Tea Appreciation Thread

[AnatidaeCollector]

This place needs a thread dedicated to the beverage of the gods.

So yeah. Tea.

Right now I'm hooked on this amazing white-and-green chai blend from Teavana. It's like magic in a cup. Their Youthberry tea is also delicious. :3

[basicParadox]

I'm pretty simple when it comes to teas - I mostly just drink orange pekoe and earl gray. o:

But I've always wanted to try something a bit different, not really sure what to expect with different sorts of teas though.

[AnatidaeCollector]

If you like spiced stuff, you'll probably like chai. Chai lattes pretty much taste like sweet, spiced milk with a bit of tea flavor in there. I just bought this bagged apple spice chai, and it tastes like pie in a cup. It's hard to dislike. :3

I'm picky when it comes to my fruit teas. A lot of them taste too tart for my liking.

[basicParadox]

Yeah, I've tried some fruit tea. It's...eh. Not really my cup of tea~ aw yeah puncraft

Though, I do like spicy things. c: A chai latte actually sounds very nice if it's like that. I'll definitely have to see about trying that soon, same goes for the apple spice chai.

[Hanky Panky]

I usually stick to this kind of tea, and brew it by the gallon. Being all Southern and whatnot.

[turntechGodcat]

I grew up on orange pekoe, but I've gotten into Earl grey last year or so.
I also do fancy myself a cup of vanilla tea. I don't mind chai tea in small, small, small, small amounts with lots of sugar and milk.
The ginger like taste really bothers me, but the cinnamon like taste I enjoy.
I have never had a fruit tea, and have never even seen one in my life. I had no idea those existed until two years ago ono;
I am still trying to find some somewhere. xDDD Tea is like my life though honestly. Especially in the fall and winter. It's all that's ever on my mind!!!

[PaladinFoster]

I usually stick to this kind of tea, and brew it by the gallon. Being all Southern and whatnot.

I do enjoy me some Southern sweet tea, but on the other hand I'm not going to turn down a good cup of Earl Grey. I do a little of both, depending on whether I want something hot or cold.

[Levitas]

I was raised on earl and lady grey, they remain my favorites. But I seriously love a nice cup of ginger or cinnamon tea when it's cold and gross outside. Iced country peach tea and strawberry tea in the summer.
aww yeah.

[AnatidaeCollector]

I had this mango black tea once over ice. So good, man. So good.

My Mima gave me chamomile with star anise as a kid all the time. It was great. It's still one of my favorites. Sometimes it's the simple things in life that are the best. ^-^

Southern sweet tea is great, but in New York, the closest you can usually find is Snapple or Arizona bottled tea. Last year when I went to visit Tennessee, I downed sweet tea like it was the water of the Fountain of Youth.

I also just bought a pumpkin black tea. It's okay in small amounts- definitely not something I can drink every day. It's definitely a dessert-y tea.

[frejaIchthya]

I've always been more of a black tea person myself. I do enjoy mint and chamomile on occasion as well as a nice chai in the winter- I believe either twinnings or tazo have/had a fabulous holiday chai that was to die for.

On the other hand, I have an extreme dislike for most fruit teas- of which very few people I've met understand. They're simply too sweet for me.

[Hanky Panky]

Arizona is about as close as you can get to real sweet tea without it being real sweet tea. That being said, they know how to mix the fuck out of some Arnold Palmer.

[AProcrastinatingWriter]

inb4 AKillaCuppaTea makes some joke regarding his username

[PaladinFoster]

I visited New York once at had an iced tea at a restaurant. It was exactly like Southern sweet tea, except there was no sugar in it at all...

Worst liquid I ever put in my mouth. Would have been 10xBetter if it were hot.

I'm actually kind of a huge fan of spearmint tea. Bigelow makes a good blend of it.


A highly ironic name because you'll almost never find a Southerner drinking hot tea, myself one of the exceptions.

[AnatidaeCollector]

I drink Twinings' chai on most mornings. Tazo does indeed make a lovely chai as well.
I like peppermint herbal tea. Mint medleys for some reason taste a bit toothpastey to me, but then again, I'm not very fond of spearmint.

I actually hate the Arizona Arnold Palmer, but then again, by me, I only seem to be able to find the Lite version of it, and it's really way too sweet for my liking, which makes it not-so-refreshing.

And I wish I had a tea-related username...

