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I love Chai and herbal teas.

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Whenever I make tea, it has to be fruit tea or I'll load it with sugar. I like going to places like Teavana and sampling all the tea they have out.

Teavana? O,O

Also, herro all!

Teavana is a tea shop that sells a lot of really good tea. They also usually have a lot of different samples out every day. I really recommend them if you're looking to buy tea. :3

+1 to Teavana. (They recently got purchased by Starbucks but that hasn't hurt their quality or their variety.)

Adagio is also cool, for ordering interesting blends of tea online.

Went on a holiday to Pondicherry recently, and tasted fermented tea called Kombucha. (It's got other ingredients in it, and it doesn't follow the general rule of healthy stuff tasting not-so-great.)'Cha' is the Japanese word for tea and the Korean guy who brought is to Japan was called Kombu apparently.

No, "konbu" is the Japanese word for "kelp," and "konbucha" in Japan refers to a different drink made with powdered kelp. The name was probably confused by English-speaking drinkers who didn't know what was in the tea and thought that the film resembled the gel that forms when you boil seaweed. (The Japanese themselves call it "koucha-kinoko," or "black tea mushroom," referring to the fungus that ferments the tea.)

I'm not a big fan of kombucha myself. I can drink it a little bit at a time but the flavor stops being appealing to me after a while, so I've never finished a bottle.

Ah, the word is spelled "diuretic." *sweatdrop* Though the way you spelled it does conjure up vivid images of "this fluid has to get out of my body RIGHT NOW!" :P

We had a Teavana where I used to live but I've largely been focusing on David's Tea. I like stuff at a (formerly) local shop but I'n not there anymore. They had a plain mango and black tea which I liked. I've found a black tea with mango at David's Tea, but it has a bunch of other stuff in it too. Teavana also sells what they call German Rock Sugar, which I think is made from sugar beets rather than cane. It seems to take away the need for sweetness but without changing the flavour of the tea. I use it when I don't really want to alter the taste of something.

I have found a wonderful thing! I have been drinking Pu'erh tea lately and it's really been helpful with my troublesome stomach after I eat. I picked up one with garcinia to try, since it was advertised as helping "after dinner discomfort" and I'll try anything that might help things along since my pills tend to have mixed success. I can generally only get away with one cup though, as more than that and my stomach starts to act a different kind of funny.

*peeks in*

I'm a casual tea drinker..and not too picky. I've sworn off caffeine so no black tea for me, but otherwise I'm always open to trying new flavors. My favorites are pretty boring though...green tea is number one, followed by berry tea (pretty much any berry or mixed. i love them all.), and then probably lemon ginger. The lemon ginger is my favorite when I'm sick. It feels great on a sore throat.

But..I say casual because I just use store bought bags of tea...and heat my water in a mug in the microwave. >.>;; And then I leave the bag in forever and sometimes reuse it with a new one for extra flavor. *shrugs*

Oh, I forgot my favorite calming tea that helps my sensitive stomach. I like to drink lavender chamomile on the days I'm not feeling well.

(and I've oogled Teavana's website so many times...but I've never bought anything. I'd have to buy all sorts of strange and fascinating instruments to use their tea I think..probably. Loose leaf tea is a mystery to me. o.o)

Teavana is pretty good; haven't bought anything from them, though. Their tea demos are nice XD

That sounds like my usual tea method, minus the microwave. I often use the kuerig without the coffee and throw a tea bag in the cup.

Nothing fancy about loose leaf tea, really. At it's most basic, put leaves in a cup, add boiling water. That does make drinking it a little awkward though. You can buy empty tea bags to put the leaves in, and then just treat it like any other tea bag.

Alternatively, stuff the tea leaves into a coffee maker.

I've got a tiny fine-mesh strainer for the job -- put leaves in strainer, put strainer in mug of hot water.

That works, too. I'm getting a little collection of steepers, though my favourite is the little floating duck strainer. I know there's a Death Star tea ball around. A Tardis, too, I think.

I belong to a group of especially silly Steampunks over in the U.K called " the First Tea Company". Its little fake history museum is a blast and can ussaly be found at London Comiccon or small stampunk event's. It's a hoot and we have things like "Tea Dueling" that's always amusing. Basicly it's dunking a Nice Biscuit into a 35oc cup of tea for a cont of five then holding it straight with out it breaking and seeing out of the two who participate who noms the biscuit last. Great fun.

I imagine that would be a fairly quick duel. Is the idea to nom the biscuit before it falls appart? I can't imagine dunking a Nice cookie (what I know as a "Nice" cookie) into tea for five seconds and having it come out in any way intact.

