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Decaf English Breakfast Tea Loose Tea
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Manufacturer: Metropolitan Tea
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Decaf English Breakfast Tea Loose Tea Features
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Premium Grade Black Tea from Nuwara Eliya, Dimbula, and Uva
Cup Characteristics: Good body but not overpowering with satisfying full tea flavor notes.
Infusion: Coppery bright - especially enticing with milk
Grade: FP - Flowery Pekoe Grown at 5600 - 6400 feet above sea level
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Additional Decaf English Breakfast Tea Loose Tea Information
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Premium Grade English Breakfast Tea Country of Origin: Sri Lanka Region: Nuwara Eliya, Dimbula, and Uva Shipping Port: Colombo/Sri Lanka Grade: FP - Flowery Pekoe Altitude: 5600 - 6400 feet above sea level Manufacture Type: Orthodox Cup Characteristics: Good body but not overpowering with satisfying full tea flavor notes. Infusion: Coppery bright - especially enticing with milk Ingredients: Premium black tea. Information: Today the habit of tea drinking is inexorably linked to the British despite the fact that the British were fairly late on the tea scene in historical terms. Ironically the first mention of tea in English literature is a translation of a Dutchman?s travels to the east. Tea was first brought to England via Holland on Dutch ships. Since tea was becoming an ?in? beverage the British government became quite incensed that a tiny nation such as the Netherlands would control the shipment of tea to the UK. In 1651 the British government passed the Navigation Acts which forbade the importation of any products on non-British ships. Traders and Dutchmen, being resourceful continued the trade in the usual manner but for one little wrinkle - The tea was transshipped in Holland onto British ships! Early in British life tea was known as a health beverage and claimed all sorts of curative powers. In the 1650?s, Garway?s Coffee House proclaimed that tea amongst other things: "Tea makes the body active and lusty. Tea is declared to be the most wholesome; preserving perfect health until extreme Old Age? Afternoon tea was the invention of Anna, wife of the seventh Duke of Bedford. At that time custom dictated only two planned meals per day: a hearty breakfast and a late evening dinner. Anna in a effort to ease the "sinking feeling? began instructing her servants to prepare tea and cakes in the late afternoon. Thus began a fashionable habit which still exists today.
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