Tea
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well... I don't know what the BEST kinds of tea are... but I ahve found an AWESOME tea maker on etsy.
Teaman hand blended teas in both teabags and loose leaf by teaman
I ordered from him for my mom moms birthday. she LOVES flavored teas and drinks one every night before bed and even my step dad has taken to the teas from this person as well. He has all different kinds of green and black teas and they are all natural
Teaman hand blended teas in both teabags and loose leaf by teaman
I ordered from him for my mom moms birthday. she LOVES flavored teas and drinks one every night before bed and even my step dad has taken to the teas from this person as well. He has all different kinds of green and black teas and they are all natural
www.uptontea.com
Everything you need to know to buy knowledgeably and the best teas available. You can buy sample sizes, too.
Everything you need to know to buy knowledgeably and the best teas available. You can buy sample sizes, too.
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We are huge tea enthusiasts But I think it depends on what you like.
I need to severely limit my caffeine intake which drastically limits my options. Mostly I drink greens and chamomiles. My mom used to put warm chamomile tea in my baby bottle. My current favorite is celestial seasoning's honey vanilla chamomile. Trader joe's blueberry green tea is also unbelievable. Lipton makes one called Ginger Twist which is excellent as well. Often when we go out to eat I order Jasmine Green Tea, though I don't think I've ever bought it.
If you like black tea, Indian Spice with cardamom is good. I really like teas made with rooibos. Especially if it's an orange-rooibos blend. I know a couple of people who don't like rooibos, though. Kombucha is also awesome.
But I think it depends on what you like.I need to severely limit my caffeine intake which drastically limits my options. Mostly I drink greens and chamomiles. My mom used to put warm chamomile tea in my baby bottle. My current favorite is celestial seasoning's honey vanilla chamomile. Trader joe's blueberry green tea is also unbelievable. Lipton makes one called Ginger Twist which is excellent as well. Often when we go out to eat I order Jasmine Green Tea, though I don't think I've ever bought it.
If you like black tea, Indian Spice with cardamom is good. I really like teas made with rooibos. Especially if it's an orange-rooibos blend. I know a couple of people who don't like rooibos, though. Kombucha is also awesome.
I love good tea.
Welcome to DAVIDsTEA mmmmmmm! So many great teas. I love the "Earl's Garden" and well all are amazing!
Welcome to DAVIDsTEA mmmmmmm! So many great teas. I love the "Earl's Garden" and well all are amazing!
I'm a bit of a tea weirdo....
one thing I will point out though, if you want a cup of REALLY good tea. Get the loose leaf tea. Tea bags are the "left over" pieces of tea. So the really nice flavorfull leaves, are going to be the kinds made from loose leaf... (this is not to say someone on like etsy or something doesn't make their own "bags" with loose leaf tea... but pretty much anything in a store sold in a bag is gunna be pretty yucky...
For a while, I actually used to carry around my own tea... but it got annoying... so I learned how to ignore the bitter taste of lipton(YUCK!!!).
one thing I will point out though, if you want a cup of REALLY good tea. Get the loose leaf tea. Tea bags are the "left over" pieces of tea. So the really nice flavorfull leaves, are going to be the kinds made from loose leaf... (this is not to say someone on like etsy or something doesn't make their own "bags" with loose leaf tea... but pretty much anything in a store sold in a bag is gunna be pretty yucky...
For a while, I actually used to carry around my own tea... but it got annoying... so I learned how to ignore the bitter taste of lipton(YUCK!!!).
Definitely up there with the Loose-Leaf Tea Snob crowd. I loves me my loose teas. Many kitchen supply stores have various types of infusers. I have several sizes of infusers like this for various cup sizes and for my spare teapot:
Mesh Tea Ball (Cup size)
My main teapot has an infuser built in, I got it at a kitchen store for $15.00.
We have a great place locally that I get my stashes from:
Tea Store : Welcome - A Tea Store like no other, located in Kingston and Ottawa, Ontario Canada (the Tea 101 section is handy!)
We have a whole cupboard shelf in the kitchen dedicated to tea. One of my favorites is a 50/50 blend of Earl Grey and Vanilla black tea. I also love fruity green teas, and roobios tea.
I loves me my loose teas. Many kitchen supply stores have various types of infusers. I have several sizes of infusers like this for various cup sizes and for my spare teapot:Mesh Tea Ball (Cup size)
My main teapot has an infuser built in, I got it at a kitchen store for $15.00.
We have a great place locally that I get my stashes from:
Tea Store : Welcome - A Tea Store like no other, located in Kingston and Ottawa, Ontario Canada (the Tea 101 section is handy!)
