Kopili Assam

Quick cup at the end of the day…see other notes…

Cold brewed a bag – pretty decent
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A review of Kopili Assam Tea by Stash Tea Company

I am enjoying having a full box of this tea since I can mix it with my Acai tea to add that hibiscus and berries to the tea.

I took one tea bag of each tea and placed in my mug and added full boiling water to the cup. I left to steep for almost five minutes with cover on. I was anticipating the tea’s liquor to be very lively and I was not disappointed. Tea’s color was a very dark almost purplish color; dark red, and it smelled wonderfully sweet. I think the Assam took the berries with hibiscus very nicely.

The strength of the Assam is very bold, and by adding the Acai berry, it softened it and made it a livelier cup without milk or sugar. Next time I might add two or three Acai Berry tea bags to one bag of Assam.

Overall, it was a cup of malt interlaced with Acai Berry to bring out the sweet liquor in the cup. It is still a long way since Assam pairs better with milk and sugar.

A review of Kopili Assam Black Tea by Stash Teas of India

This is another great tea to make iced tea with. I have been using 3 or 4 tea bags for each pot of iced tea that I wish to make. I brew it very strong since adding iced to tea weakens it somehow.

**A rule for measuring: For every two glasses—use 3 Tea bagss. For every quart use 5/6 Tea bags.

So with 4 tea bags in a medium pan and freshly drawn cold water poured over the tea bags and left to boil for a good five minutes with partial lid open. When it is a rolling boil, I remove the cover and turn off the fire. Leaving the pan to cool for about ½ hour.

I fix myself a tall glass with crushed ice and pour the tea into the glass and adding one teaspoon of raw sugar and gently stirring tea while watching the ice and sugar intermingling, when all that appeared to be left was just ice and tea, I decided to have a try and taste it.

My teas are never overly sweet, just a hint of sugar and I am happy to note that this ice tea is just right. It is smoother in texture with the sugar making for a round-bodied tea.

I am happy to say, I have made another great iced cup of tea.

A review of Kopili Assam Black Tea by Stash Tea

I continue to enjoy this tea while mixing it with my Açai Berry tea from The Republic of Tea. I took one Kopili Assam and two of the Açai Berry tea and added boiling water and left to steep for 2-½ minute. I chose to steep for a lesser time than usual because I wanted the flavoring to be more elevated. I want the berries to intermingle more with the Assam; to have it be creamier and less malty. But what I have accomplished is to have the flavoring of the berries trying to keep up with the malt the full-bodied effect.

I mixed the berries for flavoring where one might add milk, cream and sugar I have opted for a natural fruity blend.

This is tea is made of 100% Natural Ingredients…

Brewing instruction:
For best flavor steep for 3-5 minutes

Tea is dark amber in color

Brewing this tea longer for the full 5 minutes does result in a distinctive full-bodied tea that is darker with malt for flavoring. Tea is more robust that that of the London Cuppa. The London Cuppa is more roasted it seems than this Assam black tea. I want to say it is earthy tasting, I think I mean to say it is strong tea, purer than the London Cuppa.

In all, my days have been spent comparing these teas as they are very similar in nature, however, The Kopili Assam tea does stand out as being more assertive by far. Taste can be too strong but if one is a coffee drinker and wanting to switch to teas, then this would make for a good choice. Possibly.

A review: Kopili Assam Black Tea by Stash Tea

Assam (India); is one of the world’s most popular teas, and often among the best. Grown in low lying Assam region of northerneastern India, it’s typically astringent, robust, and “malty,” with an orange or red liquor; it is often mixed into “breakfast” blends, and is well suited to the addition of milk and sugar.

I steeped this fine Assam for a full five minutes; taking care to add on teaspoon of sugar (granulated) to it. I wanted to have that licorice aspect with the robust and malty that it is known for. I was not disappointed.

For five-minute brew; the tea yields a lovely darken red; and smells wonderfully robust. Upon tasting it, the malt hits you at once with the sugar surfacing nicely. I should intermingle within the cup of tea. I kept thinking if I added more sugar I could accomplish that sugary kind of coffee/tea Moroccan tends to favor. In truth, I know not, I imagine they like.

