Bolder Breakfast

Tea type
Black Pu'erh Blend
Ingredients
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Flavors
Cocoa, Artificial, Creamy, Dark Chocolate, Metallic, Butter, Chocolate, Cream, Cookie, Malt, Wet Earth, Leather, Maple Syrup, Sweet, Mineral, Wood, Caramel, Earth, Honey
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Caffeine
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 4 g 13 oz / 394 ml

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  • “I really enjoy this tea, with it’s blend of Black, Puerh, & chocolate. It’s bold & beautiful, deeply satisfying, & it can stand up to the BAB (that’s Paleo-speak for Big Ass Breakfast)...” Read full tasting note
  • “someone drank this yesterday and i’m supposed to give someone some of this but i remember nothing of that now. But it was the reason this got pulled out of the cupboard today and it was...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Ok Bolder Breakfast, work your magic!!! I just finished Season 3 of Supernatural last night, around 2, and instead of going to bed like a super responsible person I HAD to watch the first ep of...” Read full tasting note
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  • “So I tried this a few more times over the weekend and enjoyed it much more than I did previously. I infused for less time about 2-3 mins – max 3. I will increase my rating for now. It’s not to...” Read full tasting note
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From The Tea Spot

This new American black tea blend combines bold flavor, rich color, & full body with hints of chocolate. This robust breakfast blend is made from our favorite strong black teas from high altitude estates in China, India and Sri Lanka. We have combined these black teas with pu’erh, an aged black tea from Yunnan China, and dark chocolate essence. This tea yields a rich, dark liquor and a warm, well-rounded flavor that takes very well to milk and even better in the form of a tea latte. The high caffeine content and robust flavor makes this the perfect tea to help kick your coffee habit!

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133 Tasting Notes

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141 tasting notes

It’s funny that the merchant’s description includes the line “the perfect tea to help kick your coffee habit” because this IS the tea that sent me on my way to starting a tea habit.

This brews up dark and bold and can easily satisfy a coffee drinker. You know you’re drinking tea, but there’s enough body and kick that you don’t care. It will stand up to any amount of doctoring that a new tea drinker may need to apply and won’t suffer for it. There is a subtle chocolate note, but this is simply a great uncomplicated “starter” black.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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523 tasting notes

I really like the plain puerh from the teaspot, so I thought I would definitely like this blend too. But I did not like it. It has a faint chocolate aroma, but hardly detectable by taste. I can definitely detect the puerh over the black tea, but it’s like puerh stripped of all the qualities I like about puerh. It has a flat flavor with nearly non-existant after taste. As far as a “dessert” type tea goes, I think that the plain puerh has more “sweet” attributes to it.

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This is a very playful tea that is fun to drink. The mallow flower and chocolate add a subtle sweetness and happy kid quality. The tea combo is bright and light and not particularly malty nor overly earthy from the pu erh. The tea is slightly astringent with a mild coppery note I quite like and just a touch of fruitiness that balances any hint of mustiness. I dont think this tea is very “bold” and it won’t replace my morning joe but it has just enough kick to enliven an afternoon.

The sliders dont work well with my tablet. Steep time 5 minutes water at full boil. I tend to use a lot of tea per cup and like this one best when I use about a tablespoon. I usually steep twice with that much tea. This one holds up to that method well. The second steeping is not as full bodied as the first but more fruitiness comes out in the second steeping so I always have that second cup.

Preparation
4 min, 0 sec

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5 tasting notes

Blended in Boulder, Colorado, hence Bolder Tea. The chocolate is great. I tend to use a heaping teaspoon per cup to get more of the Pu-erh flavor, although I don’t like Pu-erh as much alone, it really gives this blend part of it’s wonderful flavor.

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I love this tea and I crave it daily! I enjoy it just by itself but it amazing in the form of a latte. The combination of black tea, pu’reh and chocolate form a beautiful blend.

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7 tasting notes

The hint of chocolate is perfect — does not make this a candy-sweet type of tea.

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I love this tea! Of course it tastes great (especially with a bit of cream and sugar) and it has a little more caffeine than other teas, which was the main reason I bought it to begin with.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec

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100 tasting notes

Fairly quick flavor, not much body, slight astringency at the end.

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For the last few years, I’ve been in a kind of tea rut. I’ve quietly settled into my favorite five or six black teas, rarely venturing out into unchartered waters (not sure if this is a pun). However, I’ve been wanting to try out teas by The Tea Spot after a pleasant experience with their Earl Grey at Myrtle Beach in February.

So…for my first venture into the The Tea Spot universe, I decided to purchase some Bolder Breakfast from their website. I chose that blend because I need all of the caffeinated help I can get to fuel up my brain in the morning, and that blend seemed to be advertised as caffeine-fortified. I also learned that Bolder Breakfast is their #1 top-selling tea.

The purchased pound arrived in a sturdy decorative pouch. When I ripped open the seal and plunged my honker into the bag, I was deluged with a strong, but pleasant, flowery and chocolaty aroma. The full brown tea leaves were peppered with calendula flowers and sunflower petals.

I followed the directions on the pouch and steeped the leaves, flowers, and petals, for five minutes at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. The brewed blend smelled sweet and chocolaty with flowery accents close behind.

My first sip produced a flavor of chocolate mixed with flowers. There also was a twang of another flavor which I almost chalked up to astringency. However, I then remembered that this blend also contained aged Pu-erh tea as one of its ingredients, in addition to black teas from China, India, and Sri Lanka- twang solved.

This is a surprisingly gentle tea, considering all of its different components. The pronounced dark chocolate essence is more than satisfying to my relentless sweet tooth. In my case, the rich sweetness of this blend more than cancels out any twangs that might materialize.

All-in-all, this is a delicious tea with many fine attributes. As for the effects of the bolder caffeine, I don’t know yet, but I do seem to be typing faster than usual!

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec 5 tsp 40 OZ / 1182 ML
ashmanra

I had a sample of this years ago and enjoyed it. If I remember correctly, a puerh hater was drinking it with me and had no idea there was puerh in it. Good stuff!

Stoo

My wife hates Pu-erh too. As a chef, she has very sharp taste buds. She took a sip of this tea and immediately identified the Pu-erh in it. No more Bolder Breakfast for her. :-D

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58 tasting notes

Smells like and tastes like cocoa powder. That’s pretty much the only smell/taste I get though. Compared to the Emperor’s Pu-erh this one has has hardly any flavor. Drinkable, though. I just find the chocolatey-ness annoying. Might be better with creamer/sugar.

Flavors: Cocoa

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 5 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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