Any tea drinkers?

Teavana: Earl Grey Creme is good hot. Blackberry Mojito is good iced. If you like spices White Ayurvedic Chai is delicious. For a sweeter tea I recommend their Chocolate Mint.

Bigelow: Constant Comment is a nice orange spice blend. Plantation Mint is black tea w/ mint. For a no caffeine herbal I like their Lemon Ginger.

Stash: White Christmas Tea is a mix of white tea with peppermint and ginger. Really good. Chai Spice is good too.

Choice: Organic Oolong

Republic of Tea: Blackberry Sage black tea, Orange Blossom white tea.

Tazo: Zen

There are a million others I could recommended but I'll stop here for now! lol! I drink my tea plain, no milk, no sweetener.

Green tea with mint!

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Disclaimer: I'm seriously passionate about my tea. Like, variable temperature kettles, gram measurements, multiple types of brewing vessel (gaiwan, kyusu, ceramic pots, gravity infusers, cold steep implements, yixing pots -- that kind of thing). I legitimately have a tea spreadsheet. Anyone who knows me knows it's kind of my thing, and my friends like addressing our apartment as 'where the tea lives'.

My favorite shops are Verdant Tea, Teavivre, and Thunderbolt Tea (with some American Tea Room mixed in), and I'm pretty adamant on loose leaf yielding the best experience by far.

My best advice is to go to town trying everything. You won't know what you like until you start trying everything! Adagio is a good place to start if you're looking to get into loose leaf. They have reasonably priced sampler backs and their unflavored teas are average-ish. If you go this route, in spite of what the package says the best steeping parameters for their black blends is 205F/2.5 min. Unless you like bitter tea.

Verdant offers a 5 for 5 promo for their new customers from time to time, as well. It's five sample sized packages of five of their most popular teas. They have amazing unflavored teas and the Laoshan Black is so so sooooo tasty.

But yeah! Dig in! It's a biiiiiiiiiiig world of tea out there.

I like strong teas in the morning, like lapsang souchong (a smoked tea, acquired taste) or rose melange (black tea with rose hips)...basically a good black or oolong tea. Later in the day, greens and whites are nice because of their lower caffeine content. At night, any herbal is nice, especially chamomile or jasmine or yarrow.

My best advice is to look at the online tea shops which allow you to order by the ounce, and get a small selection of various teas to try. Tao of Tea is a good one. Also, see if there are tea shops in your area like Teavana which have samples brewed in the store to try.

Go for loose leaf over bagged, as the quality which be much higher. Basically, the small dregs are swept up for tea bags, while the whole, unbruised and undamaged leaves are used for loose leaf sales.

If you can find one, get an electric kettle which allows you to set different temperatures. They can be pretty pricey, but you can usually find them on Amazon if nothing else. I found one at Target for $30 for my ex, but they don't have them any more at the local one. Sad clowns. If you don't have an adjustable kettle, get a food thermometer. The reason for this is that some teas are more delicate than others, and will get very bitter if brewed at too high a temperature, or for too long. Basically the lighter the tea, the more temperamental it usually is. Blacks can usually be brewed hotter and longer, oolongs are somewhat forgiving, but greens and whites can get bitter. Properly brewed, you shouldn't need any sweetener at all.

English breakfast, with a spot of whole milk, is the best! I buy it in the ethnic aisle of the grocery in the British section. Can't remember the brand, but it's got a clear bold flavor. Trader Joe's has a passable English Breakfast that looks like the kind my roommate's mom used to send from Ireland via post. Darjeeling is best as a chai tea, and the bergamot in Earl Grey is distracting, not my cup of tea. Mem tea, based in Boston, sells some amazing teas. Some of the best green tea I've ever had stateside. For herbal tisanes, I used to love chamomile, or chrysanthemum tea, loose leaf. Lately I have been drinking mostly peppermint. When I had trouble sleeping, I used to drink Nighty Night tea by Traditional Medicinals, made with passion flower. Tasty and sleep inducing.

Black Chai for me..w/Honey ..morning and eve

Morning/high Caffeine
Harney and Sons black
Bigelow Vanilla Chai (caramel is good too)
Davidson Earl Gray Lavender
Twinings Irish Breakfast

Afternoon or evening/ Less Caffeine
Teavana Youthberry
Teavana Jade Citrus Mint
Numi Jasmine
Twinings Honey Chamomile (no caffeine)

I second Celesitial's Apple Cinnamon!