TetleyPremium Loose Leaf Tea, 15.87 Oz

This tea is delicious! Not bitter, very refreshing and price is great! I also appreciate that it is loose tea! Will buy from now on, Good bye Lipton!! This tea is what is called cut tear and curl (CTC)a process that is done to the tea leaves to make it brew better, this is why it looks crumbled! It’s a great tasting non bitter tea, only needs 5-10 min brewing time to pour over a glass full of ice for iced tea

When I first opened the package, I was a little skeptical because the tea, instead of looking like tea leaves, looked like pellets of freeze-dried instant tea! However, when I made my first batch of iced tea, I was amaized! This tea tasted like tea use to taste, years ago! It is a wonderfully flavored tea. I'm hooked! This is great tea!

This purchase was my very first time buying Tetley Tea even though I had heard of it for decades. Overall, I think it tastes just fine and was a decent value.The one thing that bothers me is that they call it "loose leaf" when it doesn't looks like any loose leaf tea I've ever seen. It looks almost granulated, like individual leaves were tightly crumpled up into balls like you'd crumple up a piece of paper before throwing it in the trash.

Good tea nothing more and nothing less.

Fantastic tea at a good price.

Tea is perfect!

When I was a kid in the 60s, my grandmother drank Tetley every day. In spite of all the teapots in the house, which had belonged to my English great-grandfather, she made tea with tea bags.She always saved her used teabag for a second cup, which disgusts me in retrospect. At the time, however, there seemed to be little difference between the two cups.So I drank tea from an early age, and it tasted good to me. I got a little older, and I started to experiment with other teas. I finally settled on Twinings loose Darjeeling, which I drank until very recently.Now I can no longer find Twinings in the tin. I looked at other brands, including teas I'd tried and rejected over the years. In desperation, I ordered tea bags and cut them open, but it was tedious and not tasty, so I decided to go back to my roots. Big mistake.Unfortunately, this package of tea, if you can call it tea, in no way resembles what I drank at my grandmother's kitchen table. The tea itself resembles gunpowder in texture, which would be fine if it were green or oolong, but rolling black tea doesn't improve it in any way.As to the taste--I might as well have brewed actual gunpowder, because it's just not drinkable, even with extra milk and sugar.I have experimented with quantity and brewing time to no avail. Tetley is just bad tea.

If you are expecting this to be actual tea leaves you will be sorely disappointed. The product looks more like black sand. So I would say that it has been processed in some way to create the sand like texture instead of the whole leaf. If that bothers you I would pass on this product.As far as flavor goes it tastes like black tea.