Customer Reviews

PG Tips Pyramid Tea Bags, 160-Count Boxes (Pack of 4)

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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.

Black tea is a staple at our house. After having this recommended to us by a Canadian friend, we ordered some. This is definitely one of the best black teas we have found. Very full bodied, and yet refined. Try it.

Amazon's price is the best we have found, and we are on subscribe and save - we get the 4 large boxes about every 60 days. A good deal.

There is a lot of tea here - if you want to sample it, I would recommend ordering a small box in case you don't like it.

This is the best tea in the U.S. according to my tea loving daughters. Even my Australian tea drinking mother-in-law likes it and she has been an adamant Red Rose tea drinker for eons. The bags don't have a string, however, and are shaped like a pyramid so you cannot benefit from using the string to wrap around a spoon to squeeze all the fluid out (like my mohter-in-law does) but overall it comes highly recommended by my family.

P G TIPS is a very high quality tea and buying in quantity from Amazon.com is better value than purchasing individually from import or grocery stores.

So far, this product PG Tips is the best tea you can buy from the UK for in the States. Nice robust tea, best grade possible for such large quantities. I've tried to find it in stores here in California and it's just not around. Tea that has the 'tips' of the tea leaf in it is a better quality than what we can buy here. I buy large quantities at a time.

I love PG tips and getting it delivered to my house is a big plus. I order extra for my friend at work and deliver it to her. This is one of my favorite teas, with a spoonful of honey and dash of milk--stronger flavored than what you get in US teas.

Once we started using PG Tips, we could not go back to other teas - even if they were easier to find. PG Tips is the best tea for me in the morning. My wife likes loose tea, but I like the pyramid shaped bags. After a few minutes of steeping, it is the fullest richest morning drink. If I want to have it even stronger, I leave the bag in the cup. If I only need the usual jolt of rich tasting caffeine, I remove the bag and enjoy the best tasting tea in the world. Amazon sent our tea to us quickly and at a reasonable price.

PG Tips is my favorite black tea. The quality is much better than the big national brands. I always know what it will taste like, unlike some brands that seem to vary by batch. It has robust full flavor that holds up if I add a flavoring. Buying it in the bulk packages makes it less than half the price of a grocery store.

I've loved PG Tips from the day my friend introduced it to me while visiting out in England, as a preferred brand amongst many in the UK. The pyramid bags are so brilliant and really do make a difference in best brewing each cup of goodness quickly. Just let one brew in med sized mug for 3-5 mins w/hot water, dunk it with a spoon couple times each minute then strain, dump the bag, add a little milk (or non-dairy creamer), some sugar if you prefer (or real sweet like I prefer) and voila! you've got the best cup of tea with breakfast, afternoon, or evening snack you could ever ask for. You can taste the quality. Thank you Amazon for making these available fresh at an amazingly reasonable price! I can never run out of my PG Tips now...

This is a great price on a great tea. $25 for 4 boxes on sale. Make sure you have some friends to share it with as 680 tea bags will go a long way. (I would not keep it for over a year) The tea is best after 3 - 5 minutes of steeping, any longer and it gets bitter. Wonderful with a spot of milk.