Organic Positively Tea Company, Assam TGFOP Black Tea, Loose Leaf, 16 Ounce

I just switched from drinking coffee for the last 20 years to tea. I can definitely feel the difference overall. Before the tea I think mentally and routinely I was only making coffee just to have the first cup. Hasn’t done anything for me for the last 5-8 years. I was turned to this tea by a customer of mine. I had about 4 sips and I felt like I was ready to run 80 miles without a break lol. It gives you that energy rush, tastes great, and is affordable!

This Assam tea is delicious and I agree with all of the positive reviews. The instructions could be a bit better and I couldn't find any in the reviews I read so I'm posting how I make iced tea with the Assam version: 4 cups of 212 F degree water (or boiling if your kettle doesn't track temp) 2 slightly rounded tablespoons of Assam tea (this may sound like a lot but these leaves are bigger than other loose or bagged tea I've tried) Steep for 4 minutes. Remove tea without trying to press the water out of the tea leaves, wait 20 mins or so for tea to cool down a bit, and then pop into the refrigerator for 2 hours or so. Serve over ice. So refreshing, not astringent or bitter at all. Also great with a squeeze of lemon juice. You can double the recipe if needed. Hope that helps!

I use this tea for brewing kombucha. It tastes great and is perfect for what I use it for. Great quality, I've purchased many times!

This is our every morning tea of choice. It smells and tastes like my Platonic ideal of morning tea. I usually steep for 3 minutes the first time and 6 for a second cup. It’s robust: I use 1.5 tsp for a 16 oz mug of dark, strong tea. A pound lasts two of us for about a month and a half or longer. A great bargain.

I've tried a few of these, so I figured I'd share for anyone curious. • Assam: very good quality and reasonable for the price; one of my favorite • Earl Grey: the bergamot is very strong; might be better with a lighter brewing • English Breakfast: pretty good, but I've had better • Irish Breakfast: very good; definitely one of my favorites; malty and rich; excellent with milk • Lapsang Souchong: absolutely horrid; tastes like ashes from a campfire; I brewed it once because it was so bad • Scottish Breakfast: I was hoping for the same level as the Irish Breakfast, but it's not on par; very granular and a low to mid quality tea • Yunnan: absolutely delicious; a strong contender for the best; much lighter and difficult to mess up; would make a good iced tea

1st - Great flavor. Nothing like grocery store brands. 2nd - Ordering again. Has a really robust flavor. I'll be ordering every month.

I'm generally a coffee drinker, with a serious side habit of green tea, mostly iced (if green tea has 10% of the health benefits claimed, I'm immortal). Hot, black teas have always been a little thin to me, but this one holds its own with my coffee-honed palate. I've read that a high-end Assam should have a malty character, which this does, but not heavily so. It has a full-bodied, mildly acidic flavor that is suitable to consume without anything in it, but does well with a splash of milk and a touch of sweetener. I'm not sure that I would enjoy it as much as an iced tea, but I'll probably try it just to see. I primarily purchased this because I'd never tried Assam before, and I am very pleased. I prepared it in my Bodum Assam tea pot, using 1/2 filtered, 1/2 distilled water, at a temperature just off boil. I steeped it for longer than the recommended 2 minutes, as I prefer my hot beverages on the stouter side (again, coffee palate). After about 5 minutes, it achieved a wonderful amber color, and had a distinctive aroma (something beyond just "hot tea"). I started with about 5 tablespoons in the infuser of the pot, and ended up just filling it about 2/3 full. I don't know if I'm breaking some sort of fancy tea protocols there, but the result is delicious. If you let it steep overlong, you get an increasingly opaque liquid with quite a punch (but eminently drinkable for someone who likes their coffee to chase them about a bit in the morning). The product appears to be pretty uniformly leaves, relatively large, and few stems that I could see. It came in a tightly packed, easily resealable bag, with a product specific sticker affixed to the front. I would have liked a little more package-literature about the tea, I suppose, to tell me more about the tea, it's sourcing, history, etc., so I could sound more like a tea nerd afterwards, but all in all, an excellent tea, and one that I will certainly keep handy as part of my regular stock.

The tea is completely different than what I ordered. The black Assam tea, in tea bags, I previously used is incredible. They are smaller in granules and flavor is great. Because I liked it so much I got a looseleaf big bag of the same thing. It is VERY VERY different. You can see the looseleaf tea is entirely filled with sticks and the tea is whole as opposed to the smaller granules. Why would the company present the tea differently than the bagged tea? And the amount of sticks is ridiculous.