What's your favorite kind of tea?

I am sitting down to lapsang souchong. It's the perfect thing for a chilly fall evening. The leaves are smoked over fire and the tea has a lovely smoky flavor. What's your favorite?

Especially Bewley's, very strong, with milk.

I use a french press now to make my tea. I order Bewley's by mail; I can only find tea bags around here and I like the loose tea.

I have had some excellent lapsang suchong, but can never quite get past how much it tastes of kippers.

I love the Administrator EarlG, - But the tea Earl Grey I refuse to drink anymore. If I wanted to suck down a cup of bergamot, I'd tipple Jean Naté and be done with it.

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Earl is the best..or orange pekoe

with honey and lemon.

ANY KIND of Chai.. the stuff is more addictive than oxycondone to Rush. God I love it.

-darknemus

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:-)

not the kind lipton makes, it's roasted - unroasted from Japan

Can I pour you a cup?

Although I prefer good coffee, I like a cup of tea from time to time. Earl Grey is my favorite, but I've never tasted bad tea. All good, just some is better than others.

mixed in fairly even proportions. Nice, mild flavor, with an aroma reminiscent of Hawaii. Very soothing, very relaxing, and sadly very expensive, but all good teas are. :-)

get your tea here: http://www.tenren.com

Spring tea: http://store.yahoo.com/tenren/sprintea20li.html

White tea: http://store.yahoo.com/tenren/supfinwhitte.html

but in honor of an earlier thread, I must say:

Tea. EarlG. Hot.

earl grey, or some fancy pants jasmine made from those silver pearls.

in fact I'm making some right now.

Also, a friend at work turned me on to this Camomile tea she got from this site: http://www.specialtyteas.com/. Great stuff!!!!

I'm having a cup right now:)

"Earl Grey...hot!"

Green tea with toasted brown rice...mmmmmmm.

Best bedtime tea is called Sandman from Stash: Chamomile with mint.

with milk and sugar

My husband is a tea man and once he ordered that particular tea. I thought it was the most horrible smelling stuff in the world. It is now banned from the house and permanently known as stinky tea because it makes me nauseas. The worst was when he spilled it in the car- yuck!

I'm not much of a tea person, but I do like a few herbal and floral varieties every once in awhile.

Best place for tea to order online (that I know of anyway)- http://www.harney.com/ -good stuff!

On edit. In case I sounded like a jerk, I'm sorry. I just want to let you know that I do believe we are all entitled to our own individual tea choices and likes. I'm just really sensitive to smells and have a wimpy stomach.

you don't sound like a jerk. Everyone likes different things. I can think of lots of things that make me sick, but others around me love (like pork). I think it is neat that some things are delicious to some, but disgusting to others.

I grow and brew my own. A few favorite ingredients include;

Any mint; most often, catnip or peppermint.
Lavender flowers.
Chammomile
rose petals
rose hips
elder flowers
lemon balm
lemon verbena
lemon grass
hibiscus

Yum!

Direct from Japan and China. Tasty :9

Lapsang from Whittard's (but I'm almost out)
Lady Grey
Darjeeling, if it's expensive
Sun tea I make from Assam and Orange Spice, which reminds me, I started a jug at 11:00 AM and it's still out there. Gotta go sample it!

Unfortunately I live in the States now so am limited to Tetleys only but that is quite alright.

That sounds familiar. I think I saw that at Schnucks here in Champaign.

from Safeway, Tetleys "British Blend" and very nice too

Had some visitors bring over the PG tips in the pyramid shaped tea bags no less, helps with the infusion don't you know ?

Schnucks has a small British food section, complete with Jelly Babies, Digestive Biscuits, and my favorite-licorice allsorts!

and good old Bertie Bassett eh?, I used to pick up from Cadburys in Birmingham when I drove semi's back in England, I believe they bought Bassets out, not absolutely sure though.

If you go to England see if you can find N.A.A.F.I tea !!!!!

English Breakfast is the ownage.

I live on this stuff. I don't boil it. One gallon of store bought water and 4 Luzianne tea bags in the icebox will do it for me. Add ice and lemon and you can invites over anybody you want.

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just switched from coffee to tea. I like my darjeeling extra strong with milk.

Always drank my coffee and tea without it, but it DOES add something to the tea experience...I don't do it every time, but I do like it on occasion.

enough caffeine to really get you going, too. Celestial Seasonings makes a mate mix called morning thunder, but I once had a grad student from Paraguay. She had a special gourd, every morning she stuffed it with Yerba Mate (I think the gourd is the Yerba, actually) poured in boiling water, stuck in this lovely engraved silver straw, and sipped that, like all day - adding hot water as needed. It's very fragrant, and a really nice way to get your caffeine if for some odd reason you're not interested in coffee.

I see it all the time at the health food store.

which is roasted green tea.

I do like milk and sugar with the English breakfast.

It's the Tetley's of Ireland, but so much better than American tea. It's very strong to start with -- one bag makes a pot in Ireland -- but I use one bag per cup and drink it from a pretty teacup I bought in Arklow, County Wicklow. I pay $9 or $10 a box for it. My partner's Irish relatives always bring several boxes for me whenever they fly in from Ireland. I'm drinking some now.

I buy TeaDirect, which is a Fair Trade tea. Far more of the money gets to the actual growers.

it causes cancer or something :-(

Chai in the afternoon...
Earl Grey in the evening.

Of course, I had coffee this morning and I'm drinking a beer right now, so I obviously don't do that every day... :)

I have been drinking any kind of green tea for three years. I have no flu, no colds, only one in the family not to get any infectious things. (and yes I have kids who pick up everything) I drink one cup a day, am drinking the celestial seasonings stuff now, not great, but I choke it down.

love those berries!

Sweet tea (it's a southern thing). $5.99 for the monster family-pak at Winn Dixie. No gourmet tea in our house :)

First thing when I get to work, I make a big mug with four tea bags. Stash brand. It's the only kind that actually looks green. The first swig of the day tastes like beer and the bitterness makes me wince, then I enjoy it throughout the day.

That's my after dinner tea. It's like drinking dessert.

My favorite is from MacNabb's Tea Room in Boothbay, ME.

But I'm still a Bewley's gal the rest of the day.