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Cultever is a UK organic tea brand from Surrey, made by Goddard Beverages Ltd. We make whole-leaf botanical blends for the rhythm of the day: Rise, a yerba maté morning blend; Release, a caffeine-free afternoon blend; and Rest, a caffeine-free evening blend.

They’re three whole-leaf botanical infusions, each calibrated to a different window of the day. Rise is a yerba maté morning blend with about 40–60 mg of caffeine per cup; Release is a caffeine-free afternoon infusion; Rest is a caffeine-free evening blend for the hour before bed.

Together they form what we call the Ritual — one cup for each of the three moments in a day when what you drink actually makes a difference.

You can absolutely start with just one. Most people start with the window they most want to change — usually mornings (Rise) or evenings (Rest). The full trio compounds over time, but one blend on its own is already worth it.

If you’re unsure, our Build & Save page makes it easy to try any combination at a saving.

No. Rise blends yerba maté with green sencha, guarana and botanicals such as ginseng, maca and citrus peel. Green tea naturally contains L-theanine alongside its caffeine. A cup has about 40–60 mg of caffeine, a little less than an espresso: a considered morning cup, without the jitters of a strong coffee.

Release is built around hawthorn leaves, lemon balm and linden flower — botanicals with a long history of use in European herbal tradition — with apple and vanilla. It gives you something warm to reach for in the afternoon instead of a third coffee. Caffeine-free, so it won’t borrow from your evening.

No — deliberately. Rest is built around lemon balm, lavender and passionflower. The taste is soft, honeyed and herby — something you’ll actually look forward to.

No. Cultever, spelled with an e, is a UK organic tea brand. A cultivar is a cultivated variety of a plant, such as a tea plant bred for a particular flavour.

Yes: Rest, a caffeine-free evening herbal tea of lavender, passionflower and lemon balm over rooibos, finished with vanilla and tonka. It’s made for the hour before bed as an evening ritual; we make no claims about sleep.

Please check with your midwife or GP first. Rise contains caffeine, and some botanicals in our blends, such as hawthorn, passionflower and ginseng, have little research in pregnancy.

Germany has a large community of certified organic craft tea blenders and a wide organic supply network, with high-quality botanicals that are hard to find in the UK. That’s why we blend there. Cultever is a UK company, and every blend is certified organic.

Each blend uses up to 13 certified organic ingredients, coarsely cut rather than ground to dust, in plant-based pyramid bags with room for the leaves to open. A pouch of 30 is £18, about 60p a cup, or 50p a cup in any set of three.

Yes — every ingredient in every blend is certified organic. Cultever is independently audited by the Organic Food Federation (GB-ORG-04) and holds EU organic certification. No synthetic pesticides, herbicides or fertilisers anywhere in the supply chain. View our organic certificate.

Our blending partner is based in Germany, where the tradition of small-batch organic botanical sourcing runs deep. Each ingredient is traceable back to its origin farm. We won’t list an ingredient we haven’t verified ourselves.

None. No artificial flavourings, no fillers, no flow agents, no “natural flavour” catch-all. What’s on the ingredient list is the entirety of what’s in the pouch.

A cup of Rise contains roughly 40–60mg of caffeine from the yerba maté — noticeably less than a standard espresso and roughly comparable to a strong green tea. The L-theanine present is what reshapes the caffeine effect.

We’d ask you to check with a healthcare professional before changing what you drink during pregnancy. Rise contains caffeine. Release and Rest are caffeine-free but contain botanicals (including hawthorn and passionflower) that are not fully studied in pregnancy. We’d rather you ask your midwife or doctor than rely on our label.

One pyramid, 200ml freshly boiled water at 100°C. Steep for 5–9 minutes depending on the blend. Longer steeps deepen the body; they don’t turn bitter the way black tea can.

You can re-steep once with slightly hotter water and a longer infusion time.

Yes. For cold brew, put one pyramid in 300ml of cold water and refrigerate for 6–12 hours. Rise cold-brewed makes an excellent morning alternative to iced coffee.

It’s your cup. Rise works well with oat milk. Release and Rest are designed to be drunk without — the flavour compounds are water-soluble and a fat addition changes the profile. But try it and see.

Each pouch contains 30 whole-leaf pyramid bags. At one cup per day, that’s a month’s supply per blend.

The more pouches in your basket, the less each one costs — and you can mix any blends:

1 pouch: £18
2 pouches: £32 — save 11%
3 pouches: £45 — save 16%

The Ritual (Rise, Release and Rest together) is £45. The bundle price is applied automatically at checkout. If you have a promo code, enter it at checkout.

Yes. Any three pouches are £45 with free UK delivery, so you can choose two Rest and one Release, or any mix you like, with Mix your own. Release and Rest are naturally caffeine-free; only Rise contains caffeine.

Not any more — every order is a simple one-time purchase, with no renewals to manage. If you started a subscription before we made this change, email [email protected] and we’ll take care of it.

Free over £30 on every order. Under £30, shipping is £2.99. Any two pouches (£32) or the Ritual (£45) ship free. Every order ships via UK Tracked 24 Express — no separate express fee.

UK Tracked 24 Express on every order — arrives in 1–3 working days. We fulfil from our UK hub via Huboo.

Not yet — we’re UK-only at launch. We have an EU distribution hub (Eindhoven) and plan to open European shipping later in 2026. Sign up to the journal newsletter and we’ll let you know when your country opens.

Tea is a food product, so once a pouch has been opened we can’t take it back — food-safety rules mean it can never be sold again, and we’d rather be straight with you about that than promise something we can’t honour.

We accept returns within 14 days of delivery on pouches that are unopened and in fully resaleable condition — seal intact, packaging undamaged.

How it works: email [email protected] and we’ll confirm the return address. Return postage is paid by you, and we recommend a tracked service — until it reaches us it’s still your parcel. Once it arrives and we’ve checked the condition, we refund the full purchase price to your original payment method, usually within 3–5 working days.

If anything arrives faulty, damaged or simply isn’t what you ordered, none of the above applies — tell us and we’ll put it right at our cost, immediately. Your statutory rights are unaffected.

Plant-based cornstarch, heat-sealed so there are no glues. No nylon, no PET. They are compostable, though they need industrial composting conditions rather than a garden heap — your food waste caddy is the right home for them.

The outer pouch is FSC-certified paper with a thin PE inlay for moisture protection. The paper component is kerbside-recyclable in most UK councils; the PE inlay is not. We’re working on a fully compostable outer and won’t claim it’s recyclable until the whole pouch is. See our sustainability page for the full detail.

We ship via Huboo, who offsets their logistics emissions. We’re a small brand at the start of a long journey and we’d rather be honest about what we know than overclaim.