Who /tea/ here? How do you like it? Two bags, splash of milk,

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>Drinking stale tea

>>25678018
are you from the UK?

Also I am /tea/ here.
I like earl grey, black tea with mint, and green tea almost all flavors. sometimes I add lemon.

>>25678076
Chill out man. It all tastes good. Quit trying to be such a tryhard.

>>25678080
I'm not from the UK but my Dad is. Basically live in an English house in Texas.

>>25678115
What brand of teabags does he buy?

>>25678018

>milk on tea

>Researchers believe that the most likely explanation is that the caseins, proteins found in milk, form complexes with catechins in tea, its most important flavonoids.

In other words, adding milk to your tea makes it less healthy.

I like green tea, sometimes sweetened with honey but usually unsweetened. Occasionally I'll throw in some ginger or mix peppermint + ginger.

I should go brew some green + ginger right now, sweetened and let it cool so I can serve it iced with dinner.

>>25678157
He always has PG tips. I basically kept doing the same when I moved out. Twinings is nice but it can get a bit expensive. I'd much rather buy the cheap but good stuff and put my own stuff in.

If you have a Teavana near you I always buy my "splurge" tea from there. Basically for whenever I feel like pretending I'm posh.

>>25678115
Not him but is that really tryhard?

I assume a tea enthusiast would buy fresh tea. I don't drink tea much but still buy it fresh/loose leaf. Seems like basic tea enjoyment.

I assume bagged tea is for poor people though.

>>25678220
It seems tryhard to me. I mean I drink 3 or 4 cups a day so going with fresh tea every time seems like a joke to me.

If you don't drink it as often as me then I could understand putting extra effort in.

What do you call tea just by itself

>>25678018
>he doesn't drink clipper tea

pg is sawdust and brown food colouring in a bag mate

>>25678217
>He always has PG tips.
Good man.

>>25678018
green tea reporting in

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Tetley master race here

PG tips fedora

>>25678171
I don't drink to be healthy. I drink it because it tastes and feels good.

>>25678220
maybe you re just a retarded hipster who doesnt realize fresh tea leafs doesnt taste better than tea from a bag

>>25678220
Not many people drink loose leaf tea, its more that its just inconvenient and the price I think.

>>25678076
Teabags are my preferred way to make it as I drink around 5 cups a day. I have a caffeine addiction that must be fueled.

>>25678018
When I read "squeeze of the gay nectar shit", I immediatly had to think of a hairy fat dude squeezing a creampie out of his ass into the tea.

>>25678437
It's probably made like that. It's agave nectar. Apparently normal sugar is bad for you or something.

>>25678486
Agave nectar tastes like fucking shit, I'd rather drink the creampie tea.

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>>25678018
Tea is nice every now and then.

>>25678437
than you are a really mentally healthy person

>>25678018
>bags
>milk
>"gay nectar shit"
You actually drink that?

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>>25678516
Of course, it must be hot. Silly me.

>>25678217
>cheap but good stuff
Cheap shit is generally awful.

>Twinings
Twinings is really terrible.

>>25678018
Yorkshire Tea
brewed for 4 minutes
mash the teabag for a good minute
2-3 sugars
splash of milk

>8 bags of lipton yellow label
>8 bags of sweetner
>1 quart of boiled water
>1 quart of cold water
>put in the fridge
>sip served over ice
>aaaaaahhhh

take the anon out of the south but you can't take the south out of the anon

I'm /tea/

I like black tea with a little milk, unless it's something a bit smokey like Keemun. Sencha is good too sometimes but I don't crave it like I do black tea.

>>25678217
teavana is shit tier. It's barely even tea.

>>25678220
Bagged tea is convenient even if it is inferior.

>>25678278
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>>25678339
Tetley is only slightly worse than Yorkshire and half the price. A good choice

I've began drinking green tea because it tastes like water and supposedly helps with acne. I feel kind of guilty though because it's sort of a faggy drink.

>>25678217
Ordering bags of good quality loose tea online is surprisingly cheap.

>>25678648
>Green tea
>Literal meme tier tea
only hipster faggots drink green tea.

>>25678663
SereneTea is this stuff we used to use at work in huge bags

I used to steal quarts of loose tea and take it home.

>>25678630
You actually drink that?

>>25678683
It's not meme if you actually put in all the effort to prepare it properly.

>>25678712
>it's not a meme if you actually put in all the effort to prepare it properly

Yes it is. That makes it more of a meme drink, because it's more hipster-y. Proper tea is bunging in the bag and sugar, putting the water in and brewing it 'till it looks decent

>>25678767
>sugar
>bag
no.

