Do you drink tea?

[orderud]

Do you drink tea? If so, what kinds of tea do you prefer, and how do you brew it?

[Dartzap]

Bog standard PG/Tetleys. I have started drinking blood orang/and honey and lemon tea recently. I have run across an issue where a lot of fruit teas smell amazing, but taste like the contents of an pigs arsehole.

[Lagmonster]

Green tea tastes like lawnmower clippings, despite being really popular here with the health-food obsessed. Cinammon Rooibos is the best not-tea you can still call 'tea'. The most expensive tea I ever drank was a white first-blush imperial sort of the 'plucked at dawn by virgins wearing white gloves and holding golden scissors' type that ran about $50 an ounce. It tasted like water with a faint hint of pine.

And nobody will admit that Red Rose is actually kind of good if you don't over-steep it.

[madd0ct0r]

Drunk more then once a month:

Red Bush (Rooibos)
Builders tea.
Earl Gray
Lady Gray
Befast brew by Suki is pretty smooth
Actual cinamon tea (put a piece of cinamon in water and brew. It turns faintly pink and raises your body tempreture)
Actual GInger tea (small slice of root. Some people freeze theirs and grate it in)
Lemon and ginger tea bags (mild as anything, but meh. Pukka do a three ginger tea (ginger tumeric and galangal) that is very expensive but the best I've tasted.
Vietnamese green tea (caffine content ~ strong coffee)
I'm quite partial to gunpowder green tea to - it has those bitter back taste that normal green tea dosen't
Jasmine flower tea. Pretty and relaxing
Fresh mint tea, done turkish style (fresh leaves, very strong, with green tea backing and lots of sugar)

I think that's all the ones I drink regularly...

[mr friendly guy]

At work I like Earl Grey. Thanks Jean Luc Picard.

At home I have several types of oolong tea. I tend to prefer Tie Guan Yin, but I had another type brought from China which they called Dong Fang Mei Ren. Which as I found out they ripped off a famous Taiwanese tea with the name which is pronounced phonetically the same but the written characters are different.

I also love Pu'er tea, which I find its easier to drink at night time (presumably because of different caffeine content it doesn't keep me awake).

[orderud]

In the evenings, I drink mostly earl grey with milk and one sugar cube in it. My girlfriend jokingly refers to this as my "cozy-tea", as I usually drink it when curled up in the sofa with a book. Herself, on the other hand, buys and drinks a lot of different teas all the time, and this is what's in our kitchen at the moment. The Earl Grey case is mine. The rest is hers.

[Broomstick]

Oh, yeah, I drink tea. Pretty much all I drink is tea or plain water, with an occasional bit of juice or a beer thrown in once or twice a month.

Mostly black teas for me. I started drinking Earl Grey back in the 1970's so Picard got the idea from me! Ha! Some jasmine tea or darjeeling but the last decade or so I've been leaning towards the "breakfast" tea blends. I prefer loose-leaf and more upper quality teas but right now my finances have me drinking some rather pedestrian organe pekoe Aldi and local grocery store housebrands. You must have properly hot water for those. For the most part, around Red Rose quality.

I used to drink red tea but it started making me itch so no more.

I avoid most herbal teas because they tend to taste like steeped weeds and some of them annoy my allergies.

Not real enthused about most green teas either, they taste like grass.

I don't care for most flavored teas because it tends to be FRUIT with a little bit of tea, I'm convinced they're actually for people who want to drink tea because it's trendy or supposed to be healthy but they don't really like tea. Likewise, most bottled/canned tea around here is WAY too sweet for my taste, it's like drinking SUGAR with a little bit of tea, probably geared towards people raising on sugary sodas.

That's why I'm not so enthused about Earl Grey these days - most brands seem to be adding extra bergamot. I don't want to drink tea-flavored bergamot, I want to drink bergamot-flavored tea.

[Thanas]

I prefer to drink Darjeeling with lemon juice, or a local mixture popularly known as "east frisian tea".

[Zaune]

PG Tips, brewed in a slightly battered china teapot until it's pitch-black. I may be irredeemably middle class in many respects, but how I take my tea is not one of them.

[Elheru Aran]

My drug of choice is sweet tea. Cheap $1 box from Walmart, 8 single-serving packs to one gallon, between three-fourths and one cup of sugar, black as a sinner's soul at midnight, just cold enough to blow a cold wind over your gizzard in the middle of the day, and that's it.

Though when I do drink hot tea, it tends to be black (green tea is a foul beverage beloved of granolas, and alas, my wife), also sugar, no milk or lemon (heresy), also strong, and I damn well stick out my little finger when sipping, what ho.

[Raesene]

Most popular: members of the Grey-family (Earl, Lady and Sunshine) of a certain english tea marketer that starts with a T.

Until recently, herbal infusions were in my cups only when sick, but that changed as I discovered bamboo tea with pink grapefruit. A few weeks ago I bought Ceylon tea with marchpane aroma; that's a tea I drink with a sweet breakfast or some cake in the afternoon.

