Twinings Tea Tasters - Learn to Blend Your Loose Tea

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  • Twinings Tea Tasters Blending Class. Have you ever thought how amazing it is to blend tea? Here at Twinings we have been doing this for the last 307 years. Some of our secret tea blending recipes have over 50 different teas in them, like a Twinings English Breakfast tea, to make them taste the way you love them. But do you know it's easy and fun to put together a couple of loose teas to make a blend of your own. This month at Tea Tasters we have blended three black china teas for our guest tea and tea-wear guru Alison Appleton. A (nutty tasting) Yunnan, Keemun (velvety smooth a slightly smokey taste) and an Assam (like you find in your English Breakfast tea - fully body). Better still, if you're not a member of our tea taster club - why not find out more about it at: twinings.co.uk/...
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  • @amityadavsho96
    @amityadavsho96 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You are truly master

  • @billdykes3921
    @billdykes3921 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks for an educational show. I am a "beginner blender" but have enjoyed many fine unblended teas during my years in China, Japan and other parts of Asia. Now retired in France I am beginning to put them together. I confess to buying the highest grades at the moment and then blend to taste. My first blend was for my standard breakfast tea. I drink all tea without milk, sugar or fruit/herb additives. A third of a teaspoon of Assam gives a strong base (a red Bordeaux?), a third of a Ceylon mellows that out somewhat (a red, not heavy, Burgundy?) and a third of Darjeeling adds brightness (a white sauvignon blanc?)... the last component is a SMALL pinch of Keemun (simply sweet cocoa). The Keemun I buy is the very best and SO flavourful that any more than a tiny pinch would drown all the others teas out... including that powerful Assam! Bingo! Custom made to suit my breakfast palate and, depending on my mood I change the mix... need to feel a bit brighter this morning? then a bit heavier on the Darjeeling, need some more power? increase the Assam ratio etc. Well, that's my twopence worth as I begin this exciting and delicious journey. Hope you all can enjoy the path. Regards from. English Bill

  • @HaniaGamer
    @HaniaGamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    That slurp caught me off guard.

    • @missourimongoose7643
      @missourimongoose7643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In Japanese culture the slerp is considered a complement lol

    • @alyanadrua4153
      @alyanadrua4153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      slurping the tea like that (air+tea) is the best way to taste tea, it may look weird but it is what it is lol

    • @AnthonyBottari
      @AnthonyBottari ปีที่แล้ว

      Dude same lol

    • @efethecaptain6
      @efethecaptain6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@missourimongoose7643 Didn't know that, but that would be almost like an insult in our culture.

    • @CoachRobboxing
      @CoachRobboxing 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wasn’t looking at the screen and it sounded like a gunshot.

  • @taahirgause7392
    @taahirgause7392 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That slurp really shook me

  • @exodiayugioh1604
    @exodiayugioh1604 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How do you mix if the leaf sizes are not the same?

  • @matthewrobinson3869
    @matthewrobinson3869 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome taste..thanks for sharing

  • @mobilememrise6058
    @mobilememrise6058 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who is your representative in Iraq?

  • @neoniahazelwood9263
    @neoniahazelwood9263 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My favorite brand of tea in the world.

  • @BettysBike
    @BettysBike 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does the heat destroy any of the conpounds? If so, maybe slightly dampening the leaves a few minutes before the hot water is used.

    • @induyadav3165
      @induyadav3165 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tea is brewed at 90-100 degrees only, so that it wouldn't burnt the leaves.

  • @roborb1960
    @roborb1960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Not the sort of bloke you want to be sat any where near to in a cinema when he's drinking. :-)

  • @sweetnothings12
    @sweetnothings12 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    i would love to go to a tea tasting.

  • @Holocaust2
    @Holocaust2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Which Garder Tea of assam You Blend in this????? I am from assam

  • @Angus246
    @Angus246 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video.
    One question - adding dried fruits or essential oil or extract will give a strong aroma???

    • @induyadav3165
      @induyadav3165 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It will diminish the natural taste of tea.

  • @JOlivo94
    @JOlivo94 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Boy, they sure do have exper-TEAS... Anyone? Eh? :)

    • @mikerilling2745
      @mikerilling2745 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😂 Keep your day job😂

  • @EireannBirch
    @EireannBirch 10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Why did he so noisily drink it?

