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PG Tips from PG Tips

Steepster Score 86 Ratings Rate This Tea

76/100

PG Tips

Black Tea by PG Tips

PG Tips has been the best known and most popular brand of tea in the UK for over 75 years. Stronger than most Indian and African teas, PG Tips has a similar taste to our English Breakfast Tea.

Always innovating and improving its products, PG Tips features pyramid-shaped tea bags, which allow more room for tea to infuse and produce a better flavor. The Freeflow material used in PG Tips tea bags is made of webbed fibers, which allow water to pass through the filter, reaching the tea quickly and decreasing the brewing time. The Freeflow Pyramid bags result in fast brewing and a superior taste.

Contents: 40 teabags, 4.4 oz

91 Tasting Notes

cartomancer
1

WTF? These people test on animals? FAIL.

Also, not a good tea.

Goldii Lock
68

My Mom LOVES this tea. She kind of turned me onto it. When I’m feeling lazy and don’t want to brew a loose tea I will sometimes throw this into a mug and brew it up. It tastes best with milk and sugar of course. I’m never unhappy with this tea it totally does NOT suck.

Em
100
Em

PG Tips is my go-to tea. It’s the Anglophile in me. I like a good strong builder’s tea with milk and sugar and this is the best. Discovered this at the Tea Spot in Defiance, Ohio and was delighted to see it available and a lot less expensive at Walmart. This is now a staple in my home.

Michael Cutillo
82

This is my work tea. I keep a box of 240 on my desk and make a cup when I need it.

My favorite bag tea.

The Teapot's Revenge
10

Thank goodness we no longer have this at work anymore! Nasty low grade ctc floor sweepings. Needs an age to steep to get any flavour out the bag, yet once steeped has an oily film on top of the liquid. Known as “monkey tea” for a reason…

erinbarrywolfe
100

monkeeeeeey! my favorite british tea by far- you can never go wrong with the PG tips

Tysha
95

This is what I drink 90% of the time. We’ve ended up buying the bulk catering bags because I get through the standard boxes so quickly. It’s also the tea they put in the machines in work, so it’s a good thing I enjoy it so much!

Branko Šabarić
90

Just came back from London and this tea brings pure English taste to my home.

wilddogs
67

I drank this at home before visiting London. It’s a good, strong black tea. In London, mostly I found Twinings or Lipton. I did see it sold at a convenience store with a sock monkey, and really wish I bought it! So cute.

Susie N-W
100

I drink this almost every morning, usually with a little milk since it’s so strong. I only steep it for a minute or so if I’m making it for my sister. I love it for the taste, and also because I can buy it in enormous boxes so it takes awhile for me to run out. Plus, it comes in convenient teabags, but not in annoying little packets that I have to tear apart.

susanlouise

much much better than Lipton, quite enjoyable with milk. Perfectly fine but not extraordinary.

Joker
76

In the class of teabag breakfast teas, this is a go to. Nothing flashy or exotic here. Just a dependable cuppa. I drink it black with truvia.

Aquariusnat
78
Aquariusnat 3 tasting notes

Love this tea ! Had two cups with some honey and a little milk mixed in . The strong flavor is exactly what you need in a breakfast tea . So glad I discovered this one last year .

Finished up my box this morning . Yummy as always !

Had my usual two cups for breakfast . I like that this tea is strong enough to handle milk . Some teas just lose their flavor under the weight of milk . Hopefully work will be just as easy today as yesterday .

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traveltea
78

This tea is great during exams :-)
I normally brew for about two minutes and it comes out strong enough to keep me awake but not so bitter that I can’t drink it.

Moira
97

I love PG Tips, it’s what a “proper” cup of tea tastes like for me. I have it with a bit of soymilk and that’s it. I used to put sugar in my tea when I started drinking it but no more of that nonsense now!! Sugar spoils the taste, I find.

Rena Sherwood
89
Rena Sherwood 2 tasting notes

Last night, I opened up a new box of rectangular PG Tips bags (which is the only kind I can get here in the Greater Philly area) and noticed that the bags seem to be smaller than previously. The tea is also a bit weaker and flatter, so I’m brewing it longer. Perhaps I just got a bad box. Usually, this is a predictably brilliant everyday tea.

I think Jillian mentioned that Lipton took over the distribution rights for PG Tips in America, but I think both companies are owned by Unilever, which owns about one-fifth of all goods in the world. I really hope this isn’t a preview of things to come. Right now, I’m looking forward to having a Red Rose rather than another cup of PG Tips from this box.

Wait a minute — perhaps those iffy bags I recently spoke abut were just flukes. Today, I grabbed bags from the middle of the box and the tea came out GORGEOUS. Even though the bags in my box are all individually wrapped, I wonder if some of the leaves are from another blend or harvest than the good ones of today. Either that or I was abducted by aliens in my sleep and they changed my taste buds through an evil experiment and then returned me to Earth before I woke up.

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Eugene Archibald
82

This is my everyday tea. I carry a big travel mug of it around, iced. Delish!

erin marie
75

my favourite basic every day tea. i take this on camping trips.

elizabeth ann
75
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