Having a sip-down, trying to thin the herd of tea boxes currently overpopulating the shelves (how well we all know the experience!). KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON English Breakfast tea was a purchase made from a charming little shop called “Made in Britain”, which sadly, did not survive the pandemic. Of course it specialized in items from the UK, with plenty of Union Jack designs to tickle us Anglophiles into purchasing all manner of things.
As another reviewer has previously observed, Keep Calm And Carry On Beverage Company Ltd sells to shops just like that one. There’s no identifying WHAT kind of black tea is in these bags. It merely shows “Ingredients: Black Tea”.
Because of its solid mouth feel, I would say this tastes like Assam, perhaps with some Ceylon. I appreciate the fuller weight of the teabags: 3.125 grams each, rather than the 2.5 of many American teabags. This means that when I made a full pot, I only needed four of these teabags rather than six of the smaller size (from other brands of tea). Their cute tin contained 40 bags, with a total tea weight of 125 g/4.41 oz.
I don’t expect to buy it again—but I DO recommend it for a good, regular cuppa. Considering the package best by date here was October 2017 (a year after purchase!)—and it’s 7-1/2 years later than that, it’s proved its worthiness by still making a good strength cup of tea. I remember enjoying it better a few years back when I was actively drinking it. Any weakness here I attribute to its age on my shelf.
So if you see it in a cute British-themed shop, and like that Union Jack and the “Keep Calm & Carry On”-ness of it, I do recommend you give it a go. It’s a decent, enjoyable cup of tea, AND you can use that nice sized attractive tin to hold other teabags once you finish it!
Flavors: Tannin, Tea, Thick
