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How refreshing, a good cup of tea article, or should that be a good article about a cup of tea ? No matter, for true refreshment try Lady Grey, black. Don't add milk it goes a disgusting grey colour, and it doesn't need lemon, its tasty enough already.
With apologies to Earl Grey, your lady is much nicer..

personaly i like milk in mine, but i prefer the Earl!

To stop your tea turning grey when you add milk you have to leave the tea bag in for a good few
minutes before adding the milk. Giving the tea bag a good squeeze also helps the colour.
PS - the Earl rules

I'm sorry but a true earl or lady would never, evr, use tea bags. Leaves or nothing !!!!!

Well spoken! (or typed, I guess) Leaves Rock da house!

But, is color really as important as flavor/

Flavour is all, colour is a bonus. Fellow leaf brewer I solute you....tea bags indeed !!!!

If you want really really good tea, you should work up a friendship with the owner of a tea plantation. I live in India and my family knows a fellow who owns a big palntation in Assam in the North of the country. He sends us some of the most awesome blends. The downside is, we can never ever get the same blend again because it's his personal blend and he likes to send us a different blend every time. So, in a few cases we have become addicted to an absolutely wonderful tea only to find that we stupidly used it all up and now have to buy some of the store-bought stuff or wait for a new gift pack. Earl Grey is the only way we can survive the interim period.

Earl Grey is, indeed, the only way to go. I wish I had your luck! Out here, it is practially impossible to find really good tea of any kind! Loose leaf, especially. Americans just don't understand!

I agree, from my visits across the pond the Americans just do not understand how to make tea. On the other hand I don't bump into tea plantation owners evry day, so "one does ones best".

We Americans are getting slightly better, though. The local Krogers (grocery store chain) in my neck of the woods *does* carry loose leaf Earl Grey. I've never had Lady Grey, though--I'll have to try it.

Without having tried Lady Grey, though, I have to say Earl Grey rocks. I will reserve final judgement 'til I have more information.

Judge on, judge on