Tea India CTC Assam Loose Leaf Black Tea Strong, Full-Bodied Flavorful Blend Of Premium Black Tea Made with Natural Ingredients Traditional Indian Tea Caffeinated Iced Tea Breakfast Tea 1 LB/ 16 Oz

A purchase inspired from my late night binge watching of a British TV miniseries. As an American, I know very little about drinking tea. Who better to take direction than from that of our British cousins in the U.K.? So, I was watching the "Slow Horses" miniseries on Amazon Prime, a show about a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents and their obnoxious boss, played by Gary Oldman. When the show came to a scene where a character offered to brew her guest a spot of late night TEA, she asked him to pick his choice of "Builder's" or "Assam" to which he enthusiastically replied "Assam!" She looked inside her canister and said "Sorry, (I'm) all out of Assam, you'll have to settle for Builder's. Suddenly, I, too, was craving a hot spot of tea! But what of this "Builder's" and the preferred "Assam" of which they speak? I knew only of Lipton & Nestea. Immediately, I'm on my Amazon Prime account searching for "Assam Tea". My search led me directly to this magnificent find, which I ordered & received in mere days. All I can say is "WOW!" This tea is a game-changer for me and what I knew about tea! First off, the bag was HUGE, much larger than anticipated! (using my FoodSaver vacuum sealer, I subdivided this enormous bag into roughly ten smaller packets of various sizes, I stored some and shared the others with my family members. My sister was most enthusiastic of all, she loves this tea every bit as much as I do. She commented "great tasting, and this tea is VERY STRONG!" I said, "Well that just means you USE LESS!" as the strength is a direct result of your measure. She said she had been re-brewing the tea leaves for a second cup, I said "Well don't do THAT, just use a smaller measure!" Overall, I think you'll love the flavor and sheer value of this Assam Tea, a real game changer for this American tea drinker!

We love this tea! It is rich and full of flavor hot or cold and a great price too! This is my go to tea for making kombucha and hard tea.

If you want a good, strong-tasting tea which you can still taste along with milk or sugar or other stuff, this is the stuff. I always thought English Breakfast tea and most mainline teas were too close to water. I researched and found it was Assam tea that was the answer. This is the stuff one wants unless you prefer a weak-tasting beverage.

This is my first foray into loose tea. I have used exclusively Lipton Tea bags since adulthood and drink cold tea, ice waters it down, after my morning strong black coffee 7 days a week. My Wife and I decided to try skipping the bags and using loose tea and this was our choice for the Lipton Black Tea that is being replaced. I have made around 15 pitchers at this writing. I find it considerably stronger tasting than the 5 tea bags in a half gallon of water steeped for an hour or so that was my standard with the Lipton and am still working with the fine line between too weak and too strong, or at least stronger than it needs to be. It is hard to make coffee or tea "too" strong for me. I drink both straight and strong. I have adjusted to the flavor difference and once I have the strength down to a science I think I will be completely satisfied. We are happy to be doing away with the waste that came from using the bags and the potential microplastic exposure from the packaging, etc. How it compares to other Black Tea I can't say. Oh, this is a LOT of Tea. I don't know how long it will last making a half gallon jug a day-ish but I'm confident that it will be quite some time before I need to order more.

Very delicious tea!

Very nice black tea.

Disappointed that this is different from their Masala Chai that comes in tea bags. It tastes pretty good but has only tea, ginger and cardamom. The tea bag version also has cinnamon, black pepper and clove and is much tastier.

I like it