    • @sipacuppa5028
      @sipacuppa5028 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      +Morana Darkat
      He is aerating the tea by sipping in oxygen at the same time. the air that get sucked in emulsify into droplets in the air, this small mists could be easily detected by the olfactory nerves in the nasal cavity. hope it helps. Cheers

    • @XantiaD
      @XantiaD 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Professional wine tasters use the same method. Much of our sense of "taste" is actually smell.

    • @marythompson9276
      @marythompson9276 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Erin Barry I was just going to look up how do Britt's drink tea lol curious

    • @bzakie2
      @bzakie2 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sip a Cuppa? Same thing is done with wine. Just a little more quietly.

  • @frankiewarden9336
    @frankiewarden9336 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was not prepared for the aggression of those slurps…

  • @ricekuo853
    @ricekuo853 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    感謝分享!

  • @kristiand2973
    @kristiand2973 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was sipping on english breakfast twinings tea while watching this

  • @sonnyehret7600
    @sonnyehret7600 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How would I blend my favorite brand of tea in the world (Russian Caravan Tea) ?

    • @Tmanaz480
      @Tmanaz480 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's a tricky one, as there's no traditional recipie; Russian Caravan teas are all over the place. Some are very smoky, some are not. If I recall, Twinings RC blend wasn't smoky, and it had a nice Keemun flavor coming through. In fact, the blend demonstrated here could be a nice "Russian Caravan". Maybe give it a try. If you prefer more smoke, add a touch of Lapsang Souchong.

    • @JoRosieQueen68
      @JoRosieQueen68 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Tmanaz480 I have to intervene as there is a guideline to how a Russian Caravan is made, it's blended like this 2 parts the oolong of your choice, I've tried it with either Hunan Oolong, double roasted, or with a Taiwanese Oolong, specifically with the Formosa Oolong, the latter is a lot more mellower on the malty and smoky notes, more fruity then floral in my experience as the Hunan double roasted is closer to a black tea yet so different as it's way richer in terms of it's floral and it's roasty malt milky notes, but both do work fine here, the choices are yours, I used Darjeeling instead of Assam or Keemun, one part for the first black tea, and the last usually has to be Lapsang Souchong, I think you could get away with a regular Lapsang but I haven't found and tried that but, either way, the resulting blend was spectacular, from delicate floral notes, to the muscatel bright champagne like notes and funky complexity of the Darjeeling to the nice resiny dark smokey taste, mineral in finish, of the Lapsang Souchong, quite both an easy sipper and something that you can just about enjoy any time of the day I think, as the oolong really cuts on that caffeine richness of the Lapsang Souchong that I personally used, so, a rich drink, that starts out floral and gentle with light smoky milky malty notes, that evolves into a rich bright floral yet muscatel fruity rich complexity, that dies out slowly with a smoky resiny smokey character, quite a winner in my books, and I turned all of that beauty into an Earl Grey, the Earl Grey Caravan if you will, and damn what a lovely idea that was, velvety, bright, refreshing and such a nice blend to turn into a London Fog, more like a Moscow Fog or an Eastern Fog as I like to call it, quite a winner in my books and I am working to improve it even further.

    • @abfab2517
      @abfab2517 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JoRosieQueen68🙃

  • @CristianSalazar1
    @CristianSalazar1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I can almost hear the last slurp at the very end 😂

    • @strawberry0kiwi
      @strawberry0kiwi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cristian Salazar I felt it loool

  • @snazpizaz7706
    @snazpizaz7706 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It would be good if you would flash up the names in type face

  • @zeusmindzeusmind8872
    @zeusmindzeusmind8872 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well done Mark! I´m glad to know you are still running the shop and not some unskilled incompetent cripple. Keep it up!

  • @rameshsundesha2555
    @rameshsundesha2555 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice

  • @zeusmindzeusmind8872
    @zeusmindzeusmind8872 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    lets add-up a bit of flem into it to enhance texture thickness and colour brightness. I´m pretty sure it´ll deliver a nice soothing taste to the palate hahaha! and Flem-On-A-Steam tea I shall dub it hehe!

  • @wolfenstein722
    @wolfenstein722 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No, I like tea but you keep using black people in your adverts, so not buying anymore of your tea.....!!