Bond Street English Breakfast Blend (TB10)

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Black Tea
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Flavors
Malt, Mineral, Tannin, Wood
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Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 9 oz / 256 ml

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From Upton Tea Imports

Description:
A hearty blend of Ceylon and Assam teas, developed by a famous London company. Rich and flavorful even with extra milk.
Origin:
England

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9 tasting notes

I steeped this for a good 3 minutes, but it may have not been enough. The taste is very subtle and cries for milk or sugar. Its definitely a neutral tea if you don’t have strong tea preferences, and would go well with desserts to balance out the sweetness.

Preparation
3 min, 0 sec

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58 tasting notes

This tea tastes like a nicer version of the english breakfasts I drank before getting into loose leaf tea (twinings and the like, bagged). It’s good, but gets pucker-your-mouth tart if you oversteep. I’ve had it plain, with sugar, and with milk and sugar, and it is most palatable with milk (sugar optional). I prefer a milder tea than this, but, I’m having a drowsy day when I need to be having a productive day, so I chose it from among my other curl-up-with-a-book choices.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 15 sec

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11 tasting notes

This tea has replaced coffee as my breakfast drink of choice. I don’t care if it is a CTC. Bring on the milk, and lots of it: this brew is strong enough to handle it! And as with cooked puerh, BSEBB does not seem to get bitter with oversteeping. I can leave it in my tea press all morning, and the first cup is no less bracing than the third, taken an hour later.

Preparation
Boiling 1 min, 30 sec

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Wow, this stuff is like coffee! Strong enough to etch metal! Quite a bit of astringency, and some hints of unsweetened dark chocolate. If this is Assam’s famous maltiness it slaps you upside the head on the way down your throat.

With 2 tsp rock sugar, no milk. Needs about 1/2 a tsp more sugar, I think.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec

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1 tasting notes

Is there crack in this blend or what? I’ve recently (over the past 6-8 months) gone through several sampler sets from Upton (all black teas) and so tasted more than 20 different varieties. The Bond Street English Breakfast is far-and-away my favorite…like by light years. I don’t understand why, either. When I ran out, I tried to blend Ceylon and Assam several different ways with several different types of each and never came close.

Also I should mention that I only just started learning about tea this year. I couldn’t tell an Earl Grey from a FTGFOP Darjeeling when I started;).

Cheers!

Ken

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73
328 tasting notes

Very astringent, but not bitter. Definitely a tea for milk. Nice beginning to the day but not destined to be a favorite.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec

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11 tasting notes

I made this twice this morning. The first time I messed it up big time. Too much tea, too long of a steep, regular ole tap water (I had just woken up and was stupid). It was extremely bitter. D’oh. Re-made according to Upton’s directions and liked it quite a bit. I still picked up on a slightly bitter aftertaste, but I felt that it actually became less bitter as it cooled, which sounds like it might be unusual?

Made with Crystal Geyser water in a Bodum Tea for One. Added half and half.

Flavors: Malt

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
MadHatterTeaDrunk

I think everyone makes the common mistake of leaving a tea for too long, or using bad water. I once left an oolong tea sit for 30 minutes before remembering that I had started it. It was horrid. Now, I usually will stand by the tea while it steeps, just to be safe.

Rasseru

Tea does get sweeter when it cools – I like making lots of mine at 80-90c and letting them cool to at least 70c (five minutes?) before I drink as I like sweet tea, but no sugar.

ekm0924

I like it sweeter but with no sugar as well. Do you know why it gets sweeter as it cools?

Rasseru

it might just be our taste buds? – tasting something thats hot in temp kinda has less flavour doesnt it

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183 tasting notes

Smells good in the bag, I keep sticking my face in there and enjoying the aroma. It actually kind of smells almost more like a Chinese tea to me. The leaves are cut very small, and expand greatly while steeping.
Taste: it has a somewhat typical UK breakfast flavor, but i’m getting spice-like notes that remind me of clove. Pretty refreshing iced.

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5 tasting notes

This is one of the very best English Breakfast teas I have ever tried. No, really.
I like a STRONG, BOLD English cuppa (inherited from my grandmother!) and this one suits the bill. It’s got a great malty flavor, brews strong enough to get that delicious caramel color when I add milk.
This was my daily morning tea until I discovered I could buy P.G. Tips in bulk, but now that I’m writing this I’m thinking it needs to go back into rotation. It’s great if you’re a lover of bold tea with milk.

Flavors: Malt

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 10 OZ / 295 ML

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30 tasting notes

From The Traveling Tea Box

A very nice Breakfast Blend. I wouldn’t mind it if it was a bit more malty but its still very nice and soon to be come a staple.

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