Tea drinkers

SnowOwl26

I'm a big coffee sugar and cream type girl. But I want to give it up and drink teas. How do I make them taste good and which ones are best. How to drink tea Mm

lisawilkes20

I dont drink coffee as it makes me feel thirsty after it. I suppose its going to be personal preference but if you try the herbal teas you will probably find one you like. If I feel cold, I drink lemon & ginger tea, it warms me up. But I am just a normal Typhoo tea bags & semi skimmed milk girl really

fuzzylop72

You might try wild berry zinger. It has a pretty strong taste, and I really like it although I do tend to drink green tea more lately, which is more of an acquired taste.

easyvegan

English breakfast is my all time favourite, and I would say is on the same level of coffee in the terms of sweetness/bitterness and individual taste (but doesn't taste like coffee, I bet that made no sense) - I have it with almond milk (I eat a plant based diet) but semi skimmed also known as 0.1% fat milk is what I used to drink it with, a large gulp of that and it's really lovely, less calories than cream and not as much caffeine it you let the tea bag brew for a minute or less and give it a little swish around.

In terms of herbal, I love mint tea - fresh or dried, it helps aid the digestive track and settle's upset tummies. Really nice too without adding sugar/milk. A good transition tea if you're hoping to drink green tea which helps to speed up your metabolic rate, I'd recommend trying out a few green tea's as some can be terribly bitter - one's that have lemon in are really nice and help make them a little sweeter.

chantelleauger

There are a lot of different herbal teas out there, some I like are; lemon & ginger, peppermint, green tea with lemon (add honey to make it sweeter), redbush (rooibos) which you can add milk & honey to :-) They all have their own benefits.

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

I drink so many different teas.

Apple cinnamon right now, black breakfast tea is my main one.

cs2thecox

I'm a Brit, so I'm mainly about the English breakfast.
The water has to be BOILING (hotter than for coffee) or it comes out tasting bad. Let the bag sit to brew and don't poke at it too much, and definitely don't squish it when you take it out the mug or it can get bitter.

Semi-skimmed milk is the key - 2% fat - I think the Americans call it half and half? Full fat milk tastes great in coffee but is too rich in tea, and skimmed milk (0.1% fat) is also terrible in tea as it's just too watery.

I also like Earl Grey - no milk because it destroys the floral taste. It can take a slice of lemon though.

I find most herbal teas too watery, or I have to let them brew for about half an hour before they taste of anything. The two I'm keen on at the moment are vanilla chai from the London Tea Company and Teapigs spiced winter tea. Both are strong enough for me not to get angry with

maybe1pe

I love apple cinnamon tea, vanilla spice, masala chai, mint anything, lemon and ginger, I have a ginger peach one that's actually pretty good.

I have around 6 different kinds of herbal tea I drink in afternoons at work and probably 12-15 different kinds at home.
When I want to try new ones I look for smaller packs so I can try it a few times but am not stuck with 20 bags or a full pound of loose leaf if I don't like it. I have some that I like so much I order in bulk on amazon (apple cinnamon, vanilla spice, lemon, and mint teas I usually order in bulk because they're my go-tos)

I also really like twinnings winter spice tea

English breakfast and earl grey and lady grey are also quite good but I think can be an acquired taste if you aren't used to it.

Some herbal teas I find too watery so I add extra tea bags for stronger flavor. But I don't usually ever have to add milk or sugar to any of them.

sofchak

English breakfast is my go to - a little maple syrup, a splash of cashew milk and a sprinkle of cinnamon is all I need. Took a bit of time to figure out what preparation method worked best for me.

Otherwise, apple cinnamon tea, mint or honey vanilla tea are my non-caffeinated options, prepared similarly to the above with a touch less maple syrup. Mint I can drink with no milk/syrup when desperate.

My sister loves English Breakfast and Mint as well - she takes both plain or with lemon.

NadNight

I like black tea with a dash of milk, or green tea flavoured with lemon or ginger. Fruit infusions are actually really nice too, they come in like berry or lemon and ginger flavours and look like tea (they even come in teabags!) but technically aren't tea

JillianRumrill

When I first started drinking tea ages ago, I didn't know you could put milk or sugar in them, so I always drank them straight. [in Jenna Marble's voice] "YOU CAN ADD MILK TO YOUR TEA? WHAAAAAATT??"
Now I can't have it any other way. Some teas honestly don't even need milk or sugar- like Red Rose strawberry cheesecake.

Feed_the_Bears

I enjoy coffee with just cream. I've come to love bitter flavours. If you really really enjoy something, why torture yourself giving it up entirely? Life and food is to be enjoyed. Perhaps just cut back frequency. Or, if you gradually reduce the sugar I believe your taste buds will have an easier time making the transition to appreciate bitter flavours.

Also, shelling out to buy good coffee or tea really helps going sugar free. Bad and bitter are not the same thing lol. A good bitter coffee is like dark chocolate. A quality tea with no additives is much the same, more smooth and refreshing and sharp and acidic.

