This is one of my favourite teas to start my day (or continue my day) with.  On the tin it says,   “A rich full-bodies tea with a delicious malty flavour”.  Does it?

In my quest to find yummy teas to satisfy my preferred caffeine delivery method, I stumbled across this tea on Amazon, of all places.  It’s been several years ago now (seriously, like 5 or 6), and I was dying to find a good loose leaf tea because I just got this awesome tea press and was dying to use it.

Now, I didn’t know what a Scottish Breakfast tea was, but I knew about English breakfast and Irish breakfast teas, so I figured it was somewhere in between.  I’m not sure if this is where my fascination with Scotland started, but if it was, what a yummy way to begin!

It’s rich, bold and has a delightfully robust, and malty flavour to it, just as described.  Oh, I wish you could smell it!  It has the most amazing smell – it’s light, but heavy, and you can smell the malty-ness of it.  When you add just the right amount of milk (or half & half), it’s this creamy, malty yummy tea that gives you the fix you need as a tea junkie.

Another awesome thing is that when I bought my first couple of tins of tea, they were in, well, a tin (obviously, Linda).  I have reused those tins countless time for weekend campouts so I could take my tea with me.  Unfortunately, the original tea press has met a sad fate and was accidentally broken several years ago.  It’s been replaced by bigger presses now.  And due to logistics, I camp with tea bags.

However, this tea is still on of my most favourite loose teas to use.  Any time I breakout the press, it’s this tea that’s in it, when I have it.  I tend to go through it pretty fast for some reason – it’s just that yummy!