Friday TeaDay 9/17/10 Crave Factor 2010 Black Tea?

[Chip]

Greetings everyone and welcome to another TeaDay and to Crave Factor 2010! Please stop in and share what is in your cup throughout the day.

Yesterday we discussed OOLONG Crave Factor. You can still vote and discuss yesterday's topic.

Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic. Finally a tea artmom will crave???!!!???

Crave Factor 2010 of different teas. Today, we find out about BLACK Tea! Do you crave Black, what is your personal Crave Factor for Black? Please share.

I am looking forward to craving tea on TeaDay with everyone today! Bottoms up.

[Seeker]

Hmmm, interestingly, I have been craving black some lately.
This is relatively new for me.

[laura99]

I do crave black teas, its the first tea I reach for every morning. Seems to get my day going just right. Yunnan gold bud this morning.

[brandon]

4 -
Last night I had an incredible and brand new tea.
Zhu Ye Qing Hong Cha from Sichuan.
Reminded me a lot of the tippy new hong cha from Wuyi, Jin Jun Mai.



Excuse my lack of relevant photo. I am still craving OOLONG. Morning Shui Xian.

[artmom]

Chip, your command is my wish!!!

10, 10, 10, 10, 10!!!!!

Every day, I have a black Tea. I crave 2nd Flush 2010 Hattialli Golden Lion, an Assam from Lochan; Mariage Freres Marco Polo; Harney & Sons Hot Cinnamon Spice. There are many blacks I like.

[brlarson]

I like some black (red) teas but I never crave them. I go through at most 200 grams over the winter, usually Keemun or Yunnan gold tips.

Tim's Jin Jun Mai sounds intriguing though. A tiny amount of the 2nd and 1st grade should arrive here today but I have no idea when I'll have the time to taste them. I plan to practice with the 2nd grade before I brew the 1st.

It's Friday! Hou de's Bei Dou No 1 is my breakfast tea today. Mmmmm

[PamEast]

I love my black teas!!! Very high on the "crave" scale. I especially love my Yunnan teas... Gold, Golden curls, Jig.... MMMMmmmmm....

Golden Curls in my cup this morning.

Hey Chip, are we going to get a tally for the week of which variety of tea garnered the highest crave factor?

Pam

[TwoPynts]

Black tea in the AM is the best. Like Pam, Golden Curls really hits the spot. Irish Breakfast too.

[geeber1]

As a matter of fact, I DO crave the black!

Hu Hong Hunan in my cup this morning.

[murrius]

I crave black teas in the evening and sometimes start thinking about my evening black tea in the early afternoon. I only have eyes for Japanese greens in the morning though.

[Crafty_Mom]

I love my black tea! 10. Mind you, I do like my greens and whites and tisanes, but need my black tea.

This morning's cup was Earl Grey. I think I'll go have some more of that now. I've earned it. (My tub is now sparkly clean. This does call for tea. )

[debunix]

My encounters with all but a select few black teas have been so bad that I mostly spit them out, and the ones I have tried and enjoyed generally did not set up cravings--it's more that sometimes I open the cupboard and the little tin of yunnan gold suddenly looks like attractive again.

And it has been a long time since I last brewed some up.

[Victoria]

I certainly crave them - especially in the mornings. And I have found that starting the day with a black helps me to better appreciate the oolongs that follow in the day, rather than when I just drink only oolong. This was quite a revelation for me.

Starting the day with Darjeeling from Tea Emporium.

[entropyembrace]

I do get some black cravings but they´re not as strong or frequent as roasted oolong or Japanese green cravings are...so I´ll say a 6

[tortoise]

We do drink a significant portion of black tea in our house. I have been drinking H & Sons, Kenilworth Garden Op nearly every morning for the past month. Smooth Ceylon. Most of our blacks come from Harney & Sons in the absence of cash for Mariage Freres in gay Paris. I also really like H&S Palm Court and Queen Catherine. The three listed here are probably my faves. We usually have these with half and half and sugar...Honkey Style!

We do enjoy their flavored blacks like Florence, and Paris. Paris, I suspect, is designed to be similar to our favorite black tea blend of all time from Mariage Freres, the inimitable -- MARCO POLO.

I don't work for H&S, they just offer condensed quality from one U.S. location -- so we order from them frequently.

Kenilworth was my morning cuppa.