A measured lift in the morning, and nothing in the cup to keep you awake at night
Daily holds 18 mg of caffeine in every pyramid, released slowly by the yerba maté and the guarana, so the rise is gradual rather than abrupt. Sleep holds none whatsoever, and leans on passionflower, valerian and lemon balm once the evening has settled.
243 buyers have given Sipeva an average of 4.6 out of 5.
Before the first cup
Sipeva is a pair of herbal infusions meant to be drunk at opposite ends of the day. Each resealable pouch holds 28 pyramid bags of 2.5 g, which comes to 70 g net, and at one cup a day that is four full weeks. Every pyramid arrives sealed in a sachet of its own.
The thinking behind it is straightforward: one recipe for the hours when you are working, another for the hour before you turn in. Daily gathers 12 plants around a base of 4 teas, carries a natural peach note and declares 18 mg of caffeine per bag. Sleep gathers 9 plants on a rooibos base and carries no caffeine at all.
What each cup changes
Plant by plant and figure by figure, here is how the two blends work their way through a day.
Each Daily bag releases 18 mg of caffeine, roughly a third of what you would find in an espresso. All of it comes from the plants themselves: guarana, yerba maté, matcha, oolong and sencha. In those seeds and leaves the molecule stays bound to the tannins, so absorption is spread out rather than immediate. The effect tends to arrive after 15 to 20 minutes and holds for 3 to 4 hours, without the sharp peak and the slump that follow a strong coffee.
Dandelion leaf, nettle and lemongrass are among the plants traditionally brewed once the plates have been cleared. Served hot and taken as it comes, a cup of Daily supports digestive comfort while the meal is being dealt with. It fills the place a sweet pudding would have taken, or the third coffee of the afternoon.
The caffeine count in Sleep is zero, so a late cup does nothing to push back the moment sleep arrives, which is not the case with a mug of ordinary black tea. Camomile, lavender, lemon balm, passionflower, valerian, saffron and catmint make up the heart of it. Brew it 30 to 60 minutes before you go up: it is the regularity of that hour, more than anything in the cup, that gives the body a fixed marker.
Two cups of 240 ml add 480 ml to everything else you drink between morning and night. The stevia leaf rounds Daily off naturally, without contributing a single calorie or a gram of added sugar. Brewed the evening before, chilled and poured over ice, the same blend goes down rather faster, and most people come back for a second glass.
One recipe to get the morning going, another to draw the evening to a close. Twenty plants in total, of which exactly one appears on both sides.
Four teas provide the frame of the recipe: matcha, sencha, oolong and yerba maté. Eight further plants are built around them, along with a natural peach note that keeps the cup fruity and round rather than astringent, the way a green tea left too long in the pot becomes.
Rooibos carries the eight plants that accompany it and brings no caffeine of its own. The liquor turns a coppery colour, and the scent is floral and soft, with something of honey behind it.
Twelve plants on the Daily side, nine on the Sleep side, and dandelion leaf playing for both teams. Here is what each one contributes to the cup.
Matcha
DayGreen tea leaf ground on a stone mill until it becomes an impalpable powder. Because you swallow the whole leaf, you take in its colour, a good share of the 18 mg of caffeine and the theanine, the compound in tea that keeps the rise even.
Yerba maté
DayIn Argentina and Uruguay it is drunk through a bombilla straight from the gourd, passed round the table. Its toasted note is the floor the rest of the blend stands on, and its caffeine comes through steadily rather than in a rush.
Oolong
DayOxidation halted halfway leaves it sitting between a green and a black tea. Its job here is to take the edges off the matcha and keep the cup from tipping towards the bitter.
Sencha
DayIn Japan this is the tea people drink every day of the week, frankly vegetal in character. It accounts for the freshness that stays on the palate once the cup is empty.
Goji berries
DayThese small red fruits arrive with their own sweetness already on board. They lay down the fruity base that the peach note then settles on, and not a gram of sugar is added to either.
Guarana
DayOf everything in the bag, this Amazonian seed is the most concentrated source of caffeine. Its presence is the reason the lift is still there when the morning is drawing on towards noon.
Ginseng
DayA root used for a very long time in the tonic preparations of the Far East. It slips in an earthy shade, faintly bitter, which counts against the sweetness of the berries.
Dandelion leaf
Day and eveningThis is the single bridge between Daily and Sleep, since it goes into both recipes. Its quiet bitterness has long accompanied digestive comfort once a meal is finished.
Nettle
DayA clean, herbaceous taste with nothing hidden in it. Nettle gives the blend body and stops the cup from feeling hollow behind the four teas.
