Essentials English Breakfast Black Tea

This one doesn't whisper. It wakes you up.

Essentials English Breakfast is a bracing, full-bodied organic black tea with confident tannins and a faint note of bittersweet cocoa. It's the strongest, most no-nonsense cup in the Essentials lineup — bold, structured, and built for mornings, or any moment that needs some backbone.

What It Tastes Like

Strong black tea, bracing tannins, bittersweet cocoa. Deep, full-bodied flavor with real strength — the classic breakfast-style brew done properly. It's an excellent base for milk and sugar if that's your style, and holds its own without either.

Ingredients

Organic South Indian black tea. One ingredient, full strength.

How to Brew

Steep about 2 teaspoons (3.5 g) in 10 oz of just-boiled water for 4–5 minutes — longer is stronger. Keep an eye on the clock if you take it plain; its strength rewards precision. The leaves reinfuse once more for a second cup.

Product Details

Loose leaf, available in a 15 cup bag or 70 cup bag. Organic, vegan, non-GMO, sugar free, gluten free. High caffeine — roughly 40–60 mg per 10 oz serving. Part of the August Essentials line, blended in small batches and double tested for purity.

Ideal For

Early mornings and busy days. Coffee drinkers switching to tea who don't want to give up strength. Anyone who loves a bold, traditional breakfast brew that still feels intentional.

Some mornings ask for gentleness. The rest of them ask for this.

Prefer a softer daily black tea? Try Black Gold →

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