I found a new thing!

I bought some London Fog tea powder thing. The bag calls it "stone ground tea" and it works like instant coffee. I like London Fogs but I never think to have the stuff around. Thought I'd try it although it was somewhat pricey for what I was getting, I think. Pretty good though.

... WANT.

Where did you find it?

Lemon tea, please! :D I also like Forest Fruit, Tropical... There is a really good one with apple, cinnamon and raisins. ^^

Just at the grocery store. It's this stuff:
Domo
I didn't pay that much though.

Are those in specific brands or general flavours?

They are in Lipton's brand. :)
But the apple one is... hang on, let me check -goes to check- Ah, yes, that brand is called Twinings. :)

This reminded me after my Vacay I need to buy more loose leaf....

I got this awesome chai tea right now. It smells great! :D

My favorite is a basic Orange spice black, but black contains a bit to much caffeine for me to handle now T.T
So I switched to loose leaf, and blend a tiny bit of Golden Monkey Black with 2 different kinds of Orange Oolong. (rose and mandarin) Unfortunately Teavana no longer carries the Mandarin orange here T.T

I got a blood orange tea from Blue Teapot that I liked. David's Tea has a "juicy orange" pu'ehr tea but I'm not so fond of the after taste. Pu'ehr has been great form my mangled stomach.

That reminds me, I'm almost out of Irish Breakfast loose leaf.

My favourite Chai is also David's, a discontinued one called "Bollywood Chai." I'm currently trying to replicate the blend. I found the candied fennel seeds!

-feels like Sweden has too little to offer on the tea market- .A.

Well Europe (Sweden included -I visited in 2009) did have these different Lipton things I had never seen before. Don't think we get them over here. I would pocket some from hostels to take with me as I back-packed around.

Most of the tea I get comes from specialty shops devoted to tea. Lipton, Twinnings, Stash, etc. are things you can get at a grocery store, but the loose leaf I might get at David's Tea, Pekoe, Teavanna, Blue Teapot, Steeps, or Murchies. Those are shops that sell their own stuff, or get blends from other places. The guy I would buy tea from at The Blue Teapot was German, and he would import blends from Europe. Murchies and David's I'm believe are Canadian based.

Can't leave my tea alone for two minutes before a bug shows up in it. Life on a farm, or perhaps that's a hint to tone down the sugar. My sister also informs me that bugs fly into the lights and singe themselves, and them drop nice onto where we have our respective "tea stations."

I like hot water poured over matcha powder. I dislike drinking hot water otherwise xD

Who likes hot water plain anyway?

My grandparents like lukewarm water and my mom and her wife like hot water ><'

My sister likes practically all types of European hot black tea and loose leaf. Which reminds me, I need to find a box of Lipton for her...

I'll have it for a change, because I pretty much drink nothing but tea, and my teeth or stomach will get angry at too much sugar or black tea. It works if I just want something warm.

I've been on a tea kick lately, it's mostly been what I've wanted to drink.

I've been drinking a lot of a sweet raspberry tisane lately.

I've decided that I feel like cinnamon tea right now but alas, I'm out and the stuff was discontinued (you SUCK David!). Might have to learn how to make the stuff, or see if black tea it goes well with certain alcoholic beverages.

Has anyone ever tried steeping those little cinnamon heart candies? Wonder if that would work since that's pretty much what I'm going for.

I've cooked with them. It works, but you're better off just using cinnamon oil -- the candies leave a sludge of binders behind.

for cinnamon tea, maybe get the actual cinnamon sticks and steep those in hot water?

I've done that before and it works very well (I got hooked on it one winter), but the flavor is different -- it's a little less sweet, a little less spicy, a little more earthy.

Yeah, it's the slight spicy tinge that I would like. Is it literal sludge that I can just strain from the top?

It's REALLY fine particulate, so it doesn't settle very fast, but IIRC when it settles it settles to the bottom.

You COULD pass it through a coffee filter. That'd work. But a couple drops of cinnamon oil will get you basically the same flavor without the trouble.

I don't care for coffee at all, or anything bitter in that matter. Around the house I just keep the simple, common black teas like English Breakfast. There's this really nifty Asian health-food restaurant down the road a bit that sells this really delicious (and slightly expensive) tea they call "Scent of the Mountain."

I believe it's Japanese. I like that one a lot.

I recently got a new tea =)
It's a Lemon Ginger blend, but it has those little yellow flowers that grow in driveways(or what looks like them) Which intrigued me and hit my childhood nostalgia so I grabbed it.
No idea how it tastes yet though XD
And I got more Wild Orange Blossom Herbal tea and Wild Orange Oolong tea =3

I found some pu'ehr tea while I was out yesterday. It's an orange and ginger deal. Not my favourite, but it's hard to find pu'ehr without going to a specialty store, and not all specialty stores have it.

Pu'erh is hard to find, yeah. But I like it too. There's a tea room in Little Tokyo (about 20 minutes away from me) that serves it.

The tea is alright. My gut decided to get mad at me so I tried it once I felt brave enough to venture some tea.

I sniffed it before making some. Bad idea, since the tea apparently has some loose ginger powder in it.

I'm havin' some cheap-ass Lemonade Tea by Gold Peak. lol

So I got some Orange Spice tea since I hear so many people talking about it. I wasn't even sure it was an actual thing, since when I was working at a coffee shop and people asked for it, I would say that we didn't have it and they would take the orange pekoe decaf (not the red rose which is the same stuff). I assumed they had the name wrong.

And...? What about it? Have you tried it yet? XD

I'd have to try it again. I've had enough orange teas that it's not easy to distinguish them from each other by memory, minus the one that uses orange oil, which I'm not hugely fond of. I think I like peels or pieces better.

So...advice for preparing tea (and all) before you need it. (I have a habit of forgetting to eat/drink until I am not of the mind to think well)

Just make it like normal and put it in the fridge? Purists might complain, but I can't imagine what else you would do. Just make it plain, add milk sugar if needed when you go to actually have it.

And my Murchie's Orange Spice tea tastes somewhat like mild gingerbread with orange.

If you take your tea with sugar, you should add it while the tea is still hot. It's a completely different flavor than sugar added to cold tea.

I think my orange spice tea needs more cloves. The orange flavour is nice thought. It uses peels. The "Juicy Orange" from David's has orange oil, which has an aftertaste I'm not fond of. I got it because it was a pu'erh tea, which is hard to find.

How dare they get rid of my Cinnamon heart!

Murchie's did have some Cinnamon candy-like coffee, but I wasn't about to spend the money on a whole bag until I had an idea of it. Coffee is passable if I can't get the proper tea.

Probably true though I've never thought about it. When I first make a cup, I put the sugar in first, and the milk if I'm pouring from a pot (milk interferes with tea bag steeping), but if I'm topping something off I tend to not care. It's usually coffee I'm doing that, too. With tea I tend to add more hot water.