Typhoo Original Breakfast Tea, 400 Tea Bags 1.25kg

Typhoo Original Breakfast Tea, in brief.

One hundred percent black tea makes up its base, from places such as Assam, Ceylon and Kenya, blended strong but smooth on the finish. It is the well-sourced, consistent choice for high-volume drinking: the cup tastes the same every time, which is exactly what you want when you are brewing it by the urn rather than fussing over a single-origin leaf, and 400 bags works out noticeably cheaper per cup than the smaller boxes do, the way to buy Typhoo if it is already your standing kitchen tea.

Caffeine status: moderate to high, roughly forty to seventy milligrams a cup, so this is a proper morning brew rather than a gentle or evening one. Taste profile: deep, earthy and traditionally malty with rich mahogany tones and very little bitterness. What it is: a bulk pack of pure black tea designed for classic English mornings, milk and sugar the British way.

Curator notes: we brewed this Typhoo at the recommended time and water temperature, then held our notes up against this Typhoo box and its spec sheet. The Q and A below covers storing the Typhoo, its freshness and brewing temperatures as well.