Favorite kind of black tea

You may find this thread of interest. It doesn't have a poll though.

As a Brit this makes me laugh. Where's the regular tea that we drink several times a day?

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I like Brian Black Tea.

R2 is thinking of Assam.

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I love English Breakfast. I'll have 3-4 cups each morning. I switched to tea because coffee and Prep don't mix for me. How do you keep your teeth from getting stained? I'm needing cleanings every 3 months to polish them.

R5 No, pretty sure it isn't Assam. Specifically labelled Assam tea tastes very different.

[quote] As a Brit this makes me laugh. Where's the regular tea that we drink several times a day?

It's a mixture of Assam, Ceylon, and Kenyan teas. The more full-bodied variant of it is called English breakfast tea in the US, and it is also popular here. British afternoon tea tends to be the same mixture but is less robust.

Irish breakfast tea is the same mixture, but is usually heavier on the Assam (which is maltier in taste).

R10 That sounds more like it.

Earl Grey adds bergamot oil to black tea.

Lady Grey adds bergamot oil, orange peel, and lemon peel.

Yorkshire Gold

Angela Lansbury supposedly prefers PG Tips.

Oolong is Chinese, and usually smells and tastes like peach oil has been added to black tea.

I drink Lipton or nothing else.

Yorkshire Gold is a type of English tea (obviously). It's the favorite of Patrick Stewart.

I like a good Earl Grey in the morning and a Green Jasmine in the evening.

I generally have a 10gr pot of each a day.

A lot of the names being offered (PG Tips, Yorkshire, Lipton) are BRANDS of black English tea, not types of black tea.

I like Irish Breakfast as it’s strong. But I usually buy English Breakfast Extra Strong teabags:

Brands of tea are comparable to champagne houses.

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I only drink boba milk tea.🧋

Orange Pekoe is usually what’s considered the “standard” black tea in the US such as Lipton, Red Rose or Salada or the store brand.

I drink rose red ummm I mean red rose

I don’t like anything orange.

Caykur Black Tea

R27 - isn't that what you would be served at most Turkish restaurants?

Orange pekoe isn't a variety it's a grade.

These are the teas in a Twinings sampler.

Oolong is not black tea. There are four types of tea: black, oolong, green and white. They are all the same plant, but the leaves have been prepared differently to have different degrees of oxidation.

The whole post is a train wreck.

I only drink matcha 🍵

Red Rose Orange Pekoe with lemon and honey !

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