Tea

I like my tea green too.

As some that lives in the southern u.s. ilove sweet tea....as someone with exanded tastes...green tea with ginsing and honey...also like white tea

Living in the UK, tea is as part and parcel as the rain we get here. We love tea and it is mainly taken with milk and sugar, what we call here a builders brekkie lol.

Steeping tea is the same process used to extract water-soluble medicine that pharmaceutical companies use... so yeah, it's a major source of medicine for most people. If you have a decent tea collection and know a bit about the ingredients, you can self-medicate for many maladies and "live long and prosper".

As usual, I didn't read through everything yet.
I should learn to do that before I post, but.. it's more interesting this way.

The other day I read that white tea and green tea come from the same plant. White tea is harvested earlier and is normally more pure and full of antioxidants than green tea is. It's a little sweeter and contains less caffeine than green tea as well. I've been an avid green tea drinker for many years and recently switched to white tea. I haven't noticed much of a difference, to be completely honest, but I'll give it some more time before I say that indefinitely.

Yogi Green Tea is the best tasting green tea I've ever had. It's very difficult for me to find white tea around here, so if anyone knows of a good one, please let me know!

I'm English and I don't really get tea, it doesn't seem to taste all that good to me...

Please accept this picture of a teapot that looks like Hitler as a reparation for this clearly anti-English treachery!

Hahahah. Very nice.

I tend to like ALL teas. Peppermint is my favorite, especially when sweetened.

But, any herbal teas I will gladly drink. Black teas, I really only enjoy when it's iced. That's the Southern American in me.

I think tea is healthy and a good sub for coffee but I drink green tea for the flavor, straight up.

It definitely is a good substitute for coffee.

Though, caffeine is still pretty bad. hahaha.

Connor Lidell wrote: It definitely is a good substitute for coffee.

Though, caffeine is still pretty bad. hahaha.

I need a little caffeine. Tea can have a lot of caffeine but you have to make it stonger to get it. I like my tea on the light side, it tastes better.

Aye. I do enjoy a good Chai tea every now and then.

I'm on Jasmine Green at the moment, but sometimes I do my own blends with strange herbs. Traditional Chinese Medicine has some nice/foul tasting blends, and it reminds me of a witches cauldron with all the strange looking things that get thrown in!

my usual choice is green tea, clear,for all of the health benefits, and the taste isn't as acidic, but orange peeko, which a black tes is nice with lots of milk(and a cookie), but my guilty pleasure is Hot Cinnamon Spice, a blend of black tea and a 5 cinnamon blend with orange peel,(it tastes like the cinnamon heart candy, but no sugr added or needed) oh and cinnamon is another antioxidant.
seems no matter what you choose Ace you can't go wrong!!

I love tea

I live on a combination of Green tea and rosehips during the day and end off with valerian with peppermint at night.

I'd have to say my favorites are black tea with milk and green tea, both hot and iced.

I don't seem to do the whole "milk" with tea thing right... every time I try to do it myself, it never goes right.

I think my problem is that I don't heat the milk before adding it to the tea... lol.

I'm a big tea fan. I tend to like the darker, richer varieties like Assam, and smoked teas like lapsang souchong or a nice Russian caravan.

I do "do" other types of tea, oolong and the occasional green or herbal tea (this stuff is great before bed) but black tea with a little milk is heaven.

Connor Lidell wrote: I don't seem to do the whole "milk" with tea thing right... every time I try to do it myself, it never goes right.

I think my problem is that I don't heat the milk before adding it to the tea... lol.

I don't either (I haven't heard of doing so and in the UK it's rare to drink black tea without milk), the key is a combination of just enough milk combined with the perfect amount of time brewing the tea, which can be anything up to 4 minutes. Different types of tea and cup sizes call for different amounts of milk as well. Nothing worse than weak milky tea, imho.

There are few pleasures like pouring a little milk into a properly brewed, wide-brimmed cup of tea and watching the liquids cloud and swirl together until the whole thing becomes... well, a nice cup of tea!

i like sweet tea, lots of sugar. milo's is the best brand around here.

It's funny, I used to hate tea without sugar but now I can't drink it, it leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.

For a day-to-day tea I'm enjoying Thompsons Signature Blend, it has a slight bitterness which feels nice and old fashioned. They also do an awesome Irish Breakfast which does a half-decent job waking me up every day.

I stick with the normal Earl Grey that I get from a little shoppe down the way ...

Need a new tea pot though ; the cat had a go at the last one.

Now, I still have a cat, but no tea pot.