>>25678712
you never heard of Sweet Tea, anon?

>>25678792
>sugar
>bag
yes. The english way is the only good way

>>25678801
obviously not, he rejects sugar and tea bags. Americunt detected

>>25678801
Yeah, it tastes fucking terrible and nothing like tea.

>>25678830
tell me, what do you define "tea" as tasting like?

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>>25678018
>PG tips

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>>25678272
It's not difficult to obtain or necessarily expensive, maybe you should make the switch anon. It's also extremely easy to make, about as easy as bagged tea. The only difference is washing out one or two extra things you need to make it.

>>25678375
I've had both tea from a bag and loose leaf, I would say loose leaf taste better because it hasn't been pulverized. There's less surface area and it doesn't seep as much. Doesn't taste as bitter and taste more like the plant itself that was used.

>>25678391
I guess, I pay about 25-50 cents per cup depending on where I buy the leaf. I usually drink coffee though, tea is more of a fun thing for me when I don't feel like drinking coffee in the middle of the night.

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>drinking tea dust
I've been drinking 2 pots of whole leaf green tea for the past year. No sugar or anything.

When I can find it for a good price, I'll buy a few ounces of cream earl grey. A spoonful of sugar goes well with it.

>>25678881
Tetley tea is 2 quid for 100 bags. 2p per bag. 50cents a cup is mental

>>25678830
you don't understand sweet tea until you've experienced a southern summer I guess, when it's 99F and 99% humidity out

drinking a glass of sweet tea is like having an angel gently tongue your anus while another fans you gently as she jacks you off

>>25678909
Lipton Peach Iced Tea
or, off topic of thread but flat fanta lemon is refreshing af

>>25678909
Nah, it just tastes awful.
Maybe if you leave out the cold water, the sugar and use actually decent tea it might be good.
But even then, if you don't cool it rapidly you'll lose much of the flavor.

All you need for tea is bag, teaspoon of sugar, boiled water and milk. Fuck all of you american cunts fucking up a tradition older than your entire country.

Chamomile either hot or iced in bed watching anime, so comfy

>>25678951
Iced Tea. Accept it tastes nothing like actual tea but the lipton peach shit is refreshing as fuck

>>25678982
No, you don't use sugar, you don't use teabags and you don't use milk.

>>25678997
Yes, Iced Tea.
Cold Tea over ice.
You don't put anything else into it, it's just rapidly cooled tea over ice.

>>25679016

Yes you do, you yank.

>>25679016
technically you're meant to use coffee but fuck that, too bitter. But yeah, fruity tea rapid cooled over ice

>>25678272
I drink 2 cups of green tea daily, which is too much anyway. I can buy the leaves cheap in small amounts from the supermarket and they would last for a month or two. It isn't really that much work so i dont see how is it tryhard, i just like the taste so i go with those. Tried a green tea fron teabag but it tasted differently for some reason.

>>25679035
Lower class brits don't have any idea how to make tea and yet they pride themselves on their "culture", it's quite funny.

>>25679048
Coffee obviously tastes better, but getting a lot of coffee in adequate quality is way too much work.

>>25678909
Sweet tea isn't good, I'm even American. It just taste like soda that isn't carbonated, especially that shit you can buy in the can. Arizona Sweet Tea, Lipton, etc.

It all has the same amount of sugar as a bottle of coke. It taste like sugary water with a tinge of tea flavoring.

>>25678904
If I drank as much tea as I do coffee, I would probably look for a better price.

>>25678018
PG Tips, with a slice of lemon masterrace

>>25679069

It's not lower class to drink tea properly, ideally it would be loose and with sugar cubes but I drink tea throughout the day and it's inconvenient

>>25679069
>Be me
>American
>Hipster
>Drink dollar-per-tea using my star wars tea infuser
>have it black
>claim my superiority over people who know how to drink tea

For fuck sake, ITS A TEABAG. MILK. SUGAR IS OPTIONAL, BUT MOST HAVE 2

>>25678018

>not using yorkshire tea

>tfw Amazon no longer sells 1,000 PG Tips for $20

That shit got too expensive for my tastes.

>>25679132
PG tips is trash anyway, Tetley or Yorkshire is the way to go mate

>>25678115
So you're using on of those 110v kettles that takes ages to boil. 240v is where it's at.

>>25679122
>Drinking the lactose jew

>>25679172
5 seconds to boil. My caffeine intake is too high

Ahmad London earl grey brewed lightly. Two teaspoons of sugar, sometimes substituted by milk.

