HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHIPPAROONEY!
Hope it's great!
As for the flavored tea question- I do enjoy them once in a while- especially Indian cha with lots of spices, and fruity flavored ones for making iced teas. Also, this winter I 've been into creamy, sweet types of flavors- liek vanilla, and adagio's valentines with a little sugar. If I do drink flavored teas, it's usually cos I have a sweet tooth craving, or if I'm eating something sweet.
Hope it's great!
As for the flavored tea question- I do enjoy them once in a while- especially Indian cha with lots of spices, and fruity flavored ones for making iced teas. Also, this winter I 've been into creamy, sweet types of flavors- liek vanilla, and adagio's valentines with a little sugar. If I do drink flavored teas, it's usually cos I have a sweet tooth craving, or if I'm eating something sweet.
Mar 31st, '08, 13:28
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I have never had a flavored tea where I feel the added "flavor" doese not effect (ina bad way) the flavor of the true tea. I feel it is just a way for companies to add filler to make less actual tea go further, so to speak, and make the customer pay more and they make a proffit. It is also a nice way to make people who dont truly like the taste of tea by itself feel like they are still "tea drinkers".
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-Today has been a premium sencha day all day
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Mar 31st, '08, 13:44
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Thank you everyone for your kind birthday wishes...that really made my day!!!
I am having an intense cup of Fukamushi Superior. I will go so far as to call this the best $11 tea on the planet.... it is just an unbelievably flavorful everyday sencha, and despite its stronger than most astringency, it just works.
Flavors...back in the previous millenium when I started drinking tea...and trying everything, flavored teas dominated my cabinet. But as I discovered greens and oolongs and to a lesser degree blacks, I found I prefered unflavored. And have ever since.
Flavored iced tea is still nice.
I am having an intense cup of Fukamushi Superior. I will go so far as to call this the best $11 tea on the planet.... it is just an unbelievably flavorful everyday sencha, and despite its stronger than most astringency, it just works.
Flavors...back in the previous millenium when I started drinking tea...and trying everything, flavored teas dominated my cabinet. But as I discovered greens and oolongs and to a lesser degree blacks, I found I prefered unflavored. And have ever since.
Flavored iced tea is still nice.
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Mar 31st, '08, 13:51
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Happy Birthday Chip! 
I'm the miscreant who really loves flavored teas. But I really love black and oolong teas too.
Yesterday, I tried to drink some decent sencha and gagged. I think I'm just not a Japanese green drinker. (Now, honestly, it did get better over time and when I watered it down again). I'll drink dragonwell occasionally, but if you get me to drink green, it's genmaicha or flavored.
Which probably makes all the green folks livid. Well, more green tea for you, my friends!
On such a fine tea day, I am drinking chocolate tea, but I may switch to cinnamon and vanilla tea. Or maybe huckleberry.
I'm the miscreant who really loves flavored teas. But I really love black and oolong teas too.
Yesterday, I tried to drink some decent sencha and gagged. I think I'm just not a Japanese green drinker. (Now, honestly, it did get better over time and when I watered it down again). I'll drink dragonwell occasionally, but if you get me to drink green, it's genmaicha or flavored.
Which probably makes all the green folks livid. Well, more green tea for you, my friends!
On such a fine tea day, I am drinking chocolate tea, but I may switch to cinnamon and vanilla tea. Or maybe huckleberry.
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happy birthday chip. i don't mind scented/flavored teas if they are really good (the bolero blend sample i received was delicious). i'm really curious about the cherry sencha that gets a lot of love here. once i picked up some chinese black tea with cherry and it was like drinking cherry cough syrup 
no tea yet since i woke up later than usual. i did have coffee with my bagel though!
no tea yet since i woke up later than usual. i did have coffee with my bagel though!
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Happy birthday Chippers!
As for flavored teas... I think my position is fairly well-known.
As for flavored teas... I think my position is fairly well-known.
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Chip- Happy Birthday good sir! *doffs hat*
I'm not a huge fan of flavored teas myself. If you consider Earl Grey a flavor I do enjoy it quite a bit. I've had a few others, but with most you just get the scent and crappy tea. Adagio's peach and passionfruit are loverly as well as valentines.
Matcha for me. All. Day. Long.
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I'm not a huge fan of flavored teas myself. If you consider Earl Grey a flavor I do enjoy it quite a bit. I've had a few others, but with most you just get the scent and crappy tea. Adagio's peach and passionfruit are loverly as well as valentines.
Matcha for me. All. Day. Long.
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Fencerdenoctum
i don't really enjoy flavored teas, but i'll occasionally go for some jasmine green, and i can always get down on the earl grey. although i don't drink it much, i really like chai. i also like to flavor my iced teas with mints or lemon balm, and i can even dig a fruited oolong iced.
i've been tea-starved today (only yunnan imperial in the morning) because i had to go to the dentist. the hygienist saw some staining action going on, and can you believe what she said?
"you drink CAW-fee, o' is you a SMO-kah?"
um, excuse me, none of the above: i drink tea.
i've been tea-starved today (only yunnan imperial in the morning) because i had to go to the dentist. the hygienist saw some staining action going on, and can you believe what she said?
"you drink CAW-fee, o' is you a SMO-kah?"
um, excuse me, none of the above: i drink tea.
hello everyone. and happy b-day to chip.
I started over on o-cha's forum where all the cool kids talk about the greener, steamier sides of tea and I finally decided to venture over to the popier and seemingly more eventful side of tea chatting here for a change.
I generally dislike all the really weird flavored teas but I go with the good old classics when the feeling strikes me; I'm not opposed to some chai or jasmine or a rainy afternoon spent with the good earl g.
It seems to be the fashionable thing to do to share one's own teaday as well: I started with coffee actually (gasp!) needing some extra caffiene instead of my old morning standby Darjeeling Mullootar 2nd Flush, but have no fear, I soon switched to some everyday sencha with lunch and rounded things off with an afternoon 'session' of some Sencha Shoike-no-o that I had the pleasure of purchasing at The Ippodo tea shop. And what the night may bring I can only guess but I'm thinking a casual gaiwan of Wen Shan Bao Zhong.
I started over on o-cha's forum where all the cool kids talk about the greener, steamier sides of tea and I finally decided to venture over to the popier and seemingly more eventful side of tea chatting here for a change.
I generally dislike all the really weird flavored teas but I go with the good old classics when the feeling strikes me; I'm not opposed to some chai or jasmine or a rainy afternoon spent with the good earl g.
It seems to be the fashionable thing to do to share one's own teaday as well: I started with coffee actually (gasp!) needing some extra caffiene instead of my old morning standby Darjeeling Mullootar 2nd Flush, but have no fear, I soon switched to some everyday sencha with lunch and rounded things off with an afternoon 'session' of some Sencha Shoike-no-o that I had the pleasure of purchasing at The Ippodo tea shop. And what the night may bring I can only guess but I'm thinking a casual gaiwan of Wen Shan Bao Zhong.
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I chose 'other'.
Tea, like wine or cheese, represents a spectrum of different flavors already. If someone finds some combination of "Tea X" and "Fruit Y" or whatever to be tasty and non-toxic, I say go for it.
At PF Chang's, they have some flavored tea that's not bad. And I've had a few others, like Citron Green that I thought were just fine.
Tea, like wine or cheese, represents a spectrum of different flavors already. If someone finds some combination of "Tea X" and "Fruit Y" or whatever to be tasty and non-toxic, I say go for it.
At PF Chang's, they have some flavored tea that's not bad. And I've had a few others, like Citron Green that I thought were just fine.