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Agarathium1066 said:
Really love my mint tea, though recently I've heard from a few trusted people rooibos is good. If anyone has any suggestions I'd be happy to hear 'em.
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I adore mint and rooibos is up in my top 3. Some people say it has a soft flavor but it's not like drinking green. It does have a certain flavor. It's really nice mixed with chamomile or other floral teas. Try it on its own though or add a mint sprig for extra flavor.
 
I just drank some japanese boba tea shit after not drinking tea for like, three years and holy shit those japanese don't fuck around it was strong. But at the end i had a whole stack of boba to just like, eat i guess? Was i supposed to eat them throughout? They're pretty much flavorless gummy orbs.
 
Has anyone tried to make Thai tea from scratch? I bought this nice box called authentic thai tea and it tastes nice. The issue is the yellow dye they use in it, I don't like the way it looks. The ingredients are just thai black tea, yellow dye, and vanilla. So I was thinking of just mixing sugar with minced vanilla bean to use as the vanilla flavor. However, online recipes include star anise, cardamom, and cinnamon. Is it worth it or should I just stick with vanilla? Not really looking for a chai tea mix to be honest.
 
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This with some creamer is heaven in a cup
 
We have some kind of mountain mint that is everywhere if you don't mow that makes pretty tasty tea. Growing a number of fancy herbs to make tea with that my family likes, but I just like Lipton with light sugar and lots of ice and lemon.

Looking forward to putting roselle hibiscus in my Lipton though. Just acquired some potassium heavy fertilizer for all the hibiscus I planted.
Also, is it just me or is Lemon balm really easy to grow?

I've never been into tea but I do like herb gardening.
 
starting to feel the summer heat, so I am drinking a lot of cold barley and corn tea
 
I love tea. Green, chamomile, white, earl grey, English Breakfast, black you name it.
Lately mom recommended to add to tea cinnamon to "burn the fat lol".
We used to have a wild mint plant growing in our old house's backyard, so we'd use it to make mint tea...
 
Helvítis Túristi said:
Has anyone tried to make Thai tea from scratch? I bought this nice box called authentic thai tea and it tastes nice. The issue is the yellow dye they use in it, I don't like the way it looks. The ingredients are just thai black tea, yellow dye, and vanilla. So I was thinking of just mixing sugar with minced vanilla bean to use as the vanilla flavor. However, online recipes include star anise, cardamom, and cinnamon. Is it worth it or should I just stick with vanilla? Not really looking for a chai tea mix to be honest.
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Is there a reason you don't just buy Cha Tra Mue brand Thai tea? Nobody in Thailand makes their own Thai tea mix, they just use Cha Tra Mue. And honestly I can't imagine any of those spices will make black tea taste like Thai tea, but chai just like you said.
 
Helvítis Túristi said:
Has anyone tried to make Thai tea from scratch? I bought this nice box called authentic thai tea and it tastes nice. The issue is the yellow dye they use in it, I don't like the way it looks. The ingredients are just thai black tea, yellow dye, and vanilla. So I was thinking of just mixing sugar with minced vanilla bean to use as the vanilla flavor. However, online recipes include star anise, cardamom, and cinnamon. Is it worth it or should I just stick with vanilla? Not really looking for a chai tea mix to be honest.
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Which tea do you want to make?
I thought for Thai tea, you need to mix Black tea, ice and Condensed Milk.
For Chai, you need the spices and tea
 
572.4 said:
Is there a reason you don't just buy Cha Tra Mue brand Thai tea? Nobody in Thailand makes their own Thai tea mix, they just use Cha Tra Mue. And honestly I can't imagine any of those spices will make black tea taste like Thai tea, but chai just like you said.
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Oh, looks like I'll have to deal with the yellow dyes. I tried just the homemade vanilla sugar and black tea, it tastes similar but not quite so. Now I have to look to how to order this Cha Tra Mue brand online.
PuffyGroundCloud said:
Which tea do you want to make?
I thought for Thai tea, you need to mix Black tea, ice and Condensed Milk.
For Chai, you need the spices and tea
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Thai tea, but there are recipes for do it yourself which have a bunch of spices mixed in. If what 572.4 says is true, I might as well just stick with buying the premade tea mixes.
 
I drink a lot of coffee throughout the day but stick to herbal teas in the evening to wind down. I am lazy so I use a Keurig to boil my water - one 16oz mug at a time.

My top three teas are:

#1 pure peppermint
#2 Sleepytime (the one with the bear)
#3 red rooibos

Does anyone have a particular teapot they suggest? I am planning on buying one this winter. 2345bear.jpg
 
One of the Sleepytime teas I drink contains Valerian Root, which is good for me

Lately tho we've been avoiding things with too much sugar
 
woodfromwell said:
I drink a lot of coffee throughout the day but stick to herbal teas in the evening to wind down. I am lazy so I use a Keurig to boil my water - one 16oz mug at a time.