We have a whole cupboard shelf in the kitchen dedicated to tea. One of my favorites is a 50/50 blend of Earl Grey and Vanilla black tea. I also love fruity green teas, and roobios tea.
lol, im british...
so a good black tea steeped in BOILING water from a kettle then tranfered with the tea into a pot and left to stew (but kept HOT)
in the uk even the teabags are good (nothing close to loose but i dont like my tea all that strong either) and a favorite was PJ tips.
add milk and sugar (lemon and honey if your sick) and a couple biscuits on the side for dunkin! (tea biscuits not the rolls that are called biscuits here in the us)
american teabags are well...unimpressive.
im not much of a fan of most flavored teas, though black current tea ill do backflips for.
i do like lightly sweetend green tea (sweetend with honey or agave preferably) either hot or gold.
so a good black tea steeped in BOILING water from a kettle then tranfered with the tea into a pot and left to stew (but kept HOT)
in the uk even the teabags are good (nothing close to loose but i dont like my tea all that strong either) and a favorite was PJ tips.
add milk and sugar (lemon and honey if your sick) and a couple biscuits on the side for dunkin! (tea biscuits not the rolls that are called biscuits here in the us)
american teabags are well...unimpressive.
im not much of a fan of most flavored teas, though black current tea ill do backflips for.
i do like lightly sweetend green tea (sweetend with honey or agave preferably) either hot or gold.
If you'll try samples from different estates, you'll really notice the differences. Darjeeling is the ultimate in black tea, and each estate's crop will have a different taste. There will be a more subtle difference between the first flush teas and their later crops.
Two of my favorites have always been the first flush teas from the Castleton and Makaibari estates.
Oh, and for a blended breakfast type tea, the CTC Irish Breakfast or River Shannon blends are real waker-uppers.
Two of my favorites have always been the first flush teas from the Castleton and Makaibari estates.
Oh, and for a blended breakfast type tea, the CTC Irish Breakfast or River Shannon blends are real waker-uppers.
Hot tea in general...I love Green Tea, White Tea, and Chamomile.
I don't drink hot tea that much anymore, I would drink Chamomile when I had horrible stomachaches and to help me fall asleep.
Now I am more of an Iced Tea drinker..While a lot of it is "fake" Arizona Iced Tea (super sweet, very likely not real tea)...There is a grocery store here called 'Fresh and Easy' that have great, real, iced teas...from anything you can think of. My favorite is iced Chamomile.
I don't drink hot tea that much anymore, I would drink Chamomile when I had horrible stomachaches and to help me fall asleep.
Now I am more of an Iced Tea drinker..While a lot of it is "fake" Arizona Iced Tea (super sweet, very likely not real tea)...There is a grocery store here called 'Fresh and Easy' that have great, real, iced teas...from anything you can think of. My favorite is iced Chamomile.
Yup, another anglophile here.. I just don't DO coffee, never touch the stuff.. Tea is what the english nation is brought up on, anyone who comes in is offered tea.. I remember when I was about 3 asking for a cup of tea with a straw, mum used to make it half tea, half milk.. But always with 2 sugars. I used to pronounce it.. "Tup tea wiv a straw"
My mother brings me Tea from the UK, I particularly like Yorkshire tea, but 90% of the time I drink PJ Tips because it's cheaper.. When you drink in the region of 10 cups or more a day, leaf tea gets costly!!
There are specifics to good tea making, if tea comes out of a pot, the milk and sugar have to go into the cup BEFORE the tea gets poured in.. But if you are making a single cup, then the tea bag has to have been brewed and removed before sugar and milk is added.. It's the law!
Unless of course it's earl grey, and earl grey should be served with lemon not milk, and if you want to be particularly Russian sweetened black cherries instead of sugar.
And of course you HAVE to have biscuits.. Digestives, Rich tea, shortbread, hob nobs, jammy dodgers, custard creams for dunkability!
My mother brings me Tea from the UK, I particularly like Yorkshire tea, but 90% of the time I drink PJ Tips because it's cheaper.. When you drink in the region of 10 cups or more a day, leaf tea gets costly!!
There are specifics to good tea making, if tea comes out of a pot, the milk and sugar have to go into the cup BEFORE the tea gets poured in.. But if you are making a single cup, then the tea bag has to have been brewed and removed before sugar and milk is added.. It's the law!
Unless of course it's earl grey, and earl grey should be served with lemon not milk, and if you want to be particularly Russian sweetened black cherries instead of sugar.
And of course you HAVE to have biscuits.. Digestives, Rich tea, shortbread, hob nobs, jammy dodgers, custard creams for dunkability!
Sigh, I wish. Every time I make tea it tastes like water with a hint of flavoring in it. Doesn't matter for how short or long I let it brew, all teas taste weak to me. They have no mouth feel, taste, or anything, just, again, flavored hot water. Maybe I'm just not a big fan of tea.
Depressing, because I was talking to a dude at our vet school who's from Britain, and he said that a properly made tea is fantastic and all our tea sucks (in so many words; he said it better and in a British accent) so I assume I'm doing something wrong.
Depressing, because I was talking to a dude at our vet school who's from Britain, and he said that a properly made tea is fantastic and all our tea sucks (in so many words; he said it better and in a British accent) so I assume I'm doing something wrong.