Teapigs

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Teapigs dragged proper loose-leaf quality into the convenience of a bag and refused to apologise for the price. Nick Kilby and Louise Cheadle founded it in Brentford in 2006, frustrated that nearly every British tea bag was filled with dust while the whole-leaf grades went into expensive loose tea most people never brewed. Their answer was the temple, a roomy plant-based pyramid holding whole leaves and real pieces of fruit, flower and spice, so the cup tastes like properly made loose tea without the pot. It became one of the defining names of the British premium-tea wave, and it has been a certified B Corp since 2019.

Teapigs was founded in 2006 in England. Nick Kilby and Louise Cheadle found Teapigs in London with a mission to bring premium loose-leaf-quality tea into the convenient tea-bag format, using pyramid bags to allow whole-leaf expansion rather than the crushed tea-dust in standard tea bags. 2019: B Corp certification.

Teapigs sits at the premium end of the tea-bag category with B Corp certification since 2019, tea temples that Teapigs says go in industrial composting, a soft-plastic inner bag and recyclable paperboard outer packaging. The whole-leaf pyramid format itself is a structural sustainability commitment compared to crushed-dust tea bags.

Use fresh, just-boiled water for black teas (around 100°C) and slightly cooler water (75 to 85°C) for green and white teas, steeping 2 to 4 minutes to taste. See the teas.co.uk brewing calculator for the ideal temperature and time for each tea.