I'd like to hear about your tea drinking

[dc_ni]

Haven't touched the stuff in 20+ years, don't even like the smell. Black coffee for me.

 

[carlb40]

PG tips only, with milk no sugar. While at work on site i always have a pump action flask/dispenser that holds over 2ltrs.
When i get home the first thing i do is pop the kettle on and make a cuppa. Then will probably have at least another 3 during the evening.

In winter i will drink even more.
When i go camping, on a 3 day trip i take a box of 40 teabags. They all get used up.

 

[henton49er]

Yorkshire tea for me, plus semi skimmed milk and one sugar. My usual mug holds just over half a pint and I reckon I drink about 6 to 8 mugs per day. Rarely drink coffee, though.

 

[SPSlick]

Earl Grey, hot.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Make it so!

 

[cutting42]

PG Tips in the morning semi skimmed milk and 2 x sweetners. Coffee rest of the day until 10pm with another PG Tips.

Occasionally Earl grey in the afternoon

 

[Graham Orm]

Coffee morning til night, tea gives me the squirts.

 

[dm65]

PG Tips, strong with a splash of milk as often as possible. 1/2 sugar if I make it, none if someone else has a bash

Also partial to Twinnings Green Tea

 

[Silverbirch]

Redbush (Rooibos) tea from Asda. Not "real" tea but tastes very similar. I like it because you can leave it to develop its flavour without it tasting"stewed" - low tannin (and caffeine ).

Ian

 

[Trafalgar]

What about 'builders tea?'

And tell me your favorite biscuits too. McVities?

Does anybody put a little sugar in Earl Grey or is this just not done?

 

[Trafalgar]

PG tips only, with milk no sugar. While at work on site i always have a pump action flask/dispenser that holds over 2ltrs.
When i get home the first thing i do is pop the kettle on and make a cuppa. Then will probably have at least another 3 during the evening.

In winter i will drink even more.
When i go camping, on a 3 day trip i take a box of 40 teabags. They all get used up.

That's quite a bit of tea!

 

[Cheshirechappie]

First cup of the day English Breakfast, Yorkshire Gold thereafter, unless I treat myself to Twinings Traditional Afternoon in, er, the afternoon. All tea to be made properly in a pot, warmed before the tea is made with properly boiling water, and allowed to stand for at least three minutes. Poured into cup and saucer if I have guests, or a half-pint mug if I don't, and served with half a teaspoon of honey but no milk.

I spent many years working in a large design office in which the only source of liquid refreshment were vending machines dispensing a very indifferent brownish liquid, an amalgam of not-quite-boiling water and a dubious powder supplied in small sealed packets, the taste of which was hardly appetising. Some of us kept illicit kettles, and could thus dispense properly boiling water to those with mugs and teabags (we were trusted to undertake the design and project management of multi-million pound process plants handling some of the nastiest chemicals known to man, but we were not trusted to operate kettles - don't you just love Elf-n-Safety?). Since then, I have resolved never to drink the strange chemical output of vending machines ever again, unless absolutely desperate. Proper tea or coffee only, please!

 

[Trafalgar]

Is Twinings generally considered by Brits to be the best brand?

 

[Cheshirechappie]

There are many hundreds of brands and blends of tea, varying from budget supermarket own brands (floorsweepings), through long-standing favourites like PG Tips, to rather exclusive specialist blenders and suppliers. Twinings is mid range, along with Taylors of Harrogate (Yorkshire and Yorkshire Gold), Clipper, and others. Almost all tea is blended from leaves imported from India, China and countries of similar climate.

However, there is one commercial English tea garden, in Cornwall - http://tregothnan.co.uk/ - they have the distinction of exporting tea to China. In very small, exclusive and expensive quantities!

 

[Trafalgar]

Thanks for the link and the other information CC.

 

[RossJarvis]

Any form of "normal tea", strong, in a pint mug with a little bit of "Acker" (but never Morrisons Green Label). Most people I know appear to have switched to "Red Bush", in my mind this term has absolutely nothing to do with a hot steeped leaf beverage :shock:

 

[RogerS]

Never. Vile stuff.

 

[Karl]

Spot on Roger...

 

[DennisCA]

I don't drink tea, coffee only.

 

[morfa]

Twinings every day. I only tend to drink tea in the afternoon.

Coffee in the morning and I tend to be a coffee drinker in general. But I try to stay of caffeinated stuff after lunchtime.