Imperial Breakfast Blend

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

This one has a lot going on, but the Laoshan Black shines through. 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. This tea melds well together.

Thanks OMGsrsly!