Tea...

[Mobile Chicane]

No, not the northern evening meal, but stuff you infuse in boiling water and sip.

I love tea. (Plus I'm trying to cut down on alcohol, and somehow only tea has the complexity of flavour I love so much in wine.)

Presently on rotation at Chez MC:

- Moroccan mint, mixed half and half with boggo green tea
- Lemon balm
- Rose buds
- Jasmine-scented green tea pearls
- 2003 Wild Yi Wu Raw Puerh
- Tie Guan Yin Oolong (£500 a lb - )

What's your favourite?

[MentalSarcasm]

Tetley. Lots and lots of Tetley.

[jas xjr]

Yorkshire teabags

[lazy_b]

Masala Chai.

You can buy ready-made teabags from somewhere like Whittards or make your own.

Either way, it's a good alternative to ordinary tea.

[calibrax]

Every herbal tea I've ever tasted, tastes exactly the same. Yes, they smell EXACTLY like what they are supposed to be flavoured with, but the actual taste never seems to change. Maybe it's just that I've never had any good ones...

[jas xjr]

I sometimes add a stick of cinnamon a couple of cloves and some cardamom pods to water in a saucepan and then add tea.
Makes a change

[Mobile Chicane]

calibrax said:

Every herbal tea I've ever tasted, tastes exactly the same. Yes, they smell EXACTLY like what they are supposed to be flavoured with, but the actual taste never seems to change. Maybe it's just that I've never had any good ones...

Because most are EXACTLY the same with 'nature-identical' flavourings sprayed on. Once that's evaporated, what's left in the cup tastes like wet hay. (Which it is.)

Get the real thing. Or pick your own - lime blossom tea is lovely.

[Simpo Two]

Builder's tea or Smokey Lapsang, depending on how posh I feel.

[surrey7er]

Simpo Two said:

Builder's tea or Smokey Lapsang, depending on how posh I feel.

Lapsang is lovely. Smells of ham, but lovely.
Darjeeling another favourite of mine, as is the aforementioned massala chai.

[surrey7er]

You might enjoy this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA&fea...

[Mobile Chicane]

surrey7er said:

You might enjoy this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA&fea...

I veritably pissed myself laughing.

Inspired.

[shirt]

jas xjr said:

Yorkshire teabags

good man.

I am quite fond of mr scruff mint & chilli. I expect a homemade version would be much better. I also like making coffee in the unwashed cup afterwards. jasmine and oolong are also welcome.

once, on a whim, I bought cardomom tea. vile, 39 of 40bags were binned.

[okgo]

Twinings everyday tea.

Herbal stuff as said smells awesome
And taste of fk all

[Kays vRS]

Assam for me. I drink gallons of it. I like a very strong cup of tea.
I occasionally buy Yorkshire and very occasionally Darjeeling. I can't abide green tea, herbal tea or or Rooibos - a few people at work drink that and I keep trying to like it but failing.

[Wadeski]

eh, coffee at work, but a nice stew-brewed cup of Lifeboat if i'm having builders - usually when working from home or when trying to fix / smash something.

I do enjoy an utterly pretentious trick of serving top-quality chinese tea in martini glasses at a party if goes past dawn. For this i have a box of Baihao Yinzen white tea which is shockingly good.

[condor]

Twining Earl Grey - just enjoying a cuppa now

[Noger]

Various Twinings.
That Roiboos stuff when am pretending to be healthy. It actually does taste of something.

Had a phase of Darjeelings, Finest Tippys etc, but no more. And is expensive this year due the tea strikes in India !

[missdiane]

Really not fussy as long as it's well stewed and with very little milk. Don't like the earl grey type tea though
Currently trying a safe ceylon but I never know how to put in a tea pot so I haven't had a nice strong one yet

[Shaolin]

surrey7er said:

You might enjoy this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA&fea...

Not seen that before

Here's another:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5jTXdiBwas

[Kneetrembler]

Susaron Green Tea as sold in Spain

Green Java Tea

Tetleys