The Difference between English and Irish Breakfast
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- Ever wondered what the difference is between English, Irish and Scottish breakfast teas. Well, it’s a relatively simple answer driven by the terroir of tea. While there is no uniform formula for each of these blends, their flavor profiles are generally agreed upon within the industry. English breakfast is typically sweeter, while Irish has the most astringency (making it the perfect candidate for milk or cream). Scottish breakfast is astringent like Irish only the astringency is felt further back in your mouth, so it is not as forward as Irish but still milk worthy. We know plenty of people who put milk in their English breakfast, and that is fine too. However, it is a smooth black tea blend if made in the right ratios and nice to drink in the morning plain.
Not all black teas are the same, nor should they be. Remember tea is an agricultural product and it should vary in flavor year-to-year and by where it is grown. The three black teas that make up these three breakfast blends are Keemun, Assam and Ceylon teas. That’s right, all three blends are generally made from these three black teas. The ratios of these teas change whether the tea is an English, Irish or Scottish breakfast tea.
English breakfast is predominately Keemun tea out of China mixed with Assam tea from India. Depending on the tea blender and the characteristics of each tea for the year, English breakfast can also have a small portion of Ceylon tea. Keemun tea from China is a malty black tea that is slightly sweet and stone fruit in flavor. It doesn’t have the astringency of an Assam or Ceylon. However, blending it with those teas helps to give them more complexity in flavor and a softer mouth feel.
Irish Breakfast is predominately Assam tea with a little Keemun and Ceylon teas thrown in. This is a strong tea in that it can dry your mouth quickly because of the combination of Assam and Ceylon. Scottish is predominately Ceylon with smaller portions of Keemun and Assam included. To tell the difference between Irish and Scottish, you need to exclude the milk and look at the color of the brew. Ceylon tea is a beautiful red while Assam is brews more orange. You should also pay attention to where your mouth gets dry in drinking these teas. An Irish breakfast, will dry your mouth more toward the front to middle while a Ceylon will hit further back on your tongue and throat.
So the next time you a few minutes in the morning with your cup of tea, pay attention to what you feel in your mouth and the flavors of these popular blends. It is a fun way to appreciate the complexity of something that on the surface seems rather simple.
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Irish breakfast tea is the best
i've recently discovered it and am loving it, having 1/8th irish heritage :)
@@tommygun9546your "heritage" has nothing to do with it
No it isn't
@@KMartin-jf5kw Wow…you’re one bitter boy or girl or neither.
@@KMartin-jf5kw Do you just wake up every day and think “how many unnecessarily anti-Irish comments can I post online today?” What a sad life.
Thank you! We were gifted a pack with all three and wanted to know the differences!
Psst...Ceylon is the old name for Sri Lanka...
Thank you so much! Very informative and great for us tea-crazy folk! Keep ‘em coming, please!
This was absolutely delightful. Thank you for this video :)
You're very knowledgeable of teas. Very interesting. Thank you!
I never heard of Kemmun tea before nor Assam tea. Thanks so much for this!
I have this very week purchased Irish breakfast , and Scottish breakfast teas for my Irish nephew and Scottish niece in law. I will be able to answer each and every question !
Informative, TY
Thanks for making this.interesting
English breakfast is the best. I love its light copper color. The the most amazing tea is green leaf Jazmine.
Excellent!
Great video!
Love them all!
Nice short video they should all be like this.
very interesting video thank you! here's a question would those marketing "strong" english teas be selling irish?
Just imagine liking tea so much that you'll spend your life learning about tea. TEA!
I do.
aaaaah but...
i must explain as an englishman.
these teas come to true form when served with the breakfast after which its named.
