Tea Drinkers! What is your favorite kind of tea, and does it bring you spiritual comfort?
After feeling crappy all day I just had a cup of green tea, and now I feel great (mentally and physically). Does tea have healing properties, or is it just that I am addicted (usually I have 5-6 cups by now)?
I also like a green tea/poppy tea blend, but that is reserved for special occasions.
Large leaf black tea…made in my Gran’s teapot. Served in a nice china mug. Ceylon Tea (Dilmah is the brand I use most.)
When I was at school my best friend was Iranian and her mum used to make this amazing tea in a Samovar. You drank it black and rather than place the sugar in the cup, you held a rock of it under your tongue as you sipped it. I don’t know where they got the tea leaves from, but I have never tasted a beverage so lovely and so invigorating in all my life.I have often regretted that I was too young and silly to ask her mum what tea she used. Especially since I actually have a Samovar now.
Yeah…I just have regular tea though…like Yorkshire tea.
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Earl Grey FTW!
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Long Island Iced Tea
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I always go with the rasberry/peach tea.
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I always enjoy a good Earl Grey…
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The British in me and Picard
the kind where its like 100 tea bags for a dollar fifty i dont know the brand name or what ever i just get it at the dollar store
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Poppy tea? Is that like herbal heroin?
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I enjoy English Breakfast or Earl Grey, though lately I’ve been existing solely on hot coco.
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depends.
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liubaocha
http://www.teaasylum.com/2008/tea-review-liu-bao-cha-%E5%85%AD%E5%AE%9D%E8%8C%B6-6-treasures-tea/
paimutan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai_Mu_Dan_tea
puerh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu-erh_tea
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Hot.
My favorite beer is cold beer, and my favorite tea is hot tea. Some like it hot, you know.
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I enjoy regular orange pekoe tea and occasionally an herbal tea.
I am only spiritually comforted however, by drinking of the Living Water.
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Hitler drank several cups of tea every day, even in the bunker at the end he made sure to have his tea.
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Cold green tea with no milk or sugar.
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There’s some studies that show that tea is good for the brain – apparently it’s good for your short-term memory and may help stave off Alzheimer’s. I don’t think there’s anything conclusive yet, but the correlation is there at least. I don’t know about it having spiritual properties, though, save that making and drinking it forces me to slow down and encourages me to focus on the act of drinking it rather than my own worries. I get the same effect from making my own coffee, actually.
Also, I personally prefer a good English breakfast tea, but then again, I like my tea really strong and that’s the boldest I’ve found yet (anyone have anything better?).
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Senna tea. It definitely does bring me a form of comfort, but I wouldn’t call it spiritual.
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I’ll drink any kind of tea.
Green tea is very good for you – it has lots of antioxidants.
Other teas have them, as well, but not as much.
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I am drinking about one litre of green tea in a normal working day. When I’m at home, I drink black tea because my wife prefers it. However, we are both un-spiritual people and we are not interested in spiritual things. I think that much of the taste of tea depends on the right drinking temperature.
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Yerba mate… it kinda peps me up in the morning…
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Green tea does in fact have a variety of health benefits. It speeds up the metabolism, bolsters the immune system, boosts mental alertness (and not strictly on account of caffeine either; there are amino acids in it that have a more sustained, less jittery effect), inhibits bad breath, lowers stress hormone levels, reduces the risk stroke, possibly reduces the likelihood of depression, and that’s probably just getting started.
I tend to alternate between a gunpowder green, a lemon mate green (particularly if I feel like I’m coming down with a cold), Earl Grey, and a spiced black tea.
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Yorkshire tea (Taylor’s of Harrogate), Twining’s Earl Grey, Jasmine tea. Lapsang Souchong on a hot day.
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Chai tea.
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Earl Grey with cream: I don’t care what "World Renowned Art Historian Robert Langston" says.
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Poppy tea? Is that named in honor of the elder President Shrub?
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Since I gave up booze 8 years ago I have become tea and coffee connoisseur (read snob). I drink gourmet coffees in a french press until mid morning then make the switch to tea and Squirt the rest of the day.
