What's your favorite kind of tea?
What's your favorite kind of tea?
I’m an earl grey with honey man, but if I’m being honest, I’ve never really tried much else.
Liber Tea!
Never heard of it. What’s it like?
It tastes like freedom and democracy. *It's a pun about liberty.
I'm more of a bone apple tea myself, but I hear liber tea keeps the bugs away!
Earl Gray. Hot.
I found two Earl Gray's that I really enjoy. Earl Gray Cream and Lady Grey. Both good, savory flavors.
I love any and all earl greys. Can’t go wrong with ‘em.
I live in a hot climate so my favorite teas are iced.
Iced oolong sweetened only with some lychee chunks is the only thing close to boba I can stomach. I also like a good iced jasmine green tea. Or just a strong green tea hot or iced.
I'm a big fan of black teas as they have the strongest flavor in my opinion. I'm also partial to the fruity versions.
However, there's a Saffron Black Tea made by Vahdam that I've been rather fond of lately. It has a savory spice to it. Would recommend.Green, don't really care about specifics and I have tried dozens of boutique varieties. There is a variety called "gunpowder" that is fairly robust, I like it. My daily driver is Bigelow with pomegranate. Usually straight but sometimes I use local honey.
I enjoy anise-fennel-caraway tea. It doesn't taste as watery as many of the fruit-based teas and not as bitter as black tea and such. I find, it's also decent at clearing out my throat.
Peppermint tea is second place for me, for very much the same reasons. 🙃
Ooooo, I do like me some peppermint tea. I find it to be awfully seasonal, though.
Spicy chai with a touch of vanilla flavoured oat milk, I have 2 cups a day at least.
I used to mostly drink regular tea, and also enjoy earl grey, and especially if I'm not feeling well and want to avoid caffeine - jasmine (probably my favourite non-tea tea), chamomile, mint, and a few others, but the chai has beaten all others and become my staple.
Ginger. But only because I refuse to call yerba mate "tea".
I found a tea that's literally just turmeric and ginger. It's a very rooty tea. I recommend checking it out if you like ginger.
Ginger with turmeric? Now that's something I need to try. Thanks for the rec!
Early Grey man myself but there is a Hawaiian Cocktail tea that has dried pineapple and other tropical fruits that is absolutely exquisite. I’m not usually a fruit tea person as I love bitters. Wish I knew who made it but we’ve had it for quite some time and I don’t.
You see, I’m weird and get bitter teas only to fill them with sweets like honey.
Sugar just doesn’t do it for me anymore. I’d much rather have a bag of chips or a salt lick than ice cream.
⚠️ More information than you require: I grew up on diabetes tea and pretty much cut out all sugar (stopped drinking soda) years ago. I felt 100x better after a few weeks and realized how much sugar I was actually drinking. The adult limit for sugar without trashing your blood sugar is about 28g/12oz. Most soda is in the 38-45g range. Way too much and makes you feel like shit, you just don’t realize it because you’re used to it. After not drinking super sugared drinks for a month you become re-sensitized to sugar and absolutely can’t drink it again. Coke, etc tastes absolutely awful to me now. If I have sweet tea I basically do a 1:4 sweet tea to unsweetened tea ratio.
There is a tea from Japan called Sakura tea. It's cherry blossom tea and sold seasonally. Very tasty 😋
Lately I've been drinking a black tea with blueberry flavor which is very nice.
Bigalow sells a black tea with vanilla and caramel flavor that I also enjoy.
It's fun to try new flavors and decide whether you like them or not.
Oolongs on the green side are my usual go-to or Chinese greens.
Black tea with some lemon and sugar.
This is how we drank tea in communist Poland when I was a child and I tried so many teas in Japan with the nice ceremony, Chinese green tea, american peach ice tea, English tea with milk, etc. But nothing comes close.
Ah wait, there is one which is close, Indian chai, it's so flavorful!
One more notable is marrokean peppermint tea, but it's just to sweet.
lemon and sugar
Ah, memories. I can't drink that any more unless I don't want to eat for several hours until my teeth stop being sensitive, but during my childhood it wasn't just delicious, it was a way to bond with my older relatives.
Spicy chai latte
I always forget chai is actually a tea. I’m so used to western teas, I guess.
Sweet Tea. The Southern US kind, black tea brewed with more and more sugar until, ideally, it’s actually a supersaturated solution. Then served cold over ice. Literal diabetes juice.
I don’t have it often, but it’s the best tea in the world because, on the whole, tea is garbage water.
Fight me. 😂
Fatali-tea
Coffee is my favorite tea. 😆
Sadly, just can't stand the stuff anymore. Grew up having sweetened iced tea for dinner every night. My wife always keeps different varieties on hand and I've occasionally tried different combinations of hot and sweet and milky. For my money, nothing touches a cup of joe. Give it to me black and bitter, like Dick Cheney's original heart.
Cardamom!
Oh shit! That's a thing? Is it just cardamom steeped in hot water or is it more of a spice/tea blend like black tea and cardamom?
Not OP, but there's this Cardamom Chai that I enjoy. It could be worth a shot.
My wife and I have been experimenting with making our own. So far, my favorite is chamomile, lemon balm, elderberry, and a little stevia.
I tried a new one last night that might take the lead with some tweaking: nettle, lemon balm, ginger, and cinnamon. Gotta get the proportions right, but the combination was pretty good.
I’ve dabbled with growing my own tea leaves, but it didn’t go very well. I definitely have a brown thumb…
Yorkshire Tea Gold, a little agave and a splash of milk.
Impra Gold orange peoke. Get the loose-leaf kind that comes in a metal container.
But one time, I was dragged into helping a guy I didn't know move a couch up stairs. Afterwards his wife (they were an Indian couple) made me some chai tea that was the best thing I ever drank in my life. I would happily carry another couch for one more cup. I was a fool and didn't ask what that tea was, and since then I have tried different chai teas (including when I went to India) and I never even found one I liked at all.
Pu-erh for me.
my favorite switches all the time. currently obsessed w chamomile, thai assam, hojicha (roasted green), and also earl gray! tho we make london fogs w lavendar mostly
I've tried a great many different black and green teas, but my favorite is Constant Comment. I realize that makes me a barbarian low-life, but I genuinely enjoy the flavor.
Darjeeling or Ceylon
We love a tea called Bengal Spice (B Spice) by Celestial Seasonings. Caffeine free. Kinda in the realm of chai. Dash of milk. Usually before bed.
T Bone Medium Rare
- Throat coat for when I’m sick
- Kenya Black or Irish Breakfast with full fat oat milk in the mornings
- Vanilla Spiced chai with a cinnamon stick, cardamom pods and star anise during the holidays
- Russian orange tea on a crisp winter’s day
Growing up in the south, at some point in my 20s I realized I just didn’t really enjoy overly sugared black tea. And then I discovered a whole new world. It’s been a wonderful journey.
I love green tea. I'm not sure if there's specific kinds I prefer as I haven't tried a lot of different teas, but I have a Sencha Lime Green Tea that is amazing.
Day to day is Yorkshire tea with a little sugar. Every now and then I like to mix some Darjeeling with licorice tea.
Just a plain fujian black.
Hojicha if I'm fancy, two bags of oversteeped liptons with cream and sugar if I'm not fancy.
Lapsang Souchong (smoked black tea).