1/13/08

I bought the Irish Breakfast tea from Twinings at the grocery store. Yesterday I made some, and it was nice, mild, and decent tasting stuff. Today I made it and it was too strong.
It comes in a tin, and the tea itself is granules, rather than loose leaves...they are loose, though, but it's more like very loose sand than anything. I can dip my teaspoon into the tea without fear of breaking any of the tea leaves up. I just have to watch the portion.

I like the label. When you open up the tin, it has a foil wrapper, with instructions on making the tea. A teaspoon per person/per cup, plus "one for the pot." Nice. I like that. I'd heard of the 'one for the pot' before, but it was nice to see it somewhere in writing. The issue with the tea's being in granular form is that it goes through the little strainer in the spout of teapot, so you end up with tea granules in your teacup. Not optimal. It is a step up from the tea bags, though. I'll have to work on that. Maybe put a mesh over the holes to prevent that. Also not optimal. I'll figure something out. There's still some rough edges with the whole tea thing that I haven't figured out, and that I haven't seen solved anywhere.

One last thing. The tin for the Irish Breakfast is green. Naturally. The problem, of course, is that this is the same color for DECAF everything. Of course, this isn't decaf tea, but I think they got it wrong by choosing the Irish color for their tea tin for this variety of tea. People might stay away from it because they would automatically think it's decaf, when it isn't.