During the winter I like the harsh and bitter black tea carved from a block and steeped with salt, sugar and lots of cream in an open pan like the Tibetan monks
I don’t care for green tea, I prefer white tea or what I’m sipping on now, Pu-erh ( rotted green tea) with a little salt and "no sugar and milk like the Brits – yuk". Sometimes I put a little marijuana in it at days end.
And without fail I drink a cup or two of chamomile tea at bedtime to help put me to sleep.. Fresh from the garden this time of year or I dry a couple pounds in the dehydrator for winter
@ Toke – I almost forgot, I grow reishi and get worm fungus (Cordyseps) from Fungi-Perfecti or eBay, I drink a lot of it when my body or mind is under stress.
And, there’s the "funny mushroom" tea, just a sub entry level dose of a gram will kill a migraine, increase visual acuity for hunting and out perform Viagra in the bedroom. Or you can go nuts and make it a spiritual thingy.
RScott
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My favourite is actually mushroom, but most any are cool. I really like this Orange & Spice one (not orange pekoe but citrus, but orange pekoe is okay too)
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As a regular tea, I prefer black tea from PG Tips. I’m married to a Brit and he introduced me to the brand, but sometimes it’s hard to find here in the states.
If I’m feeling sluggish in the afternoons, a cup of peppermint tea seems to help wake me up.
I’m jealous of RSCOTT growing his own tea leaves. I’m tempted to do that, but I tend to kill every single plant within fifty yards. I couldn’t even grow basil.
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Poppy tea? So…opium tea?
Anyways, I like peppermint with honey.
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Large leaf black tea…made in my Gran’s teapot. Served in a nice china mug. Ceylon Tea (Dilmah is the brand I use most.)
When I was at school my best friend was Iranian and her mum used to make this amazing tea in a Samovar. You drank it black and rather than place the sugar in the cup, you held a rock of it under your tongue as you sipped it. I don’t know where they got the tea leaves from, but I have never tasted a beverage so lovely and so invigorating in all my life.I have often regretted that I was too young and silly to ask her mum what tea she used. Especially since I actually have a Samovar now.
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I’d usually start talking about the placebo effect about now LOL
I’m a bit like Eartha on this one though. Loose leaf English Breakfast by Dilmah is my tea of choice, made in a bone china teapot. It’s a satisfying ritual on a sunday morning to make a pot for me and my wife as we sit and discuss the week that has just been.
I will also drink green tea from a japanese tea flask and handleless cups. Another satisfying ritual there.
It’s the ritual for me rather than the tea that is satisfying for me, you could call it a kind of meditation.
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I’m a seasonal tea drinker. Iced in the Spring/Summer, Hot in the Autumn/Winter.
In order:
1. Irish Breakfast.
2. Prince of Wales.
3. Darjeeling.
4. English Breakfast.
5. Earl Grey.
My Favorite for Iced is Tetely’s "British Blend". It makes awesome strong Iced tea, very Dark and flavorful. (It’s not really made for Iced, but oh well. )
I drink Herbal teas mostly when I’m sick. I found some super-awesome "Greek Mountain Tea" at the Greek festival at the local Greek Orthodox Church.
http://greekfood.about.com/od/mezethesdrinks/a/tsaitouvounou.htm
I don’t drink much Green tea.
We got some Rancid tea at a restaurant in Utah once. It took me nearly a week to explain to my grandma that Orange Pekoe tea does not contain orange flavor, was not the source of the bad taste, and is in fact the same tea she drinks. (I still love my Grandma)
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I just like dipping my teabag no matter the type of tea.
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Earl Grey
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I love to drink regular tea, the one with milk.
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http://www.TeaorChai.com
Vanilla chamomile tea blend is what I usually drink, and Rainbow Rooibos is my favorite, but its very rare that I get time to drive up to where I can get it.
I also like the tea that my grandma makes, but I have no idea what it is, nor do I really get to drink it often considering she’s a 9hr flight away.
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