Lemongrass
DayIts citrus scent rises out of the mug before you have taken the first mouthful. A staple of Thai and Vietnamese cooking, it makes the infusion brighter and cleaner in the glass.
Milk thistle
DayThis purple flower is a fixture of the European herbal tradition. Placed behind the four teas, it carries on the earthy line that the ginseng opens.
Stevia leaf
DayIts sweetness comes out of the leaf, not out of a factory. Thanks to it, Daily can be drunk exactly as it is: no honey, no sugar, and no calories to speak of.
Rooibos
EveningA shrub from the Cederberg in South Africa, naturally free of caffeine. It is responsible for the coppery colour of Sleep and for the soft, faintly woody background behind it.
Camomile
EveningThe small white and yellow flower found in nearly every bedtime tea in Europe. Its honeyed roundness holds the bitterness back, even when the bag is left in the mug rather longer than it should be.
Lavender
EveningThree or four flowering spikes are enough to scent an entire bag. That is the smell people recognise the moment the pouch is opened, well before the kettle has been switched on.
Lemon balm
EveningA cousin of the mints, it smells of lemon without any of the fruit’s sharpness. It lightens the floral weight that camomile and lavender build up between them.
Passionflower
EveningA climber with a spectacular bloom, present in European evening blends since the 1800s. Its flavour, by contrast, passes almost unnoticed: a faintly grassy undertone and little else.
Valerian
EveningA strongly scented root, very much of damp earth. A discreet dose is plenty, and it is where Sleep gets its depth from.
Saffron
EveningThree threads to a flower, each one picked by hand. It brings a spiced warmth and the golden cast you can watch forming in the water.
Catmint
EveningA restrained mint, also known as catnip, far less sharp than its peppermint cousin. It closes the recipe without waking the palate up again just as the lights go off.
This is a description of what goes into the bags rather than an exhaustive list. Please refer to the pouch itself for the full ingredients and the allergen statement.
In practice
All it takes is a mug, a kettle and a little patience. One pyramid to 240 ml, water at around 90 °C, and then four to six minutes while the plants do the work.
The pyramid shape gives the flowers and the leaf pieces room to swell freely once the water reaches them. A flat bag packed with fine dust gives up its tannins far too quickly, and the drink turns harsh the moment you let it stand.
One pyramid, 240 ml
Drop the pyramid into the bottom of the mug, then pour on 240 ml of water at roughly 90 °C, without waiting for a rolling boil. Daily opens the day and Sleep closes it.
Around 5 minutes
Adjust it to taste: nearer 4 minutes the cup stays understated, at 6 it gains a good deal of character. Both blends take a long steep without turning bitter on you.
Piping hot or over ice
Lift the pyramid out and drink it as it is. You can also let the brew cool, pour it over ice and lay a slice of lemon on top. Nothing further is required.
Worth reading once, before the first cup.
Sipeva belongs to the category of herbal drinks and fits within a balanced diet. It replaces neither a course of treatment nor a meal, and no infusion stands in for a decent night’s sleep or for exercise. One Daily pyramid carries 18 mg of caffeine, so it is better kept to the earlier part of the day if you are sensitive to it, and that amount should be added to whatever coffee or tea you drink elsewhere. During pregnancy and breastfeeding, NHS advice is to keep total caffeine below 200 mg a day. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding, under care for a long term condition or already taking medication, speak to your pharmacist or your GP before making this a daily habit: valerian, passionflower and milk thistle, all present in the range, are among the plants that can alter the way certain medicines behave. We do not recommend it for children. Anyone with a known allergy should read the label first, particularly where the daisy family is concerned, since camomile and dandelion both belong to it. As for storage, keep the pouch closed, somewhere dry and dark, and out of reach of the youngest members of the household.
From regular drinkers
An average of 4.6 out of 5 from 243 buyers. Here are six of the more detailed accounts, on the scent, the brewing and the place each cup has taken in the day.
The peach shows up at the end of the mouthful, held well back, never syrupy. I had tried flavoured teas that ended up tasting of boiled sweets: here the fruit stays quiet and the tea leaves keep the upper hand.
Eleanor W.Sheffield, customer for 9 months
In summer I brew Daily the night before and leave the jug in the fridge. Cold, with a slice of lemon in it, it has taken over from the fizzy drinks I used to reach for in the afternoon when the office gets close.
Callum R.Bristol, customer for 7 months
Every pyramid has its own little sachet, so I can carry four or five to work without them getting crushed at the bottom of my bag. A kettle and that is the whole operation, even between meetings.
