English Breakfast

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Chinese Keemun Black Tea
Flavors
Chocolate, Floral, Smoke, Spices, Wood, Cardboard, Dark Chocolate, Earth, Malt
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Loose Leaf, Sachet
Caffeine
High
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Michael
Average preparation
Boiling 4 min, 15 sec 3 g 13 oz / 370 ml

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From Adagio Teas

English Breakfast is a full-bodied black tea blend that goes well with a traditional English breakfast. The original cup was made with black Keemun tea from Anhui province in China. Across many generations, plenty of different interpretations of this famous blend have been made. Our English Breakfast stays close to the classic. Made from top quality black Keemun tea, prized for its rich, slightly smoky flavor and perfectly ‘on point’ astringency. Balanced, very honeyed aroma. May be enjoyed plain or with a drop of milk. This fine example of English Breakfast remains one of Adagio’s most popular varieties.

This tea contains a high level of caffeine | Steep at 212° for 3-5 minutes.

About Adagio Teas View company

Adagio Teas has become one of the most popular destinations for tea online. Its products are available online at www.adagio.com and in many gourmet and health food stores.

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26 tasting notes

English Breakfast is the platonic ideal of teas. If I were going to go on a trip and could only take one tea with me, it’d be this one. It just tastes like tea. Nothing fancy, no extra flavors, just delicious tea. Irish Breakfast used to be my number one tea for introducing people to good tea, but once I tried this one it was my new favorite.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec

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Not a fan of smokiness. It’s not you, it’s me, Adagio English Breakfast.

Preparation
5 min, 0 sec

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162 tasting notes

Good basic English Breakfast. Still learning to like this as it is slightly stronger than I care for but it is not bad at all.

BillNV

This is one of my favorite ebt’s but I have found it is very easy to overbrew the first steep making things quite astringent. I find that keeping the first steep under 4 minutes is key.

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42 tasting notes

Adagio’s version of English Breakfast does its best to distinguish itself from this workhorse of black tea blends. Touches of smoke and pepper come through with the steady malt flavour. A good choice for a casual drinker who wants branch out into more adventurous tea tasting but isn’t quite ready to leave the comfort of the familiar breakfast-style teas.

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11 tasting notes

Bright and moderately complex. Leaves are on the smaller side, although nowhere close to fannings. Smell is slightly smoky.

Flavors: Chocolate, Floral, Smoke, Spices, Wood

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec

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Discovering Adagio teas, episode #5 (out of 12).

This one was a freebie sample. I don’t mind the English breakfast teas in gereral, because I usually find them perfectly casual, but I wouldn’t buy them of my own will. So I’m glad I got this one for free.

And I really like the smell. There’s wood, a bit of smoke, a bit of wet cardboard, some earthiness and even a bit of dark chocolate. Very rich and complex aroma.
And this woody smokiness dominates the flavour. It’s not very strong, just seems to be the main characteristic over an earthy background. There’s also some residual sweetness that complements the taste and very slight astringency.

All in all, it’s a very good tea. Maybe it’s time to review my approach to English breakfasts?

Flavors: Cardboard, Dark Chocolate, Earth, Smoke, Wood

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 3 g 10 OZ / 300 ML

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This was in my kitchen from the previous order. It has a nice malty scent. The flavour is sorta light malt, but I might not have brewed long enough. Pretty good, and will try again with milk. Had this morning while watching Supernatural.

Flavors: Malt

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4 tasting notes

A good English breakfast; a trifle bitter but since I consumed it straight with no milk (the horror!), it was not unexpected.

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I prepared this brew as per the package instructions; adding a splash of milk. Once steeped, I was pleasantly surprised with Adagio’s take on this classic. The aroma was deliciously inviting. As for the first sip, the tea is a very hearty, and robust tea. I believe that this particular blend was stronger than other English Breakfasts that I have tried; perfect for an early morning wake up call.

Flavors: Malt

Preparation
5 min, 0 sec

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557 tasting notes

This is a decent Breakfast Tea, I’ve been making it in the Keurig so I crush the bigger leaves that seems to work pretty good in the machine. Tastey bold cup of Tea, typical of a breakfast tea I use a splash of milk in it.

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