The full English breakfast, also known as a fry up, dates back as far as the 1300s, making it one of the longest standing traditional dishes in English history.
its a varied mix and NOONE can say exactly what should be on the plate but
eggs and bacon are essential. and always in at least 2s.
add HP fruity or savory. and as me old mucka ricky says vinegar
"the individuals who came from England were Scotsmen" 🤣
I notice that when folks in the US talk about Irish Breakfast tea you’re actually talking about something that is quite different to the Irish Breakfast tea drunk in Ireland (where we simply call it “tea”). Sure, we start with the big Assam base for malty strength. But some of the most popular teas drunk here blend the Assam with Kenya and/or Rwanda, and that is what makes the quintessential Irish tea flavour to my mind.
Which basically the same blends on the UK market
@@KMartin-jf5kw Yorkshire Gold is Assam and East Africa. Not other breakfast tea blends in the UK.
Which is why I’m drinking Yorkshire Gold right now…in England.
@@davidmccormack99 Most blends in the UK consist of that blend of teas. Most people in the UK don't drink the English breakfast blend on a regular basis.
@@davidmccormack99 I recently finished a box of Yorkshire Gold. I get it when it's on offer
This was good.
Scottish tea is also made for Scottish water. Scottish water is a lot softer (less minerals) than the other countries of the British isles
The ‘British Isles’ term isnt used by Irish people.
@@johnmc3862 aww really I had no idea. Thank you for letting me know. What’s the preferred term?
@@uberwench_ Celtic isles iirc, though it's not a great name
Just say “Britain and Ireland”. Those are, after all, the names of the two largest islands in the archipelago, in order of size.
@@davidmccormack99thank you. Makes sense I just thought the northern Irish wouldn’t like that? I
This is a good video for Americans who for whatever reason drink tea instead of coffee in the morning. However, the Irish generally drink barrys and the English prefer Twinings. No one knows what happens in Scotland.
LOL.🙂
I think PG tips is more popular in England
@@LawAcieIV definitely. Either that or yorkshire tea
Lyon’s
There's Scottish Blend which is specifically blended for our water composition. It's really nice and brews very quickly.
What are those Tea bowls called?
Might also throw in East Frisian Tea given the similar/close flavour profile to Irish Breakfast Tea
i love to drink english black tea with soy milk
Just started buainess in USA.from sri lanka.😼
What, exactly, is breakfast tea, as opposed to regular anytime tea? Thanks.
Generally it’s Just more caffeine in breakfast tea :)!
@@shanebrady7077 Thanks!
I think it's the malt flavors that go well with milk.
I promise you Scottish people weren't growing the tea, they were overseeing the plantations. Sinhalese and Tamil people were growing the tea. Not a dig at you, I just think it's worth acknowledging.
there is a reason irish breakfast is called irish breakfast. it's the blend familiar to the bazzilions of irish emigrants into the US during the 1800s. so why was that blend distinctly irish? because tea from india, ceylon (as was) or kenya came from within the british empire and could be grown in huge quantity solely for a european (and north american) market. those places were also a lot closer to europe than china... and yep there was that closed borders thing with china also. the outcome was that importers could get cheap tea in bulk at around the same time a major temperance movement was underway, and access to a cheap version of that fancy-pants drink the posh people up in the big house drank was just what was needed. followed shortly after by a lot of people starving and emigrating, thus a taste for tea with a punch arrived in murikay to serve a rapidly growing and often poor market. one tea to rule them all.
Wheres the Welsh breakfast?
This is the first time in my life that I've heard Ceylon pronounced as "Saylon." I had to go back and relisten.
That's how it's pronounced. Whoever was pronouncing it differently was wrong.
@@Mkbshg8 try living outside the USA. You'll find Ceylon pronounced as Se lon
I was trying to find the shwa on my keyboard. No such luck.
@@simonlitten I'm English, living in England.
@@Mkbshg8 my ap o lo gies, I thought you were a Yank
This was really great except for the part where you said that the English who left after the coffee crop failed were Scotsmen... Er no I imagine that they were Scottish! Otherwise this was very interesting.
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How can IRISH tea originate in America 😂
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English >>>>>> Irish