builder's tea

Builder's tea is typically robust and a rich brown colour.

Extremely sweet, this is a local variation of a builder's tea.

When did you develop a taste for builder's tea?

The pairing didn't work for me, actually, but then again I'm a builder's tea with my breakfast kind of guy.

No to both: a big steaming mug of proper builder's tea instead.

It is nicknamed builder's tea (construction workers) due to its popularity with working people.

They are like a warm bath or a mug of builder's tea: comforting, familiar and particularly welcome in winter.

There will always be a place for the good old traditional builder's tea, but there are so many other wonderful options out there to try.

Builder's tea is an English colloquial term for a strong, milky tea with sugar.

I've never really understood how so-called 'builder's tea' differs from ordinary tea.

Swap your builder's tea for a green tea.

Strong tea served with milk (and usually one or two teaspoons of sugar) in a mug is commonly referred to as builder's tea.

Her choice of book was an anthology of poetry and her luxury a supply of "builder's tea".

It's BYOB but they also serve proper builder's tea.

A compact figure in black, Kingsley perches like a watchful eagle on a low sofa sipping at a mug of builder's tea.

A builder's tea is typically brewed in a mug (as opposed to a teapot) with two (or more in some cases) teaspoons of sugar.

She inclined her head in acknowledgement, and refused a cup of Mrs Grundy's industrial-strength builder's tea. '

Before we settle in a quiet corner of the café, we head to the counter to order: builder's tea with two sugars for both and a chocolate chip cookie to share.

Sue Wimpenny doesn't like builder's tea and has never wolfwhistled at a man in the street, but she is proud to have worked in the construction and property industry for 30 years.

This more than anything – set in Yorkshire with an atmosphere as dark and bitter as a well-stewed cup of builder's tea – seemed like a return to form for "good old British TV".

The hair, yeah, blah blah,' she chuckles when we meet over a builder's tea in a French café that I worry might be a bit poncey for a salty Northern lass. '

Brands high in tannin, caffeine and Assam leaves better suited to builder's tea include PG Tips, Red Label (Brooke Bond, Tesco), Tetley, and Lyon's Quickbrew.

In the British comedy-drama film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Evelyn Greenslade (Judi Dench), one of the main characters, explains dunking to her new employer during an interview whilst drinking Builder's tea.

Fine tea - it's not a great name for it, but it's better than artisan tea, which as Eisler says has the off-putting air of the phrase 'craft fair' - is an entirely different drink to builder's tea, but it need not be so stratospheric.

The main drink in a British working men's cafe is usually tea, especially "builder's tea" (a nickname for a mug of strong black tea, such as English breakfast tea, usually served with milk and sugar and is typically robust and flavourful with a brisk character and a dark red colour).