Anybody else like Tea?

I'm actually more of a tea drinker than a coffee drinker. I like the standard Orange Pecoe but that gets boring pretty quick. I really dig anything Black Currant. Usually drink a small pot a day, sometimes 2 (1 litre old school stovetop Corning that I think's from the 70s that my Grandma gave me years ago). A few weeks ago I picked up the best Black Currant tea I've ever had from a company called BioFix purchased from a German mom & pop grocery store. I'm assuming its from Europe and tasted wonderful...makes Twinnings something generic.


Here's my first post & Thanks for the invite Monkey!

Hi Kitlope, nice to see you here

I like tea also. Maybe tea would deserve its own section too...

Orange pekoe is all'right but a little too plain for me. I prefer green teas. Best I've tasted come from India. I like Assam, Darjeeling very much. Tea is much healthier and you have the delicious advantage to drink it in much larger quantities

You know, ever since the big health kick on green teas I now see in the grocery store manufacturers making sure they label some tea "Green Tea" but I'm sure half of it is not true green tea. Can you recommend some good, real Green Tea? I actually ran out of that Biofix Black Currant and have been meaning to go pick some more up, I'll grab some Green Tea also but have no clue where to start.

Well, for real good green tea you need to go to a specialised tea shop and actually see the leaves. It has to be very fresh also (less than 6 months or as few as possible). There might be some fancy brands, but usually stuff you find in grocery stores, even fancy ones, is already old and not too good. What you can get depends on where you live and what's accessible. But fancy specialised tea shops with good leaves are more and more popular.

I have some tea I brought back from a trip to India.

personally i hate coffee, taste awful and smells awful can't stand it... so I drink lots and lots off Tea all the time

woohoo just enjoying a cup of BioFix Black Currant as I picked up a box of it yesterday. mmmmmmm