>>25679118
>properly
>throwing sugar into the tea to saturate the infusion with outside flavor
choose one and only one.

>>25679122
No, I use loose tea in a strainer in a proper porcelain teapot.

>dollar-per-tea
It's probably a bit more than that, but let's leave that aside for now.

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>>25679189
>Being this edgy about tea

>>25679226

It's like you're a pleb-in-denial, trying way too hard to be patrician mate.

>>25679226
>More than a dollar per tea
Fuckin hell mate my teabags are like 2p each and they're probably better quality

>>25679247
>trying way too hard to be patrician
I've always been doing it that way.

>>25679248
>they're probably better quality
I seriously doubt that.

>>25679231
>Edgy
I'm trying to help, anon :^( Lactose is bad 4 u

>>25679358
It's bad for you if you have some kind of lactose intolerance.

>>25679358
>turning down liquid gainz

shoo shoo gains jew

Man, you can literally be having the worst day of your life and a cup of tea will square you away.

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>>25678018
I like PG and Tetley, but Yorkshire is my favorite.

>>25678018
PG tips is for plebs, Yorkshire Tea > other tea

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One hard water Yorkshire teabag
Kettle poured on as soon as it clicks
Leave for two-three minutes
Drain the teabag and throw it away
a splash of milk

For best results serve with toast with marmite.

Perfect.

Loose leaf black or green tea hot

>>25679581

You lost me at marmite, lad.

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>>25678272
I drink 4 or 5, and I use loose leaf. It's pricier, but a luxury I allow myself, the taste is worth it.

>>25678375
That's just incorrect. It's like saying defrosted well done steak is as good as marinated medium rare from a nice restaurant.

It's okay if you like teabags, but don't go saying there's no difference.

I make bagged or loose leaf tea, water below boiling, well steeped. I make a very large mug. Then I squeeze an entire lime into it. I don't know anybody else who does this (no sugar, no honey). I make hot toddies occasionally and got it from that. I'm addicted to it now.

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I never tried tea as a child and just recently got introduced to licorice tea on a camping trip and I've been drinking a shit ton of it. It's pretty sweet though, sometimes more than I'd like.

Looking for suggestions for someone who is just starting to get into tea

>pic related. It's the only tea I've liked so far

>>25678018
Two and a half sugars.

Let the tea bag simmer for awhile.

Then either no milk or a decent amount.

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>>25678018
Only the best tea

>>25678881
Where'd you that infuser with the pug attached to it?

>>25680087
>"best tea"
>bagged
>tazo pumpkin spice
>peach tea
Are you an American female?

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>>25678018
Tetley orange pekoe usually with a quarter spoon of sugar and some 3.25% MF milk.

>>25680118
The metal infuser is just some thing that screws into a travel container.

http://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-SM-JTE46AD-Stainless-16-Ounce-0-46-Liter/dp/B00C4OE79K/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1452553873&sr=8-18&keywords=tea+infuser+travel

Looks like this, not the same exact one but does the same thing.

>>25680177
Thanks, dude.

Also, you're the only person I consider a real tea drinker ITT.

>>25680125
Pretty cozy.

Definitely better than the herbal "tea" (FUCKING PUMPKIN SPICE STARBUCKS SHIT ESPECIALLY) in this thread

>>25679971
http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/01/tea-for-everyone.html

herbal tea isn't really tea btw

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>>25680122
I got those for the holidays

>>25678018
Who /Lipton/ master race here?

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ITT: Faggots who don't know what tea is

>>25680250
>la grande aventure de kiwi
How can this be anything but bait as fuck?

>>25680216
What cutie drinking habits you have. I wish I had cute friends like you.

>>25680199
Thanks senpai

What is herbal tea?

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>>25680250
>David's Tea

bait or jew'd hard

enjoy your dried fruit and artificial flavouring

I wish it was easier to talk about TEA in TEA threads

>>25680309
Herbal tea is made from herbs and not actual tea leaves.

Dark as I can get it, a splash of soya milk, half a sugar.
PG Tips is the shit

>>25680324
Well, I guess that would make sense

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but like I said, I'm incredibly new to this.

I know tea is supposed to be good for you, is there anything about herbal tea that is less good for you than actual tea?

Or is there like pros and cons to both or is more of just a taste thing

>>25680309
A name attached to any old shit that marketers suggest you steep in hot water

Tea (beverage) = made from TEA leaves. Not licorice or mint or "pumpkin spice"

That article I posted should clear things up

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cosy and really, really original

my mech keyboard fucked :c

>>25678018
I know I'm late to the party, but;

>two tea bags
>not specifying milk:water:tea ratio or at least some amateurish description of the colour of your tea once completed
>again "a splash of milk"; appreciate your tea, analyse how you react to variance in the milk:tea ratio and gradually adjust your tea making accordingly.
>herbal tea
and finally
>gf

Emigrate to France.

