Imperial Breakfast Blend

Tea type
Black Oolong Pu'erh White Blend
Ingredients
Black Tea, Oolong Tea, Pu Erh Tea, White Tea
Flavors
Bread, Roasted, Caramel, Dark Chocolate, Dark Wood, Leather, Smoke, Tobacco
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Caffeine
High
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 1 min, 15 sec 3 g 9 oz / 266 ml

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From Verdant Tea

chocolate + malt + cinnamon + creamy + caramel + semolina

"Rich yet refreshing breakfast tea with chocolate base notes and sunny Yunnan texture…"

A fine breakfast tea should gently wake you up, acting as a transition and ritual to welcome the day. Too many breakfast blends achieve this through caffeine alone, brewing up so intense that they are hard to palate. We realized the best breakfast tea is going to give you more than caffeine. Its flavor is going to be warm and sunny, the texture gentle but satisfying, the aftertaste refreshing. The sensation of drinking the tea should make you want to start the day.

We achieve this by starting with Laoshan Black and Zhu Rong Yunnan Black. This combination creates a satisfying body with a warm and bright flavor. A touch of Shui Jin Gui Wuyi Oolong accents the warm fruity qualities, while Master Han’s 2002 Shu pu’er strengthens the base and a bit of Bai Mu Dan White tea provides a uniquely refreshing aftertaste.

This brews up beautifully hot or cold, and can be just the comforting cup in the morning or throughout the day.

ICED: Bold, enlivening, sunny. Notes of bread, fruit and florals. Vanilla in the aftertaste. Yunnan linen texture. Excellent any time of the day.

Western Brewing
Use 4g of tea (2T) in 6-8oz of fresh-boiled (205°F) filtered or spring water. Steep for 30 seconds in a brew basket or equivalent. Enjoy many infusions. Add 10-15 seconds with each steeping, or to taste.

Gongfu Brewing
Use 4g of leaves for a medium gaiwan or yixing pot. Heat the gaiwan or pot with boiling water and pour out. Add leaves, rinse leaves with boiling water for less than a second. Use this steeping to heat cups and pour over yixing. Steep each round for 3-4 seconds, increasing time by 3 seconds each steeping after the third steeping. Enjoy at least 15 infusions.

Iced Tea (Cold Brewing)
Use about 4 grams of tea for every 12oz of water. Combine with room temperature water in a covered vessel and refrigerate for 8-12 hours. Enjoy!

Iced Tea (Flash Chilled)
Use 1TB (5 grams) of tea in a 6-8oz vessel. Steep for 1 minute with filtered boiled water. Fill a martini shaker (or equivalent) with ice, then add brewed tea and shake until well-chilled (usually 10-30 seconds). Pour out through martini-shaker top over fresh ice in a new glass and serve.

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2145 tasting notes

Well, it is safe to say that I like this one. I’ve managed to suck down the entire sample package in a little under 2 hours. Considering how well it resteeps, I’ve had a lot of tea this morning, but I’ve been up since about 7:30am canning applesauce and making beef stock.

I really enjoyed the combination of flavors each individual tea contributed to the blend and I loved how I picked out something just a little different with each sip. Since I was so busy I didn’t manage to take any notes, but that’s ok with me, sometimes you just need to enjoy your tea and not worry about dissecting the flavors of it.

It is a shame this is out of stock, it would be a definite reorder for me. With the holidays coming up I need a good breakfast blend to keep me going.

Preparation
Boiling 1 min, 0 sec
Sil

i can’t remember if i asked about this one..but a number of them are supposed to be coming back in november

Short Sorceress

I hope it does, not that I need to order more tea right now. I do have plenty of Verdant rewards points saved up though ::grins::

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806 tasting notes

This is the best breakfast blend I’ve ever had however, I’m not sure if I like it. The tea quality is excellent and it tastes like pasta (to me) I’m just not sure if it’s my thing :D I had this with milk :D

Preparation
Boiling
Bonnie

My way of tasting anything with pu-erh is to try it naked first because often that’s the best way of all. Then I try some sweetening if it needs a little something (especially on a bready or salty pu-erh) and if that tastes good but you want a latte, add some cream. You might want to give this a second try. I also like a little longer steep than most people…just a little. See what you think.

Autistic Goblin

I’ll try that tomorrow morning :D this is my first pu-erh I think… I’ll have to check my log but I’m pretty sure :D

Bonnie

The pu-erh is the chunkier pieces in the blend…not the whole thing and it’s good for the stomach and has other health benefits.

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2170 tasting notes

I’ve been excited to try this one ever since Amariel sent me a bag of it in our swap. I’ve put it off until I had a nice weekend morning to take the time to enjoy it and give a good description of it here. I think it’s so interesting that this blend include five teas – two black teas, one pu’er tea, one oolong tea, and one white tea. I’m not sure how it will work out since each of those is typically steeped so differently, but I’m going to follow the directions on Verdant’s website and see how it goes.

After steeping for the recommended 30 seconds, both the tea leaves and the liquid have that same roasted quality that I always seem to notice in an oolong tea. It’s like fresh, crusty bread. I can also smell the black tea in the wet leaves though not so much in the tea liquid. The taste is the same as the aroma, a pleasant roasted flavor. I like this even better as it cools. I think the flavors of the black tea are coming out a little more.

This is a wonderful tea to have with today’s breakfast – a Conecuh sausage biscuit slathered with mango lime jam. Thanks again to Amariel for sharing!

Flavors: Bread, Roasted

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 30 sec 3 g 6 OZ / 177 ML

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1792 tasting notes

I sipped this down and am so glad to have it out of the way. No more Verdant in my cupboard! I feel like I’m on another chapter in my tea book. Companies that once ruled my cupboard (52teas, Verdant, S&V, Della Terra) are pretty much gone, and I’m moving onto other things.

Terri HarpLady

I’ve still got a pretty good supply of this one :)

Ysaurella

Free to discover new and new teas. It sounds like a great program !

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761 tasting notes

This one is a really interesting one! It comes courtesy of the SSTTB #2. I have kind of been holding off on trying this one, because of the name…Summer Blend….and it’s winter. But I guess it was calling to me, so I made some today to take with me on my walk to get some acupuncture.

I did add milk and sugar to this because I was not sure whether it would need it or not, and I had to leave then, or be late, and it was too hot at that point to tell whether it was needed. I think it was fine with the milk, but probably would have been fine without it. I did make a second cup once I got home, and attempted to omit the milk, but it was too hot and I was impatient, so I added some to cool it down and I regret it, because this steep is less rich than the first. The first though, was malty and chocolatey, with some nice sweet notes…someone had said vanilla and caramel notes, and I could go with that.

I think that this tea will be a nice summer breakfast tea, and I am curious to see how it will cold steep in warmer weather. I’m not sure if I will drink this much in the colder weather, as much, because I think I will want to try it again once spring nears.

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1440 tasting notes

This one has a lot going on, but the Laoshan Black shines through. Thank goodness. When I saw pu’erh in the description I was concerned.

Those chocolate notes I love are clearly there, and the oolong is also apparent. Teas with an overabundance of ingredients sometimes overwhelm me, but this one melds so well together. Very tasty.

Thanks OMGsrsly!

TeaKlutz

Oooo that sounds good!

OMGsrsly

Welcome!

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