Tea fiends of the Lounge, check in!

[BlueIris]

Any other big fans of tea here? I like (and need) my coffee, too, but tea is one of my more cherished pleasures.

[HEyHEY]

1. Hey! I'm going to a big Sunday tea today!

[seemunkee]

2. Here

I usually have 2-4 cups every morning. Some days I'll make a quart of chai.

[applegrove]

3. I don't partake as much as I should. But I love green tea made with

'just before the boil' water. Otherwise it is nasty.

[BlueIris]

6. I used to drink a lot of white tea.

I can stand the taste of high-end green tea, but it's not my favorite. And I'm of the opinion that people, especially women, need to be careful with the green tea. Too much isn't necessarily a good thing.

[applegrove]

16. White tea is even better than green.

[BuddhaGirl]

37. why do you think women need to be careful with green tea?

just curious :-)

[skygazer]

4. I can't drink coffee anymore

It wreaks havoc on my stomach. But I love tea - black tea. Green tea doesn't do a lot for me. I love my Earl Grey, my second favorite is Irish Breakfast and third would probably be English Breakfast. :hi:

[FunkyLeprechaun]

30. I'm the same way

The only coffee that I can seem to drink without feeling nauseous is one that's been brewed in a Cafetiere. I don't really like the instant coffee and as soon as I drink it I feel ill.

Thankfully, I like in the UK and there's plenty of good teas around here!! :-) I work in a museum and they've got a complete bag of Typhoo Tea from the 1920s and I asked if I could smell it and they said go ahead. It still smells good despite it being almost 90 years old.

[Critters2]

5. I'm a big Earl Gray fan. nt

[BlueIris]

7. I like the Tazo scented Earl Grey--it's got bergamot in it.

That kind is taaaasty.

[Critters2]

8. Yep, that's the best! nt

[skygazer]

10. All Earl Grey has bergamot

That's what makes it Earl Grey.

[BlueIris]

11. ...Oh.

Good to know.

[grace0418]

34. oops. delete.

wrong spot.

[TommyO]

39. I keep Tazo Earl Gray and Chai at my desk

along with all of the assorted accoutrement to make a nice cup of tea.

[philosophie_en_rose]

9. I love tea.

Especially earl grey.

[achtung_circus]

12. I don't like Earl Grey,

but preheat a china teapot with tap water, fill a kettle with cold water, let the water boil THOROUGHLY, dogammit, steep inside a tea cozy, and this tea will sooth your soul.



"The brew that refreshes, yet does not inebriate."

[BlueIris]

13. Lately, I've really been enjoying Yogi brand tea. Yogi's "Classic India Spice" is quite yummy.

I also enjoy their "Egyptian Licorice Mint," "Tahitian Hazelnut," and "Mayan Cocoa Spice."

[grace0418]

33. The Indian Spice was my fave for a long time. Then I found Sweet Thai Delight

and it's my new favorite. I'm drinking some right now. It smells as good as it tastes. I love Yogi tea.

[Paladin]

14. Had Some Fortnum & Mason English Breakfast Tea This A.M.

Visited the big F&M store in London a couple of Christmas seasons ago---absolutely incredible food purveyors, just as impressive as their reputation leads you to believe. Brought back tins of Assam Superb and English Breakfast teas---the Assam Superb (from the lowlands of India) is hands-down the best tea I've ever tasted, but my supply of it is running low, so I'm into the English Breakfast, which ain't too shabby, either.

I believe that F&M has a web site where you can order their teas. Very worthwhile....

[BlueIris]

15. Ahhhh. Real tea. I'm just an amateur.

[Paladin]

24. It's Easy To Lose Your Amateur Status

First, buy good quality LOOSE tea, not teabags. Make sure you have a tea cozy and a tea strainer. After you put your water on to boil, fill your tea pot with hot water and put the tea cozy over it, allowing the pot to get warmed up. When the water boils, put the tea in the pot (1 generous tsp. per cup, plus "one for the pot"), pour in the boiling water, give the tea a quick stir, put the cozy back on and let the tea steep for 4-5 minutes. Pour the tea into your cup, using the strainer to catch the leaves. I like mine English style, with a little sugar and milk, but that's a personal preference; drinking it straight or with a lemon slice are perfectly acceptable alternatives....

