Try this guys it will blow your sox off:

Loose leaf tea

1 Part Earl Grey to 2 parts Assam, best way is to just buy 2 boxes assam and 1 box Earl grey, mix em up and use 2 teaspoons in a warmed pot...let it brew PROPERLY.

Who needs tea-leaves / tea-bags??

mcmeekle said:

mdiver said:

With loads of milk.....

mcmeekle said:

I had you down as an Irnbru man

StillGotIt said:

If I knew what deodorant is I would know if that's insulting or not.....

mdiver said:

TBH, hot tea (any kind), black, one sugar.

Oh, did I mention injected directly into an eyeball?

Weak, milky, tea is the worst drink possible.

mcmeekle said:

Well, maybe not the worst, drinking tramp's piss would be worse, but you get my drift....

mcmeekle said:

sermwanderer said:

I'm American, but my mother was born in Ireland so I probably don't count.

We drink Irish Breakfast with milk and honey. My half Italian, half Puerto Rican stepson is now an Irish Breakfast tea addict!

mcmeekle said:

I drink a couple of litres of tea every day.

White tea, green tea, blue tea, herbal stuff (though it's not tea if we're getting picky) like dandelion leaf, nettle, yerba mate, rooibos, comfrey leaf, lemon balm, catuaba bark etc. sometimes by themselves, sometimes mixed together. All loose tea at the moment, though I do quite like white tea with fruit infusions in tea bag form sometimes.

I love tea. I'm not American though. As you were.

Fauxie said:

Right this very moment I am drinking white tea with citrus fruits...bag form. My husband is the loose one..too much mess for me.

shanti0608 said:

Since we nearly always drink it cold and in huge quantities, I just put the loose tea straight into a 1.5 litre bottle of water, leave it a while, shake it up a bit, or put it out in the sun for 5-10 minutes, then strain it and put it into an empty bottle. Then it goes into a jug with ice. Yeah, I guess that is quite a lot of mess now I think of it.

Fauxie said:

I used to make sun tea all of the time in Florida. I would cheat with tea bags though. I bet yours tastes better.
I am going to make sun tea here this summer.

Fauxie said:

Yerba mate is gross and I don't know what catuaba is. Rooibos I can take or leave. But the others are among my favorites, especially nettle. Very high in nutrients too.

FunkMistress said:

Really? That's funny because nettle (and comfrey) are ones I don't like the taste of so much. I actually quite like yerba mate. Lemon balm's nicer still, and then even nicer than that is the dandelion leaf imho, but of those I still like Rooibos the most. A mix of Rooibos, lemon balm, white tea and dandelion is great!

Catuaba bark is foul. It's a mild stimulant. We mix it with Guarana (also foul) and some Rooibos (for taste, though it's futile) to give us a nice kick before we go to swim. The concoction feels borderline deadly though.

Fauxie said:

I tried to switch to Red Bush rooibos tea when I got pregnant because they told me it is naturally caffeine free. Ewwwww I could not stand the smell of it much less the taste.
I loved Yerba Mate but cannot have it right now. I need to order some Raspberry leaf tea a few weeks before delivering the baby. It is supposed to help get it out.

Yerba mate is the work of satan.

Carry on

I love tea and drink it every morning.
My faves are loose tea leaves in exotic flavors, Earl Grey tea, flavored white tea and sometimes nothing like a good old fashioned English Breakfast tea. I just finished a cup of apricot blossom tea.

I don't like red tea or milk in my tea - only honey.

1sexymf said:

I do not like milk in my tea either. I just add a little bit of unrefined sugar or honey to sweeten.
Living in the UK, I have had ppl automatically add milk to my tea without asking.

shanti0608 said:

Yuk! As you probably already know, at least here if you buy tea at a coffee shop, they have milk, honey and other stuff on a side counter so you can put what you want in it.

1sexymf said:

I am American, and the ppl that have added milk to my tea without asking have known that. I guess some ppl that have been born and raised in the UK do not know that most Americans do not add milk to their tea.

My favourite Thai restaurant used to serve fresh loose Jasmine tea.
It was the best Jasmine tea I have ever had...EVER!

Sipping some yummy Ceylon tea right now.
NO MILK!

shanti0608 said:

I love jasmine tea!

yep I do green tea or white tea drink cups of the stuff a day.

Fauxie said:

They're slightly bitter. I love bitter. Black coffee (no sugar), dark beer, dandelion root, I love it all.

FunkMistress said:

We're the same (except for nettle and comfrey it seems)... black coffee, no sugar or milk, and tea without sugar and milk. Guinness!

Fauxie said:

A good pour of Guinness is like all my favorite meals in the form of a delicious alcoholic liquid.