Is there a better tea available ?
Ha Ha.
I was seconds away from starting a "loose" tea thread... *watches with interest*
Morrisons English Breakfast Tea, much nicer!
Yorkshire Gold. Your search is over. 🙂
Bought a box before on 4th cup now ,feel like a traitor drinking it but **** its good .....milk in first a must
Buy loose leaf, warm your teapot, brew for 5 mins, don't use re-boiled water. Tidy.
Bags or loose leaf?
Punjana or Irish from Thomsons are both pretty good
Although after a duff box we switched to Twinings English Breakfast strong blend and that makes a lovely cup of tea.
Both get 3 mins in a pre heated mug , with 10ml of milk.
Absolutely nothing beats Yorkshire Tea, although I think I prefer it made in a tea pot rather than a mug because the bags seem to be a lot bigger / fuller than regular tea bags and its easy to make it too strong.
its easy to make it too strong.
lightweight!
Twinings English Breakfast strong, or Waitrose Breakfast tea for me.
They still deliver door to door, with a bloke in a van. Sell more than tea as well.
Yes, this [url= http://www.twinings.co.uk/gifts/signature-blends/signature-blends-assam-adventure ]Signature Blend Assam Linky[/url]
At over a quid a cup that Twinings Assam should be flipping amazing. Suspect you are paying a high premium for the wonderful packaging, rather than the tea enclosed. 🙂
Twinings EBTea/fairtrade (the gold one)
Don't use Waitrose Organic Skimmed Milk though, tastes shite. 😛
Ringtons extra fresh is lovely.
OP, no need to feel a traitor. It tastes great on both sides of the Pennines:
Tea is quite a high cost as well in comparison to a standard blend CHB however, yes, the packaging is special, very much a gift item unless you can drink it for free like moi!!!! 🙂
Farrars Lakeland Tea is fantastic.
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I don 't get this love for Yorkshire Tea! Triumph of marketing, if you ask me. Normal Tetley has far more flavour.
I'd love to do a blind taste test on someone!
In my local Waitrose you don't get much choice of Tea.. Ok so you've got all the normal stuff, but RIngtons? What on Earth? Never heard of em'.. And that's what I mean.. I like a bit of variety in my life.. Limited by Waitrose stock though.. mebbies I'm destined for mediocra...TEA
(see what I did there, did ya's :lol:)
Not this again.
CLIPPER!
Any tea drinker worth his salt would know it's produced in Gods country.........Scotland!
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Twinings Darjeeling.
Cafédirect is my current favourite.
Blessed as I am with the inability to digest lactose, I have no choice but to drink tea without milk. This means that I've actually [i]tasted[/i] tea. Yorkshire tea is nowt special.
Twinings is a little *common*, but it's pretty good stuff.
Assam or Lapsang souchong for me.
Like Yorkshire tea but either Twinings 'everyday' or Clipper organic are the way forward...
Sainsbury's Red Label has been meeting my family's needs for the past 40 years or so. Tea leaves rock.
@ ahwiles - lactose-free not work for you?
Dez b no marketing hype just enjoy the taste ,that's why the question of anything to beat Yorkshire tea , open to try other makes/brands ....
lactose-free not work for you?
Nope, y'see, after years of not drinking milk, i now think it tastes weird.
Every now and then, someone will make me a cup of tea, with milk in. Of course I simply say 'thank you', and drink it, because, y'know, it's just good manners, and I really don't want to be *that* guy.
But, i never find myself drinking milky tea wishing I had the digestive enzymes that would allow me to replace my lovely tasty tea with a cup of bland, watery milk with a hint of something that might be tea.
I prefer PG for everyday drinking, but Yorkshire decaf is nice.
Current favourite is a cunning blend of PG and Lady Grey (one bag of each in the pot).
"Ok so you've got all the normal stuff, but RIngtons? What on Earth? Never heard of em'.."
You have now! 😉
Yorkshire tea tastes of soap.
Ironic really.
🙂
Yorkie tea is the tea for me.
Birchall Great Rift breakfast blend. A mix of Rwandan and Kenyan teas
There is better tea. Yorkshire is a bit...blunt? Try the [url= http://www.cominsteahouse.co.uk/single-estate-tea/black-tea ]Autumnal Flush Darjeeling[/url].
Whatever you do, avoid [url= http://www.teapigs.co.uk/tea/shop_by_category/all_tea/popcorn_tea.htm ]Popcorn tea[/url] unless you like the idea of toast-flavoured tea. Ugh.
