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[Anonymous No.3863034]

Tea thread!

>What are you drinking right now?
>What's your favorite tea?
>Best one you've ever tried?
>Do you order online or purchase local?

My personal favorite is from a place called David's Tea. It's a chai guaranara and tastes fan-fucking-tastic. It's so much easier on my stomache then coffee, but still gives me a great boost of energy.

Other then that, what I'm drinking right now is green tea with infused night blooming jasmine. Perfect strait up.

[Anonymous No.3863039]

I straight up love iced Thai tea. As for hot teas, I drink Japanese green tea or Jasmine.

[Anonymous No.3863041]

right now I'm drinking Tulsi tea. It's my favorite for the moment, but I love having as many options for tea as possible. I have 23 different types of tea in my drawer atm

[Anonymous No.3863044]

>>3863041
I am entirely too jelly. I only have two tins of tea in my cupboard. The Green Jasmine and Cream of Earl Grey...Curse this college student budget of mine!

[Anonymous No.3863048]

I think my favorite tea is probably silver needles.
Subtle taste, really refreshing.

>>3863034

David's tea is a pretty good place to get tea blends. I love their earl grey. I usually drink it iced with lemon.

[Anonymous No.3863052]

>>3863048

>Tea with lemon

When I lived in Russia they always insisted I have lemon in my fucking tea. Fuck that.

[Anonymous No.3863069]

Earl Grey.

Not really tea, but I also enjoy hibiscus petals.

[Anonymous No.3863074]

>>3863052
I've never understood that myself. At most I'll add some milk or some honey to my tea. At least I drink it strait.

[Anonymous No.3863077]

After seeing teas like Birthday Cake and Jellybean being rolled out, I've dropped David's like a hot potato, their tea is way too bizarre and sweet. Teaopia is also going along that same road, but they have a decent white tea called Bai Cui Mei which I am drinking right now. Last week, I ordered from Butiki Tea's and am still waiting for the package, I'm unusually excited.
Pic is my order.

[Anonymous No.3863079]

>>3863069

[Anonymous No.3863091]

>>3863077
>After seeing teas like Birthday Cake and Jellybean being rolled out, I've dropped David's like a hot potato, their tea is way too bizarre and sweet.
>implying birthday cake tea doesn't sound fucking amazing

Also, how does them adding stranger tea affect their already good tea at all? It seems rather childish to "drop them" because of that. Almost a little hipster-esque.

[Anonymous No.3863094]

What's the best place to buy tea?

[Anonymous No.3863095]

I'm a big fan of all Bigelow Teas.

Mint being my favourite by far, with a little catnip thrown in.

And chamomile, if I need to get some good rest.
I made the mistake of waking up with a cup of chamomile tea once. I promptly went back to bed.

[Anonymous No.3863097]

The only answer to this thread is whatever type of tea we drink in England. Because we only have the one kind and it's fucking amazing.

Green tea is also acceptable.

[Anonymous No.3863098]

Anyone visit Adagio's website? I'm getting a chocolate chai/coconut ceylon blend, hopefully it'll be delicious.

[Anonymous No.3863099]

>>3863091
Too bad the birthday cake "tea" is rooibos.

Shit ain't even real tea. Rooibos is nasty.

[Anonymous No.3863107]

>>3863091
Pardon me, I should have re-phrased that, I tried Birthday Cake and the Jellybean tea. They are disgusting, it's way too sweet, I nearly gagged.

[Anonymous No.3863110]

Drinking ti kuan yin, favorite is king hsuan Formosa. it's incredibly flavorful. Both are from my local Asian market.

[Anonymous No.3863113]

>>3863099
Rooibos is weird, I'll give you that. Almost like drinking a sweet fermented mushroom tea.

But I continue to drink it when my allergies get the better of me or when I'm generally feeling shitty, because I always feel so much better when I've had a cup.

[Anonymous No.3863115]

>>3863099
Ok, so what? They're stocking a wider selection for a broader audience. They didn't stop selling their pure tea's or their traditional blends. They still sell some of the yummiest tea I've had in a long time.

I agree with the other anon, that sounds entirely too hipster-esque.

[Anonymous No.3863122]

>>3863097
Isn't the traditional english tea just Orange Pekoe? I could be wrong, but that was always my assumption

[Anonymous No.3863125]

>>3863094
As been mentioned in the thread, I get all mine from David's Tea. There's a whole lot of local places around my city (One at the mall I go through to do grocery shopping), but they also sell their teas online.

http://www.davidstea.com/

[Anonymous No.3863130]

Anyone ever make chaga tea?

I have a few times and it was pretty decent.

[Anonymous No.3863131]

>>3863122
Orange pekoe isn't a type/flavor of tea.

It's a grade of black tea. It basically just means they're full leaf.

>>3863113
I tried rooibos once. Took like two or three sips and couldn't do anymore.

It's just way too... Musky? I guess that's a good way to put it.

[Anonymous No.3863145]

>>3863130
Never even heard of it actually.

[Anonymous No.3863154]

>>3863115
They do have good pure teas, I do like their Earl Grey, but I'd like to see more of that with the seasonal releases, I would love it if they brought out another traditional oolong tea.

[Anonymous No.3863160]

>>3863115
I wouldn't even call it hipster.

Hipsters would like the crazy teas.

[Anonymous No.3863175]

>>3863154
Well you also have to remember, their "Good" teas (Pure teas, traditional blends, ect) are always there to stick around while the seasonal releases come and go. So it's a lot easier to throw out some weird, out there blend for a few months then drop it off after they get new people brought in (Since for the most part, new tea drinkers won't necessarily go for say "Organic Silk Dragon Jasmine", but will be more inclined to try "Strawberry Cheesecake"). Just my two cents.

