What kind of tea do you like, (if at all). Also do any of you use Teavana?

I hate tea all together as well as coffee.

i just like ordinary tea,yorkshire gold and Earl Grey

i like yorkish tea

I like ordinary, quite weak tea. I don't like it too hot either. How boring!

I like black tea, especially Mate Vana tea mixed with a Rooibus Chai.

I hate tea and coffee I like Hot chocolate tho

I like Tea-one sweetener-milk,coffee-milky kind,hot choc

i dont like tea or coffee or any alcohol berverage!!

hey jordan, good for you on the no alcohol part. Im surprised you don't like either coffee or tea. If you ever get an interest in tea, you should try a Chai Tea Latte at a local Starbucks. Its rrrreeeaaalllyyy good

Make mine any Irish blend tea by either Bewley's, Barry's, Lyon's or from any Irish tea blending establishment - I like tea that is big on taste and it hits the spot every time! Ireland is a nation of tea bellies ... the first thing I drink upon arrival in Ireland is a nice mug (or make mine a bucket!) of TEA!!! If I know anyone going to Ireland, I say: bring back packets of some Irish blend tea!!!

I also like Marks and Spencer's Fair Trade Extra Strong Tea because it is like the aforementioned. I go through it like goes through cheese!

I have tried - and I really like - Yerba Mate, which is Argentina's national tea drink - as it is a green tea from the holly family, it is an acquired taste - but it is packed with good stuff. The only bugbear about making it is that the water needs to be very hot but NOT boiling - boiling makes it taste like YUCK!! The Argentines have it down to a tea (geddit?!).

As for coffee, I like it with plenty of body - Colombian and African are my favourites. I use ground coffee every time and own two cafetieres - one big, one small. I can't wait until I'm in France when the coffee will be made for me instead of the other way round when my friend and I are sitting outside cafes, watching the world go by...

There is one herbal tea that my friend (who will be coming with me) introduced me to which contained ginger and clove...can't remember the rest! It was great to drink after coming home from the dentist as my gums were sore after the scale and polish. Must be the cloves!

Here is a tip for making the perfect pot of tea:

1. Only use freshly drawn water for boiling - this goes for coffee too - as the oxygen in the water is important!

2. Warm the teapot with hot water.

3. A bag/teaspoon of tea for each person and one for the pot.

4. As soon as the kettle whistles/clicks, pour the boiling water into the teapot, stir and wait for 4 minutes.

5. Milk in cup/beaker/mug first, then tea - NOT the other way round.

6. ENJOY!!!


Here is how to make coffee in the cafetiere:

1. Put freshly drawn water into the kettle for what you need.

2. Warm the cafetiere.

3. As soon as the kettle boils, leave the water to settle for a minute.

4. Spoon in one tablespoon of ground coffee for each person and one for the pot.

5. Wet the grounds with a little drop of the hot water and watch the froth - that means it's starting to brew.

6. Pour in the rest of the water and stir gently. The brewing process should make the coffee look like Guinness with the creamy head.

7. Wait for 4-5 minutes before putting the plunger down.

8. Enjoy!

With instant coffee, you spoon the instant granules into the cup/beaker/mug but follow the same directions with the water - wait until it settles.

Be very, very careful with hot water! Treat it with respect and you won't get scalded!

TEA ROCKS!!!

Sock Eye Salmon

PS: I love South African Redbush (rooiboos), too! Yum!!!

Hey, Josephine, I like rooibus too. You should try it mixed with Mate Vana. If you want to try some realy cool selections, you should check out the teavana website. www.Teavana.com I love their stuff

I'll give it a lash, Gromitt!

& use tea bags...but I don't know what brand... I had to add this in case anyone thought we were being random... looks like he makes a lovely cup of tea...just seeing him pour it out makes me reach for the kettle...

That does it, Gromitt! I'm off for a steaming brew!

See you later!

Sock Eye Salmon

Mm! I have to say I like almost all tea I've ever tasted but I haven't tried much. I don't like herbal licorice root tea. Sock Eye Salmon, or Josephine - why Sock Eye Salmon? Why such a fishy alias? - (maybe I should adopt a name like that) it was probably just chai. Herbal chai (or at least the one we make) contains ginger and cloves and bay leaves and cardamum and er a few more things, I can't remember. I've barely ever had coffee but I liked it. I can't say I don't like alcohol, either. Actually, I don't like wine.

