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by **Epaminondas** » Dec 10 2007 10:44:48 pm

Do any of you guys drink tea? What are your favorites?

by **alex** » Dec 10 2007 10:53:44 pm

I'll occasionally have some iced Republic of Tea's green tea. It's not that I particularly care for it. It's just that sometimes I want some caffeine without all that HFCS and crap in sodas.

by **TeleportThis** » Dec 11 2007 07:41:24 am

I'd say darjeeling is my favorite.

I also like green, chai, and chinese oolong.

by **Epaminondas** » Dec 11 2007 08:19:52 am

I got some Lapsang Souchong the other day that is just amazing. It's pretty bold and smokey and warm, pretty much just what i needed for finals.

by **Pluto** » Dec 11 2007 08:25:55 am

so it's weird but this candy cane lane tea by celestial seasonings that i tried at the factory in boulder is AMAZING.
other than that i like straight up green tea and chai or black teas. i like breakfast teas a lot too.

by **LucasPukus** » Dec 11 2007 02:47:27 pm

I haven't fallen entirely in love with tea yet, but I like the Jasmine dragon pearl tea. I have to put two packs of sugar in it though.

by **MarkK** » Dec 11 2007 03:23:41 pm

I love unsweetened green tea... I mainly get the gunpowder, but I will branch off if something catches my eye.

by **pussykatz** » Dec 11 2007 03:54:34 pm

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by **idkmybffjill?** » Dec 11 2007 08:48:32 pm

Tea.

Hahahahahahahhaha

On an average day I drink 10 cups of tea.

I enjoy Roobis, various Green Teas, various black teas, and Pu-erh. I also enjoy some herbal infusions, but I usually don't go for flavored teas.

by **MarkK** » Dec 11 2007 09:16:04 pm

10 cups is a bit excessive, unless you're talking 4oz cups, and even that is a bit much... you must piss all the time.

by **Epaminondas** » Dec 11 2007 09:35:34 pm

LucasPukus wrote:I haven't fallen entirely in love with tea yet, but I like the Jasmine dragon pearl tea. I have to put two packs of sugar in it though.

I got some of this from stashtea. It was really good and it's cool to see the little pearls open. I'm not sure why you would want to ruin it with sugar however.

by **Epaminondas** » Dec 11 2007 09:38:49 pm

idkmybffjill? wrote:Tea.

Hahahahahahahhaha

On an average day I drink 10 cups of tea.

I enjoy Roobis, various Green Teas, various black teas, and Pu-erh. I also enjoy some herbal infusions, but I usually don't go for flavored teas.

What's the best way to prepare the Pu-erh? I've seen it in shops but never bought any because i wasn't exactly sure how to brew it.

by **MarcusAurelius** » Dec 11 2007 10:10:38 pm

genmaicha, green tea with toasted rice for flavor. very nice.

by **Corwin** » Dec 12 2007 05:37:13 am

Stomping Grounds scarlet tea, green teas, black tea

by **Little Bobby Tables** » Dec 12 2007 07:14:11 am

the scarlet tea at stomping grounds is awesome. i also drink puerh, silver needle, green tea (just some generic I got at gong fu), and rooibos. I just let the puerh steep for 5 minutes or so in boiling hot water. it makes a very strong tea. it takes some getting used to, but it's delicious. gong fu sells a ginger puerh that's excellent.

by **Coffee** » Dec 12 2007 06:32:45 pm

Scarlet is amazing. I drink a variety of tea. I was always anti tea with milk or cream, but when I flew British Airways I had to try it (getting the full experience) Since then, I've loved it. I really like mint tea, jasmine tea, and your generic chai (plain or with milk and sugar)

by **MarkK** » Dec 12 2007 06:49:26 pm

I was unimpressed with scarlet, their five peaks green is pretty good (I think that's what it's called anyway)

by **idkmybffjill?** » Dec 13 2007 02:02:41 am

MarkK wrote:10 cups is a bit excessive, unless you're talking 4oz cups, and even that is a bit much... you must piss all the time.

I am on medicine that forces me to drink 100 ounces of fluid a day. I do piss all the time.

by **PaulMuaDib** » Dec 13 2007 09:06:21 am

100 oz isn't *that* much. during the summer i try to drink a gallon a day, but i'm pretty active.

by **idkmybffjill?** » Dec 13 2007 12:11:39 pm

Yeah, I usually excede the 100 ounces by 5 pm.

by **Halt! Hammerzeit.** » Dec 16 2007 08:36:17 pm

Lately, I've been enjoying Mariage Freres's Jasmine Mandarine. Others to try: Adagio and Harney.

by **lolcat** » Dec 16 2007 09:25:23 pm

I like to take my green tea suppliment and my hoodia suppliment with a cup of green tea.

by **daoist** » Dec 16 2007 09:53:28 pm

I also like to take my snakeoil quackery pills with tea.

