Tetley Premium Loose Leaf Tea, 15.87 Ounce

Tetley is tried and true. It’s been around a long time. Makes a very good cup of tea.

We like this tea. We can only find it on line.

Strong and bold taste. The freshness is great really different compared with tea bags.

This purchase was my very first time buying Tetley Tea even though I had heard of it for decades. Overall, I think it tastes just fine and was a decent value. The one thing that bothers me is that they call it "loose leaf" when it doesn't looks like any loose leaf tea I've ever seen. It looks almost granulated, like individual leaves were tightly crumpled up into balls like you'd crumple up a piece of paper before throwing it in the trash.

Tip: This has a foil liner. Consider using kitchen shears to cut just the tip off the corner of the foil liner. You can then pour the tea into another container as though pouring through a funnel without the spillage that happens if you fully open the foil liner then try to pour or scoop the tea. It may be a little slower but there's no cleanup time so I think it's faster overall. Or, I've just used the tea in this box without real airtightness and the tea survived well that way but I've given in to recommendations for airtight storage while I'm not actually convinced it is necessary. I love the flavor of this tea. I make my cups of tea using small pour over coffee screen/cone I found here on Amazon. I set the cone into a cup I've filled with hot water and let the tea soak a minute. I gave up on purpose-sold tea canisters as the one I liked the appearance of and tried had problems. Also, I realized I don't want clutter on my counter. Now I'm keeping some of this in a short mason jar with a plastic screw on lid inside a cabinet (for the dark) and the remainder, the opened box, inside a plastic storage bag in the same cabinet. .

Title says it all.

I have never used loose leaf tea in my entire life. I tried Tetley tea with my Keurig coffee maker, and it really gives you a good cup of tea. Definitely a difference from the teabag. I just put the tea leaves in the K-cup like I would coffee and something about the hot water going through the loose tea leaves gives it more flavor. You would have to try it for yourself to decide, but I surprisingly enjoy it.

When I was a kid in the 60s, my grandmother drank Tetley every day. In spite of all the teapots in the house, which had belonged to my English great-grandfather, she made tea with tea bags. She always saved her used teabag for a second cup, which disgusts me in retrospect. At the time, however, there seemed to be little difference between the two cups. So I drank tea from an early age, and it tasted good to me. I got a little older, and I started to experiment with other teas. I finally settled on Twinings loose Darjeeling, which I drank until very recently. Now I can no longer find Twinings in the tin. I looked at other brands, including teas I'd tried and rejected over the years. In desperation, I ordered tea bags and cut them open, but it was tedious and not tasty, so I decided to go back to my roots. Big mistake. Unfortunately, this package of tea, if you can call it tea, in no way resembles what I drank at my grandmother's kitchen table. The tea itself resembles gunpowder in texture, which would be fine if it were green or oolong, but rolling black tea doesn't improve it in any way. As to the taste--I might as well have brewed actual gunpowder, because it's just not drinkable, even with extra milk and sugar. I have experimented with quantity and brewing time to no avail. Tetley is just bad tea.