Can't stand unsweetened tea. And adding sweetener once the tea is cold is ineffective and never quite tastes right.

[PaladinFoster]

Oh my God I guzzle down those Arnold Palmers like I just spent three days in a desert.

[turntechGodcat]

Strawberry tea exists??? That sounds so delicious aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!
I need to find some, tea and strawberries are like, my favorite things in the world C:
Mango black tea sounds good too! I love mango juice so I really gotta find this too. DX
Arizona bottled green tea is the only green tea I'll touch, it's just so good
Also fruit teas are sounding more and more appealing, because I am addicted to overly sweet things.

Also hey guys, how do you like your tea?
Sugar? Milk? Cream? Straight black? or What?

I grew up with having milk and sugar in tea so I'm really used to it, so that's how I always have it.
I put in at least 5 spoonfuls of sugar though hahaha. I love it when my tea is super sweet, but sometimes I can drink it with only maybe 2-4 spoonfuls. Depends on my mood.
Only tea I've ever had cold was the Arizona green tea honestly though. I didn't even know you could have cold tea. ono;

[Hanky Panky]

Oh my God I guzzle down those Arnold Palmers like I just spent three days in a desert.

They are $0.99 for the huge cans in the on-campus convenience store. I don't drink soda on campus that often because of this.

[AnatidaeCollector]

I only put milk in my chai (but never the fancy loose-leaf chai from Teavana) and my pumpkin tea.

I usually just add a bit of sugar, like around 3, maybe 4 spoonfuls.

If I feel lazy with my chai, I add vanilla coffee creamer so I have the vanilla, the milk, and the sweetness all in one. Makes for a lazy chai latte, lol.

And agkagkahs I once tried this Snapple bagged white tea that was strawberry. It was like a drug to me, lol. But they stopped making it, and now I'm pissed, because it was damn good tea.

[PaladinFoster]

I take my sweet tea like any other native North Carolinian; brewed ridiculously strong and 2 cups of sugar to the gallon.

How I take my hot tea varies with how bitter it is to begin with, but I usually only use a couple pinches of sugar and nothing else. That Bigelow mint tea I don't add anything to because it's perfect as it is.

[Hanky Panky]

2 cups is a lot of sugar, mate. I usually do 1.5 per gallon. Plenty sweet and leaves a little extra so I don't have to buy sugar so often.

[turntechGodcat]

AnatidaeCollector
Oh cool hehe. Hm, I've never had a latte yet. I should try one at some point I think hehe.
Oh my GOD that sounds good ;n; I'm jealous 'cause at least you got to taste it! I seriously need to find a strawberry tea somewhere around here. DX


PaladinFoster

Whoa, and my dad says that I put too much sugar in my tea! Sounds really good though!! I've never had sweet tea, maybe if I can find some I can try it.
It's supposed to cold when you drink it if I understand correctly?

Ah I see. The only kind of mint tea I've had tasted like toothpaste unfortunately, but that's what I get for buying it at a coffee shop. :I
I do have this one sample of mint tea in my room that I've been too afraid to open. It definitely smells good but I'm not sure if it tastes good yet!

That sounds intense!
Then again I don't think I've ever had a gallon of tea.
Do you brew it in a giant container? Like you would with like...home made lemonade?

[AnatidaeCollector]

Worst tea ever: Some bottled crap I bought at Borders. It was mint mojito green tea. It was just plain bad.

Actually, no. I had this raw-food guava tea stuff. That almost made me upchuck my lunch. I now know that I like my tea germ-free.

[TheEmptypot]

I've only recently started drinking tea, but now that I've started I'm finding it hard to beleive I didn't before, haha.

There's this little place downtown from where I live, called the Tea Bar, which is exactly what it sounds like- a bar for tea. They make all of their own blends and mixtures, and they're lovely! I got a little jar of some Spiced Mexican Chocolate Rooibos (That's exactly what the label says- not as cool sounding as their "Dragon Well" tea) and I swear it's the most heavenly thing I've ever drank.

[AnatidaeCollector]

I had chocolate tea once. It was bizarre. I'm still not sure as to whether or not I like it. O_o

[Archaeopteryx]

Mint and chamomile teas.

Green tea is also made of excellence.

I got a thing at a Chinese restaurant once called "flower tea", and sure enough when I looked in the pot there were flowers steeping, but I never figured out what they were the flowers of and I've never gotten that tea again. :< Which is a pity, because it was great tea.