Any tea drinkers out there??

[joyfulheart]

I love, love, love tea -- iced and hot.

I drink iced tea every day in the warmer months. Just a plain ol' green tea. No sweetner.

My favorite teas are -- Choice's Organic Decaf Green Tea with Peach;
--Celestial Seasonings Blueberry Breeze Green Tea
--Stash Organic decaf Green Tea
--and a seasonal favorite is Trader Joe's Candy Cane Green Tea

Your fav's?

Do you put anything in your tea?

Where are you tea lovers?

[meemee]

fellow tea lover here too. but i have just turned into a coffee lover too. that bitter taste has finally got to me and i looooooooooove me a cup sometimes.

for me there is nothing, nothing more beautiful then watching the sun rise or a full moon rise with a hot cup of chai with milk and honey. i mostly love black tea. i love darjeeling, the brand typhoo black tea and of course a cardamom based chai. i always experiment with brands and cant remember which one i love the most. oregon chai tea is atrocious imho.

i am also a tea snob. it has to be just perfect. the perfect hot water, perfect amount of soaking. never boiling the water twice and oh NEVER EVER in the microwave.

i love ginger tea on a cold winters morning. ginger milk and honey or even sugar with black tea. fresh raw ginger.

i drink tea in two different ways. one is just a drink because i want it when i am off doing stuff. the other is to just truly sit and drink and enjoy the tea.

i like sweetners so for iced tea i looove Good Earth's regular spice tea. otherwise i love fruity flavours for iced tea and have experimented by taking a few different fruit tea bags and blending my own flavour of tea.

i treasure the moments i can be alone with a hot cup of tea. we do have a couple fo tea places out here but they dont really know and understand black tea. they do lots of blends but dont understand the water temperature issues and how long to soak issues.

plus for me there is just something about drinking tea out of a thin lipped cup and saucer. a breakfast big round mouth cup. not a mug, but a cup.

in my cupboard i have about 30 different kinds of teas to choose from. no chamomile though. i hate it.

i also look around for other things to seep and make into a tea. like i always like getting ideas from asians about using a bunch of herbs to make a tea. yuuuuummmmmmmmm!!!! fresh mint with ginger and a touch of black tea. yuuuuummmm!!!

one of my favourite recipes is honey, peppermint tea and coconut milk.

my dd is one too and we drink together.

[JessicaS]

I love tea

Right now my favorite is Jasmine Black tea, it is so refreshing!

I like that double bergamont from stash

I also like Japanese Wild Cherry I got from Teavana

I usually drink my tea plain but I do like a bit of raw honey. Sometimes I add a bit of almond milk if it is a really strong tea

[LauraLoo]

I haven't met a tea that I didn't love.

I started drinking tea as a child -- my mother and I would have real tea parties. I drank tea with milk and sugar/honey when I was sick. Earl Grey was my fave back then. It's no wonder that I find Chai tea comforting!

I'm trying to keep to decaf flavors at the moment -- I love green and white teas. Republic of Tea does a Mango Ceylon that I find wonderful.

When I need to replenish my supply, I've been eyeing some Roobios to try.

[34me]

I love tea as well. I love Earl Grey (Twinings) and I love going to the tea shop and getting loose by the pound. I live near Celestial Seasonings so I love going to try all their teas and then getting it cheap! No additives for me. No milk, sugar, nothithing unless I'm sick I will add honey.

[lazzybee]

From the grocery store, Yogi Mayan Cocoa Spice/Yogi Sweet Thai Delight/any plain old green tea with a little honey.

I live near this place, which has THE BEST tea I've ever had. Especially the Kyoto Cherry Rose.

[californiajenn]

I LOVE tea! I don't buy tea at stores much b/c I get great tea from Mountain Rose Herbs for great prices. Well, that and I don't care much for regular grocery store tea.

Chai is my favorite in the winter and mint/lemon types in the summer, though due to health issues, I have to stick with herbal teas almost exclusively for now.

Here's a place you tea aficionados would adore:

http://www.heavenstea.com/

I attending a tea and meditation session a few months ago with Paul and it was amazing. Paul sources tea from all over the world to find the very best. It's very easy to become a tea snob after having his teas.

