Black · Assam × Ceylon × Kenya
English Breakfast
Moderate caffeine
The morning standard: a full-bodied marriage of Assam depth, Ceylon brightness and Kenyan strength, built to meet milk.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 98 °C · 208 °F
- Leaf
- 4 g
- Water
- 250 ml
- First steep
- 4:00
- Each next steep
- +0:30
- Steeps
- 2
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Aroma notes
malt · toast · dark honey
Tasting notes
robust · round · steady
Making
Plucking 
Withering 
Rolling 
Oxidation 
Sorting 
Blending
Origins
- Assam · the depth
- Nuwara Eliya · the brightness
- Kericho Highlands · the strength
Lore
The breakfast blend was popularized in the nineteenth century: one steady taste assembled from many gardens, strong enough to carry milk and sugar. Its craft is the blender's: consistency, cup after cup, year after year.
In art
