tea time!

Ok, what with the coffee thread, I'm encouraged to ask: what's your favorite kind of tea? Surely there are tea drinkers out there in EN land? (Myself, I enjoy anywhere from 1-6 cups a day, usually on the higher end. )

My favorite is probably any lightish kind of darjeeling, though I drink more assam as a staple. My tastes have really been moving away from flavored teas recently, including the classic Earl Grey.

Earl Grey with drop of lemon. I have some strange brittish manners for a person never been outside scandinavia .

I just bought a tea pot for brewing loose leaf tea, and a sampler of green teas from www.adagio.com, and I'm still figuring out how to brew it well... but generally I like green tea, and am not a fan of black teas.

I prefer Lady Grey tea, with a spoonful of honey and a bit of cream.

I tend to consume an average of four mugs of tea per day. I use half-liter mugs, too.

That's a tough one. I don't believe I drink any specific tea as a default. I have a whole cabinet of the stuff, and I pick to fit my tastes of the moment.

Green jasmine tea is my favorite. I like all my tea sweet, but I had less sugar to jasmine tea than to black tea. Iced tea I like either the same green jasmine, or a plain old irish breakfast. Peppermint tea, while not technically tea, is very tasty as well.

English Breakfast... nothing finer first thing in the AM.

I wished I liked tea, actually. Seattle has this great crumpet shop, but I wish I would've liked tea enough to have it with the crumpet.

India spiced chai with a little honey and soy milk (I'm allergic to regular milk). I love it to death. Unless it gets cold. Then it makes me want to throw up. No idea why.

I also have a whole cabinet full of other types of teas. Chai is my default, but there are lots of other teas I enjoy. I usually have chai in the morning and something else in the evening (if I decide to have tea that evening).

I'm like a garbage can for tea- gimmie gimmie gimmie!

Most of the time, I drink a strongly brewed standard black tea over glaciers of ice- you know, the stuff they serve in restaurants- with approximately 3/4ths of a lemon or lime per glass.

I also like the nice iced jasmine tea like you can get in most Vietnamese eateries.

A Chinese place near me serves a Hibiscus tea that tastes a lot like Hi-C.

On occasion, I'll order hot tea at an Asian place, which is usually some kind of green or jasmine.

The Dunes (a Mediterranean restaurant near my house) serves an awesome, coffee-dark hot tea that is a mix of Earl Grey and others, and is the perfect counterpoint for their baklava.

When I go to meetings or CLE classes, I look for Earl Grey 100% of the time.

On the rare occasions when a friend of mine makes tea, she uses the Celestial Seasonings teas, since she has a caffeine problem. Of those, the Cherry Zinger is the best, while the peppermint one is best described as an acquired taste.