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Forest Brews Tea Company
Our estate FBOP in individually sealed sachets — the same quality leaf, now in the most convenient format. Office desk, travel bag, hotel room: anywhere the kettle is faster than the teapot.
We resisted making tea bags for years. The honest reason is that most tea bags are filled with dust-grade fannings — the lowest usable grade, which extracts fast and dark but lacks the complexity of broken-leaf grades. When we finally developed our own sachet, the brief was simple: the bag must contain FBOP, not fannings, and it must be filled with the same leaf that goes into our 250g loose-leaf pouches. The result is a bag that takes 30 extra seconds to brew than a fannings bag, and tastes noticeably better.
Each sachet is a roomy, non-woven mesh pyramid rather than a flat paper square — the extra space allows the FBOP particles to move through the water as they would in a pot, improving extraction. The outer envelope is individually heat-sealed to preserve freshness. We pack 25 sachets per box, each weighing approximately 2g — the same dose we recommend for loose leaf per cup.
This format is designed for three contexts: the office drawer where loose leaf is impractical; travel, where a handful of sachets packs in a shirt pocket; and gifting, where the box format presents well without the higher price point of our tin range. We do not claim the tea-bag experience equals a proper teapot, but we claim it is the best bag version of our leaf that can be made.
Origin
Kaircombai, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu — 1,800m elevation
Grade
25 sachets · FBOP
Weight
25 bags (50g)
Brew Temp
90–95°C
Steep Time
3–4 minutes
Five dimensions scored 0–100 from our cuppers.
Brew Guide
Place one sachet in a cup. Pour 200ml water at 90–95°C. Steep 3–4 minutes. Remove sachet without squeezing — squeezing releases bitter compounds from the leaf wall. Add milk and sugar if desired.
Temperature
90–95°C
Steep Time
3–4 minutes
Select a brew style and number of cups — we’ll give you exact quantities.
Full-fat milk: 300ml — add after initial water steep. Total liquid per cup ≈ 250ml.
South Indian Kadak — Method
Simmer leaf in water first, add 150ml full-fat milk, simmer again. Strain firmly. Sweeten with jaggery. Thick, dark, strong — the classic canteen cup.
Finally — a tea bag that tastes like actual estate tea
I keep these at my office desk and use them three or four times a week when I don't have access to a teapot. The difference from supermarket bags is immediately obvious — the leaf is coarser, the colour is brighter, the aroma is real. You can taste that this is the same tea as the loose-leaf version. I knocked one star only because I am spoiled by the loose-leaf version at home.