When I don't have cream, I put honey and coconut oil or butter in there. Yes.

toxikon

I am a total tea addict. I have about 20 different teas at my work desk right now.

Most of mine are from David's Tea. I really like flavoured black teas or unflavoured greens like sencha or genmaicha.

I drink my green teas without any additives, but I do like a splash of almond/cashew milk and a squirt of liquid stevia in my black teas.

If you live somewhere with a David's Tea I'd be happy to give some recommendations. I've tried at least 40 of their teas.

Need2Exerc1se

SnowOwl26 wrote: »

I'm a big coffee sugar and cream type girl. But I want to give it up and drink teas. How do I make them taste good and which ones are best. How to drink tea Mm

Not sure how to answer since what tastes good to me might not taste good to you. Especially since I love tea. I'm not a fan of fruit teas. I prefer a little spice in mine so I drink a lot of chai green or black teas. I also tend to add Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice (which actually contains no tea but is mostly just spices) in with most teas I make, even chai. Right now I am drinking a big mug with a mix of Yorkshire and Bengal Spice teas in it and it's quite lovely.

apullum

My current favorite is Harney and Sons earl grey supreme. I can easily drink it black. The company makes several teas that I really enjoy, but this one is by far my favorite. I order it on Amazon (that is, I have a monthly subscription to it on Amazon and I get sad if I run out).

No, I do not work for Harney and Sons.

I metabolize caffeine slowly, so I only have caffeine-free teas after noon. I like making iced tea with a blend of Celestial Seasonings wild berry zinger and red zinger (or just wild berry if you can’t find red).

RobinAlex666

I second David's Tea- peach apricot and Tiesta tea- fruity pebble. Both unsweetened
I drink both of them iced and they're sooo good

ladyreva78

Early Grey. Black.

The best thing to do is to just try them out. Some tea brands have tester sets with different flavors in one package. That way you can test different ones without having to buy a package of each flavor. (I won't bother listing brands since I probably live on another continent than you ). Just browse the shelves of your local grocery store to see what's available and pick something that strikes your fancy.

Try it plain. Try it with some honey. Some lemon. Some milk. Some sugar. Any of the above combined. To see what you would like. As stated above, I'm an Earl Grey, Black kinda girl. My dad will put milk and sugar in green tea (which I find an aberration, but he likes it, so I'll fix it that way for him). Don't bother with what people would consider as 'appropriate' for a given tea. It's your taste buds that have to swallow that stuff, so feel free to experiment. Once you've tried all possible combinations and find that you can't drink it. Try another kind (and see if you know someone who you could foist the tea off on )

If there's a specialty tea shop near you, you can always drop by and smell your way through the selection. They're usually pretty competent at helping you find something appropriate if you give them some idea what you like. They might also be willing to sell you a small sampler (just enough for 2-3 teas) to test a particular one. You just have to ask.

lemurcat12

I love coffee more than tea, but I like both, and try to consume more tea this time of year (when I'd otherwise get way too much caffeine from my coffee, because I drink a ton just to stay warm).

For black tea (which isn't as helpful for cutting caffeine, obviously), I love Earl Grey.

I also love a lot of herbal teas and flavored teas (currently into ginger peach, as it hit the spot when I was sick and didn't even want coffee).

Since there are so many different teas, I'd say just start trying different ones.

mitch16

I love tea! Green Tea, Earl Grey, English Breakfast, Peppermint Tea... I drink it hot or cold, always unsweetened and no milk or cream.

Harney and Sons Hot Cinnamon Spice is one of my very favorites for the extremely cold weather we've been having lately! It tastes like Atomic Fireballs (without getting yelled at by my dentist)!

Lift_Run_Eat

I drink a ton of herbal teas. My favorites are Tazo Refrish Mint and Trader Joes Ginger Turmeric.

I tried to find herbal ones that are full of flavor so I do not have to add anything to them.

Wingsont84

SnowOwl26 wrote: »

I'm a big coffee sugar and cream type girl. But I want to give it up and drink teas. How do I make them taste good and which ones are best. How to drink tea Mm

I was a DD fan, now down to two milk.

Nessiechickie

I drink every morning Celestial - Bengal Spice.... so very sweet on it's own as it has a lot of cinnamon.

sylkates

I find it useful to try a variety of teas, and adagio.com sells samples of most of their flavors. I suggest trying them out to start.

I like strong flavors that aren't compatible with sugar, to keep me from adding sugar to it. The best teas for that for me are Genmaicha (Japanese tea with roasted rice in it, tastes like toast), Gyokuro (expensive shade-grown Japanese green that has extra caffeine and a very strong flavor, sort of like green vegetables, but not bitter), Hojicha (Japanese green tea that's roasted, it tastes smokey), lapsang souchong (Chinese black tea that tastes like a gosh darn campfire, a little overwhelming if it's not blended, but definitely memorable and incompatible with sugar), and Pu-er (Chinese aged black tea that tastes like dirt...but in a good way!).

