter, unlike bags with teeny broken leaf pieces which will turn bitter if you use boiling water and steep them too long.
Teapigs is a UK company, and this tea will be easy to order for our UK readers; for US readers, email the company – their web site hints that they are open to discussing shipping to the US.
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