Calling all Tea drinkers! ☕️

[apeisland]

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.

I love tea ! But i am a very picky eater and drinker and had to get used to it so I only have one safe tea and won't drink any other. I started by drinking green tea with lots of rice milk. Tea was too sour for me and rice milk is sweet. I found it disgusting any way but I wanted to make myself like it because I wanted to have something hot and with some caffeine to have in the mornings or at cafes.

I slowly started decreasing the amount of milk and now I find that milk too sweet to bare I know have my tea wirhout any milk unless I go out and they serve me very pure tea wirh very little water, in which case I add some drops of soya milk.

The tea I like is green tea ! And I LOVE it now !!! But often times when I ask for it at a cafe I am served green tra with mint or lemon or any other thing which is not plain green tea and I don't like that I have a weir relationship with tea but I really enjoy the one I do like!

 

[Kitsuragi]

I love tea ! But i am a very picky eater and drinker and had to get used to it so I only have one safe tea and won't drink any other. I started by drinking green tea with lots of rice milk. Tea was too sour for me and rice milk is sweet. I found it disgusting any way but I wanted to make myself like it because I wanted to have something hot and with some caffeine to have in the mornings or at cafes.

I slowly started decreasing the amount of milk and now I find that milk too sweet to bare I know have my tea wirhout any milk unless I go out and they serve me very pure tea wirh very little water, in which case I add some drops of soya milk.

The tea I like is green tea ! And I LOVE it now !!! But often times when I ask for it at a cafe I am served green tra with mint or lemon or any other thing which is not plain green tea and I don't like that I have a weir relationship with tea but I really enjoy the one I do like!

green tea is great! one of my favorites as well i agree with you, getting green tea in a restaurant and having them bring out lemon or sugar is so odd. asian restaurants bring good ol' loose leaf green tea and i get excited, its so refreshing and the flavor isn't too overwhelming like some teas can be.

 

[SinnerTheCat]

I really like tea, I associate it strongly with lazy mornings and sometimes it even genuinely makes me feel like I'm sitting by the kitchen table at my grandma's on a sunny Sunday
My favorites are mint tea with elderberry flower syrup, Yerba mate and all the fun Christmas teas!!

I have also been thinking about trying out matcha, but I genuinely have no idea where to even start looking for it, we'll see how that idea goes haha

 

[-Blue-]

I once bought a block of tea at a reenactment I was in. I just never saw a block of tea before that and it looked funny. So I had to buy it. I still have it in one of my haversacks.

As for tea itself, I drink it occasionally.

 

[Kitsuragi]

I really like tea, I associate it strongly with lazy mornings and sometimes it even genuinely makes me feel like I'm sitting by the kitchen table at my grandma's on a sunny Sunday
My favorites are mint tea with elderberry flower syrup, Yerba mate and all the fun Christmas teas!!

I have also been thinking about trying out matcha, but I genuinely have no idea where to even start looking for it, we'll see how that idea goes haha

good matcha can be hard to get ahold of depending on where you are. if you have any Asian grocery stores near you, I'd check there first. i know there's varying types of matcha and people often say ceremonial matcha is the best but it can be costly. but take a look at what an Asian grocery has and then look up the brand to see what's good and what reviews there are. stay away from any "mainstream" brands selling it like Lipton, because it's usually not real matcha or really low quality.

 

[SinnerTheCat]

good matcha can be hard to get ahold of depending on where you are. if you have any Asian grocery stores near you, I'd check there first. i know there's varying types of matcha and people often say ceremonial matcha is the best but it can be costly. but take a look at what an Asian grocery has and then look up the brand to see what's good and what reviews there are. stay away from any "mainstream" brands selling it like Lipton, because it's usually not real matcha or really low quality.

Thank you so much for your great advice!! I've heard that good matcha is hard to find, that's why it kind of intimidated me as a whole, but I'll look for Asian grocery stores in the bigger cities near me and see there. If it's a smaller store maybe I'll even be able to ask the people working there about it! Again, thank you very much for your help, if I do find and try matcha then I'll definitely make a post here

 

[amemome]

I think tea is super soothing. A good cup of classic young green tea goes fantastically with cookies, especially creamy and sweet cookies!

