[Quiet Man Cometh]

ha! Sounds a little like me until the doctors started griping about it. Too much tanic acid is not good for one's bones apparently, especially if they make their tea like I do which often involves forgetting about it until it's luke warm and strong as tar.

What are your favourite types, Lancelot? Or is it alll good?

[Kotomi]

Tea mostly for me I can't even remember when I first started drinking it, just in the past couple years my friend got me to drink coffee, when I needed to stay awake for some homework

[Rumiel]

I just got into loose leaf tea recently. I got a little teapot with a filter/steeper, with four little cups and it was actually made in Japan(thank god for teavana having some things on a 75% off sale xD). From teavana I got a small baggie of expensive floral-y but good tea (2 0z for $12 or just about that @_@) I also have a small canister of green tea(their sencha one) I bought from davidstea. Cheaper and pretty good.

[Shohnightingale]

i love teavana there teas are really good, my favorite is the youthberry white tea. i constantly drool over their cast iron tea pots and fun cups and plates XD

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I have some white Avurdevic Chai from them that I haven't tried yet. It was in a blend at the store samplers that they called "Samurai White." I got a tea book from them recently. It read only 50% off, but the lady at the till gave me 75%. :)

[ettah]

i've really tried to like tea and coffee,
but theres just something about the taste i can't get over.
i just can't deal with it so i always end up pouring it out. :/

[Cheshiresneer]

I could really go for a very very strong tea right now...I love tea.

But I also love coffee >.<

[Shohnightingale]

i love all kinds of tea but i enjoy different ones at different times: morning is usually something light with a splash of milk, afternoon is something bolder to perk me up from that 2 o'clock sluggish feeling and some herbal tea at night to help me sleep

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I tend to go for someting strong black tea with milk and sugar in the mornings, since I'm not much for eating right away, though I will occasionally have a plain green instead if I don't feel up to my usual stuff. Herbal tea or decaf black in the evenings for me too. I don't find there's a lot of taste difference with regular red rose versus decaf so I go with decaf since I'm a poor sleeper to begin with.

I drank coffee a lot when I was around 8-10 and I asked mom to show me how to use the coffee maker. I put so much sugar and milk in it there probably wasn't much coffee left. I still have it the same way when I need something to *really* wake me up, or if it's Sunday dinner. I siwtched to tea when I starting having herbal mint teas. I was on a special diet so no pops and such for me.

[Belial]

I think I'm an odd one here since I don't like milk in my tea. I also like it strong, like real english tea is.

It's also easy to make it into iced tea that tastes so much better than that powder junk they sell in the stores. I'm having a big glass of it now.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I put milk in black tea but almost never in green, white, or herbal tea unless I'm in the mood for something creamy. Once in a blue moon I might forgo milk in black tea but I don't make it as strong and it's more if my gut is griping about the thought of milk.

*hospital appointment tomorrow in regards to that. Sigh!*

[Shohnightingale]

i really only like milk in black tea and some green teas, i don't know why but milk in white tea since it is so light seems to overpower the pallet. so i never put it in white tea, though some rose tea sounds amazing right now

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I would only put it in white tea if I wanted a glass of hot milk that tasted a little like tea. I do that once and a while when going to bed sometimes. I just make a small amount of tea to flavour the milk more than anything. Berry white teas can make it a little smoothie like. I put a lot of milk in my Chai, which is apparently typical for the tea. Sometimes I'll go half and half with it. Makes the tea a little more substantial if I don't really want to eat something but want more than a cup of tea.

[Shohnightingale]

never thought of it that way, but a tea smoothie sounds really good, do you have any recombination on flavors?

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I never really think about that. I just pile in the milk with wahtever tea I have. It's works well with anything for 'milky tea' but I find a softer tasting black is better than stuff that's sharper. You know how you can sometimes smell a tea and imagine is at being cooler or warmer? i find the warmer ones work well with piles of milk and the cooler ones not as much.

I like to do it with my mango tea, (from Pekoe). It's among my favourites. Adding vanilla might work too, but that might make it over sweet, depending on how one likes sweet. I should experiment with my tea more. There's a drink called a 'London Fog' that is steamed milk with earl grey tea and vanilla syrup. It's very good, and nice to have a place that has specialty tea drinks instead of just fancy coffee.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I made the wrong tea the other day. You wouldn't think that mixing up one Earl Grey for another would be that much of an issue but it was surprisingly irritating. I accidentally made Cream Earl Grey. I wanted Russian. *pout.*