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Our Assam Moran BOP is a full bodied Assam packed with flavour, its liquor is dark and hearty with a malty flavour. A strong enough tea for milk it makes an excellent morning tea.
Argh, I want to write! But I can’t. I can’t! It won’t come.
And this tea? Spicy, a little astringent, a little bitter, rather grass-y, and not sweet at all.
No, this isn’t it either.
I tried a mug of this with a heaped teaspoon – it’s fine-grained so doesn’t heap very high – steeped for three and a half minutes – instructions say three to four.
It made a red-brown brew – not cloudy but so intensely coloured as to be almost, but not quite, opaque.
It had a good basic tea flavour with a metallic hint. There was a slightly ‘hard’ edge to it that I found unpleasant – rather like staleness but not quite that. It made me think that -possibly three and a half minutes was too long.
So I brewed another mug for just three minutes, but used an extra half-teaspoon of tea.
It had a slight aroma with elements of straw and sweat. Nothing special in the mouth: it had good basic tea but that hint of ‘staleness’ again.
Not one I’m going to buy again.