by **Epaminondas** » Dec 18 2007 11:50:11 am

hah. anyway, i ordered some from gong fu. Both the ginger puerh and golden bud were stellar. There loose earl grey was quite good too, i like mine with a bit more bergemot though.

by **Hi, I'm High Maintenance** » Dec 19 2007 01:37:44 am

In the summer, iced green tea with honey. In winter, I drink a variety, but my all time fav thus far is Stash Wintermint. I also like ginger peach, orange cinnamon, and a weird ginger, orange, mint blend that I originally started drinking in hopes of getting rid of a stomach ache, but is actually pretty damn good. I probably have about....25 kinds of tea in my cupboard right now

by **Epaminondas** » Dec 20 2007 10:12:44 pm

Hi, I'm High Maintenance wrote:In the summer, iced green tea with honey. In winter, I drink a variety, but my all time fav thus far is Stash Wintermint. I also like ginger peach, orange cinnamon, and a weird ginger, orange, mint blend that I originally started drinking in hopes of getting rid of a stomach ache, but is actually pretty damn good. I probably have about....25 kinds of tea in my cupboard right now

ginger orange and mint eh? I got some indian spice tea mix (it's mostly fennel seed) and i put a bunch of fresh ginger in with it. it was quite good.

i was never a big fan of icing green tea. It loses it's appeal and flavor when it's iced. i usually oversteep EG and then ice it.

by **Halt! Hammerzeit.** » Jan 18 2008 05:55:49 pm

My co-worker went to China and brought back a bunch of this stuff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tieguanyin). Apparently it's pretty expensive even in China, and it tastes wonderful. I would describe it as flowery like jasmine but much more mellow.

Edit: just checked the price...it's about $100-200/pound here...fuckkkk.

by **MarkK** » Jan 18 2008 06:13:43 pm

6.25-12.50/oz isn't horrible...

by **Epaminondas** » Jan 22 2008 11:02:15 am

Gong fu has some equivalents that are pretty good. I got some of their rare golden bud, and they also have some nice jasmine dragon pearls. I think it's a couple dollars an ounce tops.

by **LucasPukus** » Aug 27 2008 10:13:30 pm

I can't stop drinking blended chai. I'm tempted to buy the starbux premix that you just add milk to. Does that make me a bad person? Should I be buying the chai somewhere else? I'm fond of the starbux, so I don't know which types of chai are the most similar to the type that I like. Any suggestions?

by **daoist** » Aug 27 2008 10:53:50 pm

LucasPukus wrote:I can't stop drinking blended chai. I'm tempted to buy the starbux premix that you just add milk to. Does that make me a bad person? Should I be buying the chai somewhere else? I'm fond of the starbux, so I don't know which types of chai are the most similar to the type that I like. Any suggestions?

at a couple hundred calories per serving you might want to try to transition to some other form of tea preparation. Every little bit counts!

by **MarkK** » Aug 27 2008 10:53:51 pm

why are you so anti-corporation?

by **Little Bobby Tables** » Aug 27 2008 11:00:34 pm

Halt! Hammerzeit. wrote:My co-worker went to China and brought back a bunch of this stuff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tieguanyin). Apparently it's pretty expensive even in China, and it tastes wonderful. I would describe it as flowery like jasmine but much more mellow.

Edit: just checked the price...it's about $100-200/pound here...fuckkkk.

Cripes, how much tea do you drink? I don't know if I could ever get through a pound of tea. But I have bought ti quan yin at gong fu, and it was pretty reasonably priced for the fact that I was only buying a couple ounces and it lasted several months...

by **LucasPukus** » Aug 27 2008 11:50:20 pm

MarkK wrote:why are you so anti-corporation?

Because one just sold my division. And they killed my only dog.

by **LucasPukus** » Aug 27 2008 11:51:10 pm

Little Bobby Tables wrote:
Halt! Hammerzeit. wrote:My co-worker went to China and brought back a bunch of this stuff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tieguanyin). Apparently it's pretty expensive even in China, and it tastes wonderful. I would describe it as flowery like jasmine but much more mellow.

Edit: just checked the price...it's about $100-200/pound here...fuckkkk.

Cripes, how much tea do you drink? I don't know if I could ever get through a pound of tea. But I have bought ti quan yin at gong fu, and it was pretty reasonably priced for the fact that I was only buying a couple ounces and it lasted several months...

I rather enjoy their Gong-Fu small tea compartments.

by **pilto** » Aug 29 2008 01:56:00 pm

I've been drinking elaichi tea. I'm not sure, but I think elaichi is the same thing as cardamom. I think it's just a plain tea with elaichi in it and it comes out frothy and sweet. It's quite nice and seems to be very popular here.

by **Mr. Bloodthirsty** » Aug 29 2008 02:30:48 pm

LucasPukus wrote:
MarkK wrote:why are you so anti-corporation?

Because one just sold my division. And they killed my only dog.

