Coffee Bean Direct English Breakfast Loose Leaf Tea, 2 Pound Bag
March 4, 2017 - Comment
English Breakfast is a traditional blend of Chinese Keemun and other black teas. It gets its “breakfast” namesake from its strong, heavy flavor and dark colored brew that stands up well to milk and sugar. Product Features High-quality loose leaf tea leaves Contains full tea leaves- much higher quality than most tea bags Tea leaves
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A slightly different English Breakfast I am on the fourth bag of this tea (yes, I drink a lot of tea). This tea is nice, but be prepared that it might taste a little different from the English Breakfast blends that you might be used to drinking from Twinings or other purveyors. I received one shipment that was noticeably “muskier” than I thought typical of English Breakfast, with more of a peachy scent. It was in some ways more reminiscent of Twining’s Prince of Wales rather than their English Breakfast. It seemed more weighted…
Not English Breakfast Don’t Bother – Used Davidson’s Loose Tea I didn’t believe the negative reviews saying this didn’t taste like English Breakfast tea. I just though they weren’t adding enough tea or were brewing it too long making it bitter. I added the same amount of tea that I use with the Davidson loose leaf tea and brewed it for 4 minutes. It comes out looking and tasting like green tea YUCH! There isn’t the richness and body that should come with a correctly brewed pot of English Breakfast tea. Is it drinkable? Yeah but why waste the $20 and…
Something was very off Normally I’m really forgiving of teas, but this was undrinkable for me. I even got it to use as a base for my iced tea and threw lemon and sweetener in it and even that couldn’t disguise the weird weird flavor. It was almost like a cross between cows and chemicals. I’ve had many English breakfasts before and I just couldn’t get past the weird aftertaste. I’m very sensitive to chemical tastes and smells and maybe most people wouldn’t notice it but oh my lord it was pretty strong to me…