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Green Tea vs Sugar w/ Tea

I like drinking green/black/red teas.

They suit themselves to my dinner hour mode; enjoy the flavour, muse on the subtleties, rinse the palate for another go at the various dishes lay out on the table.

On the other hand I also like drinking sweetened tea; enjoy the flavour, enjoy the sweetness, 'comfort food' style warmth pick me up, genesis for Iced Tea.

Of course Oolong and other Asian (Oriental?) teas lend themselves to the former, but British/Indian style tea deserve a place on the shelf along with them.

Still, as I have gotten older I have cut back on putting sugar in everything- I used to sweeten tea at the Chinese restaurant as a child but that didn't last past about Five or Six years old.

There are some herbal concoctions that seem to not be 'finished' until a little sweetener is added, and I doubt I'll ever add milk/cream to tea but as I sit here and type I am waiting for some Twinnings Lady Grey to finish steeping, in a mason jar (for it's volume) and you know I put some sugar in there too.

TBerk

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I've been experimenting with adding dry flowers. Rose bud (not hips) is a wonderful natural sweetener. My local tea shoppe sells some great tisane mixtures with other herbal sweeteners such as dry berries. One is called Asian Quince which is dried oriental apple blossoms. The Asian markets have other herbal sweeteners. I can't drink from gongfu cups because those tiny English bone China teacups taught me to use clotted cream.

Jim

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Space Cowboy

Hello!

Someone once told me that adding sugar to tea while it is brewing hinders the steeping process. I wasn't sure if you meant that you added sugar after the steeping or not, but does anyone know if that's true or not? It seems intuitive to add all sweeteners or cream after the tea's steeped, but just curious :)

I too enjoy adding sugar to stronger teas; I like my teas very mild and thus gravitate towards greens, but have found that a little sugar can take the edge off the stronger black teas for me.

Tiffany

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amatouTT

I hadn't heard that one before, it might have a chemical/physical explanation though.

Well, it depends a bit on whether I am paying attention or not. I usually sweeten after steeping to taste.

TBerk

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T

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