Pyramid Teabags

This is one of my everyday teas. I like to start the day with a pot of robust black tea such as London Cuppa, Yorkshire Gold, or PG Tips. The trick with the PG Tips is a shorter brewing time – I usually give it three minutes – and add milk. To me it’s brisk, yet smooth. I’ll be drinking a lot of this tea, since hubby gave me a case for Christmas.

This is my “everyday” tea. I start every morning with a pot of PG Tips.
“..a delicious brew fit for a monkey.”

Added a sprinkle of Scottish Breakfast from English Tea Store to round out the flavor. Strong and delicious.

I drink this daily, if I have it. Drink with milk or half and half. It is stout and rich.

My favorite tea so far. The taste is incredible and I can brew it anywhere from very light to so strong it jumps out of the cup and slaps me awake. Whether i mix it with a little honey or do it up England style with milk, this tea never disappoints.

I tried this tea for the first time with a hearty dose of lemon today and I am happy to say that the tea is strong enough to hold its own with my over-zealous addition of lemon juice.

This is in my opinion the best tea out there. Definitely my favorite breakfast tea, but perfect enough to drink at any other time of the day. I recommend this for everyone.

this is my old stand-by here in Chicago we have pretty good tap water so this turns out GREAT for me, no funny smell, I only steep for about a minute and a half and dont squeeze the bag so its never bitter unless I forget and stew it

This is my every day tea!

I like strong, BLACK teas with lots of mouth drying tannins that wake me up and don’t go all soft when you add the milk.

This is the most functional, strongest tea I’ve had from a bag.

I dig it.

It’s my favorite tea, I’m on my second cup right now. Very glad of the people who mentioned how long to steep this particular pyramid bag, I was letting it go way too long!

1. PG Tips is, at this point, my sole morning tea option. I have always loved it. It has a warm, full-bodied morning glow to it … a great way to start the day, and I don’t seem to tire of it.
2. That being said: I think that all of the reviews pro-and-con are accurate. Steeping time is critical.

If you want to drink this tea without milk/cream/sugar/bitterness, you will probably want to keep the steeping time in the 90sec.-to-250sec. range… certainly not one second longer than 3 minutes.

I always want to drink this tea with milk&sugar, and so I try to keep the steeping time in the 3.5min.-to-4.0min. range… The bitterness that results from the longer steep-time is nicely assuaged by the milk and sugar. I can’t really drink a 5min.-steeped cup of PG Tips if it has nothing added to it.

Regarding the pyramid bag: I think it’s brilliant; these tea leaves are loaded with flavor, and the pyramid bag seems to provide optimal transfer… which is why an extra few seconds of steeping can make a big difference.

One other point: If you do a short steep, it is quite conceivable to re-use the bag for a second cup… that 2nd cup would be well-less-caffeinated as well.

Amazing! Truly an excellent everyday tea- easy to make and doesn’t steep for too long, so it’s easy to throw in a mug and go! It’s a bagged tea with the expectations of a loose leaf: it’s got a great flavor, but you have to respect the tea- not like other bagged teas that you can leave in a mug for hours. I’ve found that I definitely have to keep an eye on this tea as it’s steeping (I’m usually pretty good about using a stopwatch, which helps!), but if brewed for the right amount of time it really delivers! Definitely my favorite black tea :)

This is one of my first teas. It’s the closest thing to what I remember tasting when I was having breakfast in England and first became addicted to tea. It has a very strong, stimulating taste and I used to wake up to it every morning before I realized the dark color will probably stain my teeth and I cut back a lot. That and the palpitations have me inclined to save it for more slow-to-start days.

Tips: I always added creamer/milk and sugar and it becomes a good substitute for coffee. Not for the faint of heart.

Reliable and tasty. A little tannic without milk, so I always have a splash with it. I’d like to try the special blend, but haven’t found it locally.

Exactly what you would expect from a classic English Breakfast Tea. Can be steeped for relatively long periods of time without bitterness. But I doubt that the pyramidal tea bags really add anything – they’re made of conventional filter paper, so they don’t really stay upright after you’ve poured water onto them.

Just the kick I need to get going in the mornings. There may be classier breakfast teas out there, but this one gets me awake and keeps me sane when work is a hassle.

One of my favorite teas of all time. Yes, I know it’s bagged, but I love it. It’s my easy go-to tea. So tasty and so great with a dash of milk!

This is a good strong, basic black tea. However, the caffeine is just too much for me to handle on a regular basis. (I prefer decaf.)

a convenient tea and pretty good, but it doesn’t wow me with complexity.