Favorite Tea?

[Morag]

What is your favorite kind of tea?

If I had to go with store bought, I would have to say Bedtime (produced my Yogi Tea). It can be calming in the evening or energizing/focusing in the afternoon depending on what you need it for. Plus it just tastes great! :D

If we have enough of it, though, I love to just steep fresh mint leaves in hot water. It so fresh and cleansing



I love tea

Yogi Tea's Green Tea Triple Echinacea, but I can't find it anymore. All I can find is a new one from them, the Honey Lemon with Echinacea, and it's not as good. Le sadface.

Aside from that, most types of green or chai are my faves.

[Malia]

What is your favorite kind of tea?

Blackberry! And that stuff literally grows like weeds out here! :3

[Sharysa]

What is your favorite kind of tea?

I am the worst Asian ever--hot tea tastes weird to me, so I only drink tea when I have an upset stomach and literally need to. I guess the most tolerable kind for me is standard black tea.

And only if it's iced and flavored, especially raspberry or lemon.

The rest of my family are either tea-lovers or fine with it.

[Liadine (dragonflyeyes)]

What is your favorite kind of tea?

I am obsessive about tea, and only sheer willpower (and avoiding tea stores) keeps me from bankrupting myself buying the stuff.

Basic tea bags:
- Basic black tea, with lots of milk and sugar
- Any kind of basic chai or vanilla chai, I'm not picky
- Tetley's Vanilla Rooibos and Spice Plum Rooibos
- Not sure who makes it, but this one Orange Spice rooibos blend

Loose-leaf:
- Rooibos 'Tango' blend from Bush Tea (roobios, lemon peel, orange peel, cloves, cinnamon)
- Mom's Apple Pie from David's Tea (green tea that tastes like apples and spices, it's my favourite tea in the world)
- Pumpkin Spice from David's Tea (black tea that tastes... well, like pumpkin spice. It has tiny candy pumpkins in it)
- Forever Nuts from David's Tea (herbal blend with almonds, apple, cinnamon, and beets of all things)
- This blend from Earth Tea that has peppermint, spearmint, lemon balm, and ton of other stuff

I normally drink tea at night, and I have severe sleep issues, so I try to stick with rooibos or herbal blends (and most herbal blends do nada for me).

[fallenangel]

What is your favorite kind of tea?

Iced: I prefer plain Lipton with a ton of sugar and lime juice
Hot/Morning: Earl Grey or Lady Grey brewed as dark as it can get, with cream & sugar
Hot/evening: an herbal orange blend, with honey

[MarieBay]

What is your favorite kind of tea?

I love tea

I love tea too! I usually grow my own mint for mint tea (and juleps).

Milk oolong tea by David's Tea is un-freaking-believable. It's the perfect dessert tea.

[Lokabrenna]

I love tea too! I usually grow my own mint for mint tea (and juleps).

Milk oolong tea by David's Tea is un-freaking-believable. It's the perfect dessert tea.

Bubble tea! :P

Okay, seriously now, I've tried to like tea, but it's just way too bitter for me. The lady at the tea shop says its bitter because I wasn't brewing it correctly, but I've followed the directions to the letter and nope, still bitter. I have a fruit blend (not really a tea) from the shop and I only like it with a heaping tablespoon of honey. I don't drink it very often, though, so I figure all that extra sugar won't kill me.

I do love bubble tea though. My taste buds have been spoiled by sugar.

[Owl]

What is your favorite kind of tea?

Irish Breakfast. Strong and Black.

Mint is my second favorite.

[HeartShadow]

Bubble tea! :P

Okay, seriously now, I've tried to like tea, but it's just way too bitter for me. The lady at the tea shop says its bitter because I wasn't brewing it correctly, but I've followed the directions to the letter and nope, still bitter. I have a fruit blend (not really a tea) from the shop and I only like it with a heaping tablespoon of honey. I don't drink it very often, though, so I figure all that extra sugar won't kill me.

I do love bubble tea though. My taste buds have been spoiled by sugar.

If you have the same bitterness problem with coffee, you could just be super-sensitive to bitterness. It's not an uncommon problem.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that both tea and coffee need to have a good HUGE chunk of sugar in them. coffee also needs cream. I like my caffinated sugarmilk!

[Marilyn/Absentminded]

I like my caffinated sugarmilk!

During my canning experiments last year (I've only been doing it a couple years, so they're all still experiments) I ran across a recipe for coffee jelly. I used regular pectin instead of liquid, and apparently not enough, so it turned out as a sort-of-thick sauce rather than a jelly.

I'm not going through it very fast, but adding a couple tablespoons to a glass of milk makes a very tasty, sweet, creamy thing that seems to supply the required daily caffeine intake wonderfully. Sometimes coffee bothers my stomach, but this stuff never.

Absent