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What's Your Favorite Tea?

Huus
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Earl Grey for me, no milk. No sugar either as I ....... well we all now that one.
Why erecting a statue of someone and then putting it on a pole 20 metres up in the sky is beyond me.😵‍💫
Only the birds get a look at him 😀.
 
dialstatic
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Cool, I never knew there were tea snobs!

I like nettle tea myself.
 
Longbow
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As an Englishman in norther Germany I guess it has to be Ostfriesischer Schietwettertee.😁
 
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Huus Huus
Why erecting a statue of someone and then putting it on a pole 20 metres up in the sky is beyond me.😵‍💫
Only the birds get a look at him 😀.

There are stairs inside the column.
So you can pop up and say hello.
(And it’s 40m high - we dont do anything by halves in Newcastle 😉)
 
Tet
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Tetley or Miles loose tea, went off teabags years ago.
 
SeanO
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First flush Darjeeling when you can get it otherwise Gunpowder.
 
J
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No Lipton iced tea or sweet tea? Where are the yanks?

I like any good English breakfast tea....or Irish.
 
Waltesefalcon
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For iced I like a good orange pekoe, for hot I like a lot of different teas; Irish Breakfast and Earl Grey bring my two go to teas.
 
Archer
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Waltesefalcon Waltesefalcon
For iced I like a good orange pekoe, for hot I like a lot of different teas; Irish Breakfast and Earl Grey bring my two go to teas.

I use Orange Pekoe for iced tea as well - my parents grew up drinking Red Rose brand tea, so for iced tea I use those in bag form. I have one of those old Mr. Coffee Iced Tea brewers - works great.

https://www.redrosetea.ca/products/orange-pekoe-72ct

For hot tea, I used to frequent a small tea shop locally that had a great number of teas from various regions. Used to go there regularly to try different things and have a chat with the owners, and I eventually found a really nice Kenyan high mountain black tea that I really loved. But over time the shop closed up, and the tea shops around now seem very focused on flavoured teas - personally I only want my tea to taste like tea, not spices, berries, or whatever.

One shop does have some plain black teas, but I've not found anything yet that comes close to that Kenyan tea I was getting from the other place...
 
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But over time the shop closed up, and the tea shops around now seem very focused on flavoured teas - personally I only want my tea to taste like tea, not spices, berries, or whatever.

This describes me. Don't really do tea with other stuff in it. I will make an exception for a good Earl Gray.
 
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lillatroll
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Not sure if it will get through customs, but if anyone would like some black tea from Malawi then I would be happy to pick up some boxes before l head home in early July. I will post it from Europe. (Loose or bags from the satemwa tea estate)
 
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dougiedude dougiedude
Yeah, sorry for interrupting an interesting convo...:whipped:

Back ON topic...

I'm headed to London and other points around GB in a few months... the Yorkshire sounds like the kind of tea that would be worthwhile bringing back over when I return... I'll try to be sure to try out a few while I'm there.

Pop in for a cuppa. 😉
 
Nathan1967
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Best Tea? For me, it’s all about experiences, people and travel.
PG Tips in Willow Pattern China with my Nanny (Grandmother) in Hampton
Weak Earl Grey with milk and teenage conversations with my friend Sara in Fernhurst
Spicy Trekking Tea in Nepal in a hut in the Snow
Trekking Tea on the Burmese border of Thailand - made in a bamboo kettle, drunk from bamboo cups made 5 minutes earlier
Munnar Estate Tea in Kerala with my wife, the best Tea that I’ve ever had
Assam Tea on Doom Dooma Tea Estate where my father in law was born, after we’d planted new bushes
Tregothnan Estate Tea witha Cornish Cream Tea with my Wife in St.Ives Harbour
Whilst I do prefer coffee, it doesn’t create such powerful memories for me- I wonder why that is?
 
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A genuine Darjeeling tea is champagne of all teas, it is said; and I believe it’s said for a reason!!
+1. I was hoping someone will atleast mention any kind of Indian tea. After all India and China supplied 62% of world tea in 2016
 
Larry S
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mayankyadav mayankyadav
+1. I was hoping someone will atleast mention any kind of Indian tea. After all India and China supplied 62% of world tea in 2016
Lots of the commercial stuff uses Indian tea.
 
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