tea time!

[Tinker Gnome]

I will put sugar or honey in most any tea except for Green Tea.

 

[Henrix]

I have a difficult time saying what my favourite is - like Umbran I have a cabinet full of different teas!

I always have lapsang souchong and russian tea at home, it has become mandatory. And nothing beats firing up the samovar for the gaming evening!

But I also take care to have a couple of different green teas, generally bancha and some others, and some oolong teas - tiguanyin is my favourite there.

And then there are puer teas!

 

[Relique Hunter]

It's gotta be Earl Grey for me, no additives.

 

[Nyaricus]

That reminded me of a time in college when I used to drink my teas black with nothing in them. I was hanging out in the cafe on campus with a bunch of friends and I had ordered the "bottomless cup of tea", so basically I could keep going up and refilling my cup with different types of teas. I tried something peach flavored (don't know what it is now) and found it absolutely horrendous. Now, I couldn't get a new cup of tea until I finished the one I had, so in an effort to allow me to gulp it down I put a little sugar in it. It went from something I didn't know I'd be able to choke down to something that was really awesome. I was amazed at the change the flavor went through when it was sweetened. It really brought out the peach taste.

Lol, that's a good story

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[Nyaricus]

@Nyaricus, what's Canadian iced tea like (that's different than American)? And, if you've been following the thread, you'll know there're at least two "American" iced teas -- sweet and "plain." Sweet tea is mostly only available in the South.

Yeah, I see that. Quite confusing

Are both plain and sweet American iced teas made in large jugs out in the sun, with tea bags/tea leaves in the water (with sweet simply being sugar added in while it's out in the sun?), or brewed as tea and then served with iced cubes? Because in my experience with "Canadian" iced tea, you either buy it in the bottle, as a non-carbonated soft drink-style beverage, or you can get it as a fountain drink, and comes in the same bag-in-boxes as other soft drinks come in. Nothing is "brewed" with Canadian iced tea, it's more of a pop-style beverage.

EDIT: and, if you are making it at home, you'd have a base mix to combined with water in a jug at home, much like Kool-Aid etc.

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[freyar]

Yeah, I see that. Quite confusing

Are both plain and sweet American iced teas made in large jugs out in the sun, with tea bags/tea leaves in the water (with sweet simply being sugar added in while it's out in the sun?), or brewed as tea and then served with iced cubes? Because in my experience with "Canadian" iced tea, you either buy it in the bottle, as a non-carbonated soft drink-style beverage, or you can get it as a fountain drink, and comes in the same bag-in-boxes as other soft drinks come in. Nothing is "brewed" with Canadian iced tea, it's more of a pop-style beverage.

EDIT: and, if you are making it at home, you'd have a base mix to combined with water in a jug at home, much like Kool-Aid etc.

I never thought that the prepackaged iced teas are really Canadian -- I certainly have had them plenty in the States (you mean like Nestea, right?), both in bottle or mix. I usually find them to taste mostly like lemonade and not tea.

Iced tea can be brewed with tea bags and water in the sun, but it's probably more often brewed as double-strength tea added to approximately an equal amount of ice. Being a consumate geek, I have an iced tea maker like you might have a coffee maker. Anyway, the difference between "sweet" and "unsweet" iced teas, as Stormborn points out, is that you have to add the sugar to the tea while it is still hot, before the ice melts. Otherwise you can't dissolve enough. This is why I got the tea-maker; I couldn't get real sweet tea in California, where I last lived.

 

[Nyaricus]

I never thought that the prepackaged iced teas are really Canadian -- I certainly have had them plenty in the States (you mean like Nestea, right?), both in bottle or mix. I usually find them to taste mostly like lemonade and not tea.

Well, fair enough - but in Canada, we simply don't have the "plain" or "sweet" iced teas like the States do - we only have the pre-packaged stuff. Which is why I'm using the term "Canadian iced tea", wrong it may be.

Oh well, different folks, different strokes

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[Aus_Snow]

Teapot tea done right, only.

My girlfriend got me into French Earl Grey, which I'm now partial to. Very aromatic, based on Earl Grey (of course), looks pretty too.

Other than that, I'll drink - depending on the time and place - good Darjeeling, a fine strong Ceylon, Australian (Daintree) black, sweetened chai, various traditional Chinese teas, English Breakfast, or whatever herbal infusion is being made.

But I'll also try just about any tea. Except the smoky ones. Can't stand them, for whatever reason.

 

[Stormborn]

Iced tea can be brewed with tea bags and water in the sun, but it's probably more often brewed as double-strength tea added to approximately an equal amount of ice. Being a consumate geek, I have an iced tea maker like you might have a coffee maker. Anyway, the difference between "sweet" and "unsweet" iced teas, as Stormborn points out, is that you have to add the sugar to the tea while it is still hot, before the ice melts. Otherwise you can't dissolve enough. This is why I got the tea-maker; I couldn't get real sweet tea in California, where I last lived.

See, in Birmingham Alabama it comes in jugs at the grocery store just like milk.

 

[Cat Moon]

Ah, tea! I like it a lot better than coffee, I just drink a cup of coffee to kick start my day.

When it comes to tea I'm a self proclaimed Twinings Green Tea addict. One packet of equal and its golden!