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Various Non-Bald Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: tomgallagher on February 08, 2011, 07:00:34 AM
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Hey all you tea drinkers. What are the various kinds of teas and which are the most popular. ? Oh and how do you brew your tea.?
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Lipton, Red Rose and Irish Breakfast for breakfast of course. I do not drink herbal or any fancy teas except maybe Earl Grey.
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I like Scottish Breakfast and my favorite is Yorkshire Gold. I prefer Black Teas.
No bags for me...... dried leaves brewed in a tea basket for about 3-4 minutes. And PLEASE... don't heat your water in the microwave..... boil it the old fashioned way.
Check this site out:
www.theteatable.com
If you look under "Tea Packaging and Samples" you will see that they offer a nice sampler program.
I've ordered from here several times and the service is excellent and the teas fresh and packaged nicely.
The Blood Orange tea is absolutely amazing.
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English Breakfast in the morning. Lapsang Souchong on autumn/winter evenings. Earl Grey anytime. All of these preferable from Twinings (http://www.twinings.co.uk/).
Additionally, mostly black teas, Oolongs from time to time, occasional a green tea. I'm only using leaf teas and freshly boiled water, let it steep for 3-4 minutes.
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Any standard tea. Brewed in the mug till its really strong, with a tiny spot of milk and one sweetener.
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As a coffee drinker who's trying to find some good tea's, this really helps. Thanks guys. O0
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My favourite from Upton Tea Imports:
Golden Nepal
http://www.uptontea.com/shopcart/item.asp?from=catalog.asp&itemID=TM71&begin=0&parent=Teas%3EBlack%3ENepal&category=Black&sortMethod=0&categoryID=23
Red
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As a coffee drinker who's trying to find some good tea's, this really helps. Thanks guys. O0
LOL..I'm in the same boat.
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I've tried to like tea, but the only tea I like is iced tea with lemon and sugar. Coffee for me. C*f3
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PG Tips with a little milk. The most important thing to remember about brewing black tea is to always bring the water to a full, rolling boil.
http://www.amazon.com/PG-Tips-Pyramid-160-Count-Boxes/dp/B001EQ5JKK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1297203364&sr=8-5
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I'm in the South. We drink our tea iced!
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I used to enjoy Mark T. Wendell's English or Irish Breakfast but when Katrina took our camp in Mississippi I lost a couple of good tea pots along with a nice kettle and cozy. Somehow, drinking tea, except the ubiquitous iced tea of the South, fell away from that time to this. Once in a while I have a mug of hot green tea, but mostly it's coffee now, either the chicory dark roast of New Orleans served with hot milk, or expresso. Maybe I'll dig out a tea pot from storage and order some tea--thanks for the reminder.
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Irsih tea only here. Barry's Gold Blend. I brew it by the pot, once a day, every day.
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If you want to get decent tea at a really cheap price, go to an Indian or Pakistani grocery store and try the Brooke Bond or Lipton loose. I won't drink the Lipton that is sold in US supermarkets, but their international blend, Lipton Yellow Label, is much better. It's as good as the more expensive imported brands, i.e., Lyons, Barry's, Twinings, at a fraction of the price.
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To preface, I am an addicted coffee drinker but when I do drink tea I enjoy black tea. I steep it covered until very little light comes through and then sweeten it up just a bit with some honey.
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Irsih tea only here. Barry's Gold Blend. I brew it by the pot, once a day, every day.
Paul, can you give some more details on how you brew, and what kind of pot, etc. ?
I've had both Breakfasts (English, Irish) before, and Earl Grey, both in tea bag form.
Any other pointers would be fine.
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For all you tea baggers out there. $@y :*)) :*)) All joking aside, do you remove the tea bag after it has steeped or do you leave it in while you drink? I've seen it done both ways and I was wondering if there was any benefit to leaving the it in.
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Seems to me that the tea would just keep getting stronger.
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Leaving the bag in will make the tea bitter and stewed. It should be removed from the mug or the tea pot after 3 or 4 minutes.
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I have spells of drinking tea, but it's usually just easier to grind some beans and brew a pot. Friends are always brewing tea and saying, "Do you want some?" But it's always generic bag tea and de-caf. Shudder. If it's not that, it's some herbal abomination, which I always say tastes like a Lifesaver candy dissolved in too much water. I pass.
BUT, I have fond memories of drinking some pots of lapsang souchong while sitting in an unkempt garden behind a vintage adobe on Canyon Drive in Santa Fe. It gave me a taste for creosote. Earl Grey, if I want to drink perfume.
Since then, when I look for tea, it's lapsang. I've not bought such from Upton, but plan to--since I can't find much loose tea locally, even on the fringes of the world's capital (Oh, you know: New York City), but maybe I don't look hard enough.
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Finding good tea isn't hard:
https://marktwendell.com/
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Irsih tea only here. Barry's Gold Blend. I brew it by the pot, once a day, every day.
Paul, can you give some more details on how you brew, and what kind of pot, etc. ?
I've had both Breakfasts (English, Irish) before, and Earl Grey, both in tea bag form.
Any other pointers would be fine.
Barry's Irish Tea comes in a larger than normal tea bag. I have a ceramic tea pot that I just put the bag in and then fill with boiling water. I brew until the color is right, with the Barry's I drink, it is a deep redish color. Hope that helps Joe
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PG Tips with a little milk. The most important thing to remember about brewing black tea is to always bring the water to a full, rolling boil.
http://www.amazon.com/PG-Tips-Pyramid-160-Count-Boxes/dp/B001EQ5JKK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1297203364&sr=8-5
My mother-in-law was from the UK. (She was born in Liverpool, but lived in St. Louis a good part of her life). She passed away last year, and we inherited a box of PG Tips from her.
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I drink a lot of tea, iced and hot. My favorite is formosa gunpowder, a very potent green tea.
In an effort to eradicate sweets and sugar from my diet the flavored rooibos teas are really good too.
Check out http://www.teabrewery.com/ they will ship anywhere.
I should mention it's all loose tea, and I brew it in a french coffee press.