Irish Breakfast

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This sample compliments of Erin’s cupboard clean out.

Brewed up a light amber. Smells mildly salty and roasty. Taste is very mild for an Irish Breakfast. A little maltiness, not much else. Saline aftertaste. Maybe I need to use more leaf.

Thank you Erin for the chance to try this one.

I have a large amount of homework to tackle this morning, on top of already being stressed out, so I needed a tea that could keep up with me today.

And holy unbelievably bold tea batman… I have found it. While adding my inventory of teas to the virtual cupboard, I rediscovered a few teas that I had forgotten about. Irish breakfast was one of them.

This is a very hearty brew, with quite a bit of astringency and dryness. The dryness kind of turned me off by the time I got to the bottom of the cup – hence the lower score. If this tea were any bolder, it would probably have the ability to make one see through time.

A kick of caffeine in the morning is great with this tea.
I drink it black. No milk, no sugar.

Enjoyed this with breakfast this morning. Was definitely pleasant, but nothing special. Tough to pinpoint exactly what was missing, overall the flavors were fairly muted. I don’t know that the Assam malty-ness came through as much as the description implies it ought to, which might be the key to taking this tea from enjoyable to very good.

My everyday breakfast and second breakfast tea. Strong enough to wake me up, simple enough to propel my wandering thoughts without distracting them.

Spring break has finally come to an end. Now it’s time to return to needing my caffeine-infused beverage to carry me through the day. What’s on today’s menu? Irish breakfast tea.

Honestly, I’m not that big of a fan. Back in the day when I first trying out Adagio’s black tea samplers, the Irish Breakfast jumped out at me. So next time I got around to buying tea I got myself 2 ounces. I don’t know what happened. I may have only liked the Irish Breakfast in comparison to the other samples (blegh, english breakfast). Either way, I’m stuck with this rather large bag and there’s no way I’m going to throw it away. So here I am, drinking it merely for the caffeine. But all is well. I’ll be drinking Fire Charcoal Roasted Tung Ting by lunch!

Generally I love Irish Breakfast. It’s a great way to wake yourself up. This blend just did’nt have the kick-in-the-pants, wake up and get yourself out the door effect for me.
I did however buy a whole pound, so from time to time I blend it with whatever I have left over of my black teas. You know when you have a bit left over and not enough to make a full pot. It seems to perk it up a bit.

But on the other hand, if you are new to tea, and not sure if you like a kick-in-your-pants type of morning tea? This would be a great one to start out with.

Snowy day, and I’ve been called out of work, so I’m diving in to the pound of Irish Breakfast I bought from Adagio… it’s an ok blend, I wish it was a little stronger. Next time I will add a little bit more tea to the pot.

This was the last of my tea samples from Christmas. It actually tastes pretty good. I wasn’t sure if I would like it because I tried Adagio’s Ceylon and Assam too and well, didn’t fall in love with them. But they seem to work pretty well together. Maybe I just brewed them wrong last time, but there was almost no bitterness to the Irish Breakfast. Just pure, yummy tea flavor. Mmmm… Plus, most things Irish are just cool. :D