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What's your favourite tea, F!S? Any tips on making it? On mixing? Do you drink herbal teas for medicinal purposes? Tell us!

Rooibos!

Earl Grey is my go-to tea, but I'm currently very fond of the Black Lychee tea I acquired. There's also a blend with an orangy taste I'm very fond of.

Is the black lychee the Chinese one that comes in a little paper box? I love that brand. They're always on sale for $1.75 per box at my local Asian supermarket.

No, it comes in a tin box: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jWZQj7euL.jpg

Re: Tea thread!

herpymcderp - 2016-03-08 01:21 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Tea thread!

kallanda_lee - 2016-03-08 01:27 (UTC) - Expand

Regular tea but I don't know what the name for is outside of the UK. It's just tea here and I don't like Earl Grey or English Breakfast or any of the other similar-tasting varieties.

SA My favourite variety of that kind of tea is Yorkshire Tea. Which is magnificent.

That's my regular morning/afternoon/gotta work tonight blend.

Usually they are a blend of Ceylon teas.

"Regular" tea in the UK is a blend of black teas, usually. Though I'm sure all the Asian countries who regularly drink green teas will be amused to find that their tea isn't the normal tea, because only the British have the real thing.

I'm actually impressed by how you managed to extrapolate that much racism from a single badly-worded comment. I said "regular", as in the variety that we regularly drink, not "real", as in the only thing that actually qualifies as tea. But please do continue to sneer at me from atop your high horse.

Haven't tried them but I want to. Are they awesome? Someone tell me they're awesome.

They look pretty and they absolutely suck in terms of flavour.

But they look pretty?

Re: Blooming Teas??

(Anonymous) - 2016-03-08 01:11 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Blooming Teas??

herpymcderp - 2016-03-08 01:15 (UTC) - Expand

Gorgeous to look at, but low on flavor. If you prefer white teas or herbal teas, they might be okay.

I usually drink some brand of English tea (typically a Ceylon) for every day use.

I'm quite fond of darjeelings though, and I have some Pu'Erh at home that is absolutely lovely.

I also keep quite a good stock of flavoured black tea blends (orange spice, chai, Earl Grey, Lady Grey, Market Spice etc).

As for greens I typically have Gyokuro, and jasmine, although I currently also have a lotus flavoured brand from Vietnam.

Other than that I keep a few tisanes around for when I want to go to bed. Peppermint, chamomile, lemon... etc. I think I currently have an acai one and a gingerbread spice one.

I'm not really a fan of rooibos, but I occasionally get gifted one, so I tend to have them in stock in case company is interested.

I really, really like tea.

I can tell by your post! What's Gyokuro like? I never drank that.

Re: Tea thread!

herpymcderp - 2016-03-08 01:18 (UTC) - Expand

Chai will always be my favourite. I don't really like most black teas, though, and stick to various kinds of fruity herbal teas otherwise!

Mine too! I always go back to Chai, although I prefer the green one to the black one.

I liked to take a big Starbucks black tea with cinnamon and milk with me to the classroom. Pu-erh is interesting but actual chinese tea is too strong for me. I like Clipper brand, their Sleeping tea.

I like most kinds of Earl Grey as long as they aren't too heavy on the bergamot.

Otherwise, Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Gold is one of my favorite specific brands/varieties of tea. Gotta use a very short steeping time or it gets bitter fast.

Trader Joes did a vanilla and cinnamon black tea at Christmas (last year? This year too? I don't remember) that I really liked.

I like Lipton's decaf green tea because it's very mild and makes a nice evening drink with honey and milk.

Also, right now I'm liking Bigelow's Girl Scout Cookie tea (samoa/caramel delight flavor).

I love that Trader Joe cinnamon vanilla tea, I wish they did it all year. I also like Yorkshire, English breakfast, Earl Grey, Irish breakfast, Pu-erh, Darjeeling, Ceylon, Lady Grey, any Japanese green tea, Assam, etc.

