What tea do the English drink?
There is one clear answer to the question: what tea do the English drink? Typically, the British are known for their Builder’s Tea!! That is a fairly strong brew of English Breakfast tea (a black tea), with added milk and sometimes sugar. Indeed, English Breakfast Tea is the most commonly enjoyed variety and if you were at a friend’s house in the UK and were offered a cup of tea, it’s extremely likely you would be brought English Breakfast variety.
Another popular type here is Earl Grey - a more floral black tea, sometimes drunk without milk. It’s said that Her Majesty The Queen drinks a tea that mixes in a third of Earl Grey with two thirds of English Breakfast.
The consumption of green tea is rising as well as fruit teas and peppermint tea (or even fresh mint tea). Also millennials are known for swapping their dessert for a non-fattening, naturally-sweet tea. We sell examples of this such as our Apple Pie Tea or Custard Tart Tea - flavoursome, sweet by nature and just right to end your meal.
What tea do the English drink?
We Brits love our English Breakfast tea and lots of it!! Of course, some like it weak with lots of milk (and often, sugar too) and others like it so strong you can 'stand your spoon up in it' (not literally!). Indeed, typically, the British are known for their Builder’s Tea - a strong brew of English Breakfast black tea (a black tea) with added milk. This would more often be offered in a mug rather than a cup and saucer if you're in someone's home.
We've noticed in other countries that we'll be offered fruit tea, green tea and other varieties in friends' houses but over here in the UK, you will almost always be offered 'good ol' English Breakfast Tea'. This might be made with loose leaf tea in a tea pot with a knitted tea cosy over the top to keep it warmer whilst it brews, too!! That teapot might even be large and round and that's known as a Brown Betty!!
Tea is an important punctuation mark throughout our day though and the phrase 'put the kettle on' can be heard throughout the land. If there's a sadness, an occasion, a return from a trip, a friend visiting or just because....our answer is always to have a good British cuppa!
