Tea; Whats your fave, how do you make it...

I'm another coffee drinker (I've just come back from two weeks in the US - sorry guys but what you drink is not coffee, it's just brown water and you should be ashamed :kilroy: ) but I also like a strong cup of Lapsang souchong from time to time.
 
Boil up water, pour it into a kettle, drop in some tea bags, wait a few minutes and done?

I like peppermint.
 
Red Rose tea. A little hard to find, but so worth the effort. Smooth, never bitter. I prefer boiling water in a whistling tea kettle, then letting the bag steep for a moment or two. Makes excellent iced tea, too.

Bob




Think I'll go brew some hot tea now.
 
Loose Lipton Tea, percolated in a coffee maker. Make a gallon at a time, drink it iced and with sugar. I am Southern, is there any other way?
 
I drink any herbal green tea.
Being an asthmatic though, a company called Traditional Medicinals, offers a herbal tea called "Breathe Easy" it works very well at soothing my broncia so I can breathe better. Its all natural and no chemical additives.

Otherwise, I drink "Iced Tea" with my meals ...

And much like my coffee, I drink my tea, black.
 
Well, I'm a black coffee drinker but occasionally drink tea. I go down to, er, chinatown (no disrespect intended) to a store there that sells tea in all its fine-ry. You'll get a sample cup of whatever you'd like; they make it right on the spot, nothing brewed and left in the pot.

The very finest teas in the worl' come in there. You can buy an ounce of tea at $165 or at $0.10 or so. The heavy stuff is like no tea I'd ever seen or tasted before. It isn't the "sweepings" like you get at the grocery store. It comes as dried tea leaves (on stems, bunches in the twig) which have been "tea-ishly" processed. And boy, is it good. I just can't afford to buy it much.

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deKoven said:
Well, I'm a black coffee drinker but occasionally drink tea. I go down to, er, chinatown (no disrespect intended) to a store there that sells tea in all its fine-ry. You'll get a sample cup of whatever you'd like; they make it right on the spot, nothing brewed and left in the pot.
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Is that in the ID downtown? Gotta go try this.

Drinking English Breakfast Black Tea at work, and an espresso in the afternoon. Seattle without espresso, cant imagine it, at least not happily.

But we need Tea in the Northwest, to that end spouse got me a 1.5 liter water boiling device that also is great for preboiling water for rice and pasta. Oh rats, now I 'm getting hungry.
 
Cazzie said:
Loose Lipton Tea, percolated in a coffee maker. Make a gallon at a time, drink it iced and with sugar. I am Southern, is there any other way?
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You can percolate tea ? why didn't I think of that, a dozen bags in a 2 gallon jar, 12 hours in the sun and I'm happy. Must try the percolator route tho.
 
For hot tea, I like Celestial Seasons Morning Thunder... just one cup tho. That's pretty potent stuff.
For iced tea I like to make the "sun" version with Lipton tea, and drink it with a little lemon.

BB686:USA-flag:
 
bpfowler said:
Is that in the ID downtown? Gotta go try this.

Drinking English Breakfast Black Tea at work, and an espresso in the afternoon. Seattle without espresso, cant imagine it, at least not happily.

But we need Tea in the Northwest, to that end spouse got me a 1.5 liter water boiling device that also is great for preboiling water for rice and pasta. Oh rats, now I 'm getting hungry.
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It is indeed in the International District, across from Uwajimaya. Little store there that sells tea's and tea supplies. At least it was there 9 yrs ago when I still lived in Seattle. Everett, however, has NOthing to recommend it except that there was a job up here :icon32:
 
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