My local tea shop does a custom blend of peaches and cream green tea which smells and tastes so summery and good when iced. I love to just open the bag it comes in for a smell... so heavenly.

 

[BetsySundrop]

I once bought a block of tea at a reenactment I was in. I just never saw a block of tea before that and it looked funny. So I had to buy it. I still have it in one of my haversacks.

As for tea itself, I drink it occasionally.

That looks interesting! How would you keep/use the block?

I like tea, all kinds, but can't handle caffeine so mostly decaf tea. Green, earl grey, and english breakfast I'll have hot. But anything fruity like blueberry, raspberry, etc I'll have on ice.

 

[imorileo]

I love absolutely all kinds of teas! I typically drink flower / fruit teas but I recently started drinking this matcha latte called hojicha and I love it!

 

[-Blue-]

That looks interesting! How would you keep/use the block?

I like tea, all kinds, but can't handle caffeine so mostly decaf tea. Green, earl grey, and english breakfast I'll have hot. But anything fruity like blueberry, raspberry, etc I'll have on ice.

I honestly didn't know when I bought it. I just never saw it in a brick/block form and had to buy it for novelty purposes lol. I even mentioned it on another forum years ago and someone commented how you use it and that's when I decided to look it up.

Apparently you got to scrap it with a knife, flake it off in tiny pieces, and or break off a small piece. Then you toast it with fire or strong heat. I guess a skillet would do. After you did that you ground it down to a fine powder with a pestle or something similar. And finally you boiled/whisked it into a pot of water.

Seems like a bit too much work, so I never bothered.

As for keeping, there are ancient tea blocks still around to this day and some buy/use them (but they're really rich people) so it doesn't go bad. I'd imagine just storing in room temperature in a box would be good enough.

 

[BetsySundrop]

I honestly didn't know when I bought it. I just never saw it in a brick/block form and had to buy it for novelty purposes lol. I even mentioned it on another forum years ago and someone commented how you use it and that's when I decided to look it up.

Apparently you got to scrap it with a knife, flake it off in tiny pieces, and or break off a small piece. Then you toast it with fire or strong heat. I guess a skillet would do. After you did that you ground it down to a fine powder with a pestle or something similar. And finally you boiled/whisked it into a pot of water.

Seems like a bit too much work, so I never bothered.

As for keeping, there are ancient tea blocks still around to this day and some buy/use them (but they're really rich people) so it doesn't go bad. I'd imagine just storing in room temperature in a box would be good enough.

Yeah that seems too much work, lol...but it is pretty cool.

 

[tarepanda3ame]

I'm obsessed with Iced tea! It's my beverage of choice with all my meals if I could help it. I love myself just regular, unsweetened black tea, but having flavors like peach or mango make it even better! The main thing for me with my Iced tea is that it has to be sufficiently Iced! I hate lukewarm Iced tea without enough ice! I'm always thinking, without ice, it wouldn't be Iced tea!!!

 

[Imbri]

Green tea is probably the one I don't like. It tastes too vegetal for me.

I've had some nice white teas (very delicate flavors), black, oolong (my favorite), and the "not really tea" tea - herbal, rooibos, and honeybush.

 

[duckvely]

i just very recently started drinking tea (<2 weeks ago) and my favorite is mint tea sadly i ran out so i've been drinking a lemon ginger tea which tastes okay. i strayed away from tea for the longest time since the only one i had tried was green tea which i hated

 

[LadyDestani]

I'm drinking a vanilla chai tea right now and it's quite good.

 

[Kitsuragi]

my dad was out of state and went to a tea shop called piper & leaf, so we've been trying all the teas he brought home on his trip. he got this really tasty one for me called "springdrop spritzer" thats been so delicate and delicious, and today i'm trying orchard peach. im very excited for this one, i love peach.