I drink green tea regularly but am pretty picky. Bad green tea can taste like dirty dishwater. The good stuff that actually turns your water green, please. This includes any kind of roasted green tea or matcha, too.

I also drink herbal teas. I always keep chamomile stocked, and I guess I use that medicinally in the sense that I drink it to help me sleep (I get bad insomnia). I also drink peppermint regularly. I can't do caffeine at night for the aforementioned insomnia reasons, and I love a hot beverage to help me relax.

I honestly don't really drink black tea. I prefer coffee at that point. Either way, I'd need plenty of cream and sugar.

Sweet tea, or whatever they call it, can burn in hell.

I LOVE TEA /cough

My favourite fast-and easy tea is an Irish Breakfast Tea - it's a black blend of Assam and (apparently) Kenyan black tea. These teabags are an exception though,I generally prefer loose tea.

I generally enjoy Assam and Nilgiri when it comes to plain black tea. Depending on the mood, I drink it with milk or without.
Flavoured black - oh dear, I have a huge collection. I like the classic Earl Grey, but only if the bergamot note isn't overpowering. Some of my current favourites are a black tea flavoured with cherries - very nice, a walnut flavoured black tea and a mix from a small teashop that has, among more toffee like flavours, some cute cornflower petals in it.

I tried mixing my own black tea, orange peel and vanilla blend but using Assam as a base was a mistake - it's a far too dominant taste.

When it comes to green tea, I love Gunpowder and Sencha, but I don't like it if tastes too much like hay. Jasmine is nice once in a while, but as much as I love the smell, jasmine scent gives me headaches, so it's not a great thing. I love Genmaicha (green tea with roasted rice) and Hojicha (roasted green tea). I love the malty taste of Genmaicha. I had a great lemongrass flavoured green tea a long time ago and never found a comparable blend.

There are some great white teas as well - they are particularly great as a base for more subtle flavours as well - I have a lovely melon flavoured white tea.

I am a huge fan of moroccan mint tea (which is, in the version I know, prepared with Gunpowder and fresh mint and loads of sugar. It's great, especially when I have fresh homegrown mint in the summer.)

Herbal teas/tisanes are tricky. Some are great, but a lot of them have this "I had to drink this when I was sick as a kid" vibe so I don't like them all that much anymore. I am one of the very few people I know who love sage tea.

There was this great lemongrass-woodruff flavoured herbal tea that I enjoyed a lot but the company stopped producing it. So sad.

Fruity "teas" are... tricky. Red fruit/berry tea usually has a nice smell and always only tastes of rosehip. I hate rosehip. I once had (I think it was Lipton) some teabags with apple and maple syrup flavour, those were kinda nice, but I think they don't exist anymore (or a least don't get sold around here). I have an interesting cherry-and-banana "tea" but apparently, teas like that give me terrible heartburns so can't drink them anymore.

I never was a fan of rooibos, but I recently heard about black rooibos (I think it even was on F!S some days ago?) and I am tentatively interested.

Fruit teas. My biggest favourite right now is Pumping Pomegranate:

http://www.t2tea.com/shop/tea-2/fruit-tisanes/pumping-pomegranate-3/

I also have a couple of other fruit flavours besides, a mixed berry one and a strawberry one.

But because I can't go to the shop to stock up very often I spin it out by augmenting it with cheap tea bags. These I usually cold-brew, and then sweeten and add lemon juice when I get up. I do want to go to the shop again, but I sacrificed it this fortnight in favour of buying a sword.

Oh, and on the medicinal question: Twining's Lemon and Ginger tea is good if one feels a cold pending.

I also had a fondness for dissolving eucalyptus sweets in hot tea when I felt sniffly, but plain eucalyptus candies are less common now than they were a couple of years ago, which is a bit of a pain because the plain ones (not honey and eucalyptus) had more eucalyptus flavour in them, and the whole point of putting them in tea was to sit over the steaming cup and breath in the eucalyptus scent, which helps clear the sinuses a bit.

English Breakfast, English Afternoon, Oolong, Lady Grey, Earl Grey.

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