Bewley's Irish Breakfast Tea 250 g 80 Tea Bags

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Excellent tea. Larger tea bags than most other brands.Bewley's Teas are simply excellent. The breakfast tea's overtone are somewhat more acidic than the afternoon tea they offer, but the flavor and aroma of both are excellent. The individual tea bags are larger than those to which most American tea drinkers are probably accustomed. I believe they are intended for making pots of tea rather than individual cups, although they can be used either way.5MagnificentBewley's Irish Breakfast is a truly great tea and worth the price. Yes, other teas can be purchased at the supermarket for well less than three dollars for 100 bags. It is an insult to Bewley to mentioned such stuff when reviewing this wonderful tea. I gave up coffee after my first sip of hot Irish Breakfast and with a bit of milk and some sugar it is Nirvana. However, this is not a tea for the weak-hearted who are used to fruit flavored trough water. Bewley's Irish Breakfast packs a punch as if you just wandered into a dark pub on the wrong side of Dublin. It'll wake you up in the morning like your dear mother's slap and the firehouse bell combined. A rich, malty drink that'll make your eyes burn as you gasp with delight, Bewley produces the finest tea in the home country and has been smuggled into the UK for decades. It was near impossible to get in the states until recently but I was stunned silly to find it here on Amazon and at a price as good as it gets. Treat yourself to a mug of some superb tea and order some Bewley's Irish. You won't look back and you best be ready to brawl.5Flavor and fond memories!Discovered this tea on a trip to Scotland and Ireland. My father was from Wales so I grew up drinking tea the British way with milk and sugar but after leaving home I have been primarily a coffee drinker for many many years. My sister and I loved this so much we had completely switched to tea midway in our trip. I knew I would miss it when I got home so I was on Amazon while we were still abroad and it was waiting for me when I got back. Not only love the flavor but every time I drink it it takes me back to that wonderful trip. It is strong because it is made to drink it the way most folks In Ireland and the United Kingdom do.5Top quality for depth of richness and taste.RTE Consumer Panel, recorded in a You Tube Video, (2009), found Bewley superior to Barry's tea, Lyon's, and Dunne's. I have used PG Tips, Typhoo, Yorkshire Gold, Taylor's Scottish Breakfast Tea, etc. and generally like them all--but I must say that Bewley's tea has a depth of flavor and richness that is consistent--and for this reason I highly recommend this choice. Of course a splash of milk and a touch of sweetness added makes it a perfect cup of tea.5They Changed More Than Just the Packaging....A couple years ago my mom bought me a box of Bewley's Irish Breakfast tea and a box of Bewley's Irish Afternoon tea. For whatever reason, I decided I liked the Afternoon version better for a daily basis. I made it my everyday tea and continued to buy it consistently over the last couple years, and never bought another Irish Breakfast. Recently, Bewley's changed their packaging to make it less interesting and eye-catching. Maybe sales were too high and they wanted to give Lipton a fighting chance. Even so, I expected the tea to be exactly the same as before.Last week, I realized I still had a few more tea bags of the Irish Breakfast version from two years ago. When I tried it, I was surprised by the wonderful malty flavor, and wondered why I hadn't kept using this tea as well. So, I bought a new Bewley's Irish Breakfast from Amazon. But when I brewed the new tea, I noticed it seemed to lack that wonderful malt. Was I imagining it the first time?So, I decided to conduct an experiment. I took two mugs of the same size and put an old tea bag in the first one and a new tea bag in the second. In the photos, the old one in the bronze box is on the left and the new one in the green box is on the right. It's hard to see in the photos, but in the mug the old tea is just ever-so-slightly darker than the new tea, even though I carefully prepared them the same way. I poured boiling water over both tea bags, let them steep for exactly five minutes, and then removed each bag. Since I always drink my tea with sugar and milk, I measured an exact amount of sugar and milk into each cup