This is a very drinkable blend of Assam, Ceylon, and Kenyan blackteas from PG Tips, one of the UK's most popular brands. Although some California grocery stores stock this tea, I had not tried it until reading helpful reviews on Amazon.
Each PG Tips bag weighs 38 percent than the Lipton bag (that is available in the USA). As expected, PG Tips makes a stronger brew. Each PG Tips bag has so much tea that I can easily make a 12 ounce mug with a single bag.
PG Tips is a sturdy, straight-ahead blend with more strength than Lipton's. It is a caffeine-rich tea - in part because each bag has more tea than other brands.
PG Tips uses a pyramid shaped bag that allows more room for tea leaves to expand while steeping. Does it make better tea? I don't know, but it is a point of differentiation.
HINT: PG Tips also makes a Special Blend black tea that is only slightly more expensive in stores. I much prefer the Special Blend to their regular black tea. The PG Tips Special Blend is a very hardy and rich breakfast tea. The Special Blend is more sensitive to longer steeping times (I usually steep mine less than 3 minutes), but I find the taste more complex and satisfying.
Cognoscenti prefer loose tea. Tea bags contain the less expensive "fannings" or "dust," remains from processing loose leaf tea. And with some others brands of tea (not PG Tips), many people can taste the paper used in the bag.
If you sometimes appreciate the convenience of bags, I recommend trying PG Tips as a sturdy everyday tea. And, I more strongly recommend their Special Blend as a hardy and rich breakfast tea.
Addicted to tea and this is the perfect solution. PG Tips is wonderful. I know it isn't the classiest tea available, but for the price it is a treasure. A good strong tea.
Good basic tea
Since trying blackteas from Britain, I can never go back to the ones I find at the local grocery stores. It tastes way more like, well.. tea. The flavor is much more pronounced. There is less of a bitter aftertaste, though for this brand, there still is just a tiny bit in my opinion. I actually prefer Yorkshire Tea made by Taylors of Harrogate because it has even stronger flavor and less bitterness in my opinion - the best of all I tried (I drink hot with sugar only, no milk/cream). PG Tips is a close second however, and I would surely recommend a try at least once. The top flap of the box folds back to open and close, and there is no plastic or waxy paper to keep the tea bags fresh as in other brands. They all just sit piled in the box. You can always transfer the bags to an airtight container if you are worried about maintaining freshness, especially with 240 bags to go through. It may seem like a lot, but if you haven't tried PG Tips before, you'll be so impressed with the improvement in quality over the brands you've only had from grocery stores that it'll probably be gone in no time because you won't be able to stop drinking it :)
I like to make milk tea with this. Just brew up a concentrated batch as if for ice tea, sweeten, then add milk (about one part milk for every two parts tea). Drink cold.
I love the strength and taste of PG Tips. I grew up in England drinking this tea - and when I came to America in 2001 I just could not drink the weak tasteless tea that was being sold on the supermarket shelves - I have introduced my wife and friends to this tea - they now can't drink anything else!
I love tea and this is some GOOOOD tea!
I have loved tea since I was quite young and enjoyed drinking it out of my Grandmother's fine porcelain cups. It started a lifelong quest to find unique and delicious teas!
I had absolutely NO need to buy this particular tea because my cupboards are bulging with various flavors and brands - but I HAD to! Of all places - this was served to me at my favorite Mexican restaurant!
Hubby and I eat there weekly and usually the owners like to treat us to an after-meal cappuccino - but the brother who makes them wasn't there one night, so another of the family offered to make us some "special" tea - and indeed special it IS, as he had brought a personal stash of it back from Spain. He served it to us with half & half - what a lovely, robust drink!
I immediately got on my favorite on-line merchant's site and found that indeed, PG Tips could be had through Amazon - so wasted no time in ordered.
I drink this almost to the exlusion of all my others now and will most definitely reorder when I run low.
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