My top three teas are:

#1 pure peppermint
#2 Sleepytime (the one with the bear)
#3 red rooibos

Does anyone have a particular teapot they suggest? I am planning on buying one this winter. View attachment 2626551
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A cute one that you like to see out on your kitchen counter, because that’s 100% where you will keep it. I have never regretted buying a cute teapot. You will regret everything about a metal one the first time you thoughtlessly put your other hand on the bottom to steady whilst you pour.

Also, get one of a decent size. Anything marked as less than “four cups” isn’t worth bothering with. You want be able to at least go back for seconds. I swill mine out of a half pint mug though so I like a good roomy pot. Plus, tea cosies actually work since the cold dregs of the pot are rank. Tea cosies are amazing.
 
woodfromwell said:
My top three teas are:

#1 pure peppermint
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Be careful with peppermint as a man though.
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Effects of peppermint teas on plasma testosterone, follicle-stimulating hormone, and luteinizing hormone levels and testicular tissue in rats - PubMed

Despite the beneficial effects of M. piperita and M. spicata in digestion, we should also be aware of the toxic effects when the herbs are not used in the recommended fashion or at the recommended dose.
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While I enjoy the idea of flavored and/or fruit teas, I only ever really drink black tea with milk.

I always end up with loads of half-empty boxes of various teas in my cupboards. Been working on a packet of loose sencha green tea for 3+ years and it's still less than half way through, but I go though 5+ black tea bags a day.

You're welcome for this interesting post. I'm sure your life is much more enriched now you're read it.
 
I think it was at the beginning of last year? Maybe even a bit before that, but I got wind that the supermarket chain that stocks my go to black tea, Daintree, was no longer going to stock the loose leaf that I psychologically depend on, just the tea bags I'm not fond of. I could buy it direct from the Daintree website but it would cost twice as much. So I hit multiple supermarket branches and bought several dozen boxes and ended up with a medium sized plastic crate full of tea in my pantry. I've got a bit over half the crate left at this stage. It's dark and cool in my pantry and the tea is nicely sealed, so it's keeping well.

Do I regret spending hundreds of dollars on tea?

Hell no.
 
I'm almost exclusively an earl grey man. I mainly go a brand called Equal Exchange since the only loose leaf places where I live have lavender earl grey which I don't like.
 
PG Tips. Medium brewed. Tiny splash of SKIMMED milk. (Full fat milk in tea is fucking vile). Preferably soft water and bag out of the mug BEFORE the milk goes in. Yes I can tell. In my mug, yeah, the bone china one. No, it's not the same out of the other mugs.

Pu Ehr used to be my favourite it was like drinking potting compost but in a really good way. But I don't think there is any left that doesn't stink of fish these days. I keep trying different brands but I can't find a good one.

Green, white, oolong- all good. Lapsang souchong and jasmine green have a permanent place in my cupboard. I drink a lot of tea and I'm fussy about it but I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur and I don't venture far out of the moderate price range. Although I used to buy my jasmine green tea in massive boxes from a Chinese wholesaler, I was pretty much chain-drinking it and got autistically fixated on the one type I liked in the 90s. Earl Grey can fuck right off, though, most of it smells like cheap aftershave. And I'm yet to find a decent decaf black tea.

Heath and Heather's Raspberry leaf is good if we're including fruit tisanes. Their coconut green tea is ok, too.
 
These are my favorites:

-Gunpowder green tea to make mint tea
-Mark T. Wendell's Hu-Kwa (a variety of Lapsang Souchong)
-Assam
-Bigelow's Constant Comment during the fall/winter
-Russian Caravan blend

Assam is usually my go-to, the others are more seasonal...once in a while I have a taste for Twining's Prince of Wales blend too. I'd like to try Pu-Er at some point.
 
Ito En makes great matcha green tea and I'm usually not to keen on fruity or flavored teabags, their lemongrass matcha is my preferred choice. Most mornings when I'm having my 2 cups, I go for the inexpensive Tetley green matcha.

About a decade ago, I attempted to get into Yerba Mate and even ordered a gourd and bombilla from some Argentinian website to round off my hipster look when I was attending university, I of course didn't preserve the loose Mate and ended up tossing everything.

Lastly, a Vietnamese restaurant near me serves complimentary tea with every meal called Pandan tea which is superb but I can never seem to find it at any Asian grocery store because of the trouble I have deciphering the runes.
 
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