Here's what i'm drinking. ( when I cant' brew loose tea)

Yorkshire tea

7 day round--CHI-tea

Asian taste---tribute dragon well tea.

Alwazah tea bags.

Not world class just somthing to drink. It would be nice to know what
other folks drink.

tom.

I like the Republic of Tea daily green tea. My wife is still stuck on
Celestial Seasonings "Lemon Zinger" a green tea with hibiscus, rose
hips and lemon.

I am also interested in hearing about others favorite bag teas,
especially green, for the office.

I have some samplings of Adagio loose leaf tea that I like - see my
other post. I am interested in helping my wife to see the light of
loose whole leaf green teas by finding a good mix of green tea with
hibiscus.

My "everyday" teas are PG Tips and Yorkshire Tea. I also like
Twinings English Breakfast and Twinings Earl Grey. I have tried
Republic of Tea's British Breakfast and Earl Greyer, but they were no
better than Twinings but far more expensive.

Loose tea yields the best results, of course, but IMO, it is possible
to get a decent cuppa from tea bags, as long as the tea is prepared
properly with boiling water, and using a teapot rather than brewing it
in a mug.

The only difference I can see between a teapot and a mug would be a
lid. Put a plate over the mug.

I'll keep my eye out for Twinings. They might carry it at the Whole
Foods Market. What do you think of their green teas?

On 24 Feb 2005 08:59:10 -0800, "elgoog"
> wrote:

>I am also interested in hearing about others favorite bag teas,
>especially green, for the office.

Yamamotoyama Sencha Green Tea. $1.69 per box of 16 bags from
http://www.asianfoodgrocer.com/index...S&Category=849
4th row down, far right
--
Douglas

Celestial Seasonings Candy Cane Lane (available seasonally)
Celestial Seasonings Decaf Mandarin Orchard Green
Celestial Seasonings Honey Vanilla Chamomile
Bigelow Chamomile Mango
Bigelow Earl Grey
Bigelow Earl Grey Green
Bigelow French Vanilla
Hawaiian Islands Tea Co. Guava Ginseng Green
- the 4th one down on http://www.hitea.com/teadesc.html. I've tried the
Mango Maui and Passion Fruit and they're good, but I'm more into guava
anyway.

--
~~Bluesea~~
Spam is great in musubi but not in email.
Please take out the trash before sending a direct reply.

For black tea I have always liked PG tips and also Tetley (Typhoo is good
too, to me anyway, but PG is still my favorite). I haven't really cared for
Yorkshire Gold, it seems weak to me. I know a lot of other people like it. I
also like Williamson and Magore teabags, they have the "elephant" tins
sometimes which are totally fun to me.

I haven't done much green tea in teabags...if I did I'd try a Republic of
Tea too since they have so many different flavors and they do store them in
tins. For people who don't have a store that sells loose leaf teas
otherwise, and if they can't order online, I think RoT has a good selection
usually, even in their loose leaf, but it is more expensive.

Herbals...well, chamomile, I used to really like Red Zinger (Cel. Seas.,
it's tart because of hibiscus so now I bought loose leaf hibiscus at my
local natural food store and can make my own tart teas, yay!). I used to
like Mandarine Orange by them, but have since gotten away from it.

The tea bag both my husband and I REALLY enjoy though is their (CS) Bengal
Spice (we call it Tiger Tea...it's got a tiger on the box). It's basically a
chai mix with a strong hint of vanilla and no actual tea so it doesn't have
any caffeine. I steep it in a cup of 3/4 hot milk and 1/4 cup hot water.
It's fabulous (IMHO), even before bed. Maybe especially before bed.

Numi makes a honeybush teabag that I'm drinking from right now, it's not
bad. (You can buy looseleaf honeybush too BTY in some places)

Now of course the problem with Cel. Seasonings is that they don't
individually wrap their teabags. Does anyone here have a solution for this?
Other than storing the whole box in a zip lock in a dark place?

Melinda

--
"The country has entered an era in which
questions are not asked, for questions are
daughters of disquiet or arrogance, both
fruits of temptation and the food of sacrilege." Djaout

Melinda wrote about "elephant tins. I havent seen any in the mpls-st
paul MN area. where do you get them from.? I also can't find PG Tips.

I got "Decrotive tins"(tea tins) at wallgreens after xmass very cheap.

I work in a gun range. Sometimes Remington 22 shells come in TEA TINS.
So I have a supply to put CS tea bags in. I don"t care if they have
pictures of little boys shooting at bunnys, I once was that little boy
shooting supper.

Most of the teas mentioned, are ones I have tried.I often hunt dollar
stores and ethnic markets for cheap teas. Most are poor. I have found
two good $ 1 teas.(In 50 trys) I bought the whole shelf.

