I visited teapigs last Thursday to have a chat with Nick Kilby, co-founder of teapigs. He didn't have much of a problem selling the concept of teapigs as I'm already a customer and have always drunk real tea.

teapigs fills a niche gap between loose leaf tea and ordinary teabags. It does this by providing the quality of whole leaf teas in its attractive pyramid tea temple so you get the benefit of the loose leaf with the ease of a teabag.

You've probably noticed teapigs around Brentford over the last few years. Their teas are sold in the Docking Station and often turn up as prizes. I myself won a box of super berries a few years ago at our school summer fete. This summer they had a stall at the excellent inaugural summer fair at Brentford School for Girls. The stall was manned by a student who went for work experience at teapigs and demonstrated her passion for the product.

They have 21 varieties of tea. The pure teas are oolong, white, jasmine, green, earl grey and and everyday brew. Matcha is a concentrated green tea with a kick, that is rumoured to have magical properties although the evidence is unclear.

Herbal teas are lemongrass, chamomile and peppermint.
Other teas are chai, chilli chai, chocolate flake, green with mint, popcorn, rooibos, rooibos creme caramel, spiced winter red tea, liquorice and mint, lemon and ginger and my bedtime cuppa, superfruit.