How to Drink Tea Like an English Gentleman

About this video

The Gazette team provides a comprehensive guide to brewing and drinking tea with gentlemanly grace and elegance. They cover the essential equipment needed, proper brewing techniques with specific water temperatures and steeping times, correct serving etiquette for hosts and guests, and detailed guidelines for holding the cup, adding milk and sugar, and drinking tea with proper posture and manners.

Key takeaways

• The Gazette team recommends bone china teacups and saucers as the minimum standard, along with loose leaf black tea, a proper tea strainer, and other essential equipment that can be found affordably in vintage or charity shops
• The Gazette team teaches that water should be at a full boil (100°C/212°F) for English breakfast tea, the pot should be warmed first, and tea should steep for 3-5 minutes with one portion per person plus one for the pot
• The Gazette team emphasizes that the host pours for guests first without standing behind them, using a strainer, filling cups only 3/4 full, and serving from one position to avoid accidents
• The Gazette team instructs that milk should be added after pouring tea to judge strength, the teaspoon should move back and forth rather than swirl, the pinky finger should never be raised, and tea should be sipped slowly and savored rather than rushed

Episode details: published March 29, 2026 · 230K views · 12:08 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style guidance summarized here is the Gentleman’s Gazette team’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are theirs, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.

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