Tea

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.

Best tasting tea to me is loose leaf green. I want to try pur-eh as well as kenyan purple tea.
I have mainly stopped drinking tea because it lowers testosterone, estrogen, and growth hormone.

EGCG is to blame. Black tea has only micro amounts. Green and white have plenty.
http://www.nature.com/aja/journal/v11/n3/full/aja20092a.html(Testosterone reduction in rat lydig cells)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691502000662(Estrogen inhibition in rats)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X85723625(DHT Reduction in rats)
http://endo.endojournals.org/content/141/3/980.short (Growth Hormone reduction in rats)
I understand it's only in rats, but there are no studies on its impact with humans. This must be the plants self defense mechanism...

Have you guys heard of Jiaogulan tea? It isn't the same plant but it sounds interesting.

Me, with every green tea I've ever tried:

Everyone around me:

MFW:



I'm still on the lookout for a good one, I've just never found one so far that didn't taste like dirt. Literally.

Try heating the water for the green tea only to 80°C. The taste is much better.