[Monsieur Hatter]

Originally Posted by Quiet Man Cometh

By "sweet" do you mean with sugar or sweet in it's regular taste?

My choice would be DavidsTea "Glitter and Gold" I think it's called. It's a black tea with cloves, orange, and vanilla I think. It also has gold and silver sugar balls in it that give it a shimmery appearance in the cup. It's one of my favourites, though I add a little bit of rock sugar (based on sugar beets so it adds some sweetness without sugar "taste") and milk.

"I meant sweet with its regular taste.", Hatter smiled, "Merci, I will be sure to look for that blend. It sounds delightful.".

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Originally Posted by Greed

My favourite tea is Darjeeling made by Twinning. Followed by Earl Grey, English Breakfast and Irish Breakfast. <3 Sometimes I take my tea with milk, but most of the time I don't, I find it's just easier to make with just water, and i'm always too lazy to do otherwise.

Irish Breakfast is definitely on my list of favourite teas, and I think I get Twinnings too. There's a mixed box with Lady Grey, Real Grey, Irish Breakfast, and English Breakfast. Not as fond of English Breakfast but I like the other three.


Oh, and for another sweet tea, I buy a Mango black tea from Pekoe that I also among my favourites. Very tasty. :)

[Monsieur Hatter]

"Oui, fruit blend teas are always a nice sweet trip. Why I adore them so much.", Hatter chuckled, "Though I do not think I have tried that blend. I usually am a sucker for berry blends.".

"Merci for all the suggestions, I am loveing this thread.", he smiled.

[Greed]

Originally Posted by Quiet Man Cometh

Irish Breakfast is definitely on my list of favourite teas, and I think I get Twinnings too. There's a mixed box with Lady Grey, Real Grey, Irish Breakfast, and English Breakfast. Not as fond of English Breakfast but I like the other three.


Oh, and for another sweet tea, I buy a Mango black tea from Pekoe that I also among my favourites. Very tasty. :)

Ooh that sounds amazing, where did you pick that mixed box up at? I've not tried Lady Grey or Real Grey before. How do they compare to other teas?

Mmm. Mango. I always enjoy a good sweet tea. :)

Originally Posted by Monsieur Hatter

"Oui, fruit blend teas are always a nice sweet trip. Why I adore them so much.", Hatter chuckled, "Though I do not think I have tried that blend. I usually am a sucker for berry blends.".

"Merci for all the suggestions, I am loveing this thread.", he smiled.

Have you tried rose blend tea? It's wonderful and almost berry-like.

[Monsieur Hatter]

"Rose blend? No, I am sad to say I have not. Sounds delightful however.", Hatter smiled, "Know of any good companies that brew it? I would love to try some.".

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Sorry, that should have been "Earl Grey." It's a blue box in with the normal tea selection at supermarkets that sell Twinnings, so it's not a specialty thing really. It's a standard sized box, comes with 5 of each tea I think?

I have a Rose tea I got a while ago. Rose Congu or something similar. Another black tea. I do with the rose was stronger though. It's not that sweet but I think that's because of the type of tea it is. It's not an Assam tea, which are my favourites.

[Maro]

Ahn, I love tea! I've tried so many different kinds, from herbal to black and back again.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I bought another Assam tea yesterday, as well as some Sambuca Rooibos, (black tea with aniseed oil) and some dried ginger root and spearmint to mix and see if it helps my stomach any. Medication is only doing so much right now so I'm looking into natural remedies.

[Monstah]

I prefer rose tea :) it's hard to find, but I love it!
Ofcourse I can't drink my tea without sugar, I'm such a sweettooth :).

[Jurinjo]

I love black and herbal teas depending on my mood. I usually dump the sugar in for black and add barely any for the herbal stuff. Chai is my favorite black tea and Peppermint is my favorite herbal one...then there's Chamomilie that goes perfectly with a spoonful of honey <3

Last week I actually had a nice conversation with a tea lover. I learned a few things and we talked perhaps a little too much since I was actually at work xD;

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Well I've been gone a while, but working my way back. On the tea front I finally got around to plugging in my automatic tea steeping machine that I got for Christmas some years ago. It works well, and since the leaves don't sit in the water the whole time, my tea doesn't get all nasty and bitter when I inevitably forget about it.

I'm still trying to track down some Asaam Banapsaty. I think I'm going to have to go downtown to try and dig some up.

[Yokuutsu]

I want this tea maker I saw at Wal-Mart. You use bags instead of course, but the one sucky thing is that they have special pitchers....so part of me is thinking that a coffee maker would do just as well XD

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I've used a hotel coffee maker to make tea once, since they did provide the bags but there was no other means of getting hot water. The tea maker I have can use either bags or loose leaf. As long as hot water gets to the tea, it's all the same really. ;)

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I found a DavidsTea in the mall ten minutes from my house! Hooray! I can get my Banapsaty again!

Went to the city's inaugural Tea Festival last week. It was packed, and the crowd was overall younger than I thought. I consumed copious amounts of green tea and collected a pile of pamphlets, as well as coupons for free cups of tea at DavidsTea ;). T'was fun. :). Next time though, I'll make sure to bring a little china cup since tea does not go well with paper.

[littl3chocobo]

tea festival?

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Yup. It wasn't much, just a bunch of tables set up with tea tasting and special deals. There were demonstrations of various tea ceremonies but I didn't get to see any of those. I expect there might be more stuff next year given how great the interest was this year. They had to stop selling ticket at the door because of how many people were coming in with tickets from Groupon and the like.