I trade tea bags with my relitives. The $1 teas somtimes get me good
tea.

tom

--
"The country has entered an era in which
questions are not asked, for questions are
daughters of disquiet or arrogance, both
fruits of temptation and the food of sacrilege." Djaout
"curly mustache" > wrote in message
...

> Melinda wrote about "elephant tins. I havent seen any in the mpls-st
> paul MN area. where do you get them from.? I also can't find PG Tips.
>

I got my elephant tin at the local Cost Plus World Market as well as my PG
Tips. They both cost more than a dollar though. THe one place I've seent he
elephant tins online were selling them for almost $20 (these are tins that
hold maybe a half pound of tea...not huge, not tiny) but when I got them at
WM they were around $7.00. They were on closeout though, but I wouldn't pay
$20 unless I really really wanted the tin, (which I think are cool looking).

PG Tips goes for around $5.00 (?) a box. Maybe a little less, but it's more
than Tetley's or Liptons for instance.

Strange to me that shells come in tins, I've only seen them in boxes. Just
my thoughts: I'd be careful using tins that had ammo in them, because of the
leftover dust possible from processing that could include chemiclas
(gunpowder etc.) or metal alloy dust. Course if you clean the tin out really
good then I don't suppose it would cause any problems unless the tin itself
for some reason wasn't food grade...blah blah, lol.
..


>
> tom
>

Melinda

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:26:21 -0800, "Melinda" >
wrote:

> I also can't find PG Tips.

http://www.englishteastore.com/index.html
--
Douglas

I also can't find PG Tips.


http://www.englishteastore.com/index.html
--
Douglas



You can get PG Tips cheaper at:

http://www.britishexpress.com


Or better yet, go to an Indian market and get Brooke Bond Taj Mahal.
It is made by the same company that makes PG Tips, and it is very
similar in taste but much cheaper. I recently bought a box of 216 Taj
Mahal teabags for $6.

I also can't find PG Tips.


http://www.englishteastore.com/index.html
--
Douglas



You can get PG Tips cheaper at:

http://www.britishexpress.com


Or better yet, go to an Indian market and get Brooke Bond Taj Mahal.
It is made by the same company that makes PG Tips, and it is very
similar in taste but much cheaper. I recently bought a box of 216 Taj
Mahal teabags for $6.

I also can't find PG Tips.


http://www.englishteastore.com/index.html
--
Douglas



You can get PG Tips cheaper at:

http://www.britishexpress.com


Or better yet, go to an Indian market and get Brooke Bond Taj Mahal.
It is made by the same company that makes PG Tips, and it is very
similar in taste but much cheaper. I recently bought a box of 216 Taj
Mahal teabags for $6.

I'd rather just drink water. Although I had some very decent large leaf tea
both green and black in silk bags in hotels and airplanes in China, I never
were able to buy them.
I always carry a small bamboo stalk box with green puerh "pills" with me, so
I am almost never without good tea on the road.

Sasha.


"curly mustache" > wrote in message
...
> Here's what i'm drinking. ( when I cant' brew loose tea)
>
> Yorkshire tea
>
> 7 day round--CHI-tea
>
> Asian taste---tribute dragon well tea.
>
> Alwazah tea bags.
>
> Not world class just somthing to drink. It would be nice to know what
> other folks drink.
>
> tom.
>

Mighty Leaf.

regards,

Pam @ Home

Cort Furniture Rental and Honesty are two exclusive concepts.

"curly mustache" > wrote in message

> Here's what i'm drinking. ( when I cant' brew loose tea)

What would prevent you from brewing loose tea ? I buy empty bags that I fill
with what I like. If I work somewhere more than 4 hours in a day (it's
rare), I just put oolong leaves in a mug and I take the time to clean at the
end.
Well, I have teabags at home, herb teas except a mango tea that tastes 100%
mango and 0% tea, so that doesn't count as tea

Kuri

Honest Tea has the least dust of all the bag teas brands I have tried.
I really like their Assam Black. My local Whole Foods Market carries
it.

A close second is Choice Tea. Their Celtic Breakfast is delicious.
Surprisingly, I also like their Mango Ceylon with Vanilla (I ordinarily
am not a fan of flovored teas).

A bonus - both teas are Fair Trade Certified and Organic.

Good luck with your tasting,
Tom

"curly mustache" > asked about what people drink if they
have to resort to bags:

This was a great question. Apparently we're not all allergic to tea bags,
at least not all the time.

I just trained from New York to Savannah, Georgia and back and I brought
along a bunch of Dilmah Ceylon Breakfast bags.

Dilmah loose is one of favorite teas, and perhaps favorite Ceylon tea, and
the quality of the bagged tea is very good as well.

Warren

(curly mustache) writes:

> Here's what i'm drinking. ( when I cant' brew loose tea)
> [...]

Under these circumstances, I try to be on a train in India and get
roughly 3 oz. of milk tea from an Assam tea bag, in a clay (not
likely Yixing) cup if possible.

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html