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I just hooked on Chai Latte, that stuff is delicious! I prefer hot in the morning and cold during the day. Good stuff!:dr

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Seattle's Market Spice Tea iced. Black tea with orange and cinnamon.:dr

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6 beer sampler from our local brew pub.

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Twining's English Breakfast a bit ago

also Typhoo in the mornings

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Twining's Irish Breakfast, a little stronger than their English Breakfast. Later some Bentley's Green Tea.

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Chazo tai...love the stuff.

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I have been drinking a lot of Tazo Zen Green tea lately, I normally only like to brew loose whole leaf tea but this Tazo is really good :tu

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From Twinings I like Earl Grey with a lemon wedge, English Breakfast with a spash of light cream or whole milk, and broken leaf Assam Mangalam, black. I only buy loose leaf tea.

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'08 Xiaguan FT "Happy Tuo" this morning... 3rd infusion so far and it is still going strong.

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Today, Oolong tea that I buy bulk from my local asian market.

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'08 Xiaguan FT Baoyan "Mushroom Tuo" with a late breakfast this morning...

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Any sheng (unfermented) pu-erh works for me 90% of the time. Else Wuyi oolongs. :dr

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Lipton green tea

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Twinings Earl Gray, with a lemon wedge.

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Lipton Yellow Label International Blend with half and half and sugar. Perfect for those blistering morning commutes. :al

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Lipton Spiced Chai with sweetener and milk

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I am amazed by how many people here drink the plain old lipton stuff, if you are interested in branching out, shoot me a PM and ill give you some info... Seriously, we are brothers of the LEAF around here, cant that apply to Tea Leaves as well?

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I just tried some ginger tea. That stuff is very peppery!

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I like Green Tea by Arizona in the tall cans

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Earl grey

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earl grey

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been drinking my black dragon pearl and copper knot hongcha from Teavana lately

both are excellent blacks

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Chamomile tea

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Bigelow Caramel/Vanilla,,,ahhhhhh!

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I just picked up some White Monkey Green Tea.

Very nice. Not overpowering.
No distraction from a good cigar.

http://www.englishteastore.com/1mt-wm.html

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Yogi Classic India Spice and Yogi Green Tea Chai

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czar nicholas II black tea with rose petal and saflower from a local Euro grocery store.

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At the moment a generic China Lapsang Souchong brought from a small whole seller. A bit blunt and I can't help the feeling it's partly artificially flavoured as the smoke profile has a slight cardboardy edge to it.

Having said that, with a splash of milk it's perfectly do-able...

Cheers!

Michel

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Good old pine smoke tea. If I want that taste, I pull out my pipe and smoke latakia. :ss

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good one :tu

Still, some Lapsangs have a marvelous smoke profile where the smoke adds up in stead of overwhelm. Clearly the one I had yesterday was not in that class.

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ow.. forgot..

A nice cup of Earl Grey. Supplied by the Dutch coffee and Tea broker 'Simon Lévelt'. One of my favorites, completely certified as 'Organic' - which is more about the bergamot oil used. Subtle and quite intense.

Cheers!

Michel

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Got a question for you tea guys. I've been drinking Stash Green Tea for a couple months. It's a grocery store brand and I really like it. My question is are the loose teas from tea merchants a better quality than tea bags from the store? Are they fresher, have more antioxidents, better flavor etc.

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Difficult question... really...

I'd rather go for a merchants product. 'Bagged' tea from larger companies seem to be more or less processed to ensure long term freshness and as less as possible batch variation.

Yet... if buying mrechant tea (or any other product) from a smaller shop with a low outturn freshness of the product can be an issue. So it's best to try a few shops and stick to the one you like best based on quality/service/pricing etc.

Cheers!

Michel

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Drink what you like, like what you drink. :tu Better quality? Objectively yes, but it's all a matter of taste. You will find that loose teas are generally whole leaf or at least broken leaf whereas bags are generally fannings. That being said, whole leaf is a different ballgame. Tastes will be much more subtle which you may like or you may not. Fresher? Unless you're paying top dollar for current harvests from abroad (which I do and pay the price :mad:) no one can really say for sure. More antioxidants? Nope.

I guess it all comes down to; if you like it drink it. Maybe try a little whole leaf at some point, but don't go overboard until you're sure.

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Thanks Michel and Tony. I was going to try something different just to experience the difference, if any. Thanks for the input. :tu

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Enjoy! I know you will...

now sipping a cup of not really tea but still 'leaves with boiled water': a fresh mint infusion.

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jasmine white tea. Pretty good.

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Just picked up a few different teas from A Southern Season in Chapel Hill -

Earlier today I had a cup of Jasmine Black that was pretty tasty.

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I just had a delicious cup of Adagio's Ceylon Sonata, but last night I had a SUBLIME glass of the Teavanna Eastern Beauty Oolong (way too pricey, but amazing... $18.50/2oz, which is $148/lb, for which I could buy High-grade Japanese Wagyu Beef for less).

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Oh my... that sounds like a truly exotic Oolong!!!

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Darjeeling, 1st flushing. More oolong than black. Mild and smooth. It has presence though. Broken Orange Pekoe by the looks of it. 1/2 way through the cup, getting a bit astringent. Good stuff. $5.50/oz @ Java's in Rochester.

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Tea i love is just the Chinese green tea my dad gets in Hong Kong and Tieguanyin. If you like oolong tea i really recommend you try Tieguanyin. :D

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Havin' a nice cup of Earl Grey Impeiral black tea at work :D

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American Classic Green Tea made in USA. For black Tea tried some Irish Breakfast at a local cafe called Barry's Tea and loved it so much I bought a box.

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I would first like to say I am finally home, a board with tea and cigars
:l

and next I'd like to reciprocate the whole teavana thing. I'm never without my Assam gold rain tea, or my Kamiya Papaya Oolong. (P.S. first post hello to all!)

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Pretty much addicted to Trader Joe's Irish Breakfast or the Twinings version and some of the Bigelow teas.

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Welcome buddy! Sounds like I like your tastes in tea! Strong oolongs and yummy blacks are all I drink mostly.

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Thank you, I am a huge Black tea fan and have been since I first got into tea some years ago with chai tea. Which if anyone hasn't tried yet you are missing out.

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Black tea is good, my favorite tea is earl grey.

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I'm right with ya. Oolong and Pu-erh are equally amazing in very different ways. :tu