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Strong enough to stand a spoon in, with a tiny drop of milk.

Weak green tea made with proper Japanese leaf tea.

Can't abide black tea in any shape or form.

The darker and stronger the better. I often leave the tea bag in just to get the full effect. Then a small bit of milk to mitigate the aftertaste.

I'm head over heels in love with Heath and Heather's Wild Blackcurrant Tea. It's an herb tea, so there's no caffeine. I just finished drinking some. I get it from an importer about 20 miles west of Boston.

> lukewarm tea is disgusting.

I think I might be the only person in the world who disagrees with this. I think lukewarm tea is the best - you can actually taste the tea rather than it just tasting hot. That said, with some cheap tea, you might prefer not to taste it.

I'm drinking a nice cuppa right now actually.

I don't mind if it's cold. Or even iced tea at room temperature. But I can't take it lukewarm. If I had to, I'd prefer it black, though.

Builder's tea normally, or if not available then mint tea, or if really no milk then strong, black sweetened earl grey.

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Well, I'm not British, I drink mine with a spoon of sugar usually. Sometimes I take milk. Whan invited to tea by my grandma I may even take lemon or orange juice (freshly squeezed) - although I'm allergic to them. Sometimes I take milk. When grandma and my parents have tea together they usually have rum in their tea.

I also like peppermint tea, roibos and fruit tea, but unfortunately there's orange peel in most fruit teas (see above). I have a drawer with 7 different kinds of tea here at the office.

Oh yes I forgot, I do sometimes drink weak vanilla redbush tea.

Also fruit infusions, but I don't count those as tea - more like hot fruit juice.

I like mine lukewarm, too, Dogster. My childhood and youth was haunted by the words "Your tea's getting cold!" Only this weekend I made myself a cuppa and fell asleep. When I woke up and found it again about an hour later, it was just right.


Having said that, I think we could fill the Chinese wall with , this topic has cropped up so often on Ask and as entries. The most memorable was written by DNA himself.

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In a word, Amaretto.
Accept no substitoots!


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"Also fruit infusions, but I don't count those as tea - more like hot fruit juice" [Teasswill]

But they don't have caffeine, nor do they have any calories to speak of. I need to go easy on both. besides, it's a matter of finding something with a nice taste, which is an individual matter.

I like mine just so, with a hint of perculiarness about it

a range of flavours, iced or hot,

the only thing I can't abide is slurping

I like my drinks not too hot or cold. Occasionally cold water is pleasant but mostly I like it not quite chilled. With hot drinks I'll either leave the water a while after boiling or add some cold too. Most people have finished their drinks (& meals too) before mine is cool enough for me.

In a translucence bone china cup for preference.

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Sorry to keep coming up with these. I still haven't found the conversation I was looking for, though.

Builders teabag in the mug
Milk
2 sugars
well brewed.
BB

With an Englishman

Darjeeling, made in a teapot, not too strong, milk, no sugar.

Occasionally Twining's Every Day tea, made in a teapot, weak, black, one sweetener (I don't have the teapots for proper Turkish tea, but that's what I'd prefer)

Sometimes herbal or fruit infusions, but either Twining's have stopped doing some of my favourite flavours or Tesco have stopped stocking them.

Builder's tea or any other strong tea - no, thank you.

oh Turkish tea! My Turkish colleagues always laugh when I'm in our Istanbul office because I'm the only one who likes Tea in a glass. They all drink instant coffee which makes me gag.