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It must be UHT milk though.

Now you're just trolling, surely.


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 11:25 am
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but I'm not into fancy flavoured rubbish.

Milk and sugar?

Milk is ok. Not into sugar though.


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 11:30 am
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Orange and pistachio rooibos, home made oat milk

Takes me back to my working class roots


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 11:38 am
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I like a proper strong olde fashioned breakfast tea - any brand really, however Dilmah do a really good one that has that has quite a distinct flavour, goes well with a couple of sugars & milk /heathen (teathen?)

Come to think of it - can any of you tea snobs tell me what that distinct "breakfast tea" flavour that comes through is? Is it from a particular type of tea that's in the mix?

Remember doing a tour of a tea plantation place in Sri Lanka & being told that the tea that goes into tea bags is just the broken leaves from same production as the £££ large leaf fancy teas, just depends on the blend as to what goes where - there's not a big crop of shit tea that goes straight into the bags, although some are shit.

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Posted : 16/11/2017 12:30 pm
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can any of you tea snobs tell me what that distinct "breakfast tea" flavour that comes through is? Is it from a particular type of tea that's in the mix?

Assam, probably.


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 12:35 pm
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Dim question but is it possible to buy "fresh" (as in not been sitting in cold storage for 6 years or rather picked the week previously) tea leaves?


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 1:31 pm
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Local coffee roaster's Russian Caravan. Strong and slightly smokey.


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 1:33 pm
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Orange and pistachio rooibos, home made oat milk

Takes me back to my working class roots

Damn! That stings. (Throws soy milk and redbush into bin)

All better now. 😉

Frazzle sandwich?


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 1:46 pm
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Tea with milk, no sugar. I like herbal wossnames too.


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 2:02 pm
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Love an Earl Grey at any time day or night, particularly enjoying Aldi's own brand Earl Grey just now.

My kids bought me a bag of T2 Earl Grey, was shocked at the price but when you do the sums it works out at 25p a cup. Makes a cracking cup of tea with a hint of peach to it.

No sugar or milk in the T2 only milk in any other tea!


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 2:27 pm
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Mix of Yorkshire and Twinings or M&S Earl Grey. No sugar, sometimes black, mostly with a splash if semi skimmed.

Multiply the above many, many times a day.


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 3:37 pm
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Wee Tea Company in Fife doing some goodstuff, they also do mail order.

Earl grey & blue flower and assam are my favourites. Wifey likes the various fruity infusion nonsense though.


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 5:08 pm
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Partial to a cup of Chai myself


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 5:15 pm
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Brooke Bond Taj Mahal Loose Leaf Black Tea ... mine is 900g.

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Posted : 16/11/2017 7:03 pm
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Nearly 3 pages in and no one has mentioned M&S Gold Tea?


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 9:22 pm
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Demonstrably not.


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 9:31 pm
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Clipper Organic , even better than Yorkshire. Any Clipper is excellent.


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 9:44 pm
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I think I have tried some M&S Gold tea before but nothing special as I can recall otherwise I would be drinking them now, instead I have 16kg of Taj tea. 😆


 
Posted : 16/11/2017 10:39 pm
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Any Clipper is excellent.

I'll agree with that.
Masala chai FTW though.


 
Posted : 17/11/2017 4:40 am
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Earl Grey… cracking… hint of peach

Nope

Palais des Thés used to have a store in Dublin. Their loose Earl Grey was the finest I’ve ever tasted.


 
Posted : 17/11/2017 4:46 am
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AlexSimon,

If you like oolong teas, have you tried this

[url] http://www.cantonteaco.com/big-red-robe-oolong-tea.html ]http://www.cantonteaco.com/big-red-robe-oolong-tea.html[/url]
It is one of my favourite oolong. A great comfort tea.

Mogrim, I will have a think about another spider thread


 
Posted : 17/11/2017 7:05 am
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So any of you lot, when you visit other people and they offer you a cuppa, do you go "Yes please. I'll have a phoenix roobios earl grey blend with a hint of pistachio and a dash of unsweetened organic soy milk please."

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Posted : 17/11/2017 10:38 am
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Twynings, Twinings and Twinnings so far. Carry on.


 
Posted : 17/11/2017 11:45 am
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AlexSimon,

If you like oolong teas, have you tried this

http://www.cantonteaco.com/big-red-robe-oolong-tea.htmlhttp://www.cantonteaco.com/big-red-robe-oolong-tea.html
It is one of my favourite oolong. A great comfort tea.

Yes, I have it. For some reason I haven't added any taste notes, so I'll have to try it again over the weekend. I've forgotten what I thought of it, although smelling the bag, it seems like one of the more caramel/baked ones which aren't usually to my taste.
Mine is this:
https://www.imperialteas.co.uk/red-robe-da-hong-pao-number-1


 
Posted : 17/11/2017 11:49 am
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Mogrim, I will have a think about another spider thread

Yay!


 
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