Morgans Brew – Brecon Breakfast
This is the third black tea blend from Morgan’s Brew I’ve tried. The first was Welsh Afternoon, a blend of Indian and Sri Lankan tea. The second was their eponymous Morgan’s Brew which is a blend of different Kenyan teas. This here Brecon Breakfast tea performs the hat trick and contains tea from India, Sri Lanka and Kenya.
This means, by my reckoning, if you combine some Welsh afternoon tea and Morgan’s Brew tea, you’ll get something that tastes like Brecon Breakfast. Sadly, although I do still have some Morgan’s Brew knocking about the place, the Welsh afternoon is long gone (it was bloody that one). So, you’ll be pleased to know that I won’t be putting this incredibly shaky hypothesis to the test.
My supposition is nonsense, of course. Tea countries do not produce one flavour of tea – there are squillions of varietals. Also, I think the quantities used in blends are a pretty important factor. This is why you have highly trained tea professionals in charge of putting together tea blends and not me.
I was going to review Brecon Breakfast back in January when I reviewed Morgan’s Brew Morgan’s Brew. (So good they named it twice. And yes, I did make that same joke in the original review.) Only I got distracted by comparing Morgan’s Brew and a bunch of other black teas.
Brecon Breakfast, I said, will have to wait for another time. And now this – ladies and gentlemen – is that time.
This is a very nice cup of tea whose long twisty dried tea leaves suggest it’s made from a quality tea batch. It’s a punchy, robust affair with all the vigour you need in a breakfast tea whose job is to slap you awake in the morning. Personally, I favour the subtler stylings of Morgan’s Brew’s Welsh Afternoon tea which is designed to be less rousing than this one. Evidently, I prefer to be gently coaxed into wakefulness. Not that we stick much to the times of day suggested in tea blend names. At Tea Fancier Towers, any time is breakfast tea time.
This tea was one of six large packets of tea that were very generously given to me by Morgan’s Brew. I have now reviewed four of them. Of the two left, one is a herbal blend, and one contains lapsang souchong. Now, neither of these tea types are ones that I have a history of getting on well with. I’m not sure what to do here.
Do I review them anyway, or is giving a negative review to a freebie tea that I knew from the start I wasn’t going to like a shocking breach of etiquette? Or do I quietly shelve them and try to pass them on to a tea consumer for whom they will be better suited? Given that it has taken me a whole year to review two-thirds of Morgan’s Brew’s generously gifted tea, I suppose it’s not a question I will find an answer to any time soon.
Today’s featured book is The Mabinogion, a collection of Welsh mythology and Arthurian romance, translated into English in the nineteenth century by Lady Charlotte Guest.
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