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    "title": "Brew Tea Co English Breakfast, 15 Tea Bags 56g",
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    "excerpt": "Brew Tea Co English Breakfast is a breakfast blend made from whole leaf rather than fine broken grades.Ingredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this product names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. That bag is half again the size of a standard one, which is why a single bag carries a full mug and why four minutes is the honest steep rather than three. Then milk, generously.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "Brew Tea Co English Breakfast is a breakfast blend made from whole leaf rather than the fine broken grades that fill almost every other tea bag in Britain. It is sold fifteen bags at a time and it is expensive per cup, and both of those facts are consequences of the same decision. What you get for it is a morning tea with a body you can chew on and a malt that does not disappear the moment milk goes in. That is a heavier dose than almost anything else on the everyday shelf, heavier than the 3.1g bags that count as strong and half again the 2.5g bags that fill most cartons, and it is the reason one bag comfortably carries a full-sized mug rather than a teacup. The Taste Profile\n\nMalt: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) The headline. Deep, rounded and slightly sweet, and it keeps building through the fourth minute rather than peaking early the way a broken grade does.\nBody: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) Genuinely thick in the mouth. At 3.7g of whole leaf this is closer to a pot of loose tea than to a bag of dust.\nBriskness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Present but not the point. If you want a sharp snappy cup this is the wrong blend, and that is a deliberate choice rather than a failure.\nMilk tolerance: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) As high as tea goes. There is enough leaf here that milk rounds the cup without ever washing it out.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.5 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind Brew Tea Co Brew Tea Co exists because of a complaint about grading. When tea is sorted, the whole leaf goes one way and the fine broken particles go another, and it is the second stream that ends up in most tea bags because it brews fast, brews dark and packs tightly. Brew Tea Co put the first stream into a bag instead, made the bag large enough for the leaf to open, and accepted that the resulting box would be small and the price per cup would be high. The pack is sold as an English Breakfast, which describes a style rather than a place, so we record the origin as a blend and claim nothing further. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying \n\nWhole leaf in a bag: the format is the product. Large leaf needs room to unfurl, so the bag is folded big, and the leaf releases slowly and evenly rather than all at once.\n\nWhat it is not: not a household box, not a fast cup, and not a decaf. Fifteen bags is a fortnight of one mug a day.\n How Does Brew Tea Co English Breakfast, 15 Tea Bags 56g Compare to: \nBrew Tea Co Earl Grey Proper, 15 Tea Bags 45g: the same whole-leaf idea scented with bergamot, and a lighter 3g bag. The Earl Grey is the afternoon cup drunk black at three minutes; this is the morning mug drunk with milk at four.\nTwinings English Breakfast Plant Based, 80 Tea Bags 200g: the same style on a 2.5g bag of finer leaf, at a small fraction of the price per cup. The Twinings is brisker and quicker; this is heavier, rounder and slower to get going.\n\n Ideal Brewing Conditions Whole leaf is slower than broken leaf, and this blend is built around that. It needs full heat to open the leaf at all and it needs four honest minutes to get where it is going. The usual complaint about it is that the first cup tasted weak, and the usual cause is a three-minute habit carried over from a bag of dust. The Morning Mug \nWater: straight off the boil at 100 degrees. Large leaf will not open properly in anything cooler, and the cup comes out thin.\nMeasure: one bag to 300 to 350ml. At 3.7g this is a mug-sized dose, so a second bag is genuinely unnecessary.\nSteep: four minutes, and mean it. Three gives you a pleasant cup that is nowhere near what you paid for.\nSqueeze: a gentle press before the bag comes out is fine here, unlike with the Earl Grey, because there is no volatile scent to spoil.\nMilk: after the bag is out, and generously. The malt is what milk binds to.\n The Pot, and the Big Mug \nTwo bags to 600ml in a warmed pot, four minutes, then both out together. Two of these bags carry a pot that would normally take three.\nThe pint mug: one bag still works at 400ml if you give it a full five minutes. This is the rare blend where that holds true.\nDo not let it stand. The leaf is generous, so a pot left sitting will keep extracting long after the flavour has finished arriving.\n Getting It Right in the Cup \nWater temperature: 100 degrees, freshly boiled.\nMeasure: one bag per 300 to 350ml.\nSteep: four minutes, five for a very large mug.