What is your favorite flavor of tea and why?
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I tend to stick mostly to black teas, myself, with Earl Grey (Twinnings), Lady Grey (Twinnings again) and English Breakfast (any decent brand will usually do) being my staples. The first two I drink "straight," and the last I tend to have with milk.
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I, for one, look forward to hearing about your beverage experiments.
BTW, I'm vegetarian, but I'm not sure I could survive w/o a little dairy and occasional seafood.
My default choice is Darjeeling. A light and elegant cuppa.
Lady Grey is a nice change occasionally, and I have some vanilla-flavoured tea from Mauritius in the cupboard that's also in the rotation. But mainly, Darjeeling. Usually Twinings bags, but if I'm in the city centre, I sometimes pick some First Flush Longview from a specialist tea merchant there.
Lady Grey is a nice change occasionally, and I have some vanilla-flavoured tea from Mauritius in the cupboard that's also in the rotation. But mainly, Darjeeling. Usually Twinings bags, but if I'm in the city centre, I sometimes pick some First Flush Longview from a specialist tea merchant there.
I love lapsang souchong. It has a nice smokey flavour.
It depends on my mood, but I most often choose chai masala or Irish breakfast tea. I like strong flavors and so usually let it steep for a very long time, often with two bags or twice the tea in the strainer. I want my chai masala to be so spicy it burns going down, and my Irish breakfast to caffeinate me sufficiently for a week at a time.
If you pop into your local Waitrose, you should be able to find Lapsang Souchong Smoked Salmon in their Heston Blumenthal inspired range. It's OK.
That's strong tea! I normally use one bag per day, or less. I get no less than 3 mugs from each bag. It's hard to judge because I top up, rather than make distinct mugs, and I'll often just leave the bag in the cup so it's infusing constantly.
Does having lots of caffeine not affect your sleeping? I'm remembering how you've said in the past about having troubled sleep, so I'm wondering if frequent high doses of caffeine could be doing something to your circadian rhythm.
I agree with those who said most tea is too weak. I also tend to steep it a long time, using boiling water, in order to draw out as much flavor as possible.
My favorites are rooibos, Earl Grey (tried it after seeing Picard order it), and chamomile. For the holidays, I prefer peppermint and gingerbread teas. However, I am always open to trying new teas when I find them.
More regularly I drink coffee. I have to have that morning coffee to get my day started. After that, I am pretty open to try anything.
My favorites are rooibos, Earl Grey (tried it after seeing Picard order it), and chamomile. For the holidays, I prefer peppermint and gingerbread teas. However, I am always open to trying new teas when I find them.
More regularly I drink coffee. I have to have that morning coffee to get my day started. After that, I am pretty open to try anything.
Good point - most tea is too weak in the US because people don't use boiling water. In the US and in Canada when I order tea somewhere, I'm given the water in a cup and the tea-bag separately. This means the water is too cold to properly steep the tea. Tea has to be made with boiling water - and if you want to be really particular you should heat your mug first so you don't lose heat into the mug.
I had always been told that using boiling water is improper when making tea. Yay me! I've been doing it right all along!
Depends on the kind of tea. White tea is too delicate to use boiling water. Same w/ some (most? all?) herbal teas.
Thank-you for your kind suggestion, but salmon is incompatible with my diet.
I had always been told that using boiling water is improper when making tea. Yay me! I've been doing it right all along!
When making green tea, boiling water is said to scorch the leaves and make the tea bitter. It doesn't affect black tea as that has already been heated to oxidise/blacken it.
When I make green tea I normally add a little cold water into the mug with the tea bag -- just enough to soak the bag -- and fill it up with boiling water as normal.
I have only one caffeinated drink per day for that reason. I drink several cups of tea or coffer a day and switched to decaf a couple of years ago for the reason. It made no difference, unfortunately.
I do not drink green tea. I used to drink it until my stepmother's doctor told her to stop because it was triggering her kidney stones. She holds a record (probably) for the most kidney stones from an individual person. Since she stopped using green tea, she has not had another kidney stone develop. I would also get kidney stones. Since I stopped using green tea, no new stones have developed. Fortunately, I have passed those that had been forming.
My favorite has to be the traditional 'builders brew', Tetleys teabag, full fat milk and 2 sugars, strong and well stirred. Theres nothing like it at the beginning of the day, or the middle, or the end for that matter, to make you go 'aaaaaaah'.
If I can be bothered I will occasionally drink loose tea in a proper teapot, normally with 'Assam' purchased from Betty's (I think only people from Yorkshire will know Betty's). A proper classy brew.
My girlfriend likes peppermint or ginger and lemon although I don't class these as actual tea, more like herbal infusions. Many arguments have sprung from heated debates about what constitutes tea.
Coffee I simply can't handle. Just one cup makes me feel like my head is going to blow, Scanners style.
If I can be bothered I will occasionally drink loose tea in a proper teapot, normally with 'Assam' purchased from Betty's (I think only people from Yorkshire will know Betty's). A proper classy brew.
My girlfriend likes peppermint or ginger and lemon although I don't class these as actual tea, more like herbal infusions. Many arguments have sprung from heated debates about what constitutes tea.
Coffee I simply can't handle. Just one cup makes me feel like my head is going to blow, Scanners style.
2 sugars only? What kind of pussified, watered-down, builder are you?!
Oh right, yeah, I forgot, sorry.
My favorite is Twining's English Breakfast, I can't really say specifically why though, it's just good. My Mom got some Stash Earl Grey for me to have when I visit and it's not so bad either, so I suppose I may mix it in at home as well. After reading some of the reviews here I might try Irish Breakfast as well. I don't really like coffee due to the bitterness, even with sugar and milk, so when I really need a caffeine kick it's tea I usually turn to so having some that's a little more caffeinated would be good.
Typhoo tea.
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