PG Tips Black Tea, Pyramid Tea Bags, 40-Count Boxes (Pack of 6)

by PG Tips

Product Features

• 6-count boxes of English black tea (240 total tea bags)
• Made from a blend of Assam, Ceylon, and Kenyan black teas
• Pyramid-shaped tea bags allow more room for tea leaves to soak into water
• Brews a refreshing, robust cup with little caffeine and plenty of antioxidants
• Contains about half the caffeine of a similar amount of coffee

Product Description

PG Tips Black Tea, Pyramid Tea Bags, 4.4 Ounces, 6-Count Boxes

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001FA1KNK
• UPC: 667803000905
• Item model number: PG40
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,714 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Briton's #1 Tea - PG Tips, October 22, 2007

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Michael - "the Tea Lover" - See all my reviews

The folks in the United Kingdom drink more PG Tips tea than any other brand, and perhaps after you try it; it will be your #1 choice, too! (By the way, the folks in Ireland drink more tea per person than in any other country.)

PG Tips Tea and PG Tips Special Blend Tea is our home's standard tea. There are a few specialty retailers in the USA that now offer the PG Tips Special Blend Tea and hopefully Amazon will do so soon.

In the 1930s (the pre-digestive era in history) this tea was introduced by the name "Pre-Gest-Tee" suggesting the tea could be consumed before food was eaten, but it was the grocers who gave it the abbreviation of "PG" - and the company added "tips" (since the company uses only the best part of the tea plant, the two top leaves and bud of the tea plant to make the tea).

Many black teas sold in the USA are graded the basic medium grade Orange Pekoe (generally the tea leaves below the top two and bud), which is one of the reasons PG Tips gets higher reviews than most other teas. PG Tips also uses their pyramid tea bag that allows ample room for the tea to expand as it is infused. Additionally, in my opinion, PG Tips blends only two blends, rather than blending a wide assortment, thus becoming really good at what they do.

Here at Amazon PG Tips is priced at just over a nickel a tea bag (a good value for an imported product) when you order the 240 count boxes in a set of two, and even less expensive in the higher volumes. PG Tips makes wonderful ice tea too, and that's good news since Americans drink about 80% of their tea as iced tea and only 20% as hot tea. Worldwide more hot tea is consumed than iced tea, and worldwide tea is the most consumed beverage (next to water), while in the USA it is the sixth most consumed beverage (next to water).

A very good question to ponder is "Why this is?"

Drinking an adequate amount of tea daily is now being considered to be very good for one's health, and it is much more enjoyable to drink a really good cuppa (cup of tea), especially at the nominal cost of about a nickel a cup when compared to one of those gourmet coffee places who charge upwards of four to five dollars for a large cup of coffee.

When we have a guest in our home we always offer them a PG Tips cuppa, and they always say they have never tasted a tea this good - thus, I rate it 5 stars for its quality and very nominal price!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't start your day without it, June 8, 2007

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subbes (United States) - See all my reviews

I would be lost without a source for PG Tips pyramid teabags.
This is good, everyday tea for a strong, near-lifesaving cuppa.

Don't buy it expecting a gourmet experience (this tea doesn't come in wild ginger or peach flavours). Buy it expecting a good normal cup of tea, miles better than Lipton's floorsweepings or Tetley's pure tannin.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST tea, January 12, 2007

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M. White "Misty's mum" - See all my reviews
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I have been drinking hot tea since childhood, which is a fairly common thing for children in rural Maine. I've been faithful to Red Rose for years, until a British co-worker introduced me to PG Tips. There's no turning back for me now! The strong, robust cup of tea I get from one bag of the PG Tips has spoiled me for anything else.