Adagio is good to try these all out. That's where I found them.
After you try them, Yunnan sourcing has some exciting pu-er's, and O-Cha has a great variety of better-priced Japanese green teas.

rea1980

I am a huge tea drinker. I generally drink whichever flavor sounds the best to me at the moment. In the morning I generally drink some form of actual tea, whether it be Black, Oolong, Green, White, etc. This is for some morning caffeine. In the evening I will drink some sort of herbal tea, since they generally don't have any caffeine.

If you are want to see what you like, try picking up some different variety packs. You might like some and you might hate others. Also, if you try one variety and don't like it, don't be afraid to try it again from a different brand. Some brands excel in one type of tea but fail at others.

When you steep your tea you should pay attention to the time and temperature is at all possible. Different varieties have different optimal time/temp. https://www.thespruce.com/tea-brewing-temperature-guide-766367

TeaBea

SnowOwl26 wrote: »

I'm a big coffee sugar and cream type girl. But I want to give it up and drink teas. How do I make them taste good and which ones are best. How to drink tea Mm

I can't say which ones you will like, but look for sampler boxes. Sampler boxes will let you try lots of different teas. I hate buying a box of tea I can't stand. This can at least steer you in the right direction. Look for Stash, Bigelow, Celestial Seasonings, or Twinings.

I like flavored black tea - not sweetened - hot or cold. I make a big pitcher of iced tea using flavored (Twinings Mixed Berry) and plain black tea bags. The flavored tea bags mellow the tea out. Black iced tea - straight - may be an acquired taste. Chais are yummy spicy black (or green) teas but I tend to add milk & sugar. Bigelow Vanilla Chai is a good "beginner" chai, no black pepper in there. Celestial Seasonings Chai is an acquired taste (IMO).

I like flavored green tea - not sweetened - hot or cold. I make green iced tea using flavored and plain green tea bags. Again, flavored tea bags (I use a store brand) mellows the tea out. Don't use too hot water to steep green tea (not boiling) or your tea will be bitter.

Herbal tea - rooibos (red tea) is very mellow. I like Celestial Seasonings Madagascar Vanilla.

Nikion901

I think it's sometimes hard to make a switch from coffee to tea, or vice versa. For one thing, you need to develop the taste for either one ... and drinking either one without masking it's true flavor with sweeteners and creams, for me, is the way to drink tea or coffee. If I need to mask the flavor, then I might as well be drinking something else (just me) That said, a nice rich cream added to overly strong coffee or tea goes a long way in mellowing it out enough to be enjoyable.

Ya gotta like the taste of the tea you drink ... and perhaps a good place to start is with herbal teas. Most of them are caffeine-free, being made from blossoms, leaves, twigs, roots, seeds/seedpods. However, should you desire the caffeine found in non-herbal teas, a good place to start might be with a sampler box of teas so that you can experiment with the different flavors to find which ones work great for you ...

And also to make the tea at first as directed, but then to alter the steeping time to see how that alteration affects its taste for you ... I mention this because, for some people (myself included) very strong tea causes nausea.

Some of my favorite teas ... Green tea, Jasmine Tea, Black Tea, Orange Spice Tea,
Also on my favorites list are ... Sour Cherry Tea, Raspberry Tea, Camomile Tea, Mint Tea

dangerousdumpling

If you're looking for black tea try PG Tips. Brew the tea with boiling water( I brew for the recommended 3 minutes), don't squeeze the bag, add 1/2-1 tsp sugar or none at all, and 3-4 tablespoons of 2% milk.

An herbal tea I've been enjoying lately is Tazo Dessert Delights. I usually don't like lemon teas but their Lemon Loaf is delicious. It's like a lemon vanilla tea. It doesn't need sugar but you could add 1/2-1 tsp for extra delicousness.

Tazo Butterscotch Blondie is another delicious black tea.

Ohhhtayyyy

I love green tea with a little bit of honey!

TR0berts

I like fruit-flavored green teas. Lipton used to (or maybe still does, but I haven't seen it in months) a mandarin orange one which was my favorite. But all of the lemon (with or without ginseng) ones are good. Aldi has really good pomegranate-blueberry-acai green tea, too.

I don't put anything in them, as I like their tastes as-is.

delaclos99

Twinings English Breakfast. Boiling hot water, leave to steep for at least 3 minutes. Splash of whole or semi skimmed milk, drink and feel the world become a better place.

Lipton's is the just the worst pish on the planet. Nothing worse than being in a hotel, asking for a cuppa and that insipid little bag turning up by a cup of lukewarm water.

LivingtheLeanDream

Good tea needs to 'brew in a pot for 3 or 4 mins, preferably a china pot English Breakfast with a splash of semi skimmed milk for me please