Loose Leaf English Breakfast Tea

The best English Breakfast tea is not one tea, it's the one you love most, at any one moment. Like wine, we don't stick to one favourite red exclusively. Or only eat one Cheddar cheese, forsaking all others. It's the same with our favourite tea. We offer a range of English Breakfast loose leaf teas to fit your every taste and mood.

Whilst English Breakfast tea was created to be drunk with breakfast, our loose leaf tea blends can be enjoyed any time of day. Read more...

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English Breakfast tea is now more commonly found in industrial teabags made for volume and price over flavour. We keep to the original craft of small-batch, meticulously blended loose leaf English Breakfast teas. We hope they will get you through every moment in your day and your ever-changing life.

By choosing your English Breakfast tea loose leaf, you are saving trees that would have gone into making single-use teabags. Many are made from virgin plastic or precious natural resources such as corn used to make "silken" plastic mesh. Not to mention, the bleaches, glues, plastics or industrial chemicals used in their manufacturing that will get into tea and into you.

What is English Breakfast Tea?

The term English Breakfast was invented in New York City around 1901 to describe what English people drank for breakfast: a blend of black teas. Traditional English Breakfast tea often consisted of teas from different parts of the world - China, India (Assam and Darjeeling) and Sri Lanka (known in colonial time as Ceylon tea - a term we at Rare Tea would never use now) - but have more recently incorporated stronger, maltier teas from Africa.

Since the inception of English Breakfast tea in the 19th Century, our breakfast has changed. If you enjoy avocado on toast or scrambled eggs and salmon - why not try our 21st Century Breakfast blend, a green tea blend specially created to suit a more modern breakfast.