Now this is a subject I have researched extensively, but I'll restrict my answer to regular supermarket stuff. I'd say yorkshire gold is pretty excellent but clipper organic is better. If you want a bit more punch clipper breakfast (the one in the yellow box) is yummy too.
Every tea is great. Soft Scottish Water makes it even better.
My LT&CS (Local Tea & Coffee Shop, Braithwaites pf Dundee) does a brilliant Russian Caravan tea. Strong with a hint of smoke, doesn'y keep well so needs to be drunk within the week. Best. Tea. Ever
Mr Braithwaite in his wonderful shop - beans ground on demand, green beans supplied if you wnat to roast your own. I can't remember the last time I bought tea or coffee from a supermarket
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Varies massively on water. Tetley in N Wales is awful. But pretty good in Wiltshire. Fav so far is Thomson everyday blend in the gold packet. Or cafe direct. Clipper used to be good, but think something has changed and it's pretty weak now.
Like Yorkshire Tea, but preferring Twinnings Extra strong breakfast tea. So that's 2 shouts for that. Plus we do work at Twinnings, so get it at staff prices as an added bonus. 😀
You will find Ringtons tea in Waitrose, but it won't be labelled as Ringtons. It'll be labelled as Waitrose. Same goes for another major supermarket, a clothes and food retailer, and an upmarket grocer to the Queen.
Though I'd say you can't beat the stuff delivered to your door by a friendly man in a van. Not that I'm biased...
I reckon if you wrote 'Yorkshire' on a brick and packed it in a confectionary wrapper, people from Yorkshire would say it were t'best chocolate in't'world.
I'm going to take a wild stab and suggest that, well, because I've not seen extensive fields of tea bushes growing in the UK, that it probably comes from India or China.
I wonder how well it would sell if the box were kept exactly the same and they put 'Chinese Tea' on it....?
🙂
I'm with you PP, however I just bought some Yorkshire Gold last week and it is actually quite good. Scottish water though 😉
To get the best out of Yorkshire tea it needs to be mashed with Yorkshire water. Thats why if you don't live in Yorkshire you won't get the full appreciation of it superior flavour.
Twinings English breakfast tea is expensive turd. The tea from Aldi uh a quarter if the price, much nicer and apparently award winning
Ringtons +1
Whittards 1886 blend - loose!
[url= http://www.whittard.co.uk/tea/type/black-tea/1886-blend-tea/1886-blend-black-loose-tea-pouch.htm ]Best tea[/url]
Anything that's fairly traded.
Rich probably had it with Clipper...
...but right now I'm into Earl Grey 🙂
Fairly traded or ethically sourced? The latter may possible be the better option according to some sources.
Look for "Ethical Tea Partnership", better standards than Fair Trade but doesn't have the same "brand" recognition
Fair enough. I didn't know that, I just heard that a lot of the major brands were not paying anything like a fair price to their pickers.
For me, it's:
Twinings Everyday
Sainsburys Red Label
Lidl Gold box tea...
No particular order.
We've got some loose leaf tea that we bought when on honeymoon in Sri Lanka. It's delicious, but we don't often bother 'making a pot'...
If i want to relax, some white pheony and rose tea is difficult to beat
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You will find Ringtons tea in Waitrose, but it won't be labelled as Ringtons. It'll be labelled as Waitrose. Same goes for another major supermarket, a clothes and food retailer, and an upmarket grocer to the Queen.
Interesting.
Yup the vans are great ours is due this week.
On behalf of this thread I tried a range of Twinings teas today. Strong breakfast was good, Darjeeling without milk was nice but with milk was too light, English Afternoon was good, Everyday was average. And then I had a sneaky high mountain oolong from Taiwan, that was lovely.
http://www.t2tea.com/shop/tea-2/flavoured-scented-black-tea/sydney-breakfast/
Just having a pot of this for breakfast
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Honestly there is a lot better than yorkshire tea
Heres my favs in the brew cupboard
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Gold without a doubt best off the supermarket shelf tea that exists, lovely, strong, smooth cuppa, with a great caffeine high.
Standard Yorkshire Tea and Lancy Tea on par with each other from a taste perspective, both lovely, but Lancy tea has the edge for strength, stuff takes your head off 😯 😆 I heard a rumour they were competing with Yorkie tea and the produect managers decided to make it strong as hell. Its on par with some coffees I find, eyeballs sitting on stalks after a cup 😯
Aldi green tea lovely for mornings when fasting.
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