[johnnie]

17. Oh man

I remember having a joint laced with that shit when I was a teen. I was so fucked up.

[midnight armadillo]

18. Upton Tea is awesome

www.uptontea.com

Everything they sell is awesome.

Personally, I am especially fond of their Rooibos Superior. Damn good tea, along with their decaf earl grey green tea. I try to avoid caffeine so I have to stick with the herbal stuff.

[supernova]

19. Lapsang Soochong

Of course i love tea, I'm a southerner!

:-)

Besides regular iced tea in the summer, I like green tea and white tea but lately I've been loving something I haven't tasted since I was a kid. My grandad gave us a tea sampler eons ago and I remember liking to make myself some tea to have with a form of streudel he used to make. Anyway my favorite out of that sampler box was Lapsang Soochong. I thought it was funny to say. :D What I really loved was that smokey flavor.

I remembered that recently and got myself a whole large tin of Lapsang Soochong. Now, every night I make myself a cup of smokey goodness. :9 :loveya: And I have promised myself that I will never be without it again! Love ya, grandaddy! :loveya:

[hedgehog]

20. I never had an inkling that there was more than one kind of tea

until I read the description of Lapsang Soochong in Michener's Centennial. I'm a fan of Upton Tea, also. I love Russian Caravan.

[demnan]

21. I love a good Golden Yunnan

and the good ones are harder and harder to fine. Tea Source has a good Assam Golden Tail I'm drinking now that is similiar to a Yunnan. I like a second flush Darjiling better than a first flush, I like some Oloongs but tend to the more Oxidized types.

I occasionally also check in with Teamail, if you're interested they give you lots of tips and have very entertaining writers.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teamail/

[Dervill Crow]

22. I'm a tea lover.

Zarrin pure Ceylon tea from Fred Meyer.

[NV Whino]

23. Yo! Checkin' in

I love my tea. Just about any kind will do.

[Cabcere]

25. Count me in!

:hi: Plain (unsweetened) iced tea is my favorite drink in the summer, and when the weather's a bit cooler, I like drinking hot tea of just about any kind. Green, white, red, black, various kinds of herbal tea...oh, and chai is amazing. :) So, yeah, I'd call myself a tea fiend. :D

[MountainLaurel]

26. *raises hand*

I can't do coffee at all these days, but I've never been big on it. (I think it's because the only coffee I was exposed to as a child was Sanka.) I like herbals, black, green, white, and red teas. I like my morning teas with sugar and milk, and many others with honey. No one favorite tea, but certain favorites in certain settings.

[BlueIris]

27. Anymore tea fiends here?

[Fire Walk With Me]

28. All your green teas are belong to us.

[MissHoneychurch]

29. Every morning

I have me a big pot of tea. Different one. Jasmine tea, Earl Grey, Roibus. mountail herbs tea ...

I love tea!!!

[Callalily]

31. Tea fiend checking in!

One of my most favorite things to do on a cold winters day is grab a good book and a nice cup of hot tea! Ahhhh . . .

[FunkyLeprechaun]

32. Hello!

That's what I've got in the UK and more!

Whoo hoo. I'm sorry to say that the tea I've tasted in the US is utter crap compared to the UK teas.

[grace0418]

35. I had been buying this green & white iced tea blend from Trader Joe's and it's so

delicious. Normally I hate premade iced tea, it always tastes bitter and chalky to me. But this one is awesome. I decided to try making it myself to save on recycling. My first try was not too bad at all. I think I will keep doing it.

My favorite hot teas are Sweet Thai Delight, Classic Indian Spice and Peach Detox all from Yogi Tea. I also enjoy a nice Earl Grey and Chai.

[Connonym]

36. PG tips

Especially now that I've decided to quit Diet Coke. Only bad thing is that I can already see that it's staining my teeth :(

[ghostsofgiants]

38. I love tea.

Coffee, on the other hand, is putrid.