to be sure different levels wouldn't effect the taste. (I do actually have several important things to get done today, believe it or not, but if one is going to conduct a tea tasting experiment, an adequate scientific method must be employed.) I even had some tasteless cereal on hand as a palate cleanser.After carefully tasting each, the result was that the old one definitely still had a distinct, pungent malt flavor, whereas the new one was bland by comparison. I'm finishing off both mugs as I type this review, and I can still tell the difference between them as they cool to room temp. Even when I don't pay attention to which mug I pick up, I know what I'm getting. In conclusion, I was not imagining that the new box tasted bland compared to the old one. Bewley's must have changed more than the packaging over the last couple years. Now I wonder if my Irish Afternoon tea is disappointingly different as well, but I just haven't noticed.I'm giving it 4 stars just because Bewley's is still an enjoyable tea, but it loses a star for the change in flavor and/or quality. I may look around for another Irish Breakfast tea that has the distinct, malty flavor I like.I might also note that the old box is "best by March 2017", so even a year and a half after its best by date, it still tastes better than the new one.4What a POOR way to PACKAGE Irish Tea! They NEVER told me in their ad!!I bought this book of tea because we enjoyed it during our last trip to Ireland ... but this was a BIG MISTAKE! The "tea bags" are attached in groups of 2. NOT INDIVIDUAL tea bags. They have NO string attached to dunk the "tea bag." You will have to CUT each 2-attached bags to use 1 for a cup of tea. Obviously the company SAVED money by VERY POORLY PACKAGING the "tea bags" without revealing to the buyer what they were doing. I WILL NEVER RECOMMEND this company or this product to anyone!!! VERY DISAPPINTED and CHEATED.1Great taste. Good price.I like this irish breakfast teaIt has a refreshing taste . Has a caramel like taste. I do buy the same flavor by stash tea from Amazon. But that brand is now twice the price! This is nearly just as good. . I took one star off because the bags dont have strings. But that's ok.4Our taste test winnerAfter a trip to Ireland and Scotland I came back to the U.S. an avid Irish tea drinker. After trying a few brands my husband and I did a side by side comparison of Barry's, Bewley's, Harney & Sons and Trader Joe's Irish tea. Bewley's was the favorite. My husband likes a bit of milk. I prefer no milk but instead just the smallest pinch of baking soda (smooths, taking out the "bite"). These are not individually wrapped, but we do not mind at all; we store a portion of the bags in tea tin, putting the rest of the box in a freezer bag and storing in the freezer. I also recommend the Bewley's afternoon tea. Harney & Sons was an extremely close second, those are individually wrapped.5If you love Assam and Darjeeling black teas you will love this tea.This is a delicious blend of Assam and Darjeeling black teas. I am not sure which type of Darjeeling Bewley's tea co. uses but it tastes like muscatel so it may be a second flush Darjeeling. Neither flavour stands out, and they are both well blended. This tastes great steeped weak for 2,5 minutes, at the standard 3 minutes, and stronger at 4-5 minutes. It tastes great black and with milk. I like this tea in the morning, afternoon, and even at night. I do not re-steep the tea-bags or add sweetener, but I have friends that do and they told me how the tea still tastes great on a second steep and with sweetener. The tea is also inexpensive since you get 80 tea bags in a box.5Flavor is decent.After going to Ireland I wanted to really get Bewley's Irish tea. These don't come individually sealed, so once I bought it and ripped the plastic covering, I easily placed the whole box and teas into a gallon ziploc bag and make sure it's air tight. These is a dark malty flavor to the tea and i know it's probably being cheap, but I use it for more than one cup per tea bag and add more water continually until there's nothing left. Nonetheless, the flavor is lighter than when I did buy it in Ireland, however in Ireland, they cold the tea bags individually wrapped in paper cardboard, so maybe some flavor gets lost.4

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Bewley's Irish Breakfast Tea 250 g 80 Tea Bags

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