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Last Updated: Mar. 13, 2014 

About English Breakfast

Black tea leaves with some reddish-olive hues, slightly curved, a few slightly broken piecesLoose-leaf English breakfast tea. This is a whole-leaf orthodox tea; English Breakfast blends can also consist of finely broken, mechanically processed CTC tea.
English Breakfast is a style of breakfast black tea known for being robust and strong, such that it often goes well with milk and a large, hearty breakfast, although it tends to be less strong than Irish Breakfast.

English Breakfast typically combines black teas from different regions, and there is no formula defining which varieties of tea are used in it. Commonly Assam and Ceylon black teas are used, although Chinese black teas such as Keemun or Yunnan are sometimes used, as well as teas from Africa or Indonesia. A few English Breakfast teas are single-origin.

This style is defined more by its flavor and character than by the particular origin or production method of the tea. In England, this style of tea is the default style of tea and is usually what is referenced when people refer to "tea" without any other qualifiers.

There is great variety among English Breakfast teas. Some brands of tea clearly identify which varities are used in their English Breakfast blend, whereas others do not. RateTea classifies any tea as English Breakfast which is labeled or marketed as such, even if it could also be classified as another style of tea, such as Keemun or Assam.

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Royal English Breakfast from Harney and Sons

Style: English Breakfast – Region: Blend
Jan. 1st, 2023

As with their "Green Tea with Coconut & Ginger", I got this at a last-day estate sale for a quarter (proportionate fraction of a bulk pantry buy). Not per bag, but for the entire tin! That's the best value I've had for a good tea. However, you probably can't match that. So how costly is it, for real? A peek at the...

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75 / 100
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This is a perfectly nice, reasonably priced English breakfast tea, offered at a good price too. The Assam and Ceylon teas blend together well, and create a mellow flavor with a dash of butterscotch. I had this with plant milk; English breakfast teas are meant to be served with a little milk.

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69 / 100
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English Breakfast Tea from TeaGschwendner

Style: English Breakfast – Region: Blend
Oct. 17th, 2022

One-litre pot at home, made from a mixture of leaves of various broken black teas. Pours clear dark brown (against white china) with no sediment. Clear aroma of leaves, with malty and slightly spicy touches. Bitter, leafy and malty flavour of black tea, most probably including some varieties of Assam and Ceylon. Astrin...

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63 / 100
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English Breakfast Black Tea from Rituals

Style: English Breakfast – Region: ?????
Oct. 17th, 2022

Not great, but decent and tolerable: that's how I'll characterize this blend. In my relatively limited experience, many food-service black teas (including English Breakfasts) taste rather flat, hollow, sometimes excessively bitter, or often weak, as if they've either been allowed to sit out in the open for 20 years, ...

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65 / 100
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English Breakfast from The Tao of Tea

Style: English Breakfast – Region: Blend
Feb. 25th, 2022

When first opening the tin, the tea smells earthy and dusty, very much like an inexpensive Yunnan black tea. The leaves are quite large for loose leaf tea at this price, but there are more than a few twig fragments among the leaves. This also matches my experience with inexpensive Yunnan black tea.

While brewing, th...

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English Breakfast

Brand:Twinings
Style:English Breakfast
Region:?????
Caffeine:Caffeinated
Leaf:Teabag
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20 Ratings
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Brand:Tazo Tea
Style:English Breakfast
Region:Blend
Caffeine:Caffeinated
Leaf:Teabag
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12 Ratings
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English Breakfast

Brand:Stash Tea
Style:English Breakfast
Region:Blend
Caffeine:Caffeinated
Leaf:Teabag
34
8 Ratings
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English Breakfast (Teabags)

Brand:Ahmad Tea
Style:English Breakfast
Region:Blend
Caffeine:Caffeinated
Leaf:Teabag
2
8 Ratings
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English Breakfast Black Tea

Brand:Bigelow Tea
Style:English Breakfast
Region:?????
Caffeine:Caffeinated
Leaf:Teabag
2
6 Ratings

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English Breakfast

Brand:Harney and Sons
Style:English Breakfast
Region:China
Caffeine:Caffeinated
Leaf:Loose
89
5 Ratings
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English Breakfast

Brand:Dilmah
Style:English Breakfast
Region:Sri Lanka / Ceylon
Caffeine:Caffeinated
Leaf:Teabag
61
3 Ratings
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English Breakfast

Brand:Bare Tea
Style:English Breakfast
Region:Anhui, China
Caffeine:Caffeinated
Leaf:Sachet
57
4 Ratings
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Awake English Breakfast Filterbag

Brand:Tazo Tea
Style:English Breakfast
Region:Blend
Caffeine:Caffeinated
Leaf:Teabag
55
12 Ratings
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English Breakfast (Kenilworth Ceylon Tea)

Brand:Novus Tea
Style:English Breakfast
Region:Kandy, Sri Lanka
Caffeine:Caffeinated
Leaf:Sachet
43
3 Ratings

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