Taylors' English Breakfast Tea

Taylors of Harrogate’s English Breakfast Tea has a most satisfying taste. This blend, if not the brand, is probably my favourite, which seems to be supported by the fact that I cannot tell it apart from its rival, Twining’s.

Taylors' website describes its history:

Our family business was founded in 1886 in Harrogate, one of the nicest towns in Yorkshire. We’re still family owned today and we work hard to stay true to our love of fairness, flavour and quality.

It goes onto describe this blend:

English Breakfast Tea is the quintessential black tea blend. As with many blends, its origins aren't entirely clear - but it's thought to date back to the late 18th century and often features teas from both India and Africa.

The essential blend was already a hundred years old when Taylors of Harrogate was founded. One cannot fault them for this; rather, I salute their entrepreneurial spirit in taking an existing concept and making it their own, while improving it along the way.  

The gospel (God’s wonderful plan to save the human race) predates creation, and is certainly much older than the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, though they were the means by which it was achieved. Yet each generation has done what Taylors have with that tea: they have claimed it, owned it, lived it. Furthermore, each has (or ought to have) gone back to the scriptures to express it more faithfully than that which went before. Reformer, Puritan, Methodist, revivalist: each took this ageless wonder and made it their own. May we do likewise.