What's your best tea, in a bag?

I like PG Tips and Tetley's in that order. Then Typhoo or Williamson and Magore.

I haven't had Twinings in a bag so can't comment on them.

Melinda

Twinings in a bag I have had, and thanks for reminding me.

I recently (three months or so ago) picked up an assortment box. It had Earl Grey, and an assortment of Breakfasts, Lets go to our good friend Google....

Irish Breakfast.

I found I really liked the Lady Grey*, one good thing about these with the oil (burgomont? [sp]) is they foil pouch the bags for freshness.

Of course with Rose you get a little figurine. :])

TBerk

I really enjoy Honest Tea's Assam Black.

When that's not available I drink Choice Organic Tea's Celtic Breakfast tea.

Tom

I've had some of that. I like Numi better, but i only had one box of it before deciding i wasn't going to buy tea in little envelopes anymore.

I deride the assertion that loose teas have to stay home. I guess some people prefer the convenience of a bag, tho.

I drank Twinings Darjeeling teabags for years, and they are pretty good. Nowadays I usually go for sachets when I'm in need of the convenience, such as from Revolution Tea or Harney & Sons, but they are on the pricey side. If I'm out somewhere (e.g. a restaurant) that offers a selection of Bigelow, Tazo or Stash teas, I go for the Earl Grey as being "safe."

I work at 13,500 feet and I tried making loose tea up here but it just didn't taste right so I stopped wasting good tea and started using teabags. My favorite bag is probably Republic of Tea "Vanilla Almond". Obviously I also go through a lot of Early Grey, Yamamoto green/oolong/hojicha, etc

bkr

When travelling, Lipton Yellow Label. I also like the Purple Darjeeling teabags (Twinnings I believe).

Astronomer?

Melinda

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:14:20 -0700, Melinda quoth:

Telescope jockey. Gives me a good excuse to live up here with the birds in the cool clouds. Very bad for the social life, though.

I usually just think of myself as an eccentric mountain hermit... ...well, actually that's probably what everyone else thinks too. :D

bkr

Dilmah. I have to try Lipton's Yellow Label, though.

Warren

"Solebury Home" ... never'd heard of it before.. it's 15 tea bags in a purple tin. Earl Grey with rose petals in rather large tetrahedronal silk-like mesh sealed bags. Absolutely the most beautiful tea thing I've ever opened. I'm not a bagged tea drinker (and have had these for months) but they are truly stunningly attractive when you pull them from the tin. They're large bits of black tea (not dust or fannings) and colorful rose petals in this fine silken mesh (no strings).. absolutely beautiful. If only I liked Earl Grey more......

That's easy, Taylor's of Harrogate's Yorkshire Gold tea bags. I buy it here in America at a specialty food shop which carries lots of British teas, sweets, condiments, etc.

Twinings does a decent job with bag teas. I rather like their Prince of Wales tea, which is a blend of various Chinese black teas. It's very consistent from batch to batch, it's cheap, and it's available nearly anywhere.

If you like similar blends, Jackson's of Piccadily also makes some decent blends in bags for little money.

For oolongs, the Ten Ren teas are not bad at all. Their guanyin in bags is really quite good. It's harder to find on short notice when you're going out of town, but it's still not terribly exotic and it is quite good.

Stay away from the Foojoy stuff. People keep serving that stuff to me. I'm not really all _THAT_ particular about teas, but Foojoy makes oolongs the way Lipton's makes black teas. And what is with Bewley's? That has to be some of the worst Assam blends ever....

--scott

I generally pass on tea away from home but keep some of the "Zinger" herbal teabags (Celestial Seasoning) in small tin in my purse. I might also carry caffiene pills. Toci

PG Tips, Twinings Irish Breakfast and English Breakfast.

And I would say just the opposite but with caveats...I haven't had Foojoy anything in a bag but their Yunnan Tippy looseleaf is stunningly good to me and for that price, well....it's one of my main teas. I buy in bulk. It's been better to me that many Yunnan from regular online retailers, more flavor, more depth...anyhow, enough of that...

The TenRen oolongs on the other hand...when I had their TGY in a bag the first time I really liked it but I was not familiar with oolongs. Now that I am I don't care for it as much. 'Course when I was drinking it at first I was putting milk and sugar in it...;) And I haven't compared TenRen oolongs in a bag to other oolongs in a bag because it seems a little hard to FIND bagged oolong for me, other than the TenRen I mean.

In my experience this tea varies a lot. I've had cans that were very tasty and insipid cans, too.

/Lew

Barrry's Gold Label in not bad to tea in a teabag.

It sells for about $6.79 for 80 tea bags..

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