Bolder Breakfast

Tea type
Black Pu'erh Blend
Ingredients
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Flavors
Cocoa, Artificial, Creamy, Dark Chocolate, Metallic, Butter, Chocolate, Cream, Cookie, Malt, Wet Earth, Leather, Maple Syrup, Sweet, Mineral, Wood, Caramel, Earth, Honey
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Edit tea info Last updated by Carolyn
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 4 g 13 oz / 394 ml

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  • “I really enjoy this tea, with it’s blend of Black, Puerh, & chocolate. It’s bold & beautiful, deeply satisfying, & it can stand up to the BAB (that’s Paleo-speak for Big Ass Breakfast)...” Read full tasting note
  • “someone drank this yesterday and i’m supposed to give someone some of this but i remember nothing of that now. But it was the reason this got pulled out of the cupboard today and it was...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Ok Bolder Breakfast, work your magic!!! I just finished Season 3 of Supernatural last night, around 2, and instead of going to bed like a super responsible person I HAD to watch the first ep of...” Read full tasting note
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  • “So I tried this a few more times over the weekend and enjoyed it much more than I did previously. I infused for less time about 2-3 mins – max 3. I will increase my rating for now. It’s not to...” Read full tasting note
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From The Tea Spot

This new American black tea blend combines bold flavor, rich color, & full body with hints of chocolate. This robust breakfast blend is made from our favorite strong black teas from high altitude estates in China, India and Sri Lanka. We have combined these black teas with pu’erh, an aged black tea from Yunnan China, and dark chocolate essence. This tea yields a rich, dark liquor and a warm, well-rounded flavor that takes very well to milk and even better in the form of a tea latte. The high caffeine content and robust flavor makes this the perfect tea to help kick your coffee habit!

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133 Tasting Notes

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111 tasting notes

Thanks to Lena for sending me this yummy breakfast tea! I would add my own tasting note but as I read through the notes Carolyn’s note was pretty much to the TEA (lol at my own corny joke). So on this I have to say DITTO CAROLYN!!!!!!

HInts of chocolate puerh and a great black tea I really like it.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec
SoccerMom

I must really like it I’ve been drinking it quite often. Will have to put this on my “To Order List”.

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411 tasting notes

I think this is the tea I’m drinking. I got a sample from Lena, and it had the name but not the company.

Assuming this is it, it’s a nice chocolate-y tea, but as others have pointed out, not particularity heavy on the pu-erh. I’m betting it would rock with sugar and cream (right now I’ve just got it sweetened). The tea is slightly bitter, but it blends well with the bitter of the chocolate flavor, and overall, it’s just nice and smooth.

Good tea. I think I need a second cup.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec
LENA

Yep, you got it right.

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301 tasting notes

I really enjoy this bold and tasty blend – strong black tea + a solid puerh + the hint of chocolate. Who can resist?

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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149 tasting notes

I liked this tea so much that I actually made a second cup of it right away. I rarely drink the same tea twice in one day. I never drink the same tea two times in a row. Apparently I’ve found one of my new favorites.

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This tea is one of the best things I have ever put into my mouth, including teas, foods, desserts, and wines. The trick is to use exactly the right amount of water (8 fluid ounces) and exactly the right amount of steeping time (5.0 minutes) to let the three key ingredients meld together then let it cool enough to hold it in your mouth. The chocolate finish is heavenly.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec

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50 tasting notes

This one presents an interesting idea: pu’erh tea and chocolate flavoring in a breakfast blend. It also has mallow flowers on the ingredients. I don’t know what they are supposed to taste like, so it was one more reason I had to try this blend.

The dry leaves in my tin do not look nearly as oily as the leaves in the picture provided for this entry. The in smells heavenly. The biggest note is chocolate, but I can smell some aged tea smells in there, too.

The color is a red-brown, with some murkiness; it is medium in darkness compared to other breakfast blends I’ve brewed. The aroma above the cup is mostly that of black tea. The chocolate comes in next.

I first get the flavors of a nice black tea. Flavors are generally bright. I taste some cinnamon. The pu’erh provides some powdery, back of the throat flavor but is not dominant here. Chocolate flavor comes in as the last and lightest note. I appreciate this. It is there, and it is nice, but the tea flavors are clearly dominant.

This gives me gum-tingling astringency, which I like in a breakfast blend. Bitterness is balanced and at the higher end of what I can enjoy without adding milk, also appreciated in a breakfast blend. However, it could definitely be bolder and still be enjoyable, especially with milk.

Adding milk transforms this cup. The chocolate comes out front, making it remind me a bit of a milk chocolate bar. Some of the black tea bitterness goes away and the pu’erh comes out a little bit more, and these are interesting mixed with the chocolate bar flavors. I feel like, with milk, I could never get this cup confused with anything else in a blind taste test.

Astringency starts to make my tongue feel dried out by the end of the first cup. I love it!

This is an interesting blend that I enjoy.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 5 min, 0 sec

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196 tasting notes

I know I just commented, but I made my husband a pot of this this morning and he, who refuses to get too excited about tea, especially nuances, absolutely loved it!

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec

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Felt like a bold chocolate blend today and this is a great one. The fragrance is of chocolate. The taste combines chocolate, a distinct flowery tea taste, and a strong firm taste of something else (almost a coffee note), probably the pu-erh. It doesn’t taste much like the classic pu-erhs I’ve had, which works well in this tea. The tea itself has that wicked black color that I usually see in pu-erhs.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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10 tasting notes

My every morning, right as rain, ain’t morning without a cuppa tea is Twinings UK packed English Breakfast, with a splash of milk. (Just like my standard generic cup of tea in the afternoon/evening is PG Tips with a touch of sugar). Moring isn’t about adventure, it is about routine, and normalness. Tea blends are made to predictable, and while most geeks focus on the varietals, the “regular bloke’s blend” is very satisfying.

But every now and then, you want something different. I usually go for a pure Keenum, or a high end packers “English/Irish/U.K. Brekkie”, or even a black current black. Usually for a morning or two, then back to my beloved Twinings UK packed. (Most tea blenders adjust their blends for different markets to meet local taste – they are all recognizable as the “name” profile, just different emphisis on the ratio of the component teas, or a different leaf cut (size of the tea leaves affects flavor).

The Tea spot has a reputation of putting out excellent quality, and at times very non traditional, full leaf blends. I usually have a tin or two of their teas in my rotation.

I recently picked up their Bolder Breakfast. It is a ridiculous blend of black tea (Assam and Ceylon, i think), Pu-erh, and a slight touch of dark cocca powder. It is fantastic, a very bold tea: robust black nose, with a hint of chocolate, dark as night in the cup, and a very rounded malty sweet taste leaving the impression ok the complexity of dark chocolate with a thin feel. Boiling @ 5 min, reg sized pot, with a touch of milk (and would consider a touch of sugar, depending on my mood). Again, not for every morning, but a excellent change of pace.

MKstuder

Actually I do drink it for breakfast at least 6 days a week. On the other day we go out to breakfast and I actually drink coffee because tea in a coffee shop sucks.
Since I started drinking Bolder Breakfast, I have not drunk any coffee at home at all.

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This was my first breakfast tea back when I put a good bit of sugar in my tea along with milk. I like the chocolate although it’s not strong. I’m not a pu’erh drinker so I can’t identify what notes the pu’erh may be adding. It once was my favorite breakfast tea and although it no longer is I like to have it on hand as it truly does satisfy coffee drinkers as well as tea drinkers. I still like it best sweetened and with milk.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 45 sec

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