Ewa

Scottish Breakfast Blend (TB14) from Upton Tea Imports

Ewa drank Scottish Breakfast Blend (TB14) by Upton Tea Imports

I got to bed a little late last night so I decided I needed some heavy duty breakfast tea to wake me up, so I grabbed this. Amazingly, I actually steeped this for the amount of time it is supposed to be steeped today and got an interesting smoky note out of it.

The second steep was really weak though. I guess breakfast blends front-load a lot of their taste. Or something.

2010-05-10 16:31:41 -0400

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Rabs 2010-05-10 20:55:28 -0400

Accurate steeping in the morning?

Who are you and what have you done with Ewa?!?!?!?

Ewa 2010-05-10 20:56:45 -0400

Would it help to know that I skipped both showering AND breakfast?

Rabs 2010-05-10 21:19:58 -0400

Oh hai Ewa!

Lori 2010-05-10 21:40:21 -0400

LOL!!

CrippleCreek 2010-05-11 01:19:16 -0400

I’ve been hearing a lot about Scottish Breakfast blends lately. I’ll have to try this.

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I’m a Pole who grew up in Texas, is currently a graduate student in California studying Japan. How’s THAT for random?

Being Polish, my family has always drunk a lot of tea, and I am no different. I may drink more tea than water. On the other hand, I can’t say that I’m very particular about it; I’m generally pretty careless with steeping times and water temperature and I don’t even have a proper teapot (mostly because the lid broke during the move to California ;_;).

I always drink my tea unsweetened and I only add milk in the case of the most egregiously chai-ish of chais. (not really a big fan of milk in general)

Given that so many of my entries seem to be about my morning tea, I felt I should add something here about me and mornings: I fail at mornings. I fail at them a LOT. Therefore I often also fail at proper tea making in the mornings.