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    "title": "How to blend your own breakfast tea from two teas",
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    "modified": "2026-09-18T00:45:33+01:00",
    "excerpt": "Blend your own breakfast tea from two you already own: one for body, one for brightness. Ratios to start from, how to test it, and what to write down.",
    "content_text": "Every breakfast blend on the shelf is a recipe: a base tea for strength and body, and a second tea for brightness and lift. You can do the same at home with two teas you already own, a pair of scales and about ten minutes.\r\nStep 1: pick the two jobs\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJob\r\nWhat it does\r\nTeas that do it\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe base (60\u201380%)\r\nBody, malt, colour, strength with milk\r\nAssam, a strong everyday blend, Kenyan\r\n\r\n\r\nThe lifter (20\u201340%)\r\nBrightness, aroma, a lighter finish\r\nCeylon, a lighter Ceylon-style blend\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTwo strong teas together make a heavy, flat cup. Two light teas make a thin one. The interest comes from the contrast.\r\nDarjeeling is best left out of a breakfast blend: its delicate character is lost under milk. Save it for an afternoon pot.\r\nStep 2: start at 70:30 by weight\r\nWeigh, do not scoop. Leaf shapes vary so much that a spoon of one tea can weigh twice as much as a spoon of another \u2014 see tea spoons are not grams.\r\nA sensible first batch is 20g: 14g base, 6g lifter. Mix them in a jar, shake gently, and label it with the two teas, the ratio and the date.\r\nStep 3: brew it the way you actually drink it\r\nUse your normal mug, your normal water and your normal milk. A blend that shines black at 2 minutes may vanish under a generous splash of milk at 4.\r\n\r\nBrew 2.5\u20133g per 250ml mug.\r\nGive it 3 to 4 minutes for a breakfast-style blend.\r\nTaste it plain, then with milk.\r\n\r\nCompare it against each tea brewed on its own the same way. That tells you what the blend is adding.\r\nStep 4: adjust one thing at a time\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWhat you notice\r\nNext batch\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFlat, too heavy under milk\r\nMore lifter: try 60:40\r\n\r\n\r\nThin, disappears with milk\r\nMore base: try 80:20\r\n\r\n\r\nBitter or drying\r\nShorter brew before changing the recipe\r\n\r\n\r\nDull and muddy\r\nThe two teas may be too similar\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWhen you land on something you like, write down the exact products, the ratio, the dose and the brewing time. That note is the difference between a happy accident and a house blend.\r\nWhich teas to start with\r\nLoose leaf makes this much easier. Yorkshire Tea Original Loose Leaf or PG Tips Original Loose Leaf both work as a base; Yorkshire Tea Gold Blend Loose Leaf is richer again.\r\nNo loose leaf in the house? You can cut open tea bags and weigh the contents. It is fiddly and the grades are fine, so brew for less time, but it works for a first experiment.\r\nBackground on what the big blends are made of is in English Breakfast tea and Assam tea explained.\r\nA few blends worth trying\r\n\r\nEveryday builder's: 70% strong everyday base, 30% Ceylon-style lifter.\r\nRicher, for a pot: 80% Gold-style malty base, 20% lifter.\r\nAfternoon-ish: 50:50, brewed 30 seconds shorter, drunk with less milk.\r\nScented twist: 90% breakfast base with 10% Earl Grey \u2014 a subtle bergamot lift rather than a full Earl Grey.\r\n\r\nCommon questions\r\nDo I need special equipment?\r\nDigital scales that read to 1g, a jar and a label. That is it.\r\nHow much should I make?\r\nStart with 20g. There is no point making 200g of something you have not tasted.\r\nDoes it keep?\r\nAs well as its ingredients do: airtight, cool, dark, away from strong smells, and drunk within a few months.\r\nCan I blend green and black tea together?\r\nYou can, but they want different water temperatures and times, so you will always compromise one of them. Blending within a family is easier.",
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