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I fucking love dandelion tea. It's got a roasted earthy flavor so similar to coffee it's sometimes called dandelion coffee. It makes a good alternative to decaf coffee.
 
Black tea, my nation is pretty big for being tea drinkers (not Britain) but I can't be arsed brewing tea for 20 minutes every morning so I just use tea bags, something which my ancestors probably frown upon, even though they've been drinking tea only since the 50s. Lipton's earl grey is pretty alright, but if I ever felt like making tea in the morning I'd mix some good quality Ceylon & Twinings.
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Obi Wan Kenobi said:
Black tea, my nation is pretty big for being tea drinkers (not Britain) but I can't be arsed brewing tea for 20 minutes every morning so I just use tea bags, something which my ancestors probably frown upon, even though they've been drinking tea only since the 50s. Lipton's earl grey is pretty alright, but if I ever felt like making tea in the morning I'd mix some good quality Ceylon & Twinings.
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That's an interesting graph. Many things unexpected, not the least being China's comparatively low placement. You'd think that it'd be right up there in the top three. "All the tea in China" as the saying goes.
 
Maybe I'm a yuppie faggot but I buy fruity herbal teas and stuff a lot. Brewed right they taste sweet enough on their own without any added sugar. There's a few brands of apple cider flavored tea that are really good for example. If I do ever add any kind of sweetener it's usually honey, but it's rare that I do.

That said, I mostly drink unsweetened tea. I learned to love it while I was in Japan and tea was easier to come by than plain water. My favorite one was called like... Sokenbicha or something? I always look for it when I go to the Asian markets around here but it's pretty rare. I like barley tea as well, iced in particular. You can get big pitcher-sized bags at a lot of Asian markets so I usually have some on hand in my fridge for whenever. I buy a lot of weird shit whenever I got to those places, like Korean corn silk tea, which unsurprisingly tastes very corny but is somehow good.
 
i used to be very big on drinking tea, id have ~10 cups a day but i stopped when my teeeth turned yellow. but some of my favorites include
  • chamomile
  • earl grey
  • barley
  • lapsang souchong
  • simple lemon tea made form a slice of lemon and some stevia.
 
Whoever first suggested lapsang, thank you. Just had a great cup at the top of a mountain, and it really does taste like a campfire. Not bitter in the slightest, either, no sugar needed. I decided to be a nerd and keep the teabag, and it's made another litre of weak tea / nice water. Smells amazing too, it's like a male scented candle.

A Rastafarian Skeleton said:
Genmaicha brown rice tea is my new favorite. It smells like burnt popcorn when you're brewing it but it tastes like a yummy soup when you drink it.
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Mennonites used to do something similar called pripps with toasted wheat kernels to extend the lifespan of coffee. The extremely poor would use burnt grass or hay. Supposedly it tasted awful either way and was more to make water more interesting than anything.
 
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I haven't had any in awhile, budget has been tight and doesn't allow for too much luxury purchases like tea, but for abotu a decade there i was working my way through harney and sons.. I found Florence (and paris) teas pretty yummy. Scottish breakfast tea was pretty solid as well.
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>no Turkish tea enjoyers
SAD!
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Necroing the thread so I can share my pain.

My favourite tea of all time, Daintree, is no longer available in supermarkets. Instead you either have to buy it from boutique tea places or T2, or directly from the Daintree website. I was delighted to discover that Amazon had started stocking it, because even ordering from the plantation was fucking expensive. When I started running low I made my order... and I'm still waiting, and I'm out of Daintree. It's supposed to be here next week.

In the meantime I thought I'd try Queen Victoria English Breakfast, which, as it turns out, is mediocre Indian tea. It is better than Bushells, but so is being jabbed in the eye with a pointy stick. My funds are currently exhausted so I'm stuck with the Queen Victoria until my Daintree arrives.

I feel bereft, needy and unfulfilled. I wish the supermarkets would get their shit together and stock the good stuff.
 
Lately I've been drinking matcha.

I even got a kit for it and then upgraded nearly immediately to a copper spoon and an electric whisk because spending several minutes whipping at a cup of tea with a bamboo mesh is more time than I want to spend.

Basically it's a powdered form of green tea but where you push the tea through a mesh strainer then add hot water and whisk it until it's foamy.

Unlike normal tea you drink the powdered tea itself along with the water.

There's a bit of ceremony involved but not as excessively complex as pu-er tea. It also contains stimulants other than just caffeine without the downward jag when you crash from caffeine.
 
AnOminous said:
Lately I've been drinking matcha.

I even got a kit for it and then upgraded nearly immediately to a copper spoon and an electric whisk because spending several minutes whipping at a cup of tea with a bamboo mesh is more time than I want to spend.

Basically it's a powdered form of green tea but where you push the tea through a mesh strainer then add hot water and whisk it until it's foamy.

Unlike normal tea you drink the powdered tea itself along with the water.

There's a bit of ceremony involved but not as excessively complex as pu-er tea. It also contains stimulants other than just caffeine without the downward jag when you crash from caffeine.
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I have to admit, I'm a bit too much of a pussy to try proper oriental green tea - too worried I'll waste it to buy any. I'm still getting fully into drinking black tea (and coffee), and I still end up needing creamer and sweetener more often than not. From what little I know, that shit doesn't fly with green tea, and matcha is the rocket fuel variety of the stuff.
Practical upshot, though, I've gone the last couple of months without having more than one or two soft drinks total. A little heavy cream and maple syrup go a long way to help keep me on the wagon, as it were.
 
My husband drinks copious amounts of unsweetened iced tea at work, usually Ito En or Pure Leaf, so I recently floated the idea of getting a cold brew carafe. It got here earlier this week and I've been tweaking the blend, any suggestions? So far, a bit of jasmine and green gunpowder has had the best flavor according to my husband, but I'd like to have a few go-tos. Apparently this is the best idea I've ever had, so I definitely recommend it if you're into unsweetened iced tea.

I've posted before about my own tea consumption, still big on Lapsang Souchong and Russian Caravan, but true to the stereotype, I've been drinking pumpkin spice chai a lot lately. In the morning, I have it with a bit of brown sugar and frothed milk for breakfast.
 
Mooger Meng said:
From what little I know, that shit doesn't fly with green tea, and matcha is the rocket fuel variety of the stuff.
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Green tea is okay with a touch of honey or some other herb like ginger. At least the kind that comes in a bottle. I usually add nothing to tea. Exception is when I make an ultra-strong builder's tea out of Irish Breakfast tea or some other assam-heavy, somewhat bitter tea in a huge mug. Then I add nearly toxic amounts of cream and sugar to it. I rarely do that, though. It's a "work outside in winter" kind of breakfast tea.
 
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