\nService: with milk. Drunk black at four minutes it is heavy but not harsh, which is unusual and worth trying once.\nStorage: sealed, dry and dark. Whole leaf keeps its character longer than broken leaf, but a fifteen-bag box will be gone long before that matters.\nBest with: a cooked breakfast, buttered toast, porridge, or a bacon sandwich on a Saturday.\n Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this product names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Origin: English Breakfast is a style rather than a place, and the pack is sold as a blend. Certification: any marks are on the box in front of you. Caffeine note: a caffeinated black tea, and we place it at the high end of our own scale because of the dose rather than the style. Bag material: the material and the disposal route are printed on the box. Child safety: caffeinated, and a heavy dose per bag. Not a children's tea; keep out of reach.",
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                "content": "What is different about a whole-leaf tea bag?When tea is graded, the whole leaf goes one way and the fine broken particles go another, and it is the broken stream that fills most tea bags because it brews fast and dark. This bag holds whole leaf and is folded large enough for it to open, so it releases slowly and evenly instead of all at once.My first cup tasted weak. What did I do wrong?Almost certainly three minutes instead of four. Whole leaf is slower than broken leaf because the surface area is smaller, so a habit carried over from a bag of dust will short-change it. Give it four full minutes and the difference is obvious.Does it take milk?Very well, and that is what it was built for. There is enough leaf in the bag that milk rounds the cup without washing it out. Drunk black at four minutes it is heavy but not harsh, which is unusual in a breakfast blend and worth trying once.Can I squeeze the bag?Yes. Unlike a scented tea such as an Earl Grey, there is no volatile aromatic here to spoil, so a gentle press against the side of the mug before the bag comes out costs you nothing and gains a shade of colour.Where does the leaf come from?English Breakfast names a style, not a place, and the pack is sold as a blend. If the current box carries an origin statement, that is the one to trust.Can one bag do a pint mug?Yes, which is not true of most bags. At 3.7g one bag will carry 400ml if you give it five minutes rather than four. For a pot, two bags to 600ml does the work that would normally take three.Fifteen bags seems small. How long does a box last?A fortnight at one mug a day. Brew Tea Co sells in small boxes on the argument that whole leaf is better drunk fresh than bought in bulk, and the per-cup price carries the packaging as well as the tea.Are the bags plastic free or compostable?The material and the correct disposal route are printed on the current box, and that is the authority.Is it organic or Fairtrade certified?Any marks the tea carries are on the box in front of you.Will it work cold brewed?It does, and the whole leaf helps. Three bags in 750ml of cold water overnight gives a smooth, sweet, low-tannin tea with the malt intact, and it is one of the few cold brews that will still take a splash of milk."
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                "title": "Ingredients & Nutrition",
                "content": "Ingredients and allergens. The published ingredient list for this product names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsWhole leaf black teathe whole of the blendEverything in the cup: the deep malt, the thick body, the colour and the caffeine. The whole-leaf grade is why it releases slowly and rewards a fourth minute.Originsold as a blendEnglish Breakfast is a style rather than a place. No country, region or garden is stated; read the current pack for any origin statement.Added flavouringnoneAn unscented breakfast blend. No fruit pieces, no petals, no added flavouring and no added sugar.Pack: Brew Tea Co English Breakfast, 15 Tea Bags 56g; an unscented whole-leaf breakfast blend, GTIN 5060331430070. Store sealed, dry and dark. Read the ingredient declaration, any certification marks, the bag material and the best-before date off the current UK pack.Characterising components shown.Sourcing & blend. Brew Tea Co English Breakfast, 15 Tea Bags 56g is put together by Brew Tea Co, a company built on one objection to the British tea bag: that it is filled with the fine broken grades left over once the whole leaf has been sorted out. Their answer was to put the whole leaf in instead and make the bag big enough for it to open, which produces a small box and a high price per cup. Our assessment rests on the pack format and the brand's published description.What's in Brew Tea Co English Breakfast, 15 Tea Bags 56g, and what isn't:In: whole-leaf black tea at a shade over 3.7g a bag, in a bag folded large enough for the leaf to open, with nothing blended in alongside it.No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: an unscented black tea, so there is nothing to colour or sweeten. Any sweetness in the cup is malt from the leaf."
