Clipper Organic Everyday, 160 Tea Bags 464g
Organic tea usually turns up in a box of forty, priced as something you buy now and again and keep for yourself. This one arrives a hundred and sixty at a time, at the scale a household actually gets through, and that is what makes it worth shelf space rather than anything unusual in the cup. The cup is deliberately ordinary. Brisk at the front, moderate body underneath it, and roughly enough tannin grip to carry a splash of milk without the mug turning hard at four minutes. Drunk black it reads a shade underpowered, so anyone who takes it without milk should run the steep the extra minute. Three is the working figure otherwise. The mistake nearly everybody makes with an everyday bag is pulling it out at ninety seconds because the colour already looks right. Colour arrives long before flavour does, and a mug that looks strong and tastes of nothing is almost always that. If the house drinks tea steadily all week and you would rather the box by the kettle were the organic one, this is the box that makes that practical.
Clipper Organic Everyday, in brief.
Clipper Organic Everyday is the organic version of the everyday British black tea, in a full 160-bag household pack rather than the small premium box organic tea usually arrives in, picked into the teas.co.uk curator selection as the organic tea you can afford to drink all day.
Brisk, built for milk, and forgiving of a steep that runs long. Brew it at a full 100 degrees for three minutes and take the bag out before the milk goes in.
Clipper Organic Everyday is the organic version of the tea most British households actually drink: a brisk black blend in a round bag, bought a hundred and sixty at a time rather than twenty. That combination is rarer on the shelf than it sounds. Organic certification usually pushes a tea into a small premium box of forty, priced as an occasional purchase rather than a staple. This is a 464g household pack meant to sit by the kettle and get used all week.
It is the pack to buy when the house drinks tea steadily through the day and you would rather the everyday cup were the organic one, instead of keeping a separate special box for visitors. Nothing about the cup is exotic and nothing is meant to be. It is built to take milk, to survive being left a minute longer than you intended, and to taste the same on a Thursday afternoon as it did on Monday morning, which is the entire job of an everyday tea.
Curator notes: briskness, malt, grip and milk tolerance are scored by us, from the 464g box and Clipper's own account of it. We normally dispatch the big 160 bag Clipper in 1 to 2 working days. Questions further down deal with storing a box this size, steeping times and the pot for four.
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The Story Behind Clipper
Clipper is a British tea company whose range is built around organic blends rather than carrying organic as a single line at the edge of a conventional range, and this everyday black is the workhorse of it.
The pack is sold and listed as an organic tea, and we record it as organic on that basis alone. Which certifying body appears on the box, and whether it also carries Fairtrade, Soil Association or Rainforest Alliance marks, has to be read off the current UK pack rather than taken from this page.
Packaging: This box and its 160 bags may not share a bin; the printed notes and your council's rules will say.
What You Are Actually Buying
- One bag, one mug: 160 bags, 160 cups. There is no sensible second steep from an everyday black bag; a second pour is hot water with a memory of tea in it.
- What it is not: not a decaf, not a single-origin or estate tea, and not a speciality leaf sold on provenance.
Getting It Right in the Cup
- Water temperature: 100 degrees Celsius, freshly boiled.
- Measure: one bag per 250ml.
- Steep: three minutes, covered if you are brewing straight in a mug.
- Storage: sealed and dry, away from coffee, spices and anything else with a strong smell. A 160-bag box is open for months, and tea takes on kitchen odours faster than most people expect.
- Not resteepable: one bag, one cup, then the bin or the compost caddy.
- Best with: buttered toast, a bacon sandwich, shortbread, or nothing at all at four in the afternoon.
Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Clipper Organic Everyday, 160 Tea Bags 464g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Clipper
Clipper was the first UK brand to launch a Fairtrade tea (1994) and remains synonymous with ethical, unbleached, plastic-free tea bags. Dorset-based and owned since 2012 by Wessanen, now Ecotone, with a comprehensive range covering everyday English Breakfast, organic blends, and herbal infusions.
Packaging: This box and its 160 bags may not share a bin; the printed notes and your council's rules will say.
Our commitment to the planet
The taste profile
How does it compare
An everyday black bag is more forgiving than a speciality leaf, but the forgiveness has limits, and weak cups almost always come from the same two places: water that has gone off the boil while the kettle sat, and a bag lifted out after ninety seconds because the colour already looked right. Colour arrives well before flavour does.
The Standard Mug
The Pot for Four
Made with this tea
The Standard Mug
How to make the standard everyday mug with Clipper Organic Everyday.
- 1 bag Clipper Organic Everyday
- 250ml water straight off the boil
- A splash of milk
- Pour a freshly boiled 250ml of water over one bag of Clipper's organic Everyday.
- Steep for 3 minutes, covered if you can.
