Which type of tea is your favourite?

copacetic

since there is already more tea than coffee posts, lets keep it going:

I like Lyons mostly, but branch out into green tea in the evenings.

joolsveer

Rooibos at any time.

simu

Rooibos Earl Grey atm!

feylya

Golden Yunnan

Owen

Good ol' Jean Luc has me hooked on Earl Grey.

Nordie

Green Tea & sometimes the White Tea

challengemaster

Lyons orig..

Does iced tea count? if so, that

Ruu_Old

Lyons Gold Blend normally and Vanilla Almond Tea can be tasty every once in a while.

nesf

I'm from Cork. Ergo, Barry's.

hello_kitty

robert roberts luxury tea. It's fab. Used to be able to get it with strings but can't find it anywhere in the last while

Doomspell

Barry's Gold or Classic Blend

Kojak

Lyons Gold Blend for me.

Gran Hermano

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Some people appear lost!

copacetic

Gran Hermano wrote:

boards.ie > Rec > Food & Drink > Coffee
Some people appear lost!

why, where did they put the & tea part of the forum??

silja

Green tea with roasted brown rice is my favourite by far.
Second place is shared by Lady Grey and Chai tea (where I actually prefer the powdered stuff to bags! Isn't that odd?)

copacetic

silja wrote:

Green tea with roasted brown rice is my favourite by far.
Second place is shared by Lady Grey and Chai tea (where I actually prefer the powdered stuff to bags! Isn't that odd?)

really? do you just add the rice to the tea or is it a flavoured one?

emeraldstar

Barry's Gold Blend.

Really like the Barry's decaff too, coz it doesn't keep me awake and is just as good.

M&S Fairtrade Decaff is also v nice

silja

copacetic wrote:

really? do you just add the rice to the tea or is it a flavoured one?

It's a flavoured tea, consisting of Japanese Green tea and roasted brown rice in bags. It's called Genmaicha, and you can buy it in larger healthfood and/or tea stores such as Nature's Way on South George Street in Dublin.

Schlemm

used to love Barry's but now I'm a Lyons convert.

Ginger tea with honey is lovely, especially if you've a cold.

Find it hard to get nice green tea, but the Asia Markets always have a good selection.

copacetic

silja wrote:

It's a flavoured tea, consisting of Japanese Green tea and roasted brown rice in bags. It's called Genmaicha, and you can buy it in larger healthfood and/or tea stores such as Nature's Way on South George Street in Dublin.

cheers, will give it a shot..

nesf

silja wrote:

Green tea with roasted brown rice is my favourite by far.
Second place is shared by Lady Grey and Chai tea (where I actually prefer the powdered stuff to bags! Isn't that odd?)

Similar to this stuff? http://www.republicoftea.com/templates/detail.asp?navID=276

copacetic

nesf wrote:

Similar to this stuff? http://www.republicoftea.com/templates/detail.asp?navID=276

you are a bit of a tea pimp really nesf aren't you!

i tried that white tea from the older thread (well a similar one) and
wasn't overly taken with it. maybe the one I got wasn't a great brand,
must try the one from that site too..

silja

nesf wrote:

Similar to this stuff? http://www.republicoftea.com/templates/detail.asp?navID=276

I've never had that brand but yeah, similar to that.

Nordie

silja wrote:

It's a flavoured tea, consisting of Japanese Green tea and roasted brown rice in bags. It's called Genmaicha, and you can buy it in larger healthfood and/or tea stores such as Nature's Way on South George Street in Dublin.

These teas sound great, will look out for them. Thanx.

BendiBus

Bewleys Clipper Gold

Sparks

Twinings Earl Grey and Twinings Lapsang Souchong.

Mr Magnolia

I like the Twinings Earl Grey myself, must try Genmaicha. I'm going to be out a fortune the next time I go shopping.

copacetic wrote:

why, where did they put the & tea part of the forum??

It's coming

silvine

Twinings Green tea is good stuff as is rooibos. Can't beat those pyramid bags for a decent cuppa too.

nesf

silja wrote:

I've never had that brand but yeah, similar to that.

Yeah that's the only brand of it I've tried. I liked it a lot. I found it much nicer than most green teas I've tried.

rockbeer

Darjeeling loose leaf (but not the twinings variety).

nesf

copacetic wrote:

you are a bit of a tea pimp really nesf aren't you!

i tried that white tea from the older thread (well a similar one) and
wasn't overly taken with it. maybe the one I got wasn't a great brand,
must try the one from that site too..

My personal recommendation would be their Breakfast Assam. It's a nice strong malty assam very full in flavour. I've been searching for a decent replacement in the shops here (ordering tea from the US is not exactly something for the weekly shopping list...).

A good Assam tea would be my favourite but day to day I'm happy enough with Barry's. I'm a bit of a black tea kind of person, I flirted with green and white tea for a while but it never made a lasting impression on me.