East Frisian tea

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East Frisian tea
Loosely dried, fermented
Type: Black tea

Origin: East Frisia , mixture of teas from different growing areas

Brief description: Strongly tart

Amount: 8–10 g / l (approx. 1 g / cup)
Time: 3-5 min.

The Ostfriesentee is a special, strong tea blend from East Frisia ; it consists of up to ten black teas , mainly Assam tea . But also tea from Sri Lanka and Africa as well as Java , Sumatra and Darjeeling varieties are mixed with it.

In East Friesland there are three large tea trading houses ( Bünting , Thiele , Onno Behrends ), each of which offers several tea blends of its own. Usually only tea that has been blended in East Frisia is referred to as real East Frisian tea . The real East Frisian tea is mixed from more than 20 different types of tea, as only the composition of many types results in a consistently high quality and in this way slight fluctuations in quality of the individual components (tea batches) are compensated for.

The name "Ostfriesentee" is not protected, so that many teahouses outside East Frisia also offer black tea blends under this name or as an "East Frisian blend". Only word marks such as “Bünting Tee echter Ostfriesentee” are registered with the German Patent and Trademark Office . East Frisian mixtures are created for the lime-poor water in East Frisia and are less suitable for lime-rich water.

See also

Web links

Commons : Tea drinking in East Frisia  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Weber: Ostfriesentee: Strong tea from East Friesland , viewed on August 15, 2020.
  2. tmdb.de: Bünting Tee echter Ostfriesentee (1959) , viewed August 15, 2020.