Tea Please!! :3

[SckizoBoy]

I like the tea they service during dim sum. I'm actually mostly Vietnamese and French. I'm only 1/32 Chinese. (Reason why I don't have an HKSAR passport. Parents were political refugees.)

Ooooh... sorry(!) :s

Anyway, yah, that's pretty much that tea that I like. Just checking we're talking about the same tea: first cup looks like watery piss, fourth or fifth cup is reddish-brown, while the tenth cup is black and opaque. The best 'range' is actually at the sixth to eighth cups... slightly bitter, plenty of flavour. Yum...

 

[Viral_Lola]

I like the tea they service during dim sum. I'm actually mostly Vietnamese and French. I'm only 1/32 Chinese. (Reason why I don't have an HKSAR passport. Parents were political refugees.)

Ooooh... sorry(!) :s

Anyway, yah, that's pretty much that tea that I like. Just checking we're talking about the same tea: first cup looks like watery piss, fourth or fifth cup is reddish-brown, while the tenth cup is black and opaque. The best 'range' is actually at the sixth to eighth cups... slightly bitter, plenty of flavour. Yum...

It's a dark fermented tea that is sold in blocks or "cakes"? If so, my dad loves that stuff.

I don't drink much tea (mostly stick to gratuitous amounts of coffee), but when I do I need to be as strong as possible. If it tastes like hot water then I really don't see the point.

Tangent: Do you tea enthusiasts use tea bags or is there some other contraption?

I use both, it depends on the tea.

 

[uzo]

After living for a loooong time in Japan, I drink possibly about 2 litres of tea a day now. Most of my fluid intake is in the form of tea. On my desk to my right (at work right now) there is:

Regular Lipton Tea
Earl Grey
Camomile & Peppermint
Ryokucha
Mugicha
Oolong
Blackberry
Jasmine

There's a 1L pitcher with Earl Grey and Oolong brewing merrily away too.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I believe a song is in order chaps.


Rap is better with a proper English accent. And Tea.

Herbal? No thanks... I want milk in it, strong though, I want to see that spoon stand up.

 

[Hanibal_Rising]

Alright so recently have been breaking off my long term unhealthy relationship with sodas-

STOP.

RIGHT THERE.

TELL ME HOW.

Very very painfully....there have been times I have literally had to pry my hands off of my roommates sodas. But slow and steady. I went from 3 or 4 a day to 1 or 2 a week. Its all about working your way off them. :3

 

[SckizoBoy]

It's a dark fermented tea that is sold in blocks or "cakes"? If so, my dad loves that stuff.

Oh, yeah, that's the stuff... I usually end up getting the bricks flaked down, not that it makes much of a difference. Think my parents have got some ten year old leaves at home somewhere. Haven't had some in a while, so imbibe away I will this weekend...(!)

 

[Dusty Fred]

My current 'normal' blend of choice is Twinings Everyday. Two simple facts make this an indisputably awesome tea:

1) It was advertised on TV by Steven Fry

2) It goes very well with a plateful of fish and chips

Assam and English Breakfast are both very sound black tea types. I'm a fan of Darjeeling and Earl Grey, neither of which I add milk to.

Green tea is pleasent (on its own plus some of the infusions available, such as with jasmine and with cranberry) and also medicinal: it will fix anything (though mainly an unsettled stomach), which leads me to the conclusion that it is magical and brewed by elves.

And the most important thing: adding sugar is the work of beelzebub.

 

[Viral_Lola]

It's a dark fermented tea that is sold in blocks or "cakes"? If so, my dad loves that stuff.

Oh, yeah, that's the stuff... I usually end up getting the bricks flaked down, not that it makes much of a difference. Think my parents have got some ten year old leaves at home somewhere. Haven't had some in a while, so imbibe away I will this weekend...(!)

My dad stocks up on it. I actually used some to make a house out of the tea blocks.

 

[Uncreative]

I know essentially nothing about tea, but recently I've started drinking this:

Spoiler: Wheee, pictures!

after completely arbitrarily picking it up off a self. I don't add anything, and usually let it steep 8-10 minutes.

I tried jasmine at one point, but it felt too much like drinking potpourri.

