The Real Tea Thread

[Aperitif]

C2
This is a sam drinking tea...

 

[srw]

Anyone else like a Russian Caravan?

Oddly enough, yes.

(ponce alert)

The only time I've drunk tea for breakfast was when I was staying in Hungary a few months before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Drinking Russian Caravan tea reminds me of drinking lukewarm black tea with my breakfast in the student accommodation we were lodged in.

 

[Beebo]

None of the above.
I drink my team without milk, and not too strong. Very refreshing.

 

[MikeG]

So which is your ideal cuppa?

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I'm a B3...don't like it strong but please don't over-milk it too

C3/ A4

Loose leaf Darjeeling after supper and/ or with friends, and some fair trade thing or other the rest of the time......and each bag will make at least 3 big mugs.

 

[Aperitif]

None of the above.
I drink my team without milk, and not too strong. Very refreshing.

Team milk don't agree!

 

[MikeG]

Anyone else like a Russian Caravan?

The proper stuff? No, too smokey for me. The faux/ pseudo stuff you get in some tea shops around here? Yeah, it's OK if you've got a decent scone or bit of tea cake to go with it.

 

[Beebo]

Team milk don't agree!
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Blooming predictive text.

 

[Crackle]

I'm A1. By coincidence, so is my tea.

 

[Globalti]

As it happens I work for the company that makes the bergamot flavour for Earl Grey tea. How did bergamot become popular? Because tea merchants were in the habit of adulterating the product with all kinds of crap and one day somebody used dried rind of the bergamot, which is an inedible citrus fruit that yields an interesting essential oil. The tea drinkers of 18th century England liked the flavour and asked for it again. That's how it started.

 

[Aperitif]

Blooming predictive tea.

 

[Kestevan]

Horrible stuff.

Coffee please, not instant.
Espresso preferred, preferably a double.

 

[classic33]

C3 / A4

Just a bigger cup

 

[rich p]

*ahem*


For some reason the Brits have never got hot drinks right. As a rule we drink tea too strong, coffee too weak and chocolate too sweet.

I only have milk in my stout...

 

[theclaud]

A4 is the closest, but it's still far too strong. Tea needs to be extremely high quality and made extremely weak (a teaspoon of leaves to a large teapot is about right). It then needs to be poured within a few minutes before the tannins can really get extracted.

Sorry, but not drinking tea for breakfast disqualifies you from having an opinion on the matter.

 

[Levo-Lon]

C 1 & 2 would be my favourite
but any in row 1 and 2 and the first 2 in row 3