If you have to drink bag tea, what do you drink?

I like the Republic of Tea daily green tea. My wife is still stuck on Celestial Seasonings "Lemon Zinger" a green tea with hibiscus, rose hips and lemon.

I am also interested in hearing about others favorite bag teas, especially green, for the office.

I have some samplings of Adagio loose leaf tea that I like - see my other post. I am interested in helping my wife to see the light of loose whole leaf green teas by finding a good mix of green tea with hibiscus.

My "everyday" teas are PG Tips and Yorkshire Tea. I also like Twinings English Breakfast and Twinings Earl Grey. I have tried Republic of Tea's British Breakfast and Earl Greyer, but they were no better than Twinings but far more expensive.

Loose tea yields the best results, of course, but IMO, it is possible to get a decent cuppa from tea bags, as long as the tea is prepared properly with boiling water, and using a teapot rather than brewing it in a mug.

Celestial Seasonings Candy Cane Lane (available seasonally) Celestial Seasonings Decaf Mandarin Orchard Green Celestial Seasonings Honey Vanilla Chamomile Bigelow Chamomile Mango Bigelow Earl Grey Bigelow Earl Grey Green Bigelow French Vanilla Hawaiian Islands Tea Co. Guava Ginseng Green - the 4th one down on

I've tried the Mango Maui and Passion Fruit and they're good, but I'm more into guava anyway.

The only difference I can see between a teapot and a mug would be a lid. Put a plate over the mug.

I'll keep my eye out for Twinings. They might carry it at the Whole Foods Market. What do you think of their green teas?

For black tea I have always liked PG tips and also Tetley (Typhoo is good too, to me anyway, but PG is still my favorite). I haven't really cared for Yorkshire Gold, it seems weak to me. I know a lot of other people like it. I also like Williamson and Magore teabags, they have the "elephant" tins sometimes which are totally fun to me.

I haven't done much green tea in teabags...if I did I'd try a Republic of Tea too since they have so many different flavors and they do store them in tins. For people who don't have a store that sells loose leaf teas otherwise, and if they can't order online, I think RoT has a good selection usually, even in their loose leaf, but it is more expensive.

Herbals...well, chamomile, I used to really like Red Zinger (Cel. Seas., it's tart because of hibiscus so now I bought loose leaf hibiscus at my local natural food store and can make my own tart teas, yay!). I used to like Mandarine Orange by them, but have since gotten away from it.

The tea bag both my husband and I REALLY enjoy though is their (CS) Bengal Spice (we call it Tiger Tea...it's got a tiger on the box). It's basically a chai mix with a strong hint of vanilla and no actual tea so it doesn't have any caffeine. I steep it in a cup of 3/4 hot milk and 1/4 cup hot water. It's fabulous (IMHO), even before bed. Maybe especially before bed.

Numi makes a honeybush teabag that I'm drinking from right now, it's not bad. (You can buy looseleaf honeybush too BTY in some places)

Now of course the problem with Cel. Seasonings is that they don't individually wrap their teabags. Does anyone here have a solution for this? Other than storing the whole box in a zip lock in a dark place?

Melinda

Melinda wrote about "elephant tins. I havent seen any in the mpls-st paul MN area. where do you get them from.? I also can't find PG Tips.

I got "Decrotive tins"(tea tins) at wallgreens after xmass very cheap.

I work in a gun range. Sometimes Remington 22 shells come in TEA TINS. So I have a supply to put CS tea bags in. I don"t care if they have pictures of little boys shooting at bunnys, I once was that little boy shooting supper.

Most of the teas mentioned, are ones I have tried.I often hunt dollar stores and ethnic markets for cheap teas. Most are poor. I have found two good $ 1 teas.(In 50 trys) I bought the whole shelf.

I trade tea bags with my relitives. The $1 teas somtimes get me good tea.

tom

I'd rather just drink water. Although I had some very decent large leaf tea both green and black in silk bags in hotels and airplanes in China, I never were able to buy them. I always carry a small bamboo stalk box with green puerh "pills" with me, so I am almost never without good tea on the road.

Sasha.

Mighty Leaf.

regards,

Pam @ Home

Cort Furniture Rental and Honesty are two exclusive concepts.

What would prevent you from brewing loose tea ? I buy empty bags that I fill with what I like. If I work somewhere more than 4 hours in a day (it's rare), I just put oolong leaves in a mug and I take the time to clean at the end. Well, I have teabags at home, herb teas except a mango tea that tastes 100% mango and 0% tea, so that doesn't count as tea

Kuri

Honest Tea has the least dust of all the bag teas brands I have tried. I really like their Assam Black. My local Whole Foods Market carries it.

A close second is Choice Tea. Their Celtic Breakfast is delicious. Surprisingly, I also like their Mango Ceylon with Vanilla (I ordinarily am not a fan of flovored teas).

A bonus - both teas are Fair Trade Certified and Organic.

Good luck with your tasting, Tom

I also can't find PG Tips.

-- Douglas

You can get PG Tips cheaper at:

Or better yet, go to an Indian market and get Brooke Bond Taj Mahal. It is made by the same company that makes PG Tips, and it is very similar in taste but much cheaper. I recently bought a box of 216 Taj Mahal teabags for $6.

I also can't find PG Tips.

-- Douglas

You can get PG Tips cheaper at:

Or better yet, go to an Indian market and get Brooke Bond Taj Mahal. It is made by the same company that makes PG Tips, and it is very similar in taste but much cheaper. I recently bought a box of 216 Taj Mahal teabags for $6.

I also can't find PG Tips.

-- Douglas

You can get PG Tips cheaper at:

Or better yet, go to an Indian market and get Brooke Bond Taj Mahal. It is made by the same company that makes PG Tips, and it is very similar in taste but much cheaper. I recently bought a box of 216 Taj Mahal teabags for $6.

I don't deal with places that require all your personal information before telling you the shipping costs. English Tea Store openly displays shipping costs. My last order had a shipping charge of $3.95.

before telling you the shipping costs. English Tea Store openly displays shipping costs. My last order had a shipping charge of $3.95.

"curly mustache" asked about what people drink if they have to resort to bags:

This was a great question. Apparently we're not all allergic to tea bags, at least not all the time.

I just trained from New York to Savannah, Georgia and back and I brought along a bunch of Dilmah Ceylon Breakfast bags.

Dilmah loose is one of favorite teas, and perhaps favorite Ceylon tea, and the quality of the bagged tea is very good as well.

Warren