Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday, 80 Tea Bags 250g
Buy a decaf for the second half of the day and what you want is not strength, it is a cup that keeps its shape while the evening goes on. This one does. Left standing in the pot it goes quiet rather than harsh, so the round poured half an hour into a conversation is still worth drinking. Smoothness is the card it holds, not depth. Milk with a normal hand and it keeps its colour.
Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday, in brief.
Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday is the decaffeinated version of the London tea house everyday blend, 80 bags in a 250g box at roughly 3.1g of leaf per bag, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the evening tea that still drinks like a proper cup.
The full leaf dose is what keeps the body in the cup after the caffeine comes out.
Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday is the version of the Twinings house blend that lets you keep drinking tea after four in the afternoon. The pack holds 80 bags in 250g, roughly 3.1g of leaf a bag, which is the same generous dose the caffeinated Everyday blend carries. That matters more in a decaf than it does anywhere else, because taking caffeine out of tea tends to take some body out with it, and a bigger dose is the most direct way of putting the body back.
The point of a good decaf is that it should not announce itself as one. This is a proper everyday cup: deep enough to take milk, brisk enough to finish clean, and close enough in shape to the caffeinated blend that most households can run one caddy in the morning and this one in the evening without the change being jarring.
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The Story Behind the Twinings
Twinings has traded as a family tea house from the Strand in London since 1706, and the house has sold a decaffeinated everyday blend for long enough that it is treated as a core line rather than an afterthought. Components are bought against a fixed quality and purity specification, then blended and taste tested through each batch, so the cup stays consistent from one box to the next. For a decaf that consistency matters twice over, because the processing step gives the blender one more variable to hold steady.
Decaffeination happens to the leaf before it is blended and bagged. It is a physical extraction step, and it always costs the tea a little of the aromatic top note, which is why a badly made decaf tastes hollow. The way a good one answers that is by starting with leaf that has depth to spare and dosing the bag generously. At roughly 3.1g a bag this one does exactly that, and it is the reason the cup keeps its body under milk.
The decaffeination method used, the residual caffeine level, the exact origin statement and any certification marks are printed on the current UK pack and can change, so we do not restate them here. Decaffeinated tea is not caffeine free: a small residual amount remains, and anyone who needs a genuinely caffeine-free drink should be looking at a herbal infusion rather than at a decaffeinated black tea.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- The carton is card and the bags sit loose in the box rather than individually enveloped, which is the lower-waste of the two formats.
- Bag material and any compostability claim are printed on the current UK pack; card, inner film and used bags take different disposal routes, so follow the pack and your local-authority guidance.
- An 80-bag box carries a quarter of the packaging per cup that four 20-bag boxes would, which is the simplest environmental argument for buying the larger size.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday, 80 Tea Bags 250g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Twinings
Twinings has been blending tea on London's Strand since 1706, the same address, three centuries later. Holders of the royal warrant for tea since 1837, they're the brand most-associated with Earl Grey, English Breakfast, and the polished afternoon-tea aesthetic. Wide flavoured-tea range; ethical sourcing through the Twinings Community Needs Assessment programme.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
The taste profile
How does it compare
Decaffeinated tea is less forgiving of a short brew than ordinary tea, because the processing has already taken the easiest flavour away. Give it the full boil and the full three minutes and it drinks like proper tea; rush it and you get the hollow cup that gives decaf its bad name.
The Evening Mug
The Late Pot
Made with this tea
The Evening Mug
How to make the standard evening cup with Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday.
- 1 bag Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday
- 250ml just boiled water
- Milk to taste
- Pour 250ml of just boiled water over one bag in a warmed mug and cover it.
- Steep for 3 to 4 minutes, then squeeze once against the side and lift the bag out.
- Add milk to taste.
- Resist the ninety-second dunk. A decaf needs the full time more than ordinary tea does.
What you'll end up with: A rounded copper cup with almost no rasp, which is the whole point of a good decaf.
The Late Pot
How to make an after-dinner pot with Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday.
- 4 bags Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday
- 1 litre just boiled water
- A warmed teapot
- Milk to taste
- Warm the pot with a splash from the kettle and tip it out.
- Add 4 bags and fill with 1 litre of water at a rolling boil, lid on.
- Steep 4 minutes, then lift all four bags out together.
- Serve within twenty minutes; a decaf loses its aroma standing faster than a full-caffeine blend.
What you'll end up with: A pot you can put on the table after dinner without anyone lying awake for it.
Evening Iced Tea with Lemon
How to make a caffeine-light iced tea with Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday.
- 3 bags Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday
- 400ml just boiled water
- Plenty of ice
- 1 lemon
- Honey to taste
- Brew 3 bags in 400ml of just boiled water for 6 minutes for a strong base.
- Sweeten with honey while warm, because it will not dissolve in the cold jug.
- Cool, pour over a jug of ice and add the juice of half a lemon.
- Serve without milk.
What you'll end up with: A clear iced tea that can be drunk all evening without counting cups.
The Milk-First Nightcap
How to make a soft milk-first nightcap with Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday.
- 1 bag Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday
- 200ml just boiled water
- 60ml warm whole milk
- Honey, optional
- Brew 1 bag in 200ml of just boiled water for 5 minutes for a dark liquor.
- Warm 60ml of whole milk and pour it into the mug first.
- Pour the tea onto the warm milk rather than the other way round.
- Sweeten with a little honey if you want it softer still.
What you'll end up with: Warming the milk first stops the cup dropping below drinking temperature, which is what ruins a late brew.
Decaf Tea Loaf
How to make a tea loaf with Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday.
- 3 bags Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday
- 300g mixed dried fruit
- 250g self raising flour
- 150g soft brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- Brew 3 bags in 300ml of just boiled water for 10 minutes, then cool.
- Soak 300g of mixed dried fruit in the cooled tea overnight.
- The next day beat in 250g of self raising flour, 150g of soft brown sugar and 1 large egg.
- Bake in a lined 2lb loaf tin at 170°C for 60 minutes.
What you'll end up with: The decaf version of the classic loaf, which matters if children are eating it.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Decaffeinated black tea | 100% | The only ingredient. Black leaf that has been through a decaffeination step before blending, chosen for body rather than for top-end briskness. |
| Added flavourings | none | There are none. Nothing is sprayed on or blended in to cover the processing step. |
Pack: Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday, 80 Tea Bags 250g; roughly 3.1g of leaf per bag, 80 bags per carton, decaffeinated black tea. Best-before date is printed on the pack.
Single-ingredient product, so the proportion column is simple. Leaf weight per bag is calculated from the declared pack weight and bag count rather than read off the box, and is a close figure rather than an exact one.
Sourcing & blend. Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday, 80 Tea Bags 250g is put together by Twinings, the family tea house trading from London since 1706. Components are bought against a fixed quality and purity specification rather than from one named garden, then blended and taste tested through each batch so the cup stays consistent box to box. Decaffeination is carried out on the leaf before blending, and the full leaf dose in the bag is what puts the body back that the processing takes out.
What's in Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday, 80 Tea Bags 250g, and what isn't:
- In: decaffeinated black tea leaf and nothing else, dosed at roughly 3.1g per bag.
- No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: nothing is added to mask the decaffeination step.
- Not caffeine free: a small residual amount of caffeine remains; the figure is printed on the current UK pack.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Twinings Decaffeinated Everyday, 80 Tea Bags 250g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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