[Anonymous No.3863179]

Right now I'm drinking gyokuro, to celebrate the fact that it's already been over a month since moving into my new apartment. (And yesterday I had some of the really premium pu-erh that I got for my last birthday-- the whole weekend's been a celebration when it comes to my tea selections).

I have about a million teas that I love "the most," but these can generally be summed up as pu-erh and various Japanese greens (helloooo, genmaicha!), with lapsang souchong and a few tisanes thrown in there as well.

[Anonymous No.3863184]

>>3863115
This reminds me. The only people I've ever seen working in a david's tea are hipster chicks. Not that I don't like them.

In comparison, in the place where I get my higher quality teas everyone look like a goddamn hippy.

[Anonymous No.3863193]

>>3863184
The one I go to always has really friendly girls working there that will always strike up a conversation. I quite enjoy going to my closest one.

Just a question anon, do you live in Toronto? I'd be curious to know where you get your higher quality teas from.

[Anonymous No.3863220]

>>3863193
Sadly, I live in Montréal not Toronto. I usually get my teas from camellia-sinensis, I think they ship anywere in Canada. But that's irrelevant because there are probably better places in Toronto.

[Anonymous No.3863257]

>>3863220
I've been curious about that place ever since my sister bought a book written by people who work there. Also heard they have a 'course' about tea as well, thoughts?
I live in Toronto, some places to check out if you are ever in the area are Tealish on Queen St. West and Herbal Infusions on Adelaide St. West

[Anonymous No.3863260]

i just recently discovered bubble tea as the new love of my life.
So far taro, red bean, and melon milk tea are my favorites...

its a little too hot to enjoy hot tea in my region, so i usually stick to iced, but in the winter i really like ginger peach black tea or jasmine oolong

[Anonymous No.3863267]

>>3863257
I've heard of herbal infusions from my room mate and she says it's really great. I'll have to check out Tealish though.

[Anonymous No.3863275]

>>3863257
Actually, they many courses from what I see. You learn about different teas, production methods, infusions, implements and other things related to tea culture. Along with tea tasting of course.

[Anonymous No.3863789]

>>3863260
hot tea is great in the summer.

[Anonymous No.3863833]

>Live in the Southern US.
>Order tea...only option SWEET.

I fucking love it.

[Anonymous No.3863838]

>>3863833
You love only being able to drink sugary tea?

No wonder the south is full of dumb, diabetic, fat fucks.

[Anonymous No.3864288]

Some high quality sencha + fresh orange zest = mouthgasm

[Anonymous No.3864291]

>>3863833
Sweet tea is horse shit. Stay there please.

[Anonymous No.3864336]

I don't know what's in this tea but is straight-up CRACK. Never had better, and they might be discontinuing it, baww.

[Anonymous No.3864337]

[None !!pFq+GyP8F1x No.3864345]

Green Organic Earl Grey. Was skeptical about it being green tea but its actually really good.

[Anonymous No.3864375]

Personal favorite is Blueberry Purple Kenyan tea from Butiki Teas. I generally go for tisanes and white and green tea blends. I only really ever add sweeteners to my tea if I'm making an iced tea out of a tisane. I'll add some good quality honey in for those.

Not entirely sure what I'm going to make for this morning, but I bet it'll be Butiki's Cantaloupe & Cream again. The creamy lightness of it just really makes it great for a morning tea.

I almost always order online, from a long list of retailers. When I buy local, there's a gourmet store here that has a decent tea selection of a few dozen. I picked up some Genmaicha and Earl Grey there the other day.

[Anonymous No.3864824]

>>3864336
Looks like goji berries and pomegranate, chief.

[Anonymous No.3864837]

Currently drinking some lapsang souchong tea, a 2011 picking (has been a vacuum sealed pouch the whole time though), mid-grade stuff. Pretty nice to enjoy on a rare non-working Monday.

[Anonymous No.3864860]

-Earl Grey or a Peppermint infusion at home
at work however
its tons and tons of instant lyons with a crazy amount of sugar

[Anonymous No.3864891]

I drink "Detox" Kusmi Tea.

It's green tea and maté with lemon and lemon grass. It's exquisite.

[Anonymous No.3864892]

I only drink Kava tea.

[Anonymous No.3864923]

can anyone recommend me a good brand of green tea?

I've been drinking it lately since I've been sick as a dog for the last couple of days and I'd like to start drinking it more often for the health benefits

I'm currently drinking some from yamamotoyama, but from what I've seen in previous tea threads, bagged tea is frowned upon

[Anonymous No.3864972]

My favorite tea is the turkish tea

[Anonymous No.3864973]

Now that I'm on my internship I drink the tea I can get at the hotel I work at. They have bags of Earl Grey, English breakfast, oolong and sencha. They're really good, especially the english breakfast with a bit of milk in it.

When I'm home I have either Kusmi brand chocolate and spice black tea or jasmine dragon pearls

[Anonymous No.3865099]

>>3863145
It comes from a fungus called, "Inonotus obliquus". It looks like a big black burnt conk on paper birch, but is acutually a fungus.

I used to sell wild mushrooms at a farmer's market and was thinking about selling chaga. I sliced some fruiting bodies, dried them in a dehydrator, and ground them in a coffee grinder.

The resulting tea was nice - almost tasted like tea with all the tannins. Lots of research going into it right now.

[Anonymous No.3865147]