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awesome thread!
I got into tea when I went to China for the first time on a business trip. I drank a ton of Ceylon blacks and Jasmine while I was there. When I wound up in Taiwan, I got hooked on Oolong. Japan has some of the best green teas I've ever had. Then Korea just has some crazy weird flavors- I had a chocolate black tea, all sorts of flowers/plants like persimoms, rose pedals, etc, buckwheat... so many. I also picked up some 10 and 15 year pu-ehr that I drink on very special occasions.
Since I don't travel around to Asia anymore, I buy all my tea from Tea Licious (www.tealiciousllc.com). They have a great variety of really awesome loose leaf teas, not the mainstream bagged shit that most people in America drink, and not the stuff full of sweateners and artificial flavors that you get at teavana or whatever my friends always try to show me with some blueberry purple flurpty durp flavor lol
<3 loose leaf teas
I drank way too much Irish Breakfast (black tea) yesterday and couldn't fucking sleep to save my life and was up 'til 5:30... DRINK TEA RESPONSIBLY hahahaha
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On May 26 2012 05:27 slappy wrote:
awesome thread!
I got into tea when I went to China for the first time on a business trip. I drank a ton of Ceylon blacks and Jasmine while I was there. When I wound up in Taiwan, I got hooked on Oolong. Japan has some of the best green teas I've ever had. Then Korea just has some crazy weird flavors- I had a chocolate black tea, all sorts of flowers/plants like persimoms, rose pedals, etc, buckwheat... so many. I also picked up some 10 and 15 year pu-ehr that I drink on very special occasions.
Since I don't travel around to Asia anymore, I buy all my tea from Tea Licious (www.tealiciousllc.com). They have a great variety of really awesome loose leaf teas, not the mainstream bagged shit that most people in America drink, and not the stuff full of sweateners and artificial flavors that you get at teavana or whatever my friends always try to show me with some blueberry purple flurpty durp flavor lol
<3 loose leaf teas
I drank way too much Irish Breakfast (black tea) yesterday and couldn't fucking sleep to save my life and was up 'til 5:30... DRINK TEA RESPONSIBLY hahahaha
Well it depends how you look at it. I mean didn't we all start this way: with the standard bagged tea that wasn't very high in quality. I think we realy can't expect someone to know their stuff even after a few months of looking and asking around stores and what not. So don't be hating on them 
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On May 26 2012 05:27 slappy wrote:
I drank way too much Irish Breakfast (black tea) yesterday and couldn't fucking sleep to save my life and was up 'til 5:30... DRINK TEA RESPONSIBLY hahahaha
Yeah this is pretty much why black tea is too strong for me. Need something I can drink the whole day. Does anyone have pics of their tea collection? Mine is pretty boring but I can show if you want, but its just a lot of tins.
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Not a single poster from the UK on the first page of this thread? WTF is this shit?!
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Recently I've been enjoying a green tea mixed with some maple syrup.
At first I wasn't really a fan of green tea or maple syrup, but they blend well together.
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On May 30 2012 21:48 EffectS wrote:
Recently I've been enjoying a green tea mixed with some maple syrup.
At first I wasn't really a fan of green tea or maple syrup, but they blend well together.
I tried this too quite randomly recently, as I was out of sugar and had a jar of maple syrup lying around. It tastes quite good tbh.
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On May 30 2012 21:42 JayJay_90 wrote:
Not a single poster from the UK on the first page of this thread? WTF is this shit?!
Loose leaf has won the tea war, this time.
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On May 25 2012 07:30 dafunk wrote:I only drink Mariage Freres. Best tea I've come across.
HERETICS ! Mariage Frères is an hipster tea. The Kusmi House is way better.
I can also recommend Jugetsudo for Japanese Tea.
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On May 30 2012 21:42 JayJay_90 wrote:
Not a single poster from the UK on the first page of this thread? WTF is this shit?!
Most british love tea, but we're not connoisseurs. The kind of tea that is drunk in huge quantities is just black tea in single serving teabags with sugar and milk in a mug. The fancy cups and teapots are rare.
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Ok so, my grand parents are completely english and my dad was born there before they moved to america. They have always added milk to tea and thats the way i drink my Black tea. earl grey is my favoriate : ) Do you have any sources for that german study? How much anti oxidents are killed because a majority of the tea i drink has milk in it unless its iced tea which is dont drink as often.
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I drink a lot of tea, more than any other drink easily, but I haven't done much research about different kind of teas. I love the taste of darjeeling, easily the best tea I've tasted, at least it beats all the Assam and Ceylon teas I've drank. China Sencha is pretty much the only green tea I drink. Awesome thread btw
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Really wish I actually enjoyed tea, it's so healthy but I just hate the taste of it ): My roommate last year was a tea fanatic and made me a shot glass of whatever he made to see if I could find one i like, and he failed T_T
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On May 30 2012 22:15 Primadog wrote:Show nested quote +On May 30 2012 21:42 JayJay_90 wrote:
Not a single poster from the UK on the first page of this thread? WTF is this shit?! Loose leaf has won the tea war, this time.
Loose leaf tea is the greatest tea there ever was or will be. :D
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On May 30 2012 23:04 FoxShine wrote:
Ok so, my grand parents are completely english and my dad was born there before they moved to america. They have always added milk to tea and thats the way i drink my Black tea. earl grey is my favoriate : ) Do you have any sources for that german study? How much anti oxidents are killed because a majority of the tea i drink has milk in it unless its iced tea which is dont drink as often.
Sure thing, this is the paper: http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2007/01/09/eurheartj.ehl442
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On May 31 2012 01:30 phiinix wrote:
Really wish I actually enjoyed tea, it's so healthy but I just hate the taste of it ): My roommate last year was a tea fanatic and made me a shot glass of whatever he made to see if I could find one i like, and he failed T_T
Hi phiinix, what was it that you did not like about the tea's you have tried?
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Oh man, I love tea and I allways has.
Some of the best tea I had was something my granddad gave me, some white tea where the leafs where at the bottom of the cup and when reached the leafs you just poured in new water and you could drink again..
Think that was white tea?
But for now my favorite is the cheap dirty green tea with lemon with honey in it
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On May 31 2012 01:46 wo1fwood wrote:Show nested quote +On May 30 2012 22:15 Primadog wrote:On May 30 2012 21:42 JayJay_90 wrote:
Not a single poster from the UK on the first page of this thread? WTF is this shit?! Loose leaf has won the tea war, this time. Loose leaf tea is the greatest tea there ever was or will be. :D
Agreed. I use nuts.com to pick up loose leaf and mochi from time to time. Anyone aware of similar sites?
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Who else lives somewhere rural enough (or with appropriate access to plants) to concoct your own teas, freshly? Yesterday I made a half-gallon of delicious birch/mint tea (both harvested behind my house) with a bit of ginger for extra spice. Sweetened it with honey. 
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Just want to say, I love black tea. And green tea. And chinese tea.
Just tea in general.
om nom nom.
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As an Englishmen most people are shocked to hear I don’t drink much tea. However recently my flat mate made me one and boy I am now hooked! Twinning’s lady gray is the one. Sounds quite girly but it is delicious
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