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GaryProtein
Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 535
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:22 am Post subject: What is your favorite TEA variety? |
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From the "What's your favorite coffee" thread, a guest wrote in telling her favorite tea. I thought I would start a thread on that topic beginning with a quote of her post:
magenta wrote: | I like tea more then coffee. My fave is Earl Gray (natural). I also like tea with different herbs. |
I saw that the guest, "Magenta" likes NATURAL Earl Gray Tea. Until the early or middle 1970's, Twinings Earl Gray Tea was what I would call "Natural" and I drank that a lot of it. After that time, they started adding Bergamot oil (a type of orange) to their Earl Gray Tea, and I haven't liked it since. I miss the old Natural Earl Gray.
So, for now, my favorite teas (hot or iced) are black teas, mostly Twinings Irish Breakfast, English Breakfast and Darjeeling. I like my hot teas with a tiny amount of cream and sugar. I take my iced teas "straight." When I was a teenager and wanted to be a little obnoxious, I would brew a pot of Lapsang Souchong. (If you've had that one, you know what I mean!)
Does anybody know which tea company makes Earl Gray tea that does NOT have Bergamot oil??? |
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kgb1001001
Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Posts: 108
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:58 am Post subject: Ummm.. doesn't the bergamot kinda make the tea Earl Grey? |
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I can't think that I've ever had Earl Grey (from any tea company) without Bergamot oil. According to Wikipedia, the addition of Bergamot to black tea is what defines Earl grey.
Are you sure the recipe didn't just have less of the oil of Bergamot? I've definitely seen variations in how much different vendors add. |
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GaryProtein
Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 535
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:11 am Post subject: |
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^^^^ I'm positive (99.999%) that there wasn't any Bergamot in the old Earl Gray Twinings made in the early 1970's. I had a display in the pantry of about ten different tins of loose Twinings teas when I was in high school. Later, when I went to college, I saw the tin had changed and it then said "with Bergamot oil". When I saw that, I had to look up what a bergamot was when I got home. At first I thought it might have been just a reprinting of the label on the can, except the tea tasted completely different and I only had a couple of cups of that tea. I never finished the can and I had previously liked Earl Gray a lot. |
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Dilbert
Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 1304 Location: central PA
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ERdept
Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 39 Location: LA
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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I like white tea, and nam matoom. One's chinese and the latter is Thai. It has such a complex set of flavors. You toast the fruit, then boil and drink. |
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NeiNastran
Joined: 04 Mar 2008 Posts: 6
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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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Yerba Matte! If that counts. |
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ducttapesmarts
Joined: 17 May 2008 Posts: 3
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 7:24 am Post subject: |
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I'm super fond of mint tea, left to brew forever either unsweetened or with a touch of honey. Either that or Basil, crushed up with some Meyer lemon in hot water. Not sure if either qualify as proper tea... |
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Paul79UF
Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 10 Location: Florida
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 2:35 am Post subject: |
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I'm easy. I drink the regular Lipton tea that can be bought at Costco in huge boxes for cheap.
My better half has fancier tastes. She likes the Good Earth Green Tea with Lemongrass and Tazo White Tea. |
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absoluteherb
Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 3 Location: London
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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I enjoy the blue label TEA from africa especially served with honey its so natural and with a good flavor |
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Jaheab
Joined: 20 Feb 2009 Posts: 3 Location: Lansing, MI
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:21 am Post subject: |
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I like Oolong w/ lemon. No specific brand. The supermarket brand is what I usually buy (Meijer) but I think it stacks up pretty well. I buy their whole bean coffee as well. |
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curryman
Joined: 25 Aug 2009 Posts: 8
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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Darjeeling, Silver Needle( white tea ) and High Mountain Formosa( a Taiwanese oolong of which the leaves are harvested only after being attacked by a kind of green fly. ) |
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Marco
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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GaryProtein wrote: | ^^^^ I'm positive (99.999%) that there wasn't any Bergamot in the old Earl Gray Twinings made in the early 1970's. I had a display in the pantry of about ten different tins of loose Twinings teas when I was in high school. Later, when I went to college, I saw the tin had changed and it then said "with Bergamot oil". When I saw that, I had to look up what a bergamot was when I got home. At first I thought it might have been just a reprinting of the label on the can, except the tea tasted completely different and I only had a couple of cups of that tea. I never finished the can and I had previously liked Earl Gray a lot. |
I think the confusion is the fact that some Earl Grey Teas have lavender in them, like this Earl Grey Tea here. I believe that Twingings used to advertise the lavender part of their tea decades ago because they felt that Bergamot sounded too foreign for their customers.
Make no doubt about it, earl Grey has to have Bergamot included by definition. An Earl Grey without Bergamot would be like cooking a Coq Au Vin without red wine. |
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Gareth
Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 85 Location: Norwich, Norfolk, UK
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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I have a very varied taste when it comes to Teas, and tend to drink whatevever I fancy from the cupboard at the time; Brooke Bond PG tips is almost a staple,,but my cupboard also contains the following; Asda roll back round Tea bags, Twinnings Chia Tea, Lidl Fairglobe fairtrade Tea, Red Bush Tea and many vararity of the berry and natural leaf Teas. |
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tpowell
Joined: 26 Nov 2009 Posts: 7
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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I am a big fan of early grey, especially the lavender variety. |
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stiffanbond
Joined: 24 May 2010 Posts: 4
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 6:32 am Post subject: |
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I like the fruity kind like cherry & cranberry, apple & pear, or citrus blend. I like green tea too, but I prefer it iced with 1 1/2 spoon, sugar and a squeeze of lemon. |
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