 

[Blow_Pop]

I love tea so much. Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf has a Strawberry Cream infused green tea that I'm in love with(and drinking at the moment) I also have a love of Earl Grey and Jasmine green tea. Though I won't touch the Tazo shite with a 10 foot pole. Like everything else Starbucks sells it is over priced shite that has to be saturated down in sugar to even be somewhat consumable. And I don't like putting sugar in my tea. At least not more than a spoonful or two when I put it in. I had some Tazo Earl Grey and had to make it about 75% sugar to make it slightly drinkable for me. But I like my tea strong. And I won't touch coffee ever. White teas are good too. I have a peppermint one I drink around the holidays.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Blueberry, raspberry, ginseng, sleepy time, green tea, green tea with lemon, green tea with lemon and honey, liver disaster, ginger with honey, ginger without honey, vanilla almond, white truffel, blueberry chamomile, vanilla walnut, constant comment and... earl grey.

Yep.

 

[Saltyk]

As a southern person, I loves me some sweet tea. I've been drinking it since I was a child and have no intent to stop. I have friends that mock me for my constant drinking of sweet tea. If I go out to eat, I want a glass of sweet tea. So much better than soda. When I'm home, I generally brew up some tea (usually classic black or simple iced tea blend), pour that in a pitcher, add a few cups of sugar, and fill it up with hot water. Simple, delicious sweet tea that should last me a few days or less if I get company.

 

[Shadow flame master]

I like green tea but perfer black tea any old day. Never tried Earl Grey but I hear that it's pretty good.

Btw, tea is always good hot. You could add milk, honey, and sugar to it in order to sweeten it up.

 

[Shadow flame master]

As a southern person, I loves me some sweet tea. I've been drinking it since I was a child and have no intent to stop. I have friends that mock me for my constant drinking of sweet tea. If I go out to eat, I want a glass of sweet tea. So much better than soda. When I'm home, I generally brew up some tea (usually classic black or simple iced tea blend), pour that in a pitcher, add a few cups of sugar, and fill it up with hot water. Simple, delicious sweet tea that should last me a few days or less if I get company.

The hell is wrong with your friends dude?

Sweet tea is my tea of choice as well. However, I perfer it when my mom makes it. I don't want to add too much or too little sugar.

 

[Saltyk]

As a southern person, I loves me some sweet tea. I've been drinking it since I was a child and have no intent to stop. I have friends that mock me for my constant drinking of sweet tea. If I go out to eat, I want a glass of sweet tea. So much better than soda. When I'm home, I generally brew up some tea (usually classic black or simple iced tea blend), pour that in a pitcher, add a few cups of sugar, and fill it up with hot water. Simple, delicious sweet tea that should last me a few days or less if I get company.

The hell is wrong with your friends dude?

Sweet tea is my tea of choice as well. However, I perfer it when my mom makes it. I don't want to add too much or too little sugar.

I don't know. I just figure they are stupid. Very, very stupid. And ugly. Why am I friends with them, again?

That's kind of the opposite of what happened in my family. Once I learned how to make it (at around the age of 12), my mom always wanted me to make it. She said, I made it better than anyone else.

You know what makes this really funny? Before I even posted in this thread, I had a glass of sweet tea next to me.

 

[Kryzantine]

I enjoy Irish Breakfast, Earl Grey, Orange Pekoe.... I go to this one place in Brooklyn, they sell the leaves straight up. Greatest tea ever.

 

[Nieroshai]

Don't forget that bottled teas have a ton of sugar too. Brew your own if you like and sweeten to taste, I do.

 

[Bagged Milk]

if I'm on the go I like to get the lemon arizona iced tea, but a while ago, I had the most AMAZING tea EVER! it was like the queen's 50th year of being queen or something, it was in a blue oval tin and it was great, but ever since my mom started drinking tea, all I have is green tea. not my favorite but whatever. I like my tea strong and sugarless.

 

[Takolin]

I rarely drink tea seeing I'm more a coffee man, but when I do it's ordinary black tea like Earl Grey without any milk or sugar. Personally I don't get why people add milk or sugar to their tea (or coffee for that matter).

 

[Epicspoon]

Alright so recently have been breaking off my long term unhealthy relationship with sodas and trying to find something more consumer friendly. I tried water but that lasted about as long as a gnats attention span. But as of late I have been indulging in hot teas and have come to really enjoy them. Tazo so far has been my favorite, especially the zen green tea....mmmm....
But according to my friend I have only dipped my toe in the vast ocean of what is the tea world and i was wondering if there are any others out there who share my interest.
Post your particular blend of choice or any words of wisdom.

while tea isn't as bad for you as soda you should still be careful. It has absolutely horrendous effects on your teeth.
oh and for the record my favorite is Arizona iced tea. it's a dollar a can, the cans are huge and it's absolutely delicious.