The Tea Keepers – Belfast Breakfast
It’s St Patrick’s Day! I thought I’d celebrate the patron saint of Nigeria, engineers, and protection against snake bites (Oh, and Ireland!) by cracking open this here Belfast Breakfast Tea from The Tea Keepers.
According to The Tea Keepers’ website, Belfast Breakfast Tea was their very first tea blend. I’m not sure what the Tea Keeper/Belfast connection is. I did some (fairly half-hearted) internet research and established that the couple behind the brand (the “Keepers of the Tea” as I should probably refer to them) used to own a tea shop in Kirkby in Cumbria, which is a fair distance from Belfast. That’s all I got. If the Keepers of the Tea want to fill me in on the backstory, then I would love to hear about it.
Belfast Breakfast is a blend of Assam, Rwanda and Kenya teas and is as brisk and hearty as you would expect. This tea does not muck about. It slaps you around the chops and yells “Wake up!” in your face. Forget breakfast time, I am going to employ this tea to invigorate myself out of my post-lunchtime slumps. If I had two cups of Belfast Breakfast on the trot, I reckon I’d be whizzing about like Sonic the Hedgehog. It tastes pretty good too.
Unlike The Tea Keepers’ other packaging, which tend to be decorative floral and fruity designs, the Belfast Breakfast packet depicts two industrial-looking structures. These are not – as I originally assumed – some kind of World of The Worlds-esque alien invasion – but Samson and Goliath, the twin cranes of the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
Happy St Patrick’s Day to all who celebrate it. Especially those of you who are taking a break midway through your 40 days of Lenten abstinence to indulge yourselves. It’s a legit day off from Lent, you know. The church says so.
I’m going to carry on drinking Belfast Breakfast. After a few pints of this tea, I’ll probably get quite rowdy.
Today’s featured book is The Last Battle by C S Lewis, a Belfast-born boy.
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