TB05: Mincing Lane Breakfast Blend

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Assam Black Tea, Yunnan Black Tea
Flavors
Earth, Malt, Spicy, Caramel, Nutty, Smooth, Smoke, Tea, Tobacco, Floral
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Caffeine
Not available
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Average preparation
Boiling 4 min, 30 sec 6 g 19 oz / 566 ml

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For this blend, we paired a hearty Assam with a smooth and flavorful Yunnan, for a cup that is highly enjoyable. The invigorating liquor has a full mouth feel, subtle spicy notes, and a lingering aftertaste. While milk is recommended, it is enjoyable plain.

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236 tasting notes

Strong classic tea note with a touch of smoke on both the fragrance and the taste. Also a slight astringency and bitterness. The tea holds up well to milk (soy milk in my case). Recommended as an acceptable morning blend.

I am tasting new black teas trying to find something that bends the curve between the expensive Yunnan teas I love and my preferred budget. This is the first one I’ve tried. I don’t love the astringency, which is present as part of a long finish and the tea doesn’t have the cocoa notes I love, so I will drop this from my list for the future, but I’m glad to have tasted it and think it would be a fine tea for people with slightly different tastes than me.

Flavors: Smoke, Tea, Tobacco

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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13 tasting notes

A really solid breakfast blend. I take it with cream and sugar and it’s got a nice malty smoothness with a sort of floral undertone that doesn’t detract at all from it having that nice strong black tea ‘kick’ I want in a breakfast tea.

Flavors: Floral, Malt

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 41 OZ / 1200 ML

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11 tasting notes

Hmm, I don’t think I like this one. It’s very smokey for me and that’s not really my thing.

Flavors: Smoke

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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183 tasting notes

This one surprised me with a surprising smokey/bbq flavor that I was not expecting (that is not a negative). Very robust and strong. From the smell i was thinking it’d be very Yunnan tasting, but this tea kind of has its own thing going on. I think it is good on it’s own, but I can see why they recommend milk with it, which I am going to have to try.

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38 tasting notes

Sample. Looking for a good unflavored black tea. Drank with half&half and honey. Pretty nice, but not sure I’ll order more.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 45 sec

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90
12 tasting notes

Tried with sugar but no milk. Quite good. Maybe 4.5 min for no milk but 5 with milk?

Preparation
5 min, 0 sec

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68
1 tasting notes

Yunnan and Assam — my two favorite regions tasting so great together. Mincing Lane has a permanent spot in my cabinet and my cup. That said, today’s pot finishes up my 250g tin. Time to reorder.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec

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