[koru]

Yep, lovin' the tea over here!

I buy herbs & mix it up.....nettle, elderberries, mint, hibiscus, calendula, etc. No two cups are the same.

I also love fresh ginger tea in the winter. Makes me feel all warm & cozy inside.

I used to be an avid coffee drinker but quit caffeine over 10 years ago & have had decaf on & off since. I really think the coffee bean is my enemy, though, so I recently tried Teeccino which isn't too bad. Actually, I like it!

[happyhats]

I drink iced tea constantly. I like it unsweetened with lemon. I also like to mix up my own concoctions with whatever tea bags sounded yummy at the store.

I drink hot tea on occasion, and then it's all about sitting back and relaxing. I used to be much more of an affeciando than I am now, but I still drool over a tea catalog.

[amma_mama]

I love a hot cup of tea. I am a bit of a purist so plain black tea is my favorite. DH is from Sri Lanka, which has some of the finest black tea (orange pekoe) on the planet, so we are lucky to get it from there, so I do not buy much here. We get a good grade, high grown tea for pennies (rupees, actually!). We probably have a dozen different varieties at any one time, each unique in taste - some of them single estate teas or regional teas from different growing districts in Sri Lanka. As I drink it plain, I usually choose a lighter, aromatic tea that I steep it until it is a beautiful amber color.

When I do want something different, with dessert or on a cold day, I will make my own spice tea. I usually use a heavier tea and mix in fresh ginger, green cardamon, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, maybe one or two black peppercorns, steeping it in half water/half milk with either sugar or jaggery. If I am lazy, I also have a spice mixture that I bought at a local Indian grocery (and keep at work, as well).

DH frowns on it, but I do also enjoy iced tea, especially during the summer. I also like that plain and simple - no flavors, no sweetener and, please, no lemon (not even "hooked" onto the rim).

[lakeruby]

I LOVE tea!

I make a delicious chai in the winter with fresh turmeric and ginger, black tea, and dried cardamom, pepper and cloves. YUM!

I also love Earl Grey-- I had an "Earl Grey Almond" at a cafe in Athens earlier this year and fell in love. I re-created it at home by making a strong cup of earl grey tea, then adding in some warmed milk and 1/4 tsp of almond extract. Really delicious.

My favorite tea lately is from Remedy Teas (http://store.remedyteas.com/) Watch out-- that place is amazing and you will want to spend your money! The Blue Hawaii tea (a white tea) is absolutely incredible. Wonderful hot or iced, low in caffeine and very tasty.

[puffingirl]

Tea lover raising a tea loving DD here! I also love lots of tea--hot, iced, black, green, herbal, whatever. In the summer, I have iced green (either plain or jasmine) tea (unsweetened) with lemon every morning, and often again later in the day. In the winter, I like black hot tea in the morning--my favorites are chai spiced (no milk though--just the black tea and spices) and one that we get at a local tea shop that is Earl Grey with lavender. DD is 3 and has been sharing my tea forever--as long as it's cool, I allow her to have some, even if it's black tea. She really likes it, even unsweetened. In the winter, we have tea time every afternoon for snack. It used to be after she napped, but she doesn't always nap now.... So, tea time is more important than ever. In the summer, if it's been a busy, non-nap day, we have "happy hour" in the late afternoon and drink iced tea and get out a couple of healthy snacks. Tea=good times in our world.

[Ruthla]

I have yerba mate (brewed from loose tea) with blackstrap molasses and homemade rice milk every morning in place of coffee.

Then I like drinking green tea: I brew it from loose tea leaves and add stevia and grapefruit or pineapple juice. In the summer I like pouring the freshly brewed (and sweetened) tea over ice then adding the juice; in cooler months I drink it hot.

I often have rooibos tea in the afternoons (I can't have caffeine too late in the day or I can't sleep.)

I like camomile tea before bed, either unsweetened or with a bit of agave or honey added.

I brew red raspberry tea, sometimes mixed with camomile, to help ease menstrual cramps.

[Sol_y_Paz]

Hello fellow tea lover! I enjoy most dark plain teas, I like Earl Gray, English Teatime, Lemon Lift, and my current favorite is Passionfruit Payapa (the Republic of Tea) and Yerba Mate fresh green.