- Ziebell's Handfish

Rooibos!!! i never thought i would read that here on this thread.
I don't like it but my dad can only drink that when it comes to tea. Thankfully shops do sell it so we don't have to go to the South African shop to get it, we'd be there every two weeks.

i liked the fruit tea that you can get from whittards the lemon one and the berry one for some reason , they serve the tasters cold in the shop so i prefer it cold

well we buy pg tips and i do like tea and hot chocolate but i don't like coffee.

oh and i also like hot choc

when I have hot chocolate, I like to put some whipped cream on top, and then some chocolate chips, it really enhances the flavor. I wonder how wallace would make hot chocolate

probably with some really complicated machine

yeah lol

I think calls it the "Beddy-byes Hotchoc-o-matic" which was the star of the Ideal Home Exhibition many moons ago...



It resembles a teasmade/teasmaid. To pre-set it, milk must be put into the container, the right amount of beverage powder in the dispenser and the 'extras' option for whipped cream, choccy chips and dipping biscuit. Set the timer as one would for the video/DVD recorder.

Rather than the sound of the ominous ding-a-ling-a-ling found in a conventional alarm clock, it goes into action via a clock radio (set in time for the BBC Radio 4 shipping forecast preceded by that lovely waltz called "Sailing By" - as soon as that starts, the milk warms up).

Whilst the milk is doing that, the mug/beaker must be placed directly beneath the hot choc/Ovaltine/Horlicks/Bournvita dispenser and where the milk will come through when it is hot enough. A mechanical hand comes out from the side with a teaspoon and stirs it gently, taps the spoon on the side of the cup and voila! 's bedtime drink is ready.

By the way, in "The Wrong Trousers", when was scaling the wall of the museum in his techno-trousers (with the dastardly pressing the buttons), there was a poster advertising: "Drop off with Snoozy-Choc - the sleepy time drink".

Have you tried that one, Gromitt?

Yours
Sock Eye Salmon
(A real salmon with an eye for socks - )

No, I haven't tried that one, is it good?

It seems I'm not quite the tea connoisseur that you folks are! When it comes to tea my northern roots kick in - I like a piping hot classic brew

ooh sounds nice Katie

Katie, I think we Northerners have two names for that classic type of tea - Bricklayers and Mouse Pavement (so strong a mouse could walk across it without sinking). Also, as mentioned and a nod to my Irish roots - Irish blend...

Gromitt, I happen to have a mug of Snoozy Choc right here...it does what it says on the tin one sup and you'rezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.................

Sockeye!!!!!!!!!!

Cool Josephine, do you know if I could get it in the States?

I like milk or cream in my tea - depending on what kind of tea it is. My grandmother always had her tea that way, and so as a small child I always asked for it with cream. I have a vague memory of ordering tea in an American restaurant with my grandmother, and my adding milk to my tea only to discover the server had put lemon in it. What happened to the milk was amazing!

Sock Eye - I always put the cream in the cup first - then the coffee or tea. I started doing it that way because then I didn't need to stir it. That saved me from having to dirty another spoon - an important advantage when there were tiny children in the family. I know that sounds terribly lazy, but in the family setting it helped me to get my coffee with the least number of motions. These days it is just a habit I guess.

Hi there, Dancing Shauny 99!!!! Howdy there, Gromitt! I think Snoozy-Choc might be under another brand name over there... like Milo or Hershey's or something like that.

One thing I forgot to mention when I was writing on how to make the perfect pot of tea or coffee is - thanks to Fish - that it is best to put the milk into the cup/mug/beaker in FIRST. Some say that it's vice versa but the right way is with the milk/cream FIRST!

Earl Grey, like Yerba Mate or most herbal teas, is also an acquired taste and it is best drunk with lemon or honey but I know of some people who drink it with milk.

Was your tea an Earl Grey when the milk and lemon curdled Fish?

Tea-hee!

Sock Eye Salmon
Drinking tea like a fish...

You are FUNNY, Sock Eye - and I'm chuffed to mintballs to see you here! I don't remember the kind of tea it was - only the AMAZING curdled milk!

Milo! another South African drink. It's the only hot drink i do drink really. It can also be cold.

Hey you still remember my old name Sockeye?
Wow,you have a good memory,nobody remembers my old name!
I have missed talking to you!