Green tea is vile stuff...

[Lord Revan]

I drink tea rather then coffee most of the time, as to what kind of tea, well it's more of less what I can find at the store selves as I can't afford to be very selective.

[Vendetta]

Yorkshire Tea usually, made in a pot.

I take Earl Grey or Green Tea to work because they're still nice without milk and I don't want to take milk to work to get nicked out of the fridges.

[Sinewmire]

When I was first presented with tea, I hated it. It was PG Tips, boiled orange with full fat milk, given to me by my hairdresser. Yeuch.

I later tried proper Jasmine tea at a chinese restaurant and found it delicious and an excellent accompaniament to the meal.

I decided I'd try this tea stuff, so I tried a Twining's Breakfast tea. Tea brewed in a pot, in cups, with the milk put in first. My VERY British Lady (Scot, actually) aunt made it, and it was lovely!

I like one earl grey and one breakfast tea in a pot, together, but I'm not wild on Earl Grey by itself.

Nowadays I prefer Chai, a blend of tea with cinnamon and ginger, which is a little overpowering at first. I take it with a tiny dash of milk.

[Borgholio]

Not a big fan of tea myself. I kinda have to choke it down, because it's basically hot water to me. My wife, on the other hand, loves the stuff. She's Japanese, so whenever we go to an Asian market she picks up some tea. She loves green tea, and is fond of various lightly spiced teas. When she's under the weather, peppermint tea with honey and imported German rock sugar works well for her. She doesn't mind Earl Grey but she claims it's too "heavy" for her most of the time.

[Torben]

Iced sweet tea - I live in the southern US, what did you expect?
Hot teas (all from Twinings)
Early Gray
Irish Breakfast
English Breakfast
Always with a little sugar, sometimes with cream, sometimes without.

I'd like to eventually move away from tea bags and actually brew from leaves, but, well, the bags are so much easier.

[General Zod]

I actually kind of like green tea every now and then, but I need my tea to have plenty of sugar. I also like a nice spiced chai.

[spaceviking]

I will generally drink Ceylon Tea (orange pekoe). While I will drink coffee with milk, adding anything to tea seems off to me.

[Thanas]

lemon (heresy)

why? It's been done that way since....well, forever. People in india used lemon juice way before people used milk and in Italy and eastern Europe lemon juice is usually served instead of milk with tea.

[Iroscato]

You can keep your fancy herbal teas and earl grey - make me a decent cuppa and you'll be my best friend. I drink way too much of the stuff to be considered healthy, but nowhere near as much as my dad, who clocks in probably 12 cups a day. I've been trying it with increasingly smaller amounts of sugar as I've gotten older, I'm down from three spoonfuls to half a spoon at most...I seem to enjoy the bitterness more these days as opposed to the sweetness.

[Executor32]

I normally drink sweetened iced tea, usually the generic black tea blend from Lipton or the Aldi store brand, and sweetened with a cup of sugar per gallon. However, I have been known to enjoy a cup of hot, unsweetened Earl Grey from time to time, usually Bigelow because it's the only brand I can easily find around here.

[gigabytelord]

I must be the only southern who absolutely hates sweetened tea, can't stand it, I'd rather drink my own piss and I like my coffee the same way, no sugar or cream. My grandmother used to sweeten her tea, as in mix a little water and tea with her sugar. One day I just stopped and haven't drank sweet tea since. I do however go over board with the lemon juice on occasion.

[Enigma]

I used to drink between a gallon a day of Paul Newman's Sweet Tea (you can't say that out loud without hearing "sweetie". Damn you River Song.) then down to one gallon a week to none at all (dropped it cold turkey when the doc said I was borderline diabetic.) Mind you, I drank that much because originally I used to work with plastic molding injection machines and it gets pretty hot so I'd drink lots of sweet tea. Once I transferred to Assembly I reduced my intake to one gallon a week, then not too long ago switched to water.

For hot tea, I drink Red Rose's Creme Caramel Black Tea. Oh so good. Recently bought Bigelow's Vanilla Caramel Black Tea. Tasty, but not as good as RR.

[Darth Nostril]

Chai for my morning brew with Twinings Earl Grey, Lady Grey, green tea or PG Tips builders through the rest of the day depending on mood and weather. In a large Tardis shaped mug. Sweetened with a single spoon of granulated white cane sugar, preferably Silver Spoon (shove that overly sweet artificial shite where the sun shineth not).
Used to drink gallons of Liptons Tchae spiced green tea until they stopped selling it in the UK, just found it on Amazon so will definitely be getting that back in

[Zeropoint]

Stash brand "Chai Spice Black Tea" with one heaping teaspoon of raw cane sugar per cup, typically steeped for two to three minutes. I'll also drink loose-leaf lapsang souchong with no sugar, when I'm out of the good stuff.