Black Tea - English BreakFast

English Breakfast black tea - Morning Sky: breakfast is served!

English Breakfast black tea is the equivalent of Irish Breakfast in England. This tea is a must and is one of the most famous among black tea lovers for breakfast.

As soon as you wake up, hop on a ferry and cross the English Channel to experience the typical flavors of England. Imagine spending a weekend in London enjoying a magnificent English breakfast with a wonderful English Breakfast black tea. A wind of softness and tonicity blows on your beginning of day with this black tea resulting from a mixture of tea of Assam produced in the North-East of India and tea of Sumatra cultivated in Indonesia.

For the record, Assam tea was discovered by the British. This wild tea Camelia sinensis assamica is a little marvel which makes the happiness of the English, but also of the French amateurs of black tea.

If this black tea English Breakfast is, as its name indicates, the star of your breakfast, nothing prevents you from celebrating it at tea time.

What are the flavors of English Breakfast - Morning Sky black tea?

This blend of black teas offers a floral and fruity nose with a finish on rose and yellow fruits. To the taste, we feel the sweetness of a black tea that still has character. To enhance it, I recommend adding a dash of milk and coconut flower sugar.

English Breakfast black tea - Morning Sky: from the plantation to the cup

English Breakfast tea is made of Assam tea and Sumatra tea. These are two black teas that, by definition, are oxidized. This impacts the way they are processed. Green tea is not oxidized and does not undergo the same steps.

Whether it is a black tea from Sumatra or Assam, the leaves of your English Breakfast are transformed through 5 stages:
- withering allows the tea leaf to reduce its water content by 50%. During this stage, the leaf begins its oxidation process which will make it an exceptional black tea;
- rolling consists in rolling the leaves softened by the wilting. Here, the cells are broken to facilitate the oxidation process once again;
-oxidation is the specific stage for black tea. The rolled leaves are placed on large plates in a room where ventilation, heat and humidity are controlled;
- roasting stops the oxidation process by placing the tea leaves in dryers at 90° for about fifteen minutes;
- sorting is the last step. It allows to sort the leaves according to their grade: they are broken or whole.

Food and tea: David Vanille's pairings

There is no need to look far for the ideal pairing of English Breakfast tea with a meal. This tea offers you a trip to England at breakfast time. Also, this black tea will be perfect with a plate of bacon and fried or scrambled eggs. You can add tomatoes, sausage and toast to this dish. Can't seem to eat anything salty for breakfast? Accompany your English Breakfast with buttered toast and orange marmalade. So Bristish!

Preparation and tasting advice for your English Breakfast black tea - Morning Sky

Brewing temperature: 80°
Brewing time: 3 to 3 minutes 45
Dosage: 10 g for one liter of water
Ideal moment for tasting: at breakfast of course, and why not at tea time?