I drink the Irish breakfast tea also. There are two other tea's in that line that are good but I can not recall the names of them at this time. I have a lot of loss tea. I have a spoon that has holes in it and you fill the spoon with the tea close the lid and you but it in your cup of hot water which it act like a tea bag. Hubby went to South Carolina and there a tea plantation there the best tea I got from there was a tea in a oak box that was first cut tea. But I like tea also and have had a few tea party's. I have collected over the years all the Victorian tea settings. There is an art to making a fresh pot of tea.