| | |  | Pasta & Noodle Dishes | Home » » » PG Tips Black Tea, Pyramid Tea Bags, 80-Count Boxes (Pack of 4) | | | | | | | Description: | | Founded in 1869 by Arthur Brook, developed his own quality blends mixing together various estate teas. This ensured a more consistent quality because, as with any crop, the characteristics of a consignment can vary according to climate, time of year and general growing conditions. In 1930 PG Tips was launched in the UK as a loose leaf tea in soft packs. It was originally called Pre-Gest-Tee" but soon abbreviated by grocers and van salesmen as PG. The company adopted the official name and added 'tips' to highlight that PG takes only the top two leaves and a bud to make its tea. PG Tips is a popular British blend of the finest Assam, Ceylon and Kenyan teas which produces a rich and refreshing flavor. The definitive traditional English tea. The PG Tips pyramid tea bag gives the tea leaves more room to move around than a flat conventional tea bag. So the tea bag works like a miniature tea pot. This allows for all the freshness to be released for the best tasting cup of PG. | | | Features: | |
• 100% Natural Tea - Rainforest Alliance Certified
• England's #1 Tea
• The PG Tips pyramid tea bag allows the tea more room to brew like a miniature tea pot, which helps to release the freshness and best tasting cup of tea.
• Blended with the finest Assam, Ceylon and Kenyan teas.
• Product of England
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 8.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 92 reviews |
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26 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 A fine and sturdy everyday teaOct 31, 2008
By Gary Coffrin
This is a very drinkable blend of Assam, Ceylon, and Kenyan black teas from PG Tips, one of the UK's most popular brands. Although some California grocery stores (and Cost Plus World Market) stock this tea, I had not tried it until reading helpful reviews on Amazon.
Each PG Tips bag weighs 38 percent more 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. I drink my tea black, but PG Tips is clearly robust enough to maintain character with milk or sweetener.
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 typically 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 (like I) 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.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent all around teaJun 07, 2007
By Jane
"Bibliophile"
We drink a lot of tea in this house, and after trying many other basic black teas have settled on this as the best one all around. For the first pot in the morning to the iced tea later in the day, this is the one we all (four tea-drinkers) prefer.
It is robust without being bitter, does not develop a stewed flavor after sitting in the pot for an hour or so, and is very even in quality from batch to batch.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
The Only Tea You NeedJan 15, 2007
By Valarie Pittman
The flavor of this tea is strong and bold without tasting bitter. PG Tips is the best tea I've ever tasted and I've been drinking it for over 10 years! I'm glad that Amazon.com is selling it because it's definitely more expensive if you buy from those specialty tea shops. Everyone that I've introduced this to loves it. If you're a serious tea drinker you can't go wrong with this. It's the UK's #1 tea, that says it all!
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
THE KINDMar 02, 2007
By Michael Parker
If you buy one tea, buy this one: PG TIPS. It is the workhorse, the best of the daily drivers, the most satisfing all round bagged tea I have ever had. Other teas might be more rarified and refined, good for special occasions- but I found them all to grow stale in my cupboard if this was in the house. For a more astringent cup, now and then, add a pinch of green tea to your brew.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Tea from the UKAug 29, 2007
By Faith V. Wheatley
"Faith Wheatley , mother, grandmother, elementary teacher"
This tea is probably the best known tea in the UK. It's in every home. Not fancy but GOOD TEA. It's orange Pekoe black tea if you're a connoisseur! At last the USA is discovering tea!
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