>>25680388
>eating at the computer
look at this degenerate

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>>25680388
It's back now though because I'm a connoisseur of old pics ofc

>>25680359
>I know tea is supposed to be good for you
IT"S FUCKING HOT LEAF WATER

Herbal tea and real tea don't necessarily have anything in common. You could steep lawn clippings from Pripyat in hot water and call that "herbal tea" but I don't think it would be good for you. Tea being good for you is up for debate but it definitely isn't bad for you and It shouldn't have any calories.

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I love some Barry's Tea myself lad

>>25680359
The only health benefit tea offers that I know of is containing anti-oxidants.

Don't know much about herbal tea, guess it depends on which herb is being used.

>>25678018
NO MILK
BLACK ONLY
FINAL DESTINATION

>>25680430
>not eating at the computer

You're on r9k pal

I do a lot at my computer

>>25680435
>friends
>teamspeak

When did't R9K become a subreddit?

>>25680442
Not with PG, Mate.

>>25680490
Top bait mate

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>>25680388
You probably should have spiced up that ramen, looks tasteless. Next time you should boil an egg with it, also cut hotdogs into little octopus. Buy bean sprouts at the grocery store and throw those in. Also, it taste great with some soy sauce and sesame oil with the seasoning.

Sometimes I add other veggies too. Here's some shitty ramen I ate recently.

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>>25680526
you think that

and have a random blart for your troubles

>>25680526
he's right tho. you know you're not welcome on this board.

>>25678018
>loose leaf or herbal mixtures
>keep the bag/steeper in the entire time
>black, no sugar, no milk though on occasion I do like an almond milk chai

If you don't drink you're tea black, you're a fucking plebian.

>>25680553
Looks good, it was just packet stuff I ate as a snack

>>25680570
Too bad, I've been here for 3 years and I'm staying :)
Get fucked

>>25678407
>tea
>caffeine addiction

hmm...

1) pick a random cup
2) fill it from the tap
3) throw a tea bag on top
4) microwave cup for 2-3 minutes
5) wait
6) drink
7) kill myself

i miss when i gave half a shit about tea and would drink loose leaf but at this point i just use it as a meme beverage

>>25680615
That's the packet shit, I just put extra stuff on top of it.

>>25680635
When it's not a quick snack and I can I'll probably try some stuff, I like the hotdog octopus :D

>>25680630
Some tea has almost as much as coffee. Most doesn't, but it can still have a lot.

>>25679581
>Tea for Hard Water
well, I'll go to the foot of my stairs, never seen that before

>>25680615
i never told you to leave. i said you're not welcome here.
just realize that we hate you, and you are not part of us. you're basically an illegal immigrant on r9k.

>>25679633
This is the best truth

>>25680663
They're very easy to cut and you can just boil them with your ramen. They cook almost as fast as your ramen so be careful about over boiling anon~

I drink herbal flower leaf tea

>>25678630
>8 bags of sweetner
you can't take the diabetes out of the south either

>>25678018
>my gf buys
>gf

Fuck off normalfag this board isn't 4u.

Since when did normies flood this board so bad?

>>25680440
>>25680436


Interesting, it seems like my whole life people would talk about health benefits of drinking tea. But I wonder if because of the fact tea really isn't all that popular where I live (Seattle; everyone has coffee beans too far up their ass to give a shit about tea) if it's just general misinformation or all the hipsters just trying to play their little ego boosting game

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Who /numi/ here?

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>>25680702
>you're basically an illegal immigrant on r9k
oy vey anon

>>25680814
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/health-benefits-of-green-tea

You could have just looked this up yourself instead of asking to be spoonfed in the thread though.

>>25678018
>tea

Sorry not a faggot, I drink coffee yuropoor.

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>>25680800

Yep it's every other post these days.

>>25680848
I figured the opinions of multiple people who regularly drink tea would be a better route than trusting the opinion of an article, considering my original question and the one I am most curious about is what teas do people recommend for someone who just recently started drinking it

>>25680430
fuck off with your dining table privilege, richie rich

>>25678339
Good taste lad

>>25680905
WebMD sources university research and things like that. Your friends might be exaggerating the benefits but it's still pretty good for you. This doesn't apply to every tea, mostly green tea.

>>25680848
Spoonfeeding is the closest /r9k/ gets to civilized discussion these days desu