Tea ;)
 

or coffee if you must *sigh.* :p.

There's already a chocolate thread so naturally I have to make a thread about the stuff that I live on. I'm a tea fiend, and it's pretty much all I drink besides water - kinda need that - and the *rare* glass of juice, wine, pop, or whatever passes for something other than tea.

For the past couple years I've had a tea party for my birthday and have even made a couple of converts out of people who never bother with the stuff. So I wonder what sort of other tea people are out there.

Are you a tea or coffee person? Where do you get it? Do you have a preference for type?

I'm a black tea nut but have everything, caffinated and herbal. I'm the person people dump their spares on when they don't know what else to do with it.

Coffee is something I usually only have on Sunday dinner when I'm visiting my family that live up north. I did venture a Starbucks cappuchino a couple months ago, seeing if it was anything like the one I had in Rome or if there's is just something magical about Italian coffee (of which I've only had one. Well, two counting the B&B).

I used to be anti-Starbucks but seeing as their prices in general reflect the extra cost of ethical growing and fair trade and such, I don't mind them so much anymore. :).

blackcurrant tea is my favourite

I'm going to have to go looking through my piles, I'm not sure I have that one or not. Can't say I've tried it.

I like rosehip.

i find with flavoured tea, if you add just half a teaspoon of sugar to it it adds just that much more flavour

I usually make a point of trying the tea plain at first, because I tend to add milk and sugar to everything, though I'm starting to curb that with some of the herbal teas and with green. Unfortunately, I tend to forget about my tea when I make it so it can sit for easily half an hour before I get to it. It doesn't work out well, usually.

i like lukewarm tea though :P

The only tea i have every enjoyed was an apple cider spice tea Sooo delicious

obbie is cosplaying as the tenth doctor?

I just might be -.- lol i watcheda 9th to the 11th this past week XD

and now moveing on to torchwood

noones noticed yet but im cosplaying jack hartness with facial hair (and a dynamite belt :P)

XD i <3 jack he is quite awesome

I used to drink a lot of tea but it was my old roommate who was the tea fiend, not me. Now I just drink a lot of water, and a little bit of milk. When I did drink it, I usually had green or white tea, since that was less bitter when accidentially overbrewed. I can't say what I liked the most... it's been a really long time since I seriously drank any. She did buy loose tea from Teavana though.

I never used to drink tea but I have started to recently. I usually get Twinnings because it as endorsed by Stephen Fry. <3 I still drink a lot of coffee, though. And water. Those are the main thing I drink. I'm trying to cut down on fizzy drinks because I like my teeth. D:

Heh. I have about four different kinds of Earl Grey. My favourite it Russian Earl Grey which is a stronger blend I find. I have a Russian inspired mix from a tea store (house blend) that is black plus some sushong, which is very smokey tasting.

It's not that I'm worried about lukewarm tea Ashy, it's the bitterness on occasion. (I have a green tea that I pretty much need to hover over with a timer). My dad jokes that I'm tanning myself from the inside out with how strong I have my tea.

And Obbiesan, where I must ask, did you get that trenchcoat? :D

Huh, I'm starting to wonder if I misremembered the reason my roommate liked green and white teas, if they are bitter overbrewed... I feel a bit bad about it now ><

I am a tea fiend, I admit.

Coffee does not agree with me and I am not fond of the aftertaste many brands leave.

Mm.

Green and white teas are picked at an earlier time and not as treated as black is, and they do get bitter when overbrewed. Since I always add milk and sugar to black tea I don't worry about it but I try not to overbrew green or black.

I like some green tea but I'm that fond of matcha tea, the Japanese ceremonial type. I like basic green with jasmine or Genmaicha, which is green tea with toasted rice and the kind that is typically served with sushi where I live.

I find green tea also helps with an upset stomache. Most of the green and white teas I have are flavoured. I used to work at a Tim Horton's and one of the really common staff drinks that people made behind the counter was hot chocolate with a green tea bad in it. Don't recall trying it myself. I usually used a mint teabag.

I don't know if I would count as a Tea fiend...I do love(and miss) coffee, but I drink a lot more tea now. The one major upside to tea is that I can drink any of it(well, outside of white tea) since it can all be brewed caffeine free.

Most of the tea I have are Celestial Seasonings, my best friend worked for them for a year and I got a loooooooooooooooooooooot through her. I also live fairly close to a Teavana, so we've got a lot of loose leaf tea.

I tend to favour Green tea and Red teas, but can be tempted by most of them. I like a good herbal, chamomile and honey, to calm me down at night.

Red tea is technically herbal tea, and I know of at least one hoity toity tea store that doesn't sell it because they only carry "tea" as in from the "tea plant" which covers black, green, and white. Roiboos, red bush or honeybush doesn't count. I don't mind too much seeing as I'm not a fan of roiboos anyway, but I do have one that I like that my sister gave that is a rhubarb cream roiboos.

