Yellow Label Black Tea | International Blend | Loose Leaf Tea | Black Tea | Compatible for Chai | 450 Grams (Pack of 1)

I drink a lot of hot black tea, even in summertime--if tea has antioxidant properties, I should be really darned rust-proof by now. I am pretty plebeian in my tea tastes for everyday--I don't want a pale and delicate floral liquour. I want a hearty and flavorful brew to drink (sweet, I admit it) with my breakfast and teatime. And this is the tea I drink over and over and over. For years. Forget the Lipton tea you know from American grocery stores--this is tea for India and the Middle East, where folks take hot tea drinking seriously, and it makes a quick, robust, bright strong brew. This is CTC tea, not leaf tea; it looks like little granules because the tea leaves have been chopped or torn up or something, then allowed to ball up into little bitty irregular bits, and this process allows the tea to infuse very rapidly and come more or less to equilibrium; if you leave your tea loose in the pot, as I do, you don't have to worry about your tea getting too bitter and strong before you can drink the pot down, and that is nice. The price is also awesome, as a good heaping teaspoon of this tea will make a nice pot for two people. If you live where you have Indian grocery stores, you can get it considerably cheaper than you can on Amazon, but I have moved to a small town in Mississippi where that just isn't happening, so I have to be content with the Amazon price, which still beats the pants off any sort of gourmet or specialty tea I'd be buying to try to equal the taste of this tea workhorse.When I do was a more special cup, I use a bit less than a level teaspoon for a pot, and mix in leaves of another, more expensive tea, like KusmiTea Russian Evening or Morning Tea, or a good Earl Grey. The Lipton supports a good red base cup, while the more premium tea adds a nice top note of flavor; in this manner I can stretch the expensive tea out a long, long, way, and so justify buying it!Bottom line: if you like a delicious red (black) tea in industrial quantity, this is the tea for you.

Brew this with moka pot, got perfect cup of HongKong style milk tea!

I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I found this tea to be good. There was no place to get the regular Lipton loose tea (used since the seventies for drinking and recipes) so I ended up with this in desperation after trying bagged “dust.” It’s grainy; it’s not tea leaves. The packaging is a foil paper so I put that bag into a ziplock bag, and it’s stayed really fresh even with only myself using the tea. I find it to have a ‘buttery’ smooth flavor, really very smooth. I use just a little over half a coffee tablespoon scoop for a five cup coffee/tea maker and I put an extra cup out to make three 12-oz cups. I have alway used vanilla bean snippets with tea and coffee brewing. An inch long piece lasts almost a month with daily use. Just rinse and let dry, put it int basket again (in a filter) with my next brewing. When the bitter tannins come through, it’s time for a new snippet of vanilla bean.It’s not for vanilla flavor, it’s to “tame” the bitter tannins, thank you Bert Greene cookbook for that tip. I really was surprised to find this tea so pleasing, and it’s going to be a staple for me now that I’ve tried it. I don’t know how it’s made into pellets or why, must be to keep it from turning to dust maybe? If that’s it then it works, imho. A surprise really good purchase!

I am finding loose leaf tea harder to find since Covid. Do Not Know why! This is titled “International “ Some kind of language on one side, English on the other, the tea cut was not what I am used to as this is finely ground, like coffee. The tea when brewed does taste the same, thank goodness, but took getting used to the cut. I will probably buy again.

I have used Lipton for more than 65 years. I am very grateful to be able to get it sent to me.

I do not know what happened to this Lipton Tea. It did not taste the same, it did not respond to our tea making process as usual, the tea was cloudy and just tasted bad. Our tea has been brewed and processed the same for over 50 years of marriage and never has it tasted as bad as our last box from Lipton.it has forced us to look for alternative tea. The only tea plantation in the USA is in Charleston SC. You can buy loose tea from the Charleston Tea Company if you have had the same results we have had. This is a sad day for serious tea drinkers, you have a hard time finding loose tea in the stores. My guess is the current generation does not brew their own tea. Walmart sells gallon jugs of sweet and non-sweet tea and it seems to sell very well. We hate that Lipton has a problem.

Nice to make fresh brew tea. Dont have to worry about the micro plastics that are in tea bags

great tea we are using it from long time , first time ordered online but this was little pricey then the stores.