Calling all Tea drinkers! ☕️

[Croconaw]

This is just the opposite of the thread @Autumn247 made about coffee, for tea drinkers.
Coffee’s just not my cup of tea.

Do you drink tea? What is your favorite way to drink tea, or what kind of tea do you like?

My personal favorites are black tea and green tea. I drink a bit of the Arizona brand Black & White tea. I love sweet tea as well.

 

[shellbell]

Jasmine, chrysanthemum, genmaicha tea for me! Although I much prefer milk tea or bubble tea, which, at that point... is it still tea?

 

[CrankyCupcake]

Because I've had to cut back on my coffee intake in recent years due to heartburn, I've taken to drinking ginger tea sometimes. Ginger tea helps with digestion.

I like this particular brand. It's pretty strong as it has little sugar. Sometimes I put both a sachet of ginger tea and a sachet of green tea into one cup.

 

[JellyBeans]

most of the time if i'm drinking tea, it's gotta be a classic english breakfast (or something similar) with lots of milk + sugar. i actually disliked tea for the longest time and tended to lean more towards green tea, but black tea is growing on me now. i also have a vanilla chai tea that i absolutely adore, especially now we're having colder and rainier evenings. like shellbell i also adore bubble tea, i am always in the mood for it, but that seems to stray from the more 'traditional' idea of tea

 

[Autumn247]

I like a bunch of different teas, some of my favorite include:
Irish breakfast tea, English breakfast tea, any strong black tea really. Occasionally I'll put milk or cream and sugar in it but typically I drink them black
Matcha (I prefer this one as an iced latte w/ almond milk and vanilla extract)
regular hot green tea is good too
Chamomile: this helps calm my anxiety
Mint: This helps wake me up a bit, and focus
I also like Celestial Seasoning's wild berry zinger herbal tea
Bubble tea I love, but that's a little different than regular tea I guess

 

[Antonio]

I can't stand hot tea, tastes way too bland. I, however, do love me some sweet ice tea but it has to make me diabetic for me to enjoy it fully.

 

[Peach_Jam]

I love tea! Matcha, vanilla rooibos, earl grey, sugar cookie, peppermint, chai, and this candy cane green tea flavor from Trader Joe's are favs of mine. I like to drink them with some honey or natural maple syrup and milk ^^

 

[Roxxy]

I just like regular tea (I guess English breakfast but being in UK we are a nation of tea drinkers ) with a little milk. I hate weak “baby tea” or tepid warm. Got to be hot and strong

I also like some fruit tea. Blackcurrant is lovely and comforting in the winter or if you have a cold. I need to get into chamomile as it is meant to be relaxing? Got some mint tea in the cupboard I still haven’t tried

I need coffee and lots of it so that’s a habit I need to break

 

[Stikki]

I love tea! Had it since I was a baby in my bottle, like most British babies haha. I have normal/breakfast tea, just with milk (never took sugar) in the morning and if I'm feeling tired. I will drink herbal teas throughout the day and evening, my favourites being Good Earth white tea in various flavours. White tea is meant to be even better for you than green tea amd green tea is pretty damn good for you.

I make hash tea as well when I want to expand my mind/creativity a bit, but obviously you should never do that if you're under 18 or live anywhere that it's illegal and if you do so, then you do it at your own risk ok? No blaming me haha

 

[Bloodflowers]

I love tea, especially green tea in fact I'm drinking some with honey right now. I drink Earl Grey often as well and occasionally chamomile because it's good for anxiety.

 

[Flyffel]

I drink a lot of tea. Especially during the colder seasons, I drink tea almost every day!

My favourites are (not ranked since it's hard to rank):
1. Matcha with milk / foamed milk
2. Chai (spices blend) with milk / foamed milk or served cold with milk
3. Black tea with milk
4. Strawberry tea (just pour hot water on a fresh cut up strawberry) served cold
5. "Punsch" tea, a natural christmas-y fruits and spices blend
6. Jasmine scented green tea - For a long time I thought there was a such a thing as jasmine tea. Turns out "jasmine tea" doesn't really exist, it's usually green tea that was scented with jasmine during the drying process (or something like that). Either way, after tasting that, it turned out to be the "jasmine tea" I was looking for after having it in China.