I don't know Teavana. There's a store called Pekoe (formerly Steeps) that I go to when I'm in the area, but usually I go to a place called "The Blue Teapot" which imports from Germany I think, or Murchies, or any place that sells gormet tea. To date I've only found Russian Earl Grey in one store. Makes me irritated because in Europe it's easily available by Lipton, along with a bunch of other goodies. I was pocketing en extra teabag each time I had breakfast somewhere. Maybe there aren't enough tea fiends in North America to make them bring it over here.

I love Teavana. They have a yellow and gold tea set that I've also been salivating over for a while now.

I bought a cup and saucer set in a pearly blue. Alas, it's missing one saucer. Fortunately the guy who runs the store knows me on sight so I check in from time to time to see if he's found the rogue saucer yet. No luck, but it's a six cup set so I'm not totally worried. I can make do with four.

I collect teapots too. My newest aquisition is this hideous carousel horse teapot that a friend gave me to either do something with it or use it for target practice at the gun range. I'm going to repaint it as soon as I can get some primer to cover up the old paintjob. It's cringe-worthy.

I'm extremely picky when it comes to teapots (I've really only found one I like and it's a plain white one), but I'm very open when it comes to my teacups. Because of this open attitude, I find my collection growing.

Some people like having the cups and saucers match with the design of the teapot, but I like it when the teacups are all different.

Ah. Yeah, I have a fair number of teacups, a couple sets, but mostly individual cups that I've inherited. I make a lot of different teas though, and my pots are usually small, one person size, or I use them for sampling when I have people around. My favourite is a plain, three footed stainless steel guy with the bottom of the handle disconnected from the pot so I don't burn my knuckles when I pour it. The mesh basket makes it handy too, since I have a lot of loose tea. I like my clay yixing pots but they tend not to pour very well because of their shape. I have a pig that pours through the nostrils (used for Genmaicha) and a horse with an open mouth (used for specific earl grey types).

i'm mundo low-brow, i like black peokos cut tea with milk and sugar, if it isn't a fermented tea it isn't tea at all^^



....and did i mention non-dairy creamer?

i don't drink coffee at all can't even stand the smell of it some times.
I drink tea some times I enjoy it some times but most of the time i just drink plain old tap water.

This is going to sound so stupid, but I like teas that are light in taste but have a well-crafted flavor. If tea is a little strong, I'll put a little almond cream in it.

Now Coffee, I do love coffee, and coffee should always be strong with the right flavors blended in to offset the acidic bitterness. :3

I like any sort of fruit tea that sounds appealing next to the hiney vanilla tea (SO GOOD) I add lots of sugar and lots of honey in my tea because I have a sweet tooth/throat (depending if you chew your liquids)

Hee hee. I like sweet things too, Mighty Leaf makes a vanilla bean tea that's really good, but they're pricey so I don't usually indulge.

As far as coffee goes, I generally sitck with regular coffee, with close to half milk and a fair bit of sugar. I tend to have it as more of a desserty thing than something that goes with a main meal, and heck no for breakfast. I have no idea what the "right flavours" of coffee would be.

Not too fond of fancy flavoured creamers either. I've tried them the odd time when we didn't have milk around. I'll stick with milk and plain sugar thank you very much. ;)

I am addicted to sweet tea.

Coffee is yuck!

Hooray for caffeine!

In moderate amounts ;). Caffeine headaches are not so much fun, but fortunately are easily remedied.

I discoverd some tea chocolate bars the other day! Okay, so one is white which doesn't really count but this isn't the chocolate thread anyway :p. From some place called "The Tea Room," they had white chocolate with cammomile and honey, and dark chocolate with green Earl Grey. I'm not a fan of dark chocolate but I like it with the tea flavour. :)

I love a good brew. With some bisquits for dunking. I usually can't drink the whole cup though, I'm not good at saving the drowning bikkies.

I like to drink tea. I tend to drink more green tea though I do like black rose milk tea. Most of my green tea tends to have fruit or flowers in it though. I do drink some things from Starbucks. Mostly Chi.

I get their Chai or Green Tea lattes on occasion.

I don't much like crumbs in my tea so I usually don't dip anything, but I do like ginger cookies with bergamot so I'll have them with a Lady Grey tea. On more than one occassion though a piece of the cookie has dropped off an disappeared in my cup. Fortunately the brand of cookies I had tend to sink so it didn't affect my tea too much. It was my last cup of Lady Grey and I was not about to toss it out!

I haven't had tea for a while.
I got obsessed with tea, then had too much. x']
Chai tea. <3

The best Chai I had was during a fundraiser at my Uni for a school in India. A restaurant donated Indian food and some students made Chai over a stove from an online recipe. Good stuff. :). I was only there because it was really cheap dinner but it was for a good cause.