This is indeed finest of tea. After having the likes of some horrid musty and moisten earth kind of tea, this is a welcoming home of sort. A much needed troth. I am saying I like this Kopili Assam tea.

A review: Kopili Assam black Tea by Stash Tea

I have tried to brew this tea for five minutes and enjoyed it. Now having left to steep for three minutes, I find the overall taste to be much richer and darker; finding the malt ness in the cup that I missed when brewed longer perhaps. A heaping teaspoon of sugar captures the sweet malt flavor; making for a more smoldering cup of Assam.

Title for this review: Kopilli Assam Black Tea by Stash Tea

I continue to enjoy sampling teas by Stash; since having tried the pu-erh with its earthy properties I wanted to try the Kopilli Assam to see if I noticed differently this time around.
Tea color is dark amber
Teas aroma is malt and smoky
Teas body is full with a fullness lasting to the last drop
Tea’s character is fullness in body; as the name “Assam” implies and means to be “peerless” unlike any other.

Overall, tea was brewed for full five minutes and the tea is a sweet malt flavor that is indeed characteristic of Assam teas.

Drinking this some more this morning. Not quite sure what I did to it this time, but it’s moderately astringent and I am just not in the mood for that today.

1.5 tsp for 300mL water @ 100C, steeped 4 minutes, drunk bare.

An excellent Assam. Bold, not bitter. Notes of freshly baked bread, roses, and sunshine. Medium to heavy body. Drenching Assam taste. Good malty pucker but not so astringent as to tear the mouth off ya. Sweet notes. I prefer it steeped a little longer.

1.5 tsp for 300mL water @ 100C, steeped 4 minutes. Drunk bare.

Best of the Assams I’ve drunk, and I’ve drunk a lot of Assam. Damn Fine’s Captain Assam comes very, very close — God, I miss the Captain — but Kopili Estate wins in the end. Never bitter. Juicy and bright and creamy and medium-to-heavy bodied. Packs a nice caffeine hit.

1 TB for 500 mL water, drunk bare.

Yes, at the Kopili Assam again. Tasting bitterness for the first time — only because I ate some ice cream before sipping the tea. Silly mbh.

1.5 tsp for 300mL water @100C, steeped 5 minutes, drunk bare.

AHHHHHHH.

Five minutes gives a heavy-bodied, creamy Assam, still with no bitterness, some malt, and a notes of roses in the scent. So, so good.

5 tsp for 4 cups of the in a Breville One Touch Teamaker, 4-minutes steep, basket/agitate cycle on.

Much more of a scent of distant flowers on the tea today, nuances of bread and — er — roses. But not perfume roses, almost toasted roses, with some malt a few octaves down. Hard to describe. Delicious.

1 TB for 450mL water, drunk bare.

Sssslllllluurrrrrppp! Comforting, deep, creamy and strong, but not bitter. Malty of course, but not puckery. An excellent Assam.

1TB, 500mL water, no milk or sugar

Oh, MY! I steeped this in a little 500mL teapot set on a desktop mug-warmer … and then FORGOT about it. Half an hour later, I found it. I thought, oh well, let’s see how bad this got.

Guess what?

It’s amazing.

Dark liquor, yes, but clear, no murk or sediment. No bitterness! A simply divine scent of some mysterious fruit brandy — beyond raisin — then the taste of really, really good deep Assam. An astringent finish, but I like that with Assam. The brandy-like scent translates to a heavy-wine mouthfeel, something like what you get with a good Keemun, only heftier.

Kopili Estate, I salute you.

1 bag, 275mL water, no milk or sweetener.

For a bagged Assam, really decent. Stash also carries a looseleaf Kopili Assam, and I think those leaves are a higher grade than the ones in the bag — that tea is one of the best I’ve ever tried. I’m enjoying the bagged Kopili more than I did the first time I tried it some years ago; I think I just didn’t steep it long enough last time.

A good Assam. Decent maltiness. Will develop some bitterness if steeped over 7 minues (yes, I steep that long sometmes). Undeniably more convenient for the office than the loose version, but I find it difficult to get the richness of flavour I crave.

Should up the rating on this one. Loose is much more flavourful than bagged. A really, really good Assam, malty but not puckery.