Lets talk tea!

[FADEC]

More specifically sun tea. What are your favorite brands and why?? I hadn't made any in a few years and made a batch yesterday. Tasted kinda off and old tasting. Used good filtered water. Used Red Diamond tea bags.

Don't need anything exquisite. Just good 'Ol American sittin on the porch drinking tea!

Also I prefer it unsweetened, if that makes a difference. And only sun tea. I don't want to brew it. Tom

 

[B1974]

Red Rose orange pekoe unsweetened for me. Don't brew it, just let it sit on the kitchen counter and drink it over ice.

 

[Trav]

Not a tea drinker, I don't want to look like a handbag from drinking it.

Can you use tea to tan hides?


Re: Tanning with tea? Yes, you can, but it takes a while. Basically, it's the same process as oak bark tanning, where you submerge the hide in a strong solution solution of the tea, leaves and all. Works best on small hides, and you will lose any hair from the animal.

 

[Howe]

I'm a tea drinker since I was a child. I use to drink black tea mixed with jasmine and tuberose (Agave amica). Years ago I got opportunities to try Darjeeling tea, Oloong, cherry flower tea from Japan and several exquisite kind of tea. Every kind of tea trigger distinctive feeling, jasmine makes me relax, while darjeeling makes me feel more energetic.

 

[vavavroom]

Not a tea drinker, I don't want to look like a handbag from drinking it.

Green tea has about half the amount of tannins that coffee has, and black tea has up to twice the tannins coffee has.

 

[Motu]

Black tea...white, with sugar.

 

[tc1446]

Tetley Tea bags.....4 small in boiling water for exactly 5 min. Pour in container with desired amt of suger. Makes about 2 qts.

 

[MikeB@Texas]

More specifically sun tea. What are your favorite brands and why?? I hadn't made any in a few years and made a batch yesterday. Tasted kinda off and old tasting. Used good filtered water. Used Red Diamond tea bags.

Don't need anything exquisite. Just good 'Ol American sittin on the porch drinking tea!

Also I prefer it unsweetened, if that makes a difference. And only sun tea. I don't want to brew it. Tom

Buy this online. Walters Bay, best tea I ever had!

 

[UG_Passat]

Green tea... some bags in a water pitcher, throw in fridge at night, next morning enjoy over ice.

 

[Drosselmier]

Red Rose orange pekoe unsweetened for me. Don't brew it, just let it sit on the kitchen counter and drink it over ice.

You might want to try Yorkshire tea in the red package. It's available in your local Loblaw type stores.
I drank Red Rose for years till now.

 

[NYEngineer]

Buy this online. Walters Bay, best tea I ever had!

So I took your advice and checked out Walters Bay’s website. Decided to order the raspberry iced tea bags. It was around 11 dollars for one package. A week later, a big box shows up with a handwritten note that says Thank you for your first order! It had a mug and just about every tea they make EXCEPT the one I ordered. Must have been someone else’s order. I was going to send it back and then figured the shipping would be nuts so I just reordered what I wanted and gave most of the other stuff away.
Anyway, I made the iced tea yesterday and it was great. Not a strong raspberry flavor but nice and the tea is very good. Thanks for the tip.

 

[kwijibo]

We have a local tea store called Tea Source they also are online. They carry over 200 teas. We make refrigerator tea. We have a iced tea picture which we add the tea to, and then place it in the refrigerator for 8 hours and then remove the tea leaves. The flavor we like is called Minnesota nice. It’s a blend of black and green tea with lemon grass and jasmine.

 

[SHOZ]

17th February 1947. The United States Board of Tea Experts assemble for the first time since 1942 to set up minimum standards for the eight to ten different types of tea that would be coming into the country the following year.

 

[NYEngineer]

For the last couple of years I've been making iced tea with Luzianne tea bags. Real good flavor. Tastes good unsweetened.

 

[Inked]

Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Gold. When I do drink tea, this is what I reach for in the cabinet.

 

[MrGraybeard]

While visiting China I learned about pu'erh ("red") tea, which is fermented or aged. The process takes the tannic edge off of black tea. Very rich tasting.

 

[97prizm]

More specifically sun tea. What are your favorite brands and why?? I hadn't made any in a few years and made a batch yesterday. Tasted kinda off and old tasting. Used good filtered water. Used Red Diamond tea bags.

Don't need anything exquisite. Just good 'Ol American sittin on the porch drinking tea!

Also I prefer it unsweetened, if that makes a difference. And only sun tea. I don't want to brew it. Tom

I like Bigelow plantation mint, now called simply mint or something. Great flavor and a hint of caffeine. I'm starting to like tea but my complaint is that many of the mint, or fruit flavor tea have odd herbal side flavors. One was a BlackBerry and sage. Sage belongs on Turkey or chicken not in tea.

 

[Hermann]

For the last couple of years I've been making iced tea with Luzianne tea bags. Real good flavor. Tastes good unsweetened.

Took a while but my Luzianne gallon glass jar recipe is on point. Unsweetened of course.

 

[Slick3914]

Earl Gray, Lady Gray, Lemon Lift are my favorites. Nice change of pace from coffee.

 

[Zee09]

Luzianne tea bothers me with a perfume aroma. I tried several boxes and brewed hot and cold. The company says it may be absorbing the aroma from the box. Nah..