Tadeusz J.
User's reviews
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ENGLISH BREAKFAST TEA BAGS
It's intense, robust, full-bodied in taste. I can confidently call it a good English Breakfast. Tastes best with a dash of milk.
Brew: 5 m @ 210°F
Amount: 2 bags/0,14 oz/4 g of tea per 15 fl oz/42 cl of water
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DARJEELING BLACK TEA
Not the best Darjeeling ot there, but it's still very based. Classic Darjeeling with an interesting floral aroma and a delicately sweet taste. Its main downside is that it can become pretty bitter. If you're sensitive to such taste, beware of overbrewing.
Brew 1: 5½ m, 210°F (came out bitter)
Brew 2: 3½ m, 207°F
Dose: 2 bags (4 g or 0,14 oz) per 16 fl oz (45 cl) of water
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EARL GREY BLACK TEA BAGS
Tastes quite strange for an Earl Grey, probably due to Kenyan tea being used in the blend. Good nevertheless.
Brew: 6 m, 210°F
Dose: 2 bags (4 grammes, 0,14 oz) per 15 fl oz (42 cl) of water.
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English Breakfast
You can enjoy it, but this tea is generally poor. It is worse than some Lipton's teas. Very shallow in taste, it lacks any subtle aroma — it is just quite sour and a bit bitter. There's almost nothing you can taste while swallowing it. 2 stars, because it is enjoyable, it's "just" shallow in aroma.
I advise to pick Thurston Ceylon Nuwara Elyia or Dilmah English Breakfast instead for a similar style of tea.
Brewing characteristics: 6 m, 210°F
Dose: 2 bags per 15 ozs /42 centilitres/ of water
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CEYLON SUPREME BLACK TEA
An excellent Ceylon. You can taste some honey-like and very subtle floral notes. I've drunk this tea during a tea party and it came in one of those four-teas-in-one-tin packages so I don't know if it's easily available as an individual product. However, it's pretty much the same product as Dilmah's Uda Watte (which, accidentally, I recommend, too).
Brew: 4½ m, 205 °F
Dose: 4 grams per 14½ oz/41 cl of water
NOTE! This tea is not a decaf.
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Daring English Breakfast Tea
Better than Lipton Yellow Label but still not amazing. In taste, it is a bit sour /I guess?/ and bitter. The aroma is what you would expect from this kind of blend but it is a bit bland and a bit harsh bitterness kills it. I recommend picking Twinings' English Breakfast or Dilmah's Ceylon Yata Watte instead.
Brewing characteristics: 5½ m, 205°F
Dose: 2 bags/4 g per 15 oz/42 cl of water.
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Lipton peach iced tea
It is drinkable and even enjoyable but this is a tea review webpage. And this beverage is a DISGRACE of an actual iced tea. Packed with sugar and artificial flavourings.
/For those who don't know, iced tea should be just a quickly chilled tea and not a sweet drink/.
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Ceylon Ran Watte Nuwara Eliya
I expected this to be a usual Ceylon. It's certainly more than that. As it is a high-grown tea, its taste is delicate and sweet. It has got a little of a honey-like /yummy!/ and woody /not yummy/ aroma. It IS Ceylon, but tastes a bit like very high-grown Nepal, because... well... it was grown "at over 6.000 feet" as an inscription on the tin says. Generally, it is a very high-quality and fine tea. However, I dislike that it quickly loses aroma after opening the tin. After about a week it had noticeably less aroma and after 3 weeks, while the tin was almost finished, the tea has lost even its sweetness and became very bitter. You can replace your English Afternoon with it and I advise doing so!
Preparaton characteristics /for most brews/: 5 m, 210°F.
NOTE!!! It is not a decaf tea despite what the descripation says!
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ENGLISH TEA NO 1 BLACK TEA
A very fair tea blend. Not to be confused with the Earl Grey by Ahmad, it's more than a bit different. Lightly flavoured, it has less bergamot oil than most Earl Greys. A little bit exotic in aroma as it is made from a strange blend instead of Ceylon. Although it is quite strong, there is no place for bitterness in the taste. If you like Earl Greys, I recommend this tea. There's not much difference between the loose-leaf and teabag versions.
I've brewed it for ca 6 m with water at 210 Fahrenheit.
NOTE!!! The description of this tea contains misinfo. This is the caffeinated version of Ahmad No. 1; they've made a decaf version named "Evening Decaffeinated", also listed on TeaCritic.
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Earl Grey
I think it could be the official Earl Grey standard stored in Sèvres. The aroma is just right—very citrus-like and floral but the bergamot flavoring doesn't overwhelm the aroma of the tea. No harsh bitterness in the taste, no "shallownes" of the aroma, which is assosiated with low-quality teas. However, I still have to complaint that Twinings uses a blend instead of pure Yun Ming or Ceylon. I would wish there was more of a floral, perfumy aroma (and less of the citrussy one), I prefer a slightly different style of Earl Grey. Anyways, still great and easy to find. The default Earl Grey for me.