I've moved now so not sure if I should go ahead with my usual birthday tea party or not. I don't have my tea paraphernalia with me this time around. Alas!

they are really quick duels though I've seen some one hold the soggy biscuit for seconds with out it wobbling. I should see if I can find some video's and link you to them. Highly Amusing.

http://youtu.be/paxgELC6Das < there you go two children playing it but yups very fun and very silly.

Ah, I see.

Yes, I live now, sort of, and I have more tea! Is it bad that I spend enough on tea to have to factor it into my monthly budget?

I'm trying more David's Tea. More pricey than I like but it's good stuff. I still like the "Glitter and Gold" best, but testing out the Juicy Orange Pu-ehr and got some peanut butter cup tea (yeah, I know, really? But it smelled good) to try since I had a free little bag coming.

I can no longer live without my Assam Banaspaty, Garcinia Goodness, and for luxury my Glitter and Gold. Sadly, they discontinued Cinnamon Heart. Much lament.

I'm not a fan of matcha in any form, really, though I have a chai latte once in a while.

I've been experimenting with different sugars to see what they are like. I have raw sugar, beet rock sugar, and agave syrup hanging around, depending on what tea I have. Not noticing a whole lot of difference between the agave syrup and white sugar. I rarely use honey since I find the taste comes through in the tea and I'm not always keen on it.

I've done it. I've over-tea'd myself, to the point where I'm actually electing to have coffee some mornings (or perhaps that the result of my job). Time to steam line my collection a little so it comfortably fits on one shelf. Despite all the choice, I still find myself going back to the same few: Earl Greasy (of various sorts), Assam, and flat-out orange pekoe with some herbal stuff now and then.

I still like my tea, but I can probably do without "Grilled Pineapple" or "Peanut Butter Cup." I should just go and grill an actual pineapple and have tea with it.

I love tea.

Mint tea makes me happy. I like chamomile as well, though I'll always accept black tea if someone offers it to me.

I'll need to try rosehip, it sounds divine!

Over-teaed? Madness! :O

...Actually, I can understand that. I've got about a dozen varieties of tea in my pantry, lol.

Just a dozen...?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...vn-wMI/preview

Eyup, just a dozen. I'm no fanatic, I just am given some semi-frequently, because it's been established that I like tea, so clearly tea is a good gift for me. (??)

There's 47 on that list alone, and I've picked up a few more since then. ^^() (Though I've also finished off some of that too.)

I had some 30 or 40 last I counted, though that's split between two houses at the moment. I think we only share one tea, Coda, Yamamotoyama Genmaicha. Of the ones I've tried, that one's my favourite.

Let's see, going by what I can see and remember from here:

Black
Assam Banaspaty (Davids)
Glitter and Gold (Davids)
Bollywood Chai (Davids)
Assam Tarajuli (Tea Time)
Rose Congu Emperor (Tea Time)
Organic Assam (Tea Time)
Blackberry Jam (Davids)
Earl Gray (Twinings)
Pom Tango (Davids)
Dark Chocolate Delight (Davids)
Lady Grey (Twinings or Steeps)
Irish Breakfast (Twinings or Davids)
Mango (Steeps)
Buckingham Palace Garden Party (not sure)
Cream Earl Grey (Blue Teapot)


Pu-ehr
Cinnamon Heart (Davids)
Garcinia Goodness (Davids)
Pu'ehr (Steeps)
Juicy Orange (Davids)


Blended
Russian Earl Grey (Tea Time)
Samovar (Minter Gardens Tea)
Morning Thunder (Celestial Seasonings)

White
Avurvedic Chai (Teavana)
Berry Blossom White (Tazo)

Green
Japanese Treasures (Blue Teapot)
Earl Grey Green (Blue Teapot)
Mangosteen (Blue Teapot)
Lime Gelato (Davids)
Butterfly Jasmine (Davids)
Genmaicha(Yamamotoyama)
Kombucha (Yogi)


Herbal
Sleepytime (Celestial Seasonings)
Shitty Weather Tea (Steeps)
Peanut Butter Cup (Davids)
Goji Pop (Davids)
Grilled Pineapple (Davids)

Roiboos
Rhubarb Cream (not sure)
Eggnog (Davids)

Matte
Honeybee (Davids)

And a few gift packs of stuff that I'm not sure about.

I had some Twinings Earl Gray but I drank it all, so now I've got looseleaf from Teavana. You also overlooked the Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime overlap.

Whoops.

I keep a big box of Earl Grey around since I tend to default to it as often as I do plain old Red Rose, (regular and decaf) which I forgot to list.

Earl Grey and English Breakfast are my defaults. Oolong is my wife's.