Tea for one

[kellinator]

I've always loved tea. I was raised drinking sweet tea pretty much all the time, to the point where when we went to Wisconsin for a trip when I was eight, I was confused when nobody was drinking iced tea. Hot tea was a habit I picked up in high school, now that I think about it, possibly because it seemed like something a mildly snooty Anglophile might do to protest living in small-town Tennessee. My family had the standard Hank Hill reaction: "The girl ain't right."

Lately I've been drinking a lot of tea and trying new teas, which is a lot of fun. I really like toasted mate, green and white teas, and I'm trying to develop a taste for rooibos (South African red tea). I love going to Teavana (http://store.yahoo.com/teavana/) for the Mate Carnival (toasted mate with chocolate notes -- called "the coffee lover's tea") and I'm dying to try some of the more exotic teas from the Republic of Tea (http://www.republicoftea.com/). I drink a lot of their Apple Blossom Green Tea.

Who else likes tea? Recommendations?

Comments

[buckthorn.livejournal.com]

When I was in Athens, I got addicted to a tea called Russian Caravan at the Athens Coffee House. I've tried to find it since they closed, and I've found a tea called Russian Caravan, but I can't decide if it's the same tea or not. Teavana sells it, though, and it's very yummy... a nice smoky flavor, pretty robust.

And yes, loose tea is nice and you can feel like a tea snob. Bonus.

[ga-sunshine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, most of the coffee houses here in Athens now don't seem to have good teas, though the new Panera Bread thingy does have Chai and some of the others have added Chai.

[buckthorn.livejournal.com]

any city where you can get beer cheaper than tea is just... y'know... wrong. ;)

or right. I can't decide which now.