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Harney & Sons is expensive but very delicious, their coconut green tea & cinnamon spice literally lights up my life.
 
Any tea made from good herbs from the wild. For me, the taste of tea is secondary, I much prefer to choose by healing/nourishing effects.
 
PeggieBigCock said:
Harney & Sons is expensive but very delicious, their coconut green tea & cinnamon spice literally lights up my life.
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I've gotten a few tins of their stuff recently, though I think my palette is out of whack because I have serious trouble noticing any flavor in most hot teas. The majority of the time all I taste is hot water, and it's honestly frustrating.
 
I am so glad there's a thread about tea, and thank you OP for making it!

So far this year, I am particularly enjoying a Lychee Black Tea I came across at a TJ Maxx, in an herbal tea library set I bought. It's one of the only teas I've had in ages that needs no cream or sugar. I think the brand is called Tao.

Aside from that, after living there for two years, I have come to love Japanese teas. I enjoy hot genuine Matcha green tea, iced Hogicha barley tea for summer, and Genmaicha roasted rice tea for when I'm in between meals.

In general, Japan's palate for tea is such a blessing. Even Japanese McDonalds has an exceptional Earl Grey milk tea, and their basic vending machine teas were so refreshing after a hot sticky summer day.
 
Any good recommendations for a good tea infuser? My old one I had got lost in a move a couple years ago and I got this loose cinnamon tea from a local tea maker as part of a gift this past March and now that the weather is cold I want to drink it.
 
I know Kung Fu! Or Gongfu, however you want spell it. I take tea seriously, a life time of bad tea put me on a journey for the real deal. Have not met a quality tea that I don't like. Quality being the rub, only drink teabags if I don't have loose leaf. I avoid flavoured teas, if it's not pure tea, I don't touch it. The exception is chai. Favorites; Lapsang Souchong, taste like drinking a forest fire, love it! White tea is my fav type, drink enough it will give you a chill tea buzz. Bai Mu Dan is my go to white, then Shou Mei with older leave, darker leaves. Green is Imperial Jasmine Dragon Pearls. For Oolongs, anything from Wuyi, I've got the hook up straight from the tea farm in those. Oolongs from Anxi are totally different, I tend to go for Hairy Crab cultivars. Havent gotten into Puerhs yet, but I do like the wood & dirt taste. Currently Tea quest is trying teas from Camellia sinenses spp taliensis, which are much rarer. Tea is genuinely fascinating to me. The history, folklore, botany, cultivation is enough learning for a life time. It's the simplest hobby in the world. Water, tea and a cup, that's it.
 
i LOVE tea, but im pretty low maintenance...i drink english/irish breakfast tea with lots of sweetened condensed milk, or chamomile with plain milk and lots of sugar.
 
Ladies and gentlemen... I come to you from the scene of a tragedy.

It's been raining here. A lot. As in the city has just had its second "once in a hundred years flood event" in a decade. Everything is damp and soggy. Mould has suddenly bloomed everywhere in our old house: it's on walls, appliances, furniture, curtains, floors... and it's attacked my tea rack.

I've lost everything that wasn't fully sealed in plastic or in a sound screw top lid container. My green tea is gone, my jasmine is gone, my oolong is gone. They were in tins with lids that slid shut, not screwed. Most of my T2 collection is gone, and I've lost a heap of little samples that I've been saving as future treats as well. The stack of herbal tea someone gave me was a write off too, but I kept the herbals for guests so I'm not as dirty about those.

My lemon myrtle stash is safe in a screw top container which is a relief; it's hard to find and expensive when you do, so that's something. (60:40 green tea and lemon myrtle brewed in traditional green tea manner- transcendent) My precious remaining stock of Daintree black tea is safely sealed in plastic.

We're merely damp, not underwater like a lot of poor bastards right now, so I can't complain too loudly. But fuck, it hurt to throw all that tea away.
 
I'm looking for some REALLY GOOD Earl Grey, like the best a fag in a culture desert can get. So far the brands I've tried are Harney and Sons, Numi, and Equal Exchange. I have some Republic of Tea Earl Greyer in the mail. Is there anything of better quality that I don't know about?
 
Dr. Geronimo said:
I'm looking for some REALLY GOOD Earl Grey, like the best a fag in a culture desert can get. So far the brands I've tried are Harney and Sons, Numi, and Equal Exchange. I have some Republic of Tea Earl Greyer in the mail. Is there anything of better quality that I don't know about?
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Steven Smith Teamaker Lord Bergamot: https://www.smithtea.com/collections/best-sellers/products/lord-bergamot

Everything they do is great. (Actually, I don't like their herbal teas but anything black/green/white is great.)
 
Free the Pedos said:
Are you OK? Do you want us to bring you a baked ziti and a hug?
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I'm fine. a few days ago I helped make spinach lasagna roll ups and I'm currently drinking lavender herbal tea as it was recommended to me by a doctor yesterday.
(Seriously, this forum is sweet and this is why I stick around)
 

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Cheerlead-in-Chief said:
I'm fine. a few days ago I helped make spinach lasagna roll ups and I'm currently drinking lavender herbal tea as it was recommended to me by a doctor yesterday.
(Seriously, this forum is sweet and this is why I stick around)
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No homo but I'd still bring you baked ziti and a hug anyway.



Ok, help a bitch out teafags: my local stores stopped selling darjeerling. Where can I get a good darjeerling?
 
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