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Keemun Black Tea
Keemun Black Tea is one of top black tea in all world, and it is very famous with very long history. Keemun Black Tea main original places locate in Mt. Huangshan or around Mt. Huangsha. It’s made and took Huangshan Green Tea loose leaves as raw material like Huangshan Maofeng, Maojian, Queshe, or others, etc.
Keemun Black Tea is very known as aroma,light sweet and special flavor, and it is also loved by domestic and foreign. and A lot of famous brand tea company take it as raw material,then integrate local flavor to add some others.
English Breakfast
Black Tea is very very famous black tea,With the popularity of black tea in the 18th century, a new model of breakfast with black tea appeared. In fact, strictly speaking, the morning tea that the British often drink is milk tea, that is, black tea with milk, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although the British mainland could not grow tea because the latitude was too high, but this did not hinder their fanaticism for tea. For this magical oriental leaf, British cargo ships travel thousands of miles between China and Britain.
Earl Grey Tea
Most of today’s Western-style afternoon tea starts at half past two or three o’clock, but in fact, the most orthodox time to drink afternoon tea is four o’clock in the afternoon. Because in the past, the English nobles in the manor would eat a hearty breakfast, lunch did not eat much, and dinner was only eaten at 8 o’clock, so they usually needed to eat some dessert at 4 or 5 pm every day.
What is the relationship between earl grey tea,english breakfast black tea and keemun black tea?
The special teas for traditional English afternoon tea are Keemun black tea, earl grey tea and Ceylon black tea. Because tea was introduced to Britain through the silk route to China, due to the long journey, all green tea would ferment into black tea when it arrived in England. Tea was a very precious item in England at that time. If you want to drink milk tea, add milk and then tea.
Keemun black tea was first used as a raw material for earl grey tea and English Breakfast Black Tea.
English Black Tea has two kinds, one is morning tea that is called “English Breakfast Tea”, Another is afternoon tea that is called”Earl Grey Tea”.