Welcome to Teachat... enjoy your journey into learning more about the delicious art of tea. Good luck with school!
Sarah (your neighbor in Western KY)
Welcome to the slippery slope of the TeaWorld!Glaudge wrote: havent had any truely "fine" tea yet, but i have came close (twinnings bags from supermarkets, with earl grey, irish breakfast, ceylon, and darjeeling in the collection)
what teas would u suggest mi have on my list to try first eh?
^that question has probibly been asked no less than 20 million times by newcommers, right? (sry, to tried to look elsewhere, homework is a BLEEPITY BLEEP)
Was in your shoes this time last year -- Twinings or Bigelow was the "best" tea I had tried at the time.
My suggestion is find a loose leaf tea in something you already like (Earl Grey, Irish Bfast, etc) & then branch out from there. By trying something you already enjoy drinking, you'll immediately be able to tell the quality difference between bags & loose. After that, pretty much try anything. You never know what you may end up liking!
Anyway, that's what worked for me. Hope you enjoy & have fun trying new teas!
Good luck with school. I remember AP's, Junior and Senior year... My advice is just try to remember to balance your life. It isn't that hard to get a 4 or 5 on most of those tests anyway, except maybe Calc BC.
I started on Twinings too, years ago, but there is much better Tea out there. For black tea, the Adagio Sampler sounds like a good place to start. Loose leaf is the way to go...
The good thing about tea as a hobby in 2008, is that nomatter where you live, you can get awesome tea shipped to you from the Internet, and for relatively low price. Here are some of my favorite black tea's:
Good Assam, like the Meleng Estate
Good Ceylon, like the Vithkanande Estate
Golden Yunnan
Good Fujian Red
Good Keemun
Grocery store black teabags are usually a blend of Keemun, Ceylon, sometimes Kenyan tea.
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I started on Twinings too, years ago, but there is much better Tea out there. For black tea, the Adagio Sampler sounds like a good place to start. Loose leaf is the way to go...
The good thing about tea as a hobby in 2008, is that nomatter where you live, you can get awesome tea shipped to you from the Internet, and for relatively low price. Here are some of my favorite black tea's:
Good Assam, like the Meleng Estate
Good Ceylon, like the Vithkanande Estate
Golden Yunnan
Good Fujian Red
Good Keemun
Grocery store black teabags are usually a blend of Keemun, Ceylon, sometimes Kenyan tea.
Welcome to teachat-