Harriet B.Norwich, customer for 11 months
After ten in the evening I switch over to Sleep. There is no caffeine in it, so I never think twice about brewing one late, and the lavender that comes up when you tear the sachet open is worth the trouble by itself.
Fraser M.Aberdeen, customer for 6 months
Twelve plants on one side and nine on the other, and you can taste the difference that makes. The saffron in Sleep gives it a depth I had not expected to find in an evening infusion at all.
Rhiannon T.Cardiff, customer for 12 months
No sugar, nothing artificial to sweeten it, and yet the cup never comes across as thin. The stevia and the goji berries round it off, and that is quite enough for me.
Duncan H.York, customer for 5 months
Where we stand
A good many supermarket herbal teas pile contradictory promises onto one box and cover thin raw material with an added flavouring. We have taken the opposite route, plant by plant.
Twenty plants, not four.An ordinary herbal tea often makes do with three or four ingredients lifted by a flavouring. Sipeva puts twelve plants into Daily and nine into Sleep, and the taste comes from those combinations alone, which is why the scent shifts slightly from one harvest to the next.
A recipe for each end of the day.The morning asks for something the evening does not. Daily owns its 18 mg of caffeine and Sleep contains not a trace. Two clear recipes, rather than one lukewarm blend expected to serve the alarm clock and the bedside table at once.
The pyramid, and the sealed sachet around it.The volume inside a pyramid bag lets flowers and leaf fragments open out properly, which a flat format flattens. Since every pyramid travels in its own wrapper, the twenty eighth still smells of what the first one did.
A cup with nothing added.No colouring, no laboratory sweetener, not a gram of extra sugar. The peach note in Daily and the roundness of Sleep come from the goji berries, the stevia leaf and the camomile. The range suits gluten free diets as readily as it suits anyone avoiding animal ingredients.
Your questions, answered
It comes down to the hour. Daily brings together twelve plants, matcha, sencha, oolong and yerba maté among them, on a natural peach note, with 18 mg of caffeine in every pyramid: it suits the morning and holds up until about 4 pm. Sleep brings together nine plants, rooibos, camomile, lavender, lemon balm, passionflower, valerian, dandelion, saffron and catmint, with no caffeine whatsoever, and belongs to the closing hour of the day.
Put one pyramid in the bottom of the mug, cover it with 240 ml of water at around 90 °C, then leave it four to six minutes depending on the strength you are after. Lift the bag out afterwards. The cup is good piping hot, or cooled and poured over ice with a slice of lemon when the weather makes that the better idea.
Twenty eight pyramids, each sealed in its own sachet, inside a resealable pouch: 70 g net at 2.5 g per bag. At one cup a day that works out at four weeks. Anyone alternating the two blends across the day therefore wants two pouches a month, one of each.
Only Daily contains any: roughly 18 mg per pyramid, contributed by the four teas, the yerba maté and the guarana, which is about a third of an espresso. Sleep declares zero, since none of its nine plants produces caffeine, which is what makes a cup shortly before bed straightforward.
A supple, fruity liquor: the peach settles on the goji berries while matcha, sencha, oolong and yerba maté build the vegetal frame underneath. Lemongrass brightens the whole thing and the stevia leaf rounds off the finish. No added sugar and no flavouring made in a laboratory.
Yes. These are simple plant infusions, meant to sit alongside an ordinary day at one or two cups. Daily being caffeinated, add what it contributes to your coffees and your other teas so that the total stays somewhere you are comfortable with.
Ask your GP or your pharmacist before settling into a daily routine. During pregnancy and breastfeeding, NHS advice is to keep caffeine below 200 mg a day from all sources together, which is the figure to hold in mind for Daily. Valerian, passionflower and milk thistle may also interact with certain medicines. The range is not intended for children.
Neither one nor the other. Both blends do without added sugar and artificial sweeteners, contain no gluten and are entirely plant based. The roundness in Daily comes from the stevia leaf and the goji berries alone, and the cup contributes no calories as long as nothing is stirred into it.
Twenty eight bags to a pouch, a full month, one cup on rising and one before bed. Five minutes of brewing each time, and the list of things to remember stops there.
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Before you brew
Sipeva belongs to the family of infused drinks. It is not a medicine, and a cup cannot stand in for a varied plate, for enough sleep or for physical activity. The Daily blend carries 18 mg of caffeine in every pyramid, so keep it to the first part of your day if you are sensitive to it. During pregnancy and breastfeeding, the recommended daily intake is capped at 200 mg from all sources combined. The range is not suitable for young children. A known allergy, a medicine already prescribed, or simply a doubt? Raise it with your GP or your pharmacist before you begin.
No added sugar
Gluten free
Entirely plant based