It's part of the lifestyle.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/05/82-hating-corporations/

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/21/13-tea/

by **LucasPukus** » Aug 29 2008 02:38:56 pm

Sure. But I also used to know a few indie stores and it's hard to compete with the empire of starbucks. I think everyone with any espresso cred hates sbux.

by **Dragmire** » Aug 30 2008 08:07:01 pm

I really like tea and try a whole bunch of different types (Chinese coworkers make this easy), but I always fall back to a good ol' Earl Grey or straight up Orange Pekoe.

by **Lars** » Sep 01 2008 09:24:03 am

I love oolong, but I usually drink plain old green at work.

by **daoist** » Sep 01 2008 01:04:33 pm

I've never had a green tea I liked. They all taste like old lady socks to me.

by **MarkK** » Sep 01 2008 03:33:58 pm

what's not to like about that?

by **Corwin** » Oct 04 2008 06:31:41 am

Bigelow raspberry and orange teas are good stuff. Yes I like fruity teas, but also whatever they use at chinese restaurants(would be better freshly brewed, but still good)

by **nippletwister** » Oct 05 2008 06:47:27 pm

Had some Caribou Irish breakfast the last couple of days. Got some Celestial Seasonings Morning Thunder. Wanted caffeine and no fruit in my tea, and the GF clipped a coupon this morning for CS teas. Hopefully that one's good.

by **Lars** » Oct 05 2008 09:27:13 pm

Corwin wrote:Bigelow raspberry and orange teas are good stuff. Yes I like fruity teas, but also whatever they use at chinese restaurants(would be better freshly brewed, but still good)

Usually oolong.

by **walk around and drink** » Oct 06 2008 10:54:31 am

i'm getting into iced tea. just made my first batch, but i think i got the wrong kind for my tastes (it was a herbal tea that was on sale). i think i need to go with just black tea in the future.

by **daoist** » Oct 06 2008 03:27:44 pm

If you're going to be sweetening it with sugar, make up some simple sugar so you don't have the pain in the ass of trying to stir granular sugar in.

by **walk around and drink** » Oct 06 2008 05:31:11 pm

oh, i won't be. i hate sweetened tea. i think it's what kept me away from tea in general for so long.

by **Corwin** » Oct 06 2008 05:37:04 pm

sweet iced sun tea is one of the greatest things ever....although that's a down south thing.

by **nippletwister** » Oct 06 2008 07:56:23 pm

walk around and drink iced tea?

by **walk around and drink** » Oct 06 2008 11:00:30 pm

sounds good to me.

i wanna change my name.

by **nippletwister** » Oct 06 2008 11:28:34 pm

hahah I bet you do.

by **lolcat** » Oct 07 2008 10:57:22 am

Halt! Hammerzeit. wrote:My co-worker went to China and brought back a bunch of this stuff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tieguanyin). Apparently it's pretty expensive even in China, and it tastes wonderful. I would describe it as flowery like jasmine but much more mellow.

Edit: just checked the price...it's about $100-200/pound here...fuckkkk.

A variety of this tea from the Wuyi Mountains in Fujian is called Monkey-Picked. This comes from the lovely story that monkeys were trained by Buddhist monks to pick the youngest leaves of the wild species of tea plants that grew on high cliff faces and such inaccessible places in this area. It is considered the best of the oolong tea varieties.

Hmm... would be worth buying if this is true. No need to worry about the labor conditions since no humans were involved.

by **servotron** » Oct 07 2008 04:05:22 pm

About every 6 months I try honestly to like tea. It never catches on, I just do not like any kind of tea, and I've had dozens and dozens of kinds in the hope that ONE of them will be good to me.

by **nippletwister** » Oct 07 2008 06:56:05 pm

I guess I just don't get it. If I want caffeine, I want coffe. I guess I'm just not into subtlety.

by **lolcat** » Oct 08 2008 09:18:03 am

crack rock vs. powdered cocaine.

by **nippletwister** » Oct 08 2008 07:46:17 pm

I don't think either of those are consumed for flavor, so what are you trying to say?

by **Lars** » Dec 14 2008 10:46:30 pm

I forgot how good these Jasmine blooms are...right now I'm drinking my 3rd cup brewed from the same bloom:

http://www.adagio.com/misc/display_teas ... 08bda6da29

by **Epaminondas** » Dec 16 2008 11:54:25 pm

Expensive, yikes. You can get good jasmine leaf that's not made into a flower for a hundred times less

by **Lars** » Dec 17 2008 10:39:33 pm

It's novelty, fool.

by **Little Bobby Tables** » Dec 26 2008 11:31:40 pm

Just picked up some Yerba Mate, Sweet Fruit Garden, Carribean Breeze, and Keemum Imperial from Teavana courtesy of a holiday gift card. Thought I would spread out a little. If there are any Mate drinkers on here, it's currently on sale at Teavana for $1/oz.

by **laurahill** » Dec 23 2010 05:42:18 am

I love green tea,specially Chinese green tea with ginger.

by **PaulyBlue** » Feb 16 2011 10:47:55 pm

Country Peach Passion by Celestial Seasonings - the best I've ever had!

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