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Earl Grey, hot, straight from the replicator.

Yorkshire Tea

Local loose-leaf. Although I do enjoy Ahmad Tea loose leaf. It's very high quality for the price.

Brand? The fuck is that?! I pick my tea from the wild and sun dry it at home as any proper tea lover would.

Bunch of fukin posers talking about brands n shit...

I try to buy local loose leaf.

If you are looking for a grocery store recommendations, I love Celestial Seasonings herbal teas. They have an amazing peppermint tea.

Yorkshire tea gold. As demanded by the Spiffing Brit.

I buy it in a tea shop close by as loose leaf. It‘s a day and night difference between loose leafs and prepackaged and processed tea. It‘s also a lot of fun to try so many different teas and find the one you enjoy the most, there is so much variety.

We mostly order loose leaf from Adagio. Though I might try Yunnan Sourcing soon. No shop near us sells loose leaf in any appreciable variety or quantity.

Arizona.

Loose leaf tea from the middle east and for the most part which are country, region, and type based. As far as brands go, Sadaf Cardamom tea is pretty good and affordable.

I drink all kinds of different tea. At the moment I often drink Keiko Matcha and lots of really beautiful green tea my friend sent me from Taiwan. I love to coldbrew green tea in summer. Greek mountain tea my parents bring me from crete. I also buy fresh mint to make tea from some of the fresh leaves and to dry the rest.

Besides that my favorite brand is The English Teashop in all forms it comes in and Cupper/Clipper.

I mostly drink yanchas/Wuyi rock oolongs. Get them from various sources, no specific brand. Also occasionally reputable sheng pu-erh if I can afford some, non-pu fermented teas, jin jun mei, genmaicha, or anything Nepalese or Malawi whole-ish leaf, in small quantities (max 50g).

Grew up with loose leaf so I don't like most supermarket brands. Palais des thés is not bad tho.

Most tea I buy from Yunnansourcing.com and thes-du-japon.com

A tea shop in Seattle called miro. I get their English breakfast delivered in bulk across the country it's so good.

Clipper

Ahmad earl grey. We buy the loose tea, about ten 500g boxes per year. Also use it for kombucha.

Twinings or Yorkshire

Usually Twinings, but I'll accept store brand for black tea. Lipton or Tetley for green teas.

Tips is good. I drink all kinds depending on mood. If you like cinnamon you need to try Harney and Sons Hot Cinnamon Spice.. I am addicted.

I also like to make sun tea in the summer, but I'm searching for the perfect tea for that. Local grocery has the usual Lousianne and Lipton.

This gunpowder green tea is good for beginners or the lazy because it's mild and exceptionally tolerant of steeping too long, or in too hot water. Never bitter.

If you already like green teas, try some Taiwanese 10% (nearly green) oolong, more complex than plain green. 0% oxidised is green, 100% is black, oolong is everything in between.

I'm still going through the Ceylon black tea I bought at Buckingham Palace in 2019.

If you're in a place they ship to, check out these guys. Oolong specialist tea shop in Seattle that has some of the best quality tea I've ever had. It's a really small operation, too, with people who really love what they do: https://floatingleaves.com/

Twinings mostly

Yorkshire if I'm lazy, Golden Monkey from Wenyang Tea Garden if I'm not.

Bigelow spiced chai.

We like the big UK brands like Yorkshire (the British know tea), but of the main US brands, usually grab Bigelo. But any tea drinker has a cabinet full of all kinds of tea.

Stash, usually lemon ginger

Davidson's gunpowder green and occasionally their Earl grey

I've been drinking a ton of Tazo glazed lemon loaf tea. Herbal. Splash of oatmilk and rose syrup. Ugh so good. Bigelo Oolong is good too.

I usually look for well reviewed, reasonably priced loose Darjeeling of whatever brand I can find when I want black tea. But mostly I mix teas and flower petals of various types depending on my mood. Lavender, chamomile, calendula, rose, etc.

I feel like such a poser over here with my Bigelow and Celestial Seasonings.

Chun Mee loose leaf green tea from a German drug store chain (DM). A fresh, rather herbal taste with a hint of bitterness. I love it.

Or, if that counts, ginger tea made from fresh ginger root slices.

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Teapigs - one of the best out there!

Local to me, but Rare Tea Cellar makes some excellent blends.