- Lift the bag out, pressing it once, softly, against the mug wall. Do not squeeze it hard, or the cup turns cloudy and sharp.
- Add the milk last, after the bag is out.
What you'll end up with: A clean, brisk everyday cup with enough tannin grip to hold the milk rather than disappear into it.
The Pot for Four
How to make a proper pot for four with Clipper Organic Everyday.
- 4 bags Clipper Organic Everyday
- 800ml water straight off the boil
- A teapot
- Warm the pot first, using a little boiling water that you then throw away.
- Pour 800ml of freshly boiled water over 4 bags and steep for 3 to 4 minutes.
- Lift all four bags out together before you pour the first cup.
- Serve. A cleared pot holds for twenty minutes; a pot left standing on its bags is stewed within five.
What you'll end up with: Four consistent cups instead of one good one and three that got progressively worse.
Double Strength Iced Tea
A double strength brew of Clipper Everyday, chilled and poured over ice.
- 4 bags Clipper Organic Everyday
- 500ml water straight off the boil
- A full glass of ice
- Lemon
- Brew 4 bags for 4 minutes in 500ml of water that has just boiled. This is deliberately double strength.
- Cool to room temperature, then chill.
- Pour it into a glass heaped with ice, then add a slice of lemon.
- Sweeten while the tea is still warm if you want it sweet; sugar will not dissolve in a cold glass.
What you'll end up with: Iced tea that still tastes of tea after the ice has melted, which a normal-strength brew never manages.
Overnight Cold Brew
How to cold brew Clipper Organic Everyday.
- 6 bags Clipper Organic Everyday
- 1 litre cold water
- A sealed jug or bottle
- Drop 6 bags in a jug with 1 litre of cold water, then seal it.
- Refrigerate for 8 hours, or overnight.
- Lift the bags out and keep the jug in the fridge for up to two days.
- Drink it black over ice. Cold brew and milk do not suit each other.
What you'll end up with: Far less tannin grip than a hot brew, a rounder natural sweetness, and a long soft finish. A different drink from the same bag.
Builder's Mug, Two Bag Method
How to make a strong builder's mug with Clipper Organic Everyday.
- 2 bags Clipper Organic Everyday
- 400ml water straight off the boil
- Milk
- Use 2 bags in a 400ml mug rather than one bag left in for six minutes.
- Steep for 2 minutes only.
- Lift both bags out and add a generous splash of milk.
- The short steep on two bags gives strength without the harsh edge a long steep on one bag produces.
What you'll end up with: A properly strong mug that is strong in body rather than merely bitter. This is the difference between a good builder's tea and a stewed one.
Strong Tea for Soaking Fruit
How to use Clipper Organic Everyday for soaking dried fruit in baking.
- 3 bags Clipper Organic Everyday
- 300ml water straight off the boil
- 300g mixed dried fruit
- Brew 3 bags for a full 10 minutes in 300ml of water just off the boil. You want it far stronger than you would ever drink.
- Lift the bags out and pour the hot tea over 300g of mixed dried fruit.
- Soak overnight, covered, at room temperature.
- Use the fruit and any remaining liquid in a tea loaf or fruit cake the next day.
What you'll end up with: Plump fruit carrying a tannic background note that stops a fruit loaf tasting flatly sweet. This is what a household box of everyday tea is best at beyond the mug.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Black tea (organic) | the whole of the blend | Everything in the cup: the briskness, the tannin grip that holds milk, the colour and the caffeine. Sold as an organic tea; the certifying body is on the pack. |
| Added flavouring | none | A plain black tea with nothing blended in. Fruit, petals, flavouring and sugar are all absent. |
Ingredients and allergens. Clipper list a single ingredient, organically grown black tea, so the 160 bag box is clear of all 14 major allergens. Even a one ingredient tea can have its allergy wording revised, so read the box when it arrives.
Ingredients, as published for this product: Organically Grown Black Tea.
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. Take the box's word over ours wherever they differ.
Pack: Clipper Organic Everyday, 160 Tea Bags 464g; an organic everyday black tea in round bags. Keep the box shut, dry and away from pungent kitchen smells. Read the best before date, the net weight, the ingredient declaration and any certification marks off the box rather than from us.
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Sourcing & blend. Clipper Organic Everyday, 160 Tea Bags 464g is put together by Clipper, a British tea company whose range is built around organic blends rather than carrying organic as a side line.
What's in Clipper Organic Everyday, 160 Tea Bags 464g, and what isn't:
- In: black tea leaf in a round bag, sold as organic, with nothing blended in alongside it.
- No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: just unflavoured black tea, with no reason to add colour or sweetness. Any sweetness in the cup is what the leaf brings.
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Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Clipper Organic Everyday, 160 Tea Bags 464g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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