I also like for example green, ginger, lemon, mate, salvia, and lavender teas.

Sometimes for example I cut a fresh piece of ginger and brew it up with mate leaves and lemon zest.

Tumeric blends are okay, I have bought them a few times since they are supposed to be healthy but I don't think I'll buy them again. Sometimes I also just have a random herbs blend although I'm not a huge fan of any of those (so far) either.

I never put sugar in any tea, when I have a cold I might put honey in it, or very rarely I might also put some honey in it just for the taste.

While they can taste good for sure, I don't buy any aromatised teas because I really don't appreciate the fakeness...

 

[moo_nieu]

i love tea :3 my favorite is definitely matcha with oat milk. i like it hot or cold, but i prefer to make it myself since some places add sweetener and i prefer the bitter taste (plus its cheaper to make at home). other than that i buy boxed tea of pretty much all varieties although i dont drink them nearly as often. id like to buy higher quality teas but dont want to spend the money on them at this point in time

 

[LadyDestani]

I love tea! I live in the Southern US so I grew up on sweetened ice tea (black tea). That's still my go-to drink at most restaurants.

I don't drink a lot of hot drinks but I have tried a hot chai tea at our local Indian restaurant and it was really good.

Other than that, I've had cold bottled green teas and white teas, so nothing fancy but I liked them.

My husband just got a subscription to Bokksu (Japanese snacks and treats) and he doesn't like tea so he's going to give me all the tea he gets in those. Our first box has some green tea in it, so I'll try it hot like it recommends once the weather turns a bit cooler.

 

[Pyoopi]

I drink a lot of green and black teas. Generally, I like my teas to be spicy or more on the nutty side like cinnamon, ginger or genmaicha are my favorites.
I don't care much for matcha but, I'll still drink it. I also don't drink my tea with anything (no milk or sugar), although if I am having afternoon tea, I might add a sugar cube, lol.

My favorite brands are TWG Tea, Kusumi Tea, Harney & Sons and Stash.

Least favorite teas are Earl grey and floral or fruit flavored teas. I've tried those tea advent calendars and they are a slight hell to go through since they're all about "food flavors". Christmas pudding as tea, anyone?

 

[Oblivia]

I have hot tea every morning, and my go-to is Republic of Tea decaf pomegranate green. I also really like the Aveda tea, but only in fall/winter and in the evenings. It's a licorice and mint-type of flavor that has a natural sweetness when you inhale. It's definitely an experience and I've never had another tea like it.

I also don't add anything to my teas. I can't drink anything that's too sweet and I find that adding any milk, sugar, etc. warps the flavors too much. Just water and the teabag works for me.

 

[Pennylane]

Jasmine tea steeped in warm milk during fall and winter time

 

[Snek]

I prefer tea more than coffee. There is a brand that I regularly drink called Hatsu and my favourite flavour of Hatsu is star fruit and lotus blossom. Teas that I like to make at home are jasmine, chamomile and green tea, with jasmine being my favourite. Sometimes I drink tea made for night for my occasional insomnia

 

[StarlitGlitch]

My coworkers got me "the Book of Tea 100" when I left! It has, well, a hundred different types of tea haha.

I mostly drink it when it's cold outside, I suppose. It did take me a bit to warm up to it, especially milk tea but now I'm a big fan! Only thing is that I don't like "sweet tea." Give it to me plain or with milk! I was also in the tea ceremony club when I studied abroad at a Japanese university and did a bit with some locals before moving recently. I might try to study it more but for now I'm going to focus on other things.

EDIT: Also just learned from Google's drawing thing that today is Michiyo Tsujimura's birthday, "a Japanese agricultural scientist and biochemist whose research focused on the components of green tea"

Michiyo Tsujimura - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[tessa grace]

I occasionally drink herbal tea, but my older sister and dad are both pretty big about tea in the winter cause its too hot in the summer here. I also love chai and boba. My favorite type of tea I've ever made was this raspberry iced tea that I added some lemon to and it tasted really good!

 

[justina]

I love tea! I drink it more during the winter. My local mall used to have a Teavana, I bought the kit and everything for the loose leaf tea and was kinda upset when they closed/went out of business.
I like green tea and herbal tea the most. Right now my favorite tea is the Twinnings English breakfast honey and vanilla.