English Breakfast

Harney & Sons English Breakfast tea tin, featuring a classic design and containing 20 tea sachets.

Black tea sachets in a sleek black and gold package labeled "Harney & Sons English Breakfast, 50 sachets.

Red box of English Breakfast tea featuring 50 individually wrapped bags, highlighting Chinese Keemun black tea.

Harney & Sons English Breakfast tea box, featuring 20 bags of Chinese Keemun black tea, red and white packaging.

Harney & Sons Fine Teas- English Breakfast- 1 Pound/16OZ Bag- Black and Gold Bag

Harney & Sons English Breakfast tea tin, 8 oz, featuring a black and gold design, labeled for 65-75 cups.

Black tea tin labeled "English Breakfast" by Harney & Sons, containing 4 oz of blended black tea.

Harney & Sons English Breakfast tea packet, featuring a gold and navy design with "Master Tea Blenders" label.

Black Keurig coffee maker with white mugs on a kitchen counter

English Breakfast

Name: How to Brew English Breakfast
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cup
Cuisine: Black Tea
Ingredients: Black tea

A classic centuries-old Chinese tea blend.

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Description

There are many versions of English Breakfast tea. Ours has an ancient pedigree. Researchers have traced its heritage back to the black tea the English drank regularly in the 1800's. It is, simply, China black 100% Keemun. A simple way to start your hectic day!

Mike's Rating

1 Briskness

3 Body

2 Aroma

Details: English Breakfast was never designed or formulated all those years ago. Rather, teas were chosen that were plentiful and not too expensive, and that would taste good with milk and sugar. Something an English person would enjoy at the start of a busy day. So in the early 1800s, that tea would have been a black tea from China, and this is where we take our inspiration. Later on, many Brits drank the brisker teas from the British colonies of India and Ceylon. After the Second World War, when the colonies became independent, the source of English Breakfast for the British became Africa. We do have some blends that are inspired by these regions, however, this English Breakfast, like the original, is Chinese black tea.

Dry Leaves: Our English Breakfast is different from many others, as it has short charcoal gray leaves.

Liquor: Dark brown.

Aroma: There is a toasty aroma.

Flavors: Straightforward and mellow, with hints of toast and honey. Strong and simple.

Caffeine Level: Caffeinated

Body: Medium-to-full-bodied

Brewing Time: 5 minutes

Brewing Temp: 212º

Ingredients

Black tea.

Loose Tea: Bulk whole or broken leaves

Tea Bags: Finely cut tea in paper bags

Sachets: Whole-leaf tea in mesh bags

Tea Pods: Single-serve pods for Keurig® brewers

Iced Tea Pouches: Large bags for batches of iced tea

Four Decades of Tradition

In 1983, John Harney set out to make tea an everyday luxury, hand-blending his first teas in the basement of his country inn in Salisbury, Connecticut.
Three generations later, we still follow his one rule: only buy and blend teas that make us smile. Today we blend more than 300 of them from a home base in Millerton, New York, where the third generation is adding blends of its own.

Where Mornings Start

English Breakfast is the tea a lot of people meet first and keep for life. Ours is built on the history of where the British first got their tea from. It's an ideal start for the day, toasty and full-bodied, with a little sweetness. It is the everyday luxury we think a morning is worth.

Blended in Millerton, poured the world over

At a glance

TypeBlack

Caffeine Content40–60 mg caffeine

FlavorsToasty and mellow, with hints of honey.

Mike Harney's Ratings

Aroma

Body

Briskness

This tea is about as classic as it gets. It is toasty and mellow, with a touch of honey, and it has the body to stand up to milk if you take it that way
.

How to Enjoy It

English Breakfast is forgiving, which is half its charm. Here is how we make it when we want it at its best.

Water

Start with fresh spring or filtered water. It's nearly everything in the cup, and even a tea this bold takes on whatever's in the tap.

Hot

With its black tea base, you'll want to use boiling water (212ºF). Steep 5 minutes so the toast and honey have time to come forward.

1 sachet per 12 oz mug
1 teabag per 8 oz cup
1 teaspoon loose (2.5 g) per 8 oz cup

Iced

Brew it double strength, twice the tea for the same water, then pour straight over a tall glass of ice. It keeps its body as it dilutes instead of thinning out.

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English Breakfast