In article <9urDe.7823$N91.5608@trnddc08>, DPM > wrote:
>"Mike Fulton" > wrote in message
>> Attempting to wean myself from coffee completely in the mornings, I am
>> trying to find a good breakfast tea.
>
>Mike, I make my own blend of black (or red, to be precise) "breakfast" tea
>from roughly equal parts of Assam, Nilgiri, Ceylon and Yunnan. Upton has a
>good selection of all these teas; I choose BOP organic types by preference.
>You can vary the mix to suit your taste - I've added Kenya, Darjeeling and
>Keemun at various times, depending on what I had on hand and my mood. Three
>minutes in boiling water seems to be about right for my taste, and its
>versatile: I drink it plain, with milk and/or sugar and iced. Good stuff,
>not expensive, and I think it's fun to experiment with the way the flavors
>of the different teas interplay with one another.

I will say that if you like something really heavy and robust that does
not get bitter, Upton's _Malawi BOP_ is excellent and cheap. And it
would be a good choice to make a morning blend like this with.
--scott


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