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                "content": "The flavour of Brew Tea Co English Breakfast, 15 Tea Bags 56g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the cup tastes the way it does from the first lift of steam to the last swallow.The outer layer is aromatic and, as with most unscented black teas, it is deliberately quiet. What rises off a fresh mug is warm, bready and faintly sweet rather than sharp. There is a second thing worth noticing here though: the aroma builds over the first minute rather than arriving complete, and that is the whole-leaf grade announcing itself. A fine broken tea has an enormous surface area and gives you everything it has immediately; a whole leaf has to open first.The flavour spike arrives mid palate and arrives late by the standards of a tea bag. Malt is the headline, deep and rounded and slightly sweet, and it keeps climbing through the fourth minute instead of peaking at two and then flattening. Underneath sits a thick body that owes itself to the 3.7g dose rather than to any particular leaf, and a briskness that is present but modest. That order, slow malt over quiet briskness, is why the cup reads rich rather than sharp, and why the people who dislike it usually wanted a snappier tea.The base structure is the finish, and it is long and soft rather than drying. A broken-grade breakfast blend tends to end with a tannic scrape that milk is then asked to cover; this one ends with malt still in the mouth and very little grip, so milk is rounding a cup that was already round. That is the practical argument for the format, and it is more convincing in the last mouthful than in the first.Getting it right in the cup. One bag per 300 to 350ml, water straight off the boil, four full minutes, then a gentle press and out. Full heat is not optional: large leaf will not open properly in water that has stood, and the result is a thin cup that no extra time recovers. Four minutes is not optional either, and this is where most first cups go wrong, because a three-minute habit learned on a bag of dust short-changes a whole-leaf bag badly. Milk goes in after the bag comes out and can go in generously. Cold brewed for eight hours the same bags give a smooth, sweet, very low-tannin tea with the malt intact, and it is one of the few cold brews that will still take a splash of milk.How water and temperature change it. Temperature governs whether the leaf opens at all, so this is a blend that punishes a kettle left to stand more than most. Time governs how much malt you get, and unusually for a black tea the penalty for a fifth minute is mild rather than severe, because the whole leaf releases tannin more slowly than a broken grade does. That is the same property that lets one bag carry a 400ml mug at five minutes. Hard tap water flattens the malt and pushes the briskness forward; a filtered kettle gives a noticeably rounder cup. Soft water suits it best of all, which is worth knowing before you decide the blend is not for you."
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                "content": "What none of them do is rush it.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n The Morning Mug\n \n How to make the standard mug of Brew Tea Co English Breakfast.\n \n 4 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 bag Brew Tea Co English Breakfast\n 300 to 350ml water straight off the boil\n A generous splash of milk\n Sugar, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Pour 300 to 350ml of water straight off the boil over one bag.\n Steep four full minutes. Three is the commonest mistake and it costs you most of what you paid for.\n Press the bag gently against the side and lift it out.\n Add milk generously. The malt is what it binds to.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A thick, malty mug with a soft finish rather than a tannic scrape, which is the argument for whole leaf in one mouthful.\n\n \n A Pot from Two Bags\n \n How to brew a pot without using three bags.\n \n 4 min\n 2 to 3 cups\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 bags Brew Tea Co English Breakfast\n 600ml water straight off the boil\n A warmed teapot\n Milk\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Warm the pot, add two bags and 600ml of water straight off the boil.\n Steep four minutes, then lift both bags out together.\n Pour within twenty minutes; a generous leaf load keeps extracting long after the flavour has finished arriving.\n Two of these bags carry a pot that would normally take three, because each holds a third more leaf.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A full pot at proper strength on two bags rather than three.\n\n \n The Pint Mug, One Bag\n \n How to fill a 400ml mug without a second bag.\n \n 5 min\n 1 large mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 bag Brew Tea Co English Breakfast\n 400ml water straight off the boil\n Milk\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Pour 400ml of water straight off the boil over one bag.\n Steep five minutes rather than four.\n Lift the bag out and add milk.\n Whole leaf releases tannin slowly, so the fifth minute adds strength here where it would add harshness to a broken grade.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A full pint mug at real strength from a single bag, which is rare.\n\n \n Overnight Cold Brew\n \n How to cold brew a whole-leaf breakfast blend.\n \n 8 hours\n 1 jug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 bags Brew Tea Co English Breakfast\n 750ml cold water\n Ice to serve\n A splash of milk, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Drop three bags into 750ml of cold water in a covered jug.\n Refrigerate eight hours or overnight, then lift the bags out.\n Serve over ice, with a splash of milk if you like.\n Cold water pulls almost no tannin, so the malt arrives without any of the grip.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A smooth sweet cold tea that is one of the few able to take milk straight from the fridge.\n\n \n Spiced Pot\n \n How to build a spiced pot on a heavy breakfast blend.\n \n 6 min\n 3 cups\n Medium\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 bags Brew Tea Co English Breakfast\n 600ml water straight off the boil\n 4 crushed cardamom pods, a small piece of cinnamon, 2 cloves\n 150ml milk\n Sugar to taste\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Steep the spices in the just boiled water for two minutes before the tea goes in.\n Add two bags and steep four more minutes, then lift them out.\n Stir in warm milk and sugar to taste and strain into cups.\n A heavy malty base is what stops the spice taking over. A light blend vanishes underneath it.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A spiced pot where the tea is still the loudest thing in the cup.\n\n \n Builder\u2019s Brew, Whole Leaf Version\n \n How to make a very strong mug without it turning harsh.\n \n 5 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 bag Brew Tea Co English Breakfast\n 250ml water straight off the boil\n Milk\n 1 teaspoon sugar, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Use less water rather than more tea: 250ml on one bag.\n Steep five minutes.\n Press the bag firmly and lift it out, then add milk and sugar.\n Concentrating by reducing the water keeps the malt in proportion; adding bags and time together is what makes a builder\u2019s brew harsh.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A very strong mug that is thick rather than bitter, which most strong tea is not."
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