I'm not a fan of tea, coffee - gimme a boring glass of water or something chocolatey and I'm happy

im not much of a tea fan but i do like it when we have some nice biscuits lol

lol-laugh out loud

looks like everybody likes it differant

I'd have to concur with the "stronger the better" theory regarding tea. Irish blends are a pleasure indeed, and I've also discovered that Assam tea makes me very happy. Marvelous malty-ness for my mouth Malt is a good thing. I will, however, drink any kind of tea, just so long as it is very very very hot.

Regarding coffee, it must have low acidity, so I feel like I'm drinking the coffee and the coffee is not drinking me. I absolutely cannot stand Starbucks brews, although I can tolerate their lattes and americanos if I am called upon by the higher powers to do so.

I enjoy all cuppas so much, but I do feel that tea and coffee own me... good on all of you who drink more water and hot chocolate! Drink too much fizzy stuff, though, and fishy things will happen. Speaking of which, all the little fishies here might like to know that, if I assumed a fishy alias, it would be Cobia. Cobia is a food fish found in tropical waters, similar in some ways to tuna. I've never eaten this salty creature, but I do work aboard USS COBIA, a (mostly) lovingly restored WWII submarine. I've had plenty of sockeye salmon, on the other hand!

Hey Usrut, what is milo? I haven't a clue

Tea is my beverage of choice.

I don't like coffee...can't stand the bitter aftertaste that's left in my mouth. I don't like the smell either, especially coffee pots that have been sitting on the burner all afternoon and smell/look like thick mud. My tastebuds can pick up on the tiniest morsel of coffee. A friend who likes to experiment with different recipes once offered me a brownie (I love fudgie brownies) she made from a recipe that called for some instant coffee. "It was just a teensy bit!" she exclaimed. But oh no....it ruined a perfectly fudgie brownie. Don't get me started. I could go on.

Tea, on the other hand...what a lovely drink. My favorites are Earl Grey and green teas. No milk, no sugar, no lemon. Earl Grey is a perfect accompaniment to some New York cheesecake. And there are so many green teas...they're all great but my favorite is a Sakuranbo Vert sold by this tea shop called Lupicia. It has this nice cherry aroma that reminds me of my dad or my uncles smoking cherry pipes or cigars after dinner or on a lazy afternoon. It also reminds me of fresh cut grass. Okay...sensory overload.

I can imagine making a nice pot of Earl Grey for with a lovely slice of New York Cheesecake!

Hi Jills...you're a tea drinker too? Are you in Wisconsin?

I don't like tea but my Dad use PG Tips and I ahve a PG Tips Monkey!

my friend called her pg tips monkey 'cheese' so whenever i say anything about cheese (eg I like eating cheese) she says 'noooooo don't eat cheese!'

LOL!

Hehehe!, Chocahoc.

Squigly, are you an amateur detective? Yep, I live in Wisconsin, so I'm a cheesehead (mmmmm, NY cheesecake...). I'm guessing you cleverly looked up USS COBIA to see where it is! The sub doesn't have propellers anymore, even though it's in the water, so sadly we are stuck on the lake and can't take it out for a cruise

And yep, I loooove tea, and can get good tea here (I drink either Twinings or PG Tips), but I'm still pleased as punch to be coming back to the UK, next month already... oh my! I must start preparing or something. But sticking to topic...

Are all of you tea brand loyalists, or just preferential to a variety or type? Does your household agree on what brand of tea to get, and always get the same one, or are you willing to switch it up now and then?

Well me and my dad always go for Lapsong Souchong which is an equired smoky taste very nice though.(We call it a Lapdog)

teehee...Lapdog

Good questions, Cobia (aka Jills). I'm usually a loyalist - once I latch onto something good, I tend to stick with it. But I'm also adventurous so I will try others.

btw you're right...the powers of search engines like GGLE are amazing aren't they?

Squigly - you didn't answer Jills question about being an amateur detective! You figured out where I lived a long time before I ever told anyone on W&G...

Hiya Fish! It's from being very observant, intuitive...and the amazing powers of search engines! lol

You are amazing, squigly!

I just remembered...that's how I found out you used to be a Yooper too (and what in the world a Yooper was). I'm just a curious monkey.

sorry Jills didn't see your question. Milo is a energy drink, which is like hot chocolate though (although it says on the tin "Chocolate flavored malt drink with vitamins and minerals"). It's really nice as you can have it hot or cold.

I find it a strange coincidence that this Tea thread was created just days before the announcement of & 's Great British Tea Party in the Latest News Forum. Was this just a TEA-ser?

If you haven't checked out that thread, you should. (Go to Latest News) Sockeye has a little clue about Nick Park's birthday.