Irsih Breakfast tea leaves shown i a white bowland scattered on a white background. Our builders tea, a strong breakfast tea
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No.2

Irish Breakfast Loose Leaf Tea

Black Tea

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£8.00
Free Delivery on orders over £25Tea sample with every orderRecyclable packagingPacked to order in our Newark teashop
Irish Breakfast tea

This is our builders brew, Irish Breakfast tea is strong and bold. Combining strong flavoured loose tea leaves to brew a tea that's perfect to add milk to.

Rich & Malty builders teaStrong & full bodiedContains caffeineEasy tea for beginners
Ingredients

Assam Black Tea - Darjeeling Black Tea - Kenya Black Tea - Ceylon Black Tea

Why you'll love it

If you enjoy a builders brew, this black tea is made to add milk to and still keep the strong flavour. You'll love Irish Breakfast tea

What customers say:

'No 2 Irish tea is the perfect brew if you like your tea that bit bolder. It has a wonderful flavour without leaving that bitter after taste. '

What's in Irish Breakfast tea?

Assam Black Tea - Darjeeling Black Tea - Kenya Black Tea - Ceylon Black Tea

Irish Breakfast tea is the stronger relative to English Breakfast tea. Perfect with milk and strong enough to satisfy the builder brew lover.

A delicious blend of tea leaves creating a must have tea.

Your Frequently Asked Questions About Irish Breakfast Loose Leaf Tea.

Deep dive into the common loose tea questions

Designed for those who appreciate a truly strong cup of tea, this traditional Irish Breakfast tea combines premium black tea leaves to create a bold, full-bodied brew you can add milk to.

If English Breakfast is the everyday cup, Irish Breakfast is the one you reach for when you mean business. It brews dark and rich, takes milk brilliantly, and gives you exactly the kind of morning lift you’re looking for.

A great choice for anyone who finds English Breakfast a little too light, or for those switching from strong builder’s tea bags to loose leaf for the first time.

Strength - Strong and invigorating, perfect for those who love a buliders brew

Flavour - Bold, robust, and full-bodied with rich malty notes

Aroma - Strong classic Tea

Appearance - Large tea leaves brew a deep amber/ brown tea

Irish Breakfast tea blends strong tea leaves from Assam, Darjeeling, Kenya, and Ceylon to create a builders tea, rich, malty and bold

Stronger and fuller than English Breakfast, Irish Breakfast is a proper, no-nonsense cup, and perfect with milk.
  • Strong builders tea
  • Contains caffeine, helping you stay alert and focused.
  • Loose leaves providing a deeper more flavoursome cup of tea.
  • Full of antioxidants from polyphenols and flavonoids
  • 50g Pouch: 

Approximately 25 cups, perfect for trying or gifting

  • 100g Pouch or Tub: 

Approximately 50 cups, ideal for regular tea drinkers

  • 200g Pouch: 

Approximately 100 cups, great value for daily enjoyment

  • 500g Pouch: 

Approximately 250 cups, best value for true tea enthusiasts

Keep your tea fresh by storing in the tubs and pouches or an airtight container away from light, heat, and strong odours.

Properly stored, loose leaf tea maintains optimal flavour for 12 months.

Loose tea offer greater choice of tea and more flexibility and better taste

  • The choice of loose leaf tea is vast, with lots of different single origin black teas, blends, flavoured to suit every taste.
  • With loose tea you can adjust to taste, using more or less tea. Or mix different teas together to make you own unique blend.
  • Loose tea brews a better tasting tea because the tea leaves are larger, allowing all the flavour to come out as they infuse.

A few ideas of the best way to brew and drink Irish Breakfast tea.

  • Use a teaspoon to measure your tea.
  • Time your brew, 3-5 minutes is perfect. Set a timer.
  • Add milk and sugar to your taste after the tea has brewed.

We pack and post your orders from our Newark Teashop with Royal Mail. The parcels are collected everyday except Sunday & Monday.

  • If your order is over £25 you qualify for free delivery (Tracked 48)
  • All deliveries under £25 will be charged at the following rates, please selected at checkout.

Royal mail Tracked 48 £4.50 
Royal mail Tracked 24 £5.50

  • Click & Collect from our Newark Teashop - select option at checkout.

Delivery Information

We hope that you'll be thrilled with your tea when it arrives but if anything isn't right, please get in touch. Contact us on contact@teaspoon-tea.co.uk for assistance and we'll get back to you promptly.

We take every care to ensure your tea is properly protected during transit but appreciate that very occasionally damages may occur. We will replace or refund products damaged during delivery if photographic proof of damage is sent to us within 7 days of delivery. 

Just 3 simple steps to brew a cup of Irish Breakfast Loose Leaf Tea. Get the best from your loose leaf tea with this helpful guide.

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Measure 1 teaspoon of loose tea and place in an infuser

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Pour over boiling water and leave to brew for 3-5 minutes

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Remove the infuser and enjoy your cup of tea

Ways To Brew Loose Leaf Tea

Think loose leaf tea is difficult? Discover the different ways to brew loose tea and see how easy it can be, helping you change from teabags to loose tea.
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Tea Strainer

Use over your cup to capture the tea leaves when you pour from a teapot without and infuser
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Teapot with infuser

An infuser teapot keeps the loose tea inside the infuser, still allowing the tea to brew. Once the tea has brewed simply pour into a cup, no strainer needed.
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Cup Infuser

Making 2 cup of tea is easy with the cup infuser. Place inside the cup add the loose